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Here’s Why Biden’s Latest LGBTQI Memorandum Should Be Ringing Alarm Bells

The world outside of America is not just countries of people that need saving and there is no hypothetical past to return to that would make that saviour narrative real.…

Chinelo Anyadiegwu —

Feb 24, 2021

Dungeons and Dragons

A photo manip of Annalise Keating, Waverly Earp, Elena Alvarez, and Ryan Wilder playing D&D.

television

Our Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Characters as D&D Classes

The more I get into D&D, the more it bleeds into my passion for television. I find myself thinking about TV character’s histories as “backstory” and accidentally calling side characters…

Valerie Anne —

Feb 24, 2021

AIDS

HIV/AIDS

literature

Surprise Porn and Hospital Parties: The Queer and Trans Pleasure in Marty Fink’s “Forget Burial”

Marty Fink shows how caregiving is activism, disability is sexy and dusty archives are tantalizing in Forget Burial, an essential, highly pleasurable, read.

Anna Lee-Popham —

Feb 24, 2021

niecy nash

no filter

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Happy 51st Birthday, Niecy Nash! We Are Looking on Respectfully

Oh to be a small dog accompanying Gillian Anderson, Lena Waithe thirst became we are living in a damn Paul Blart Mall Cop, and POV: You are Chef Melissa’s boo…

Christina Tucker —

Feb 24, 2021

also.also.also

link roundup

Two models are posed in a parody of 1950s housewives. One holds up a pink casserole dish to the camera while the other holds a pair of beaters while smoking a cigarette.

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Lesbians! Feeding the Queer Rights Movement, One Potluck at a Time!

Halle Berry grew up by practicing kissing on girls (stars, they’re just like us). Also, Megan Thee Stallion interviews Rep. Maxine Waters, more truly excellent Britney reads, and what does…

Carmen Phillips —

Feb 23, 2021

Lists/Top 10s

health

I Tested And Rated 8 Natural Deodorants So You Don’t Have To

Trust me — when you’re making the somewhat smelly transition to the natural deodorant life, social distancing will be your best friend. If you need a push to get started,…

Ro White —

Feb 23, 2021

black history month

black history month 2021

first person

Wrestling With Kamala and Beyond: Reckoning With Blackness, Womanhood, and What Comes Next

I am ready to be fearless. To dream beyond Black womanhood and know that I — Black, queer, and not-quite-sure — am worthy, so worthy of all of the love, affirmation, and…

shea wesley martin —

Feb 23, 2021

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