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Ball(ing) Boy
First, I’m back! Second, sorry for that terrible pun. Third, but definitely not least, you love to see Elliot Page living his best life. Like being snapped at a New York Liberties home game on Pride...
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
Yes, I know I already talked about how great Hannah Einbinder on the latest season of “Hacks” (really, in all the seasons of “Hacks,” but my point is – Emmy!), but it cannot be overstated. A shark...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Tracy Chapman
The one, the only. Ms. Chapman. While we all know her classics. But “New Beginnings” remains one of her very best albums for me. It came at a time of my life with exploding love, endless hope and...
View ArticlePride Is a (Laugh) Riot
Remember when I said it’s important to celebrate our histories? Like yesterday? Well, here’s a chance to celebrate the funniest part of our LGBTQ+ history, our comics. Netflix’s new documentary...
View ArticleQueen’s Got Back
The moment last night at the WeHo Pride OUTLOUD Music Festival during Janelle Monáe’s set when Queen Latifah and Gabrielle Union danced with her onstage. pic.twitter.com/hd5WiGBI6q— Ed Wang...
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Closet Space
Two more weekends left of Pride and we (very much using the royal WE, since it’s just moi) here at Surrenders continues to highlight queer entertainers, artists and works because we only get 30 days...
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My Weekend Crush
I’m just so happy for Jodie Foster these days. Not that I wasn’t happy for her a decade, two decades ago. But the joy and clarity with which she conducts her life and career right now is truly a...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Pride Song
Last week of Pride, y’all. Have you danced on a Deutsche Bank float yet? Hope not! See, now hilarious, topical, entirely accurate skits like this are only possibly because queer people were actually...
View ArticleAround the Curve
Isn’t it interesting when they start making documentaries about things you can still, quite vividly, remember? Like, as a nonrandom example, good old Curve magazine. Granted when it first launched as...
View ArticleAnimal Attraction
Why, yes, I am watching every queer documentary I can find this month. Why do you ask? Gay comics. Gay magazines. Gay animals. You love to see it, quite literally. I saved this documentary on Peacock...
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Statue of Lesbianism
Has anyone, anyone, made more of a magnificent Pride this year than Chappell Roan? Like to see her career take off this year, this month, this moment has been truly astonishing. And, of course, well...
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My Weekend Crush
Please, like I was going to let Pride month slip away without celebrating my new bestie/acting savant Sarah Paulson. Not only did I see her in her limited run in the Broadway show “Appropriate” during...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Becky's So Hot
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know Pride’s “officially” over or whatever. But here is Kelly Clarkson singing Fletcher’s “Becky’s So Hot” from last month. And while I generally think straight folks should stay...
View ArticleThis American Experiment
I’m not much in the mood to celebrate America’s birthday this week. Democracy isn’t doing so great right now, not that it was ever great. Each SCOTUS ruling is equal parts infuriating and frightening....
View ArticleThe Incredibly True Streaming Adventures...
Admittedly, shit is grim right now. So please feel free to take a little escape from our political hellscape and envelop yourself in the warm nostalgia of that 1995 lesbian classic, “The Incredibly...
View ArticleThis Land
Just a reminder to the unelected, unhinged and clearly unethical Supreme Court of the United States of America. This land was made for all of us. And we shall celebrate only that.
View ArticleMy Weekend Crush
The world feels pretty terrible right now. So instead let’s zoom off to another planet. I love a good coming-of-age story and I really love a good 90s-based coming of age story. So instead of our...
View ArticleMusic Monday: Change Gonna Come
Time for a timeline cleanse and political reset. Here’s to a better week for you, me and the country. Happy Monday, kittens.
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Tank Top Tuesday
You know what always lifts my spirits? Hot women in tank tops, duh. And if all those women happen to be very, very queer? Even better. Now, I tend to have a liberal interpretation of…well, most...
View ArticleMovie Review: Am I Okay?
The movie where Dakota Johnson kisses a girl is okay. It’s not great, it’s not terrible. “Am I Okay?” is okay. It’s okay because it is yet another coming out story in the year of our Lesbian Jesus...
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