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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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How To Choose Between Two Paths Using the Tarot

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emma corrin

link roundup

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: The Crown’s Emma Corrin Has Some Binder Recommendations and Pronoun Updates For You

Plus! The the trailer for Fear Street: 1978, a verrrry interesting piece of Batwoman casting news, the USWNT Preath wondergoal that wasn’t, and more!

Heather Hogan —

Jul 7, 2021

tarot

astrology, tarot & witchcraft

Let’s Get Grounded: A Tarot Spread and Reading for Finding Our Footing

If you’ve been feeling aimless, confused, uncertain of your next steps, my latest spread can help you find that sense of calm purpose to get you back on track, to…

meg —

Jul 7, 2021

indya moore

no filter

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Thot Shit and the Destruction of White Supremacy, A+ Agenda as Ever Indya Moore!

Welcome to No Filter, Laurie Hernandez (with some excellent Kim Possible cosplay)! Also, I love lesbian Jesus and I love her in Cosmo.

Christina Tucker —

Jul 7, 2021

masturbation

personal essay

A photo of author Vic Liu in a lavender sheer sleeve dress propping her head on her fist and looking directly into the camera next to a stack of copies of Bang!

book features

How and Why I Wrote Bang!: A Masturbation Sex-Ed Book for Everyone

I made Bang! Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities because it profoundly made sense to me, because there was a gaping hole in that plastic wall where there…

vforvicliu —

Jul 7, 2021

also.also.also

link roundup

A close up of Sara Ramirez looking very handsome with a strong jawline

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Sara Ramirez Has Consciously Uncoupled from Their Husband, Is Available For Your Queer Activist Date Dreams

It’s *official* official that Sha’Carri Richardson will miss the Olympics completely, the dangers of being Very Online (ha!), and bigots have finally accomplished their goal of gutting the Voting Rights…

Carmen Phillips —

Jul 6, 2021

jen richards

tv interview

tv feature

Jen Richards on Changing Hollywood and the Projects That Don’t Get Made

“I can be very unchecked in my opinions. And I don’t regret it. I’ve told casting directors in the room that parts are problematic or that projects shouldn’t get made.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Jul 6, 2021

baby-sitter's club

read a f-cking book

literature

‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods

No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the…

the team —

Jul 6, 2021

lesbian sex