Our Year In Review: The Top 100 Lesbian, Bi, Trans, & Queer Moments of 2024
2024 was the Year of The Lesbian.
Poetry
RIP Dorothy Allison, Beloved Lesbian-Feminist Writer
Dorothy Allison, the acclaimed lesbian-feminist writer, passed away at her home in Northern California on November 6, 2024
This Fall, Cuddle Up With A New Queer Book
Get cozy with a new queer book.
So Much Of You Bled Into Me
Maybe I’ll never really know how to love something until I’m grieving it.
An Ode To NYC Pride
We cannot be silenced, no matter how hard they try / We love you forever, NYC Pride.
Confessions Of A Passenger Princess
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Riding in cars with bois.
Witches, Bitches, & Whores Get A New Patron Saint In This Queer Author
Join Ferlise on a divinely raw and darkly hilarious journey through modern spirituality in an attempt to quiet her demons.
20 Queer Black Women You Need To Know
From singers, to authors, to historical figures, to activists, these 20 extraordinary Black women deserve to be celebrated everyday.
So Much Of You Bled Into Me
I don’t think I’ve ever fallen out of love with anyone I’ve been with. Not completely anyway.
A’Kala Chaires Isn’t Scared Of ‘Breaking Down & Going Outside The Lines’
“It’s not the mistake that matters, it’s how you come back from that.”
No Cabaret Is Without Grief: InfraSound Ensemble Performs Lavender Nights
“We’re not afraid to be queer and different. / If that means hell, well hell we’ll take the chance. / They’re all so straight, uptight, upright, and rigid. They march in lockstep; we prefer to dance. / We see a world of romance and pleasure. All they can see is sheer banality. Lavender night, our greatest treasure, where we can be just who we want to be.”
The Miraculous Mingles With The Horrifying In Natalie Wee’s ‘Beast At Every Threshold’
Her Mouth A Door, After Which / There Is Another Door
Neema Avashia Is Telling Her Story Of Growing Up Queer & Indian in Appalachia
“I think that, when you layer gender and sexuality, and race on storytelling, it gets harder and harder and harder to tell your story sometimes, and the amount of space or permission you have to do that can really become smaller, and smaller and smaller.”
20 Stunning Joan Didion Quotes To Honor Her Life
“We tell each other stories in order to live.”
Sometimes, It’s Only In The Dark That You Find The Light You Need
I say “yes” to Dionysus and the joy of being in both the lightness and the darkness.
Longing, Love, Learning: Queer Desire & The Music Of Lady Lamb
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.
Elizabeth Acevedo On The Importance Of ‘Dopeass Black Girl’ Representation
We can’t be what we can’t imagine. We need to see ourselves living joyfully, lovingly, fully in the world.
Poetry Is A Lifeline: An Ode To Andrea Gibson
Andrea Gibson will pull you back into focus when you feel yourself fading away.
Teach Me How To Remember The Forgotten
“I have mastered the art of supplanting sadness with stories”
