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New YA Book "Great" is a Gender-Swapped Retelling of "The Great Gatsby"
Riffing off her high school love of The Great Gatsby, comedian Sara Benincasa penned a female-focused retelling for teens.Sara Benincasa is a comedian and writer who I first met at the Women in Comedy...
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How Are Comics Queer?
Artist Sara Lautman attended the giant MOCCA Arts Fest in New York earlier this month to check out the show's queer content. Sara turned her experience into this original comic for Bitch.Sara Lautman...
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Fabulous, Opinionated, and Feminist: An Interview with Tom and Lorenzo
Feminism and fashion might not always seem like the perfect fit, but after checking out Tom Fitzgerald and Lorenzo Marquez’s eponymous site, you may come away with some new ideas. The seasoned...
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Kate Bornstein is Fascinating, but the New Documentary About Her Life Falls Flat
A still from the new documentary about Kate Bornstein, the author of numerous books including Gender Outlaw.I set out to watch Kate Bornstein Is a Queer and Pleasant Danger with enthusiasm. After all,...
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This History-Making Marriage Equality Documentary is a Joyful Tearjerker
Here is a documentary that will write history. The Case Against 8 artfully weaves the tale of the legal fight over same-sex marriage into the personal stories of the people whom our unfair marriage...
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How American Pop Culture Has Embraced Same-Sex Marriage
Oregon marriage equality plaintiffs Deanna Geiger and Jean Nelson celebrate their victory.Excitement was running high at the marriage license office in Portland, Oregon on Monday, May 19. A crowd...
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A New Film Tells the Sweet Love Story Behind Underground Swiss Gay Magazine...
The Circle is a unique marriage between documentary and period piece. The new Swiss film from director Stefan Haupt tells the story underground gay publication The Circle,whichwas active in Zurich...
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BitchTapes: Gays in Space - A Stargayzer Festival Mixtape
This week's mixtape is a selection of artists playing the inaugural Stargayzer Festival this September 12-14 in Austin, TX. Stargayzer is a brand new, 3-day celebration of queer/LGBTQIA music and...
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New Documentary "Out in the Night" Asks: Who Has the Right to Self Defense?
Who has the right to self-defense? How do race, class, sexuality, and gender expression affect what our society sees as violent? In 75 minutes, new documentary Out in the Night challenges us to...
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When a Woman is a Daddy to Her Kids
I was well into my thirties when my partner of six years and I signed ourselves up for parenting. And I mean signed up literally. Since we are in a same-sex partnership, we didn’t have the benefit of...
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Ariel Schrag Discusses Her New Novel, Adam
Ariel Schrag started her career making autobiographical comics in high school. In a deft style, her comics exploring her life and queer identity articulated what it feels like to grow up as a misfit....
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What Does "Femme" Look Like?
“It shouldn't be assumed that just because you wear skirts you're straight.” – Kathleen, from the Femme Project. Artist Toni Latour’s The Femme Project is an exhibit of 64 photographs of...
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Penned In: Letters Reveal the Lives of Transgender Women in Prison
Last August, the Army private now known as Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in military prison. A day after the trial, Manning announced plans to undergo hormone therapy and begin public life...
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"Kidnapped for Christ" Reveals the Dark World of Evangelical Teen Reform Schools
When we first meet fresh-faced director Kate Logan in new documentary Kidnapped for Christ, she’s a budding Evangelical filmmaker from a Christian college heading to the Dominican Republic to document...
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The Feminism of Sailor Moon
If you grew up watching TV in the 1990s, there is no way you escaped seeing at least a few episodes of Sailor Moon. The Japanese anime series about teen girls named Sailor Senshi fighting bad guys from...
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Fed Up With a Lack of Diverse Children's Books, Queer Parents Write Their Own
Once upon a time, Bear Bergman was reading to his four-year-old son Stanley before bed. His husband had ordered a big new stack of books that included queer characters. As they read through each book,...
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BitchTapes: Not Enough Queer Music
Not Enough! Is a festival of new and collaborative queer art and music, happening on September 7th in Portland, OR. To gear up for the festival and for a further reminder of how brilliant us queers...
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Finally! A TV Show That Handles Transgender Issues With Grace.
Television, historically, has not been a welcoming place for transgender people. "Trans representation" has previously consisted mainly of male sitcom characters relating stories about dating women who...
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"Pride" is a Joyful Film About the Need for Unlikely Allies
The premise of Pride sounds like a slog: the film by British director Matthew Warchus follows a London gay and lesbian group’s fundraising campaign for mine workers who are in the midst of the nation’s...
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One-Sentence Reviews of the Lesbian Netflix Canon
Lez face it: when you're a ladygay like myself, cruising the internet for something to watch, you realize very quickly that there are a whole lot fewer gay films in the world to watch than straight...
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