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‘I Feel Incredibly Bad and Guilty After Masturbating’

Feeling bad about masturbation is a remarkably normal thing, especially for people who were immersed (drowned) in shame from the…

Summer Tao

Aug 5, 2025

Both/And, Extinction Capital of the World, and The Midnight Shift

BOOK LISTS

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 5, 2025

POP CULTURE FIX

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl…

Valerie Anne

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Aug 4, 2025

BOOK FEATURES

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of…

Riese

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Aug 4, 2025

book lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more LGBTQ+ lit across all genres!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Aug 5, 2025

pop culture fix

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend! Plus, more buried and unburied gays on TV, Doechii announces upcoming tour, Jinkx…

Valerie Anne —

Aug 4, 2025

book features

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just…

Riese —

Aug 4, 2025

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literature

Lez Liberty Lit: A Gaping MAW

A great new horror comic, what to do when things feel scattered, a new Octavia Butler biography, the possibility of wandering in the digital age and more.

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Aug 26, 2021

link roundup

pop culture fix

Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in Spencer

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Okay But HOW Does Kristen Stewart Look So Much Like Princess Diana?

Are Ryan Wilder and Alex Danvers finally going to meet? Alex is bi in Life is Strange: True Colors, Motherland: Fort Salem and Drag Race get new seasons, Betty does…

Heather Hogan —

Aug 25, 2021

foolish child

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Dickens is looking on their phone and reflecting how powerful it is to see people manifest good things on social media. Their friend Saira recommends Dickens manifests things with their "little cartoons" instead.

webcomics

Foolish Child #102: Manifestation

.“And to think, you could be manifesting all kinds with your little cartoons.”

Dickens —

Aug 25, 2021

supergirl

Supergirl Recaps: Season 1-6

tv show recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 608 Recap: I Am Trash!

Kara has a Take Your Dad to Work Day as the Superfriends (INCLUDING Lena) try to stop a trash monster; Kara and Alex deal with their Phantom trauma.

Valerie Anne —

Aug 25, 2021

jojo siwa

love is sometimes not a lie

celebrities (vapid fluff)

JoJo Siwa and Her Girlfriend Kylie Want To Tell You Absolutely Everything About Their Courtship

If your heart has ever erred towards icy, I invite you to warm it up by witnessing the unbridled, starry-eyed joy of two girls in love who have only ever…

Riese —

Aug 25, 2021

beanie feldstein

no filter

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Have You Taken the Time Today to Think About How Stunning Beanie Feldstein Is?

Leisha Hailey, I mean… come on with this baby dyke excellence. And much like Hayley Kiyoko I cannot express enough how much “taking a shower and lying on floor” is…

Christina Tucker —

Aug 25, 2021

also.also.also

elliot page

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Elliot Page & Mae Martin Got Matching Tattoos, So UMMM 👀

Who gets to be a femme? How Sony tarnished Jeopardy! and Alex Trebek’s legacy, Josephine Baker be honored with a Panthéon burial, and the many faces of women who identify…

Carmen Phillips —

Aug 24, 2021

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