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My Weekend Pride Crush
I feel lucky that during my much younger years as I stumbled clumsily through the process of figuring myself out, I found Audre Lorde on my local library shelves. As a Gen Xer, my formative years...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Ani Edition
Did I ever tell you last year for Pride Weekend I got to see Ani DiFranco in a surprise show? (She was filling in for the scheduled artist last minute). Because I did. And, goodness, did it take me...
View ArticleCome Out To My Window
Can you believe it’s been 30 years since Melissa Etheridge came out spontaneously at the Triangle Ball for Bill Clinton’s first presidential inauguration back on Jan. 20, 1993. While blurting out how...
View ArticleFeeling Weak
Well, now we’re just going way, way back. You may recognize “Weakness In Me” from its use in countless lesbian-themed covers, videos, shows, movies etc (including “The L Word” and a great version by...
View ArticleGender Fuck Thursday: Boygenius
After so much nostalgia, in these waning days of Pride Month, let’s flash to the present. I can’t imagine the queer joy of being a young person listening to boygenius right now. OK, queer joy might be...
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
(This space left intentionally blank until the SCOTUS decision on LGBTQ+ rights today. Because if they declare it legal to discriminate against LGBTQ+ people on the last damn day of Pride I fucking...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Willow Tree Edition
Nothing like the perfect Pride Month (and SCOTUS) hangover cure to start this new month off with some sexy queer joy. While I have a lot of complicated feelings about “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and its...
View ArticleLand of Great Beats
Today is America’s birthday, and even though I do not feel very much like celebrating, here is a song that celebrates us. Please enjoy as the magnificent Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings reminds us all...
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Big Matriarch Energy
So, as we all know, lesbians would line up to watch Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson read a damn phone book together if given the chance. So imagine our collective joy at the news that they’ll be...
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The S Word
Solidarity! (The word is solidarity. Or strike. Or both!) As with past writer’s strikes, I’m all-in with Team Writers, duh. I’ll never be even remotely in with Team Corporate Profits. Like, I’m the...
View ArticleMy Weekend Girls Crush
Despite what the Supreme Court did on its last day, I hope you were just the gayest possible all June. Like definitely too gay to function. And totally so gay it makes the homophobes and transphobes...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Girls Redux
Well, I felt bad about giving you that abbreviated “Closer to Fine” version, so here is the whole thing from a few weekends ago. It’s shaky and it’s far away — and so many random big-ass heads pass...
View ArticleCome on Lesbian Barbie, Let’s Go Party
Hey speaking of the Barbie movie? Is Barbie in Lesbian with America Ferrera in the movie? So a new clip from the highly anticipated movie adaptation of a plastic doll has what’s left of Lesbian...
View ArticleDriving, Driving In Her Car
Yes, yes — I know, posting again about the Indigo Girls and Tracy Chapman in the same week? I’m not a lesbian cliche. I am just very On Brand. Anyway, as I was saying, you might have heard recently...
View ArticleGender Fuck Thursday: Every Body
This may be the most appropriate Gender Fuck Thursday post ever, in the truest sense ever. The filmmakers behind the RBG and Pauli Murray documentaries are back again. This time they turn their lenses...
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My Weekend Crush
We’re a one-name basis with them. Martina. Billie Jean. Sheryl. Sue. Abby. B.G. And, of course, Megan. They are our lesbian sports icons. And, aside from maybe Martina Navratilova, one could reasonably...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Free The Boobie Edition
Is anyone having a better summer than Janelle Monae? Like, I aspire to be as boobie loose and fancy free as Janelle is these days. She’s having the kind of Hot Nipple Summer we all can all only dream...
View ArticleReal All-American Hero!
Don’t worry, I still know – corporations are not our friends. Corporations only love money. Corporations do whatever they think will get them more money. And corporations will not hesitate to drop us...
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Top Lesbian Chef
By now you’ve probably heard that “Top Chef” has filled the enormous Padma Lakshmi-shaped hole on the series with none other than former “Top Chef” champ Kristen Kish. Obviously this is great news, not...
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Pinky Swear
Well, well, will you look at Christen Press and Tobin Heath on the red carpet, AGAIN. Twice in a row means it’s indisputable, right? I believe, to even the most obtuse straight onlooker, coming to the...
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