Community Voices

Merry Litmas!

People rather sheepishly sat around in a big circle waiting for a dominatrix to start a game of spin-the-bottle…

Both addiction and queerness can be shrouded in shame as the messaging feels the same: there’s something “wrong” with me.

Set in the mid aughts, “Girls on Jane,” explores the characters’ personal crises and sexual escapades as they navigate life and the lesbian dating scene. It’s a world away from Covid, a throwback to the time when meeting people required more than simply swiping right. 

I am grateful for the safety of this space, for the community it contains, for those late night conversations with strangers that make you feel aware, awake and part of something.

8 Creative Queer Ways To Celebrate Thanksgiving.

Holiday time can be frustrating and difficult if you are transgender and don’t have a supportive family. But it doesn’t have to be impossible.

Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving weekend parties that are bound to make you feel thankful.

“Transgender Day of Remembrance seeks to highlight the losses we face due to anti-transgender bigotry and violence,” said TDOR founder Gwendolyn Ann Smith.

Stick to your boundaries and honor your needs, and you’ll be on track for a happier holiday at home. 

Two people can definitely fit in a single sleeping bag *wink wink*.

Three queer women, one Honda SUV and perhaps the longest bar crawl ever. 

“The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming,” which opened at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum in September, explores the complicated history of the witch trials by presenting contemporary documents and historic artifacts from those involved in the trials alongside the work of two modern artists who have each reimagined the concept of “witch” in a contemporary light.  

“It’s like a message from the 80s direct to today.”

Boo!

There is no need to throw on some low rise jeans and go as Shane from “The L Word” for the fifth year in a row. I got your back, girl. And I have the perfect costume ideas that will ensure you show up dressed to impress (your ex).

As a child who grew up in the 2000s, I didn’t see any LGBTQ+ people in the media until around 2008, when I was 13. Ellen DeGeneres had just gotten […]

I missed my girlfriend so thoroughly, in a way these songs understood. I now knew what it was like to want a person so badly that it can only be described in anatomical terms: it’s physically impossible to get close enough until you’re shrunk down and inside their bones. 

“When I’m watching television, especially something that’s very queer-centered, I try to turn that part of my brain off. But — spoiler alert — you can’t. It’s always there.”

Do you know what I longed for during the pandemic with the feverish intensity usually reserved for an irresistibly sexy ex you know you’ll never get the chance to have sex with ever again?

Lesbian Nightlife. 

Dyke Nightlife. 

Queer Nightlife. 

What can you expect from this magic weekend? Lesbians. As far as the eye can see.

Carrie, I think it’s time you get back to your roots. Come to the city. We’ll eat pasta and cry and laugh and wax poetic over our love of antidepressants.

Rather than feel that I had fallen into some lesbian version of Candyland, my attraction to the women around me reminded me that my sexuality likely marked me as an outsider. 

“When I sat down by myself in my apartment and thought about what I just said yes to, I got really emotional, because when I was younger, television, magazines, or any sort of media is where you get a preview of what could be. I never saw someone who looked exactly like me in an intimate scene.”

When it comes to investigations involving marginalized individuals, “there isn’t the same level of attention to detail that you get when someone from the majority population goes missing, or is murdered,” Pongo says.

There were joyful tears throughout the dive bar. The whole night felt like a free mom hug.

When I look at her self-portrait, I connect with the bohemian Paris of her day, to the lesbian artist who lived and loved. I am reminded that my present is what it is because of those who came before, and that I too am a small link to our queer, and hopefully freer, future.

The dyke divinity is in the details.

“I think maybe one of the first things I said to Cait was like, ‘Hey, we’re going to be making out at some point,’” Grimes jokes.

Queers always create beauty.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: On the sidewalk between our homes stood a concrete square with our initials carved into it. A newly installed storm grate soon replaced it.

Alice was, and is still, unfolding in front of our eyes, revealing new layers each time she graces the screen in an iconic pantsuit. 

“Regardless of how society has changed in the last 17 years,” Kate Moenning, who plays Shane, tells GO, “what hasn’t changed is the primal desire to be seen and to love and be loved.” 

Picturesque sunsets, laid back beaches, endless vineyards, farm-to-table dinners, chic shoppes, iconic views, and rich history. Long Island’s North Fork is just 90 miles from New York City, but it feels like a different world.

Dave’s Lesbian Bar could be coming to Astoria, with your help.

Mermaids, a junkyard, and drag, oh my!