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Blue's Clues featured a queer nonbinary disabled dolphin using a wheelchair, and their partner

Pop Culture Fix: Blue’s Clues’ Pride Episode Features a Queer Nonbinary Disabled Dolphin in Love and More!

Why is the new Gossip Girl trailer so creepy, the full cast for that new Netflix queer vampire drama, Danai Gurira’s Okoye will headline her own Disney+ series, and more!

Heather Hogan —

May 31, 2021

AAPI Heritage Month

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Editor’s Notes: On AAPI Heritage Month 2021

To exist as a queer/trans Asian/Pacific Islander means to put your stakes in the ground and to say, “I am all of these identities, and I exist, so therefore these…

himani —

May 31, 2021

AAPI Heritage Month

asian

xoai lounges on a white blanket looking blissful in a white dress, long black hair cascading over one shoulder. in the background are a series of portraits of her face in a state of tossing and movement, all in a green hue.

first person

The Right to Breathe

I think of the moment I was born, how I must not have cared at all how loud I screamed. I needed to breathe. I needed everyone to know I…

xoai pham —

May 31, 2021

tv interview

the l word

Daniel Sea On “The L Word,” Gender Identity, and Imagining Queer Liberation

“I spoke about gender identity, sexuality, and my past with journalists and people in Hollywood who just didn’t understand the language I was using. It was a culture shock for…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

May 31, 2021

to l and back

the l word

To L and Back Podcast Interrogation Tapes Episode and Guess What We’re Going Live Tomorrow

That’s right, we’ve got a BONUS EPISODE for you today and are gonna be doing a LIVE episode tomorrow! We are soothing the pain of departure, like how Jenny fell…

Riese —

May 31, 2021

Feature image collage of all the possible results

quizzes

Quiz: What to Call the Person You’re… You Know…

The anxious-avoidant’s guide to whether you’re hanging out, sleeping together, seeing each other, involved, going on dates together, or — gulp — dating.

Ryan Yates —

May 30, 2021

lesbian sex

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nsfw sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Hedonistic AF

The collective summer horniness is for dating as well as orgies — but here’s how to go swinging, just in case. (Spoiler alert: it’s not on Twitter.)

Ryan Yates —

May 30, 2021

Nutshell Studies of Quarantine

Saturday Morning Cartoons

In a three-panel black and white comic, Frida's girlfriend looks down at her phone and informs Frida that the groceries have been delivered. Friday masks up to get the groceries from the front door.

webcomics

Nutshell Studies in Quarantine: Part Two, Spring 2020

Witness the heroic tale of Frida versus the grocery deliveries.

Yumi Yamaguchi —

May 29, 2021

Why Are So Many Trans Mascs Pups?

When a couple trans masc friends are into pup play, it’s a coincidence. When half of the trans men I know are into it, it’s a pattern. I began to mentally set up a bulletin board with red string to solve one question: why are so many trans mascs pups?