Lauren, Half Pint, Faith / 32, 4, 27 / Artist and draftsperson; Fur distribution expert; Lingerie fitting and sales / On a couch in Hamilton, ON, Canada
“With my wife and the heathenous quadriped. Just your typical wild Friday night, folding laundry and drinking tea. Except for Pint, who views laundry folding as a challenge wrt how much cat hair can fit on clothes before the humans even get to wear them. Does it make us sound less like boring old marrieds if I add that we were watching Caitlin Doughty talk about corpses on youtube? DOES THAT MAKE US COOLER, AUTOSTRADDLE?!”
Vicky / 27 / Marketing / Madrid, Spain
“My Friday nights are pretty similar, always awesome, and full of queers so I’ve put together a montage from the last month. We usually pre-drink at my house, take a mirror selfie in my hallway, then head out to Chueca where we take photos in the metro before going to our favorite girl club, sometimes via another bar. Anything after this is not fit to be seen on camera….”
Caissa / 27 / Production Assistant at Twin Cities PBS / PBS station in St. Paul, MN
“I work behind the scenes on a statewide public affairs show on Fridays, but I made a rare appearance in front of the camera for our online-only show. I took this after I played our show’s theme song on the piano – and yes, I did receive that award during my segment.”
Amelia / 21 / Illustration Student / Calder Printing Studio
“I spent Friday night printing with a few friends. I mixed ink, cut paper and in the end in the end ran my blocks through the press about 150 times. It was a productive night!”
Jackie Adkins, Pam Barrett, Lauren Oakes / 30, 25, 30 / Hair Stylist and Salon Owner; Writer with a day job; Salon Coordinator / Pub in Tremont, OH
“I, Pam Barrett, don’t normally do much for St. Patrick’s Day. This year I was gonna cuddle up in my apartment solo when Jackie asked if I wanted to meet up with her and Lauren. I started going to Jackie at her salon, Le Beau in Tremont, for my alternative lifestyle haircuts about a year ago and since then she and Lauren have become two of my closest friends and two of the best straight girl friends a lesbian could ask for! We get into some serious conversations, but laugh the whole time. It is truly wonderful.”
Nicole and Abby / 26, 25 / Reality TV Production Coordinator, Writers’ Assistant
“We typically spend our Friday nights winding down from the week by catching up on TV and movies with a fresh batch of homemade popcorn.”
Desiree / 29 / PhD student / My birthday dinner in Chicago, IL
“I spent this particular Friday evening saying goodbye to 28 (more like “FUCK OFF, YOU!”) and helloooooo to 29 with my dearest partnerbabe, purple hair, steak, and sundae service. You read that right: sundae service.”
Kay and Katie / 23, 24 / Writer and Barista, Florist / Home
“This night was the same as many nights. We hung out with our amazing friends, then came home, curled up in bed with “The Great British Baking Show,” and went to bed early because we both work on Saturdays (#RetailLife). Sorry for the cheese, but I’m glad we get to spend the rest of our lives like this, with fluffy TV and fluffy blankets and each other.”
Katie / 25 / Social Media Copywriter and Strategist / Imperial Theatre in New York, NY
“I’ve gotten really into going to Broadway shows by myself lately. I love theater so much and spend my first couple of years in Manhattan seeing very few shows, so I wanted to change that. While I’ve been burning through Playbills like nobody’s business, it’s taken me months to finally see Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, but I finally did and sprung for on-stage seating. And it was so worth it (although so much was happening that I almost missed the ladies making out feet in front of me during one part of the show).”
Katie, Vashti, and Whitney / 27 all around / Political organizers (Katie, Vashti); Art museum collections cataloger / ~Taco Bell~
“After a month long moving process, we’re all finally getting settled into our new apartment. So for our first roomdate, we had a wild Friday night cheating on our all carb diet at Taco Bell.”
