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Match These 16 Taylor Swift Songs With Their Perfect Emojis

Taylor Swift — Our Lady of Lyrical Truth Bombs, Patron Saint of Deal With It, Friend of Lordes and Dunhams — released her new album yesterday, and at exactly 11:46 p.m. last night, my girlfriend said to me, “Baby, can you please sing literally anything else besides ‘Shake It Off’? I love you. Please, though. I’m serious.” Presumably millions of similar conversations took place as the nation…

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Check Out Two Trans Youth Who Are Changing the Way America Looks at Gender

Jazz has been in national spotlight for a while. She’s an incredibly bright, bubbly and brave fourteen-year-old girl who came out as trans and started transitioning before she was even in kindergarten. Since then, she’s been just about everywhere, including the GLAAD Awards, her own documentary that aired on OWN, 20/20 being interviewed by Barbara Walters, the Advocate’s “Top 40 Under 40″ list…

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Fumigation: A Love Story

Original Illustrations by Lauren Walker
“Your head is like obsidian,” she says to you, her hand passing North and South and East and West smooth across the surface, erasing away smudges, blood stains (but not scars, no, not scars, never scars) and the exoskeletons of memories bashed against a windshield.
You recall all you learned from geology classes as she continues to stroke your head. The…

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5 Halloween Movies From My Childhood Available Online, Thank the Great Pumpkin

Happy (Almost) Halloween! Can I be honest about something? OK, two things: Halloween is maybe my least favorite holiday, and I suffer year-round 24/7 seriously nonstop from nostalgia attacks. And while you, good sir ma’am or lord, may ring in Old Hallow’s Eve with some booze and a solid, feminist costume, I like to ring it in watching not-scary movies while Eli is dressed as a pumpkin. Or,…

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DC Announces Wonder Woman Movie & Possible Female Director; Marvel Announces Five Female-Led Comics

by rory midhani
Great Hera there’s been a lot of big announcements in the world of lady superheroes over the last few weeks! New movies announced, news about those movies, new comic book titles, and new TV characters. What a time to be alive!
In my opinion, clearly the biggest piece of news was Warner Bros. announcement of a Wonder Womansolo movie. While there have been a few female-lead…

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Injustice in the Justice System: Two Lawsuits Expose Struggle for Incarcerated LGBTs

Two new lawsuits brought by LGBT inmates call out different arms of the criminal justice system on their brutal and inhumane treatment of people incarcerated with and without charges. The people bringing the cases have been singled out for their gender expression and sexuality in violation of their constitutional rights. These cases could create major shifts for the experiences of incarcerated…

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10 Tegan and Sara Halloween Costumes To Make Everyone So Jealous

Oh Tegan, oh Sara. Between the two of them, they’ve created a lot of Halloween costume potential over the years, you know? There are countless ways to dress up like Tegan, or Sara, or even one of their songs. We’ve made a handy guide so you can pick your favorite era, your favorite song, or just the one that matches your current hair. Maybe you won’t look so different from how you look on an…

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League of Ladies: The Feminist Superheroine Underwear You’ve Been Missing

Dear Kate is a kick-ass company makin’ high tech underwear that negates the need for “period panties.” Stain releasing, wicking and leak-resistant, each pair is crafted in NYC and made with you in mind. So, what’s the next step when you’ve created a wicked pair of knickers? Superheroine underwear, obviously! In comes the limited edition League of Ladies + Dear Kate collection!
The League of…

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40 Ways to Say Yes Please to Mac n’ Cheese

Hello and welcome to this thing we’re doing where we help you figure out what you’re gonna put in your mouth this week. Some of these are recipes we’ve tried, some of these are recipes we’re looking forward to trying, all of them are fucking delicious. Tell us what you want to put in your piehole or suggest your own recipes, and we’ll talk about which things we made, which things we loved, and…

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I Went to Opening Day at America’s First Cat Cafe

Last Monday, my usual morning routine was interrupted, then taken over, by one thing and one thing alone. Ca$h Cat$ had just announced their upcoming exhibit in Oakland, and something about the venue caught my eye: Cat Town Oakland. I knew it was a non-profit, but I didn’t know it had an actual physical… and then I lost my mind.
“did ANYONE ELSE know that cat cafes are about to be real actual…

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50 Halloween Candies, Ranked in Order of Deliciousness

There are two kinds of Halloween monsters: The fake kind of monster that is just a person wearing a spooky costume, dancing to Elvira, sipping on cocktails called like “Mr. Hyde’s Potion” or “Witches Brew” or something, and the real kind of monster that hands out candy corn to trick-or-treaters. Candy corn tastes like the middle of a venn diagram where one side is ear wax and the other side is…

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Grey’s Anatomy Episode 1105 Recap: Is This The End of Calzona?

Camaradas, welcome. We’ve got some serious business to attend to. But first, about last week, I swear I didn’t mean to stand you up but nothing gay happened on Grey’s. All of the gay happened on How to Get Away with Murder.
But this week, holy Melissa Etheridge, we got seconds, thirds, and fourths of the mess that is Callie and Arizona’s relationship.
The episode opens with flashing images of…

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Sunday Funday’s Meeting Up with Laverne Cox and Demi Lovato at Dachsund’s Creek

Hello, pumpkin seeds! Today, I’m going to a bottomless tequila and mexican food brunch. When they tell you dreams don’t come true, they’re lying. And now, without further ado, a roundup of straight heartwarming good gay news! But first, footage of me waking up in the morning.
The Victory Rounds: Quick Hits
+ Marriage equality just…

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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Kiss You For One Hundred Years

Welcome to NSFW Sunday!
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+ Consensual non-monogamy has been the subject of a bunch of studies, some of which have found that people in them experience less jealousy, are more responsible about safety, report equal or higher relationship satisfaction as monogamous folks and more:
“Desire for (non)monogamy exists on…

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