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6 Reasons Reader Support Is Independent Media’s Only Shot at Survival

We’re not the only independent media outlet out there, but we think there is one thing we all have in common — and that’s that reader support is the absolute…

Nico —

Feb 17, 2021

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Lesbians! They’re Evergreen

In 2012, a Condé Nast website called style.com published an article with the headline: “IS LESBIAN CHIC HERE TO STAY?” In this thrilling piece of supposed journalism, the writer remarked,…

Gabrielle Korn —

Feb 17, 2021

Hayley Kiyoko

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celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Thank You Hayley Kiyoko, Your Earnestness Keeps Us Grounded

We’re still not over new moms Ashlyn Harris and Ali Krieger, Trace Lysette will have you listening to Purple Rain, and Niecy Nash’s new gay love energy is so powerful…

Christina Tucker —

Feb 17, 2021

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A three-fold collage of famous lesbian movie period pieces: First, the newly released "The World To Come" in which two lesbians in the 1800s stand inches away from each other's nose, then "Ammionate" in which two lesbians from the 1800s also stand inches away from each other's nose, and finally "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" in which once again lesbians from the 1800s stand inches away from each other's nose — this time on a beach.

society + culture

Also.Also.Also: Lesbians Can’t Exist After 1895, So Says Hollywood

You’re probably doing your pandemic pod all wrong, dispatches from the California stripper strike, wait what is going on with Cara Delevingne and Jaden Smith? And photography of lesbian joy…

Carmen Phillips —

Feb 16, 2021

tarot

astrology, tarot & witchcraft

Let’s Get You Some Perspective: A Tarot Spread & Reading to Close Aquarius Season

Opening ourselves up to a new kind of perspective can change everything, and giving ourselves permission to leave old ways behind can help us become the kinds of people that…

meg —

Feb 16, 2021

charlize theron

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movie lists

60 Straight Actresses Who Play Gay The Most

Which ostensibly straight actresses go “gay for pay” the most? From Natasha Lyonne to Vanessa Morgan, here are some of the most prolific actors in the LGBT cannon.

Riese —

Feb 16, 2021

Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian

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8 Books Featuring Big Queer Families, Found and Otherwise

“Stories about huge families full of love, whether nuclear or chosen or just-for-school, were the comfort food of my childhood, and I’m trying to find something similar for my queer…

Casey —

Feb 16, 2021

lesbian movies

lost movie reviews from the Autostraddle archives