Pop Culture Fix: Surprise It’s Tegan and Sara At Our Pride Party and Other Cool Stories

Riese —
Jun 28, 2017
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Welcome to your weekly pop culture fix, a light dive into deep work.


Our Favorite Canadians

+ Billboard magazine sent a photographer to follow Tegan & Sara around last weekend as they attended and performed at NYC Pride and of course this journey eventually led them to the greatest place on earth: our party! That’s right; my favorite band and quite possibly yours too made a surprise appearance at the Everyone Is Gay / Autostraddle Pride Party at Housing Works Bookstore and everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

LOOK AT KRISTIN!!!!!

A wonderful time was had by all:

+ While we’re on the topic of adorable queer Canadians who play music and possess admirable political beliefs, Ellen Page recorded this heart-breaking cover of Britney Spears’ “Lucky” for you:

https://youtu.be/84fYHDEVM2E


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Riese is the co-founder of Autostraddle.com as well as an award-winning writer, video-maker and LGBTQ+ Marketing consultant. Her work has appeared in nine books, magazines including Marie Claire and Curve, and all over the web including Nylon, Queerty, Nerve, Bitch, Emily Books and Jezebel. She had a very popular personal blog once upon a time, and then she recapped The L Word, and then she had the idea to make this place, and now here we all are! In 2016, she was nominated for a GLAAD Award for Outstanding Digital Journalism. She grew up in Michigan, lost her mind in New York, and now lives in Los Angeles. Follow her on twitter and instagram.

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