The Washington Post seemed a little freaked out by the bawdy, naughty, and downright dirty humor on display on some of the Mardi Gras parade floats down in New Orleans. We were just busy looking for the rumored photos of a float that depicted Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as naked lesbian lovers. We finally found […]

Rent Girl and Valencia writer Michelle Tea has a new book out a Q&A in this week’s Time Out. Her first novel, Rose of No Man’s Land tells the coming-0f-age tale of a Massachusetts teen and budding lesbo. Among the highlights from the interview: She talks about her trans boyfriend Rocco and why she won’t […]

(Via Good As You) Pam’s House Blend has some on-the-scene reporting from the ex-gay Love Won Out conference in St. Louis over the weekend. (A counter-vigil of still-gays protested the event, and someone did some creative defacing of an ex-gay billboard.) The best nugget to emerge from the conference? The words of ex-lesbian and featured […]

The question is: Do we really want her? You may have heard tell that Ms. Spears was to guest star on the final season of Will and Grace as a conservative Christian TV host who worked on a cooking segment called “Cruci-fixins.” Funny, right? Well, NBC denied the plan after an outcry from […]

Science fiction writer Octavia Butler died on Friday after a fall near her home in Seattle. An out lesbian, she was also the first black woman to gain fame as a sci-fi novelist, and the first sci-fi writer to win a MacArthur genius grant in 1995.
Sci-fi author Octavia Butler dies at 58 [The […]

Even though it’s not working out so well for them, we noticed that Bette and Tina’s bedding is Dwell’s Dots in light blue. You can get your own from Design Public here. Maybe you’ll have better luck getting laid in it.

In a fit of utter bewilderment last night, we made this extremely accurate sketch of Shane and Carmen’s tattoo. It really looks like a duck to us. Is it some tribal thing? Has anyone seen it anywhere before?

Things we really, really did not believe: Dylan, the not-a-lesbian, saying, “I’ve never done this before.”
We’re hoping that Jennifer Beals gave birth before the filming of the season ended, and that her wacky self-abnegation/enlightenment is just a result of them not being able to show her having sex. Enough already. Work it out. And […]

Two more reasons to heart Dolly Parton, who’s nominated for an Oscar for her song “Travelin’ Thru” from Transamerica:
Because of her huge gay following, she’s often the target of hate mail. She says, “Some people are blind or ignorant, and you can’t be that prejudiced and hateful and go through this world and still be […]

We caught this editorial from Oregon’s Register-Guard, written by a lesbian mother of a trans son, who’s now living as a woman. She offers a surprising, moving look at her own prejudices and fears, writing: “I find myself swallowing a lot of words—the exact words I fended off from my own mother when I so […]