Quispe Lopez

1 week ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

The moment we’ve all been waiting for — or dreading — is here: And Just Like That… season 3 is set to premiere May 29 meaning Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon) will be recommencing her search for queer love. One of the Sex and the City reboot’s most cohesive, if widely criticized, storylines has been Miranda’s ongoing exploration of her queerness, primarily through her relationships with nonbinary stand-up comedian Che Diaz (Sara Ramirez).

3 weeks ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

Conservative lawmakers have spent much of the 2020s making life for transgender people absolute hell across the U.S. with bills, laws, and executive orders that seek to erase us from public life. But even as access to life-saving gender-affirming care is threatened, the trans community itself has been dealing with perpetually resurfacing debates over “transmedicalism,” or the idea that gender dysphoria and medicalized transition exclusively define transness.

4 weeks ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

If you look through the Instagram comments section of music’s biggest stars, like Lady Gaga, Beyoncé, or Madonna, you’ll likely see some variation of the following celebrity worship: “Mother!!” “She is so mother.” “Mother is mothering.” But what does it mean to be a mother in that sense? These commenters aren’t talking about motherhood in the traditional sense, though they may not realize that they’re using a term that’s been slurped up into mainstream lexicon from the queer community.

1 month ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

Of the more polarizing gay sex acts out there, gay fisting is perhaps the most misunderstood and also more popular than you think. (According to PornHub’s 2024 Year in Review alone, searches for fisting went up 179%). But the outsiders looking in might wonder, can anyone participate in fisting? What is the appeal and what exactly does fisting entail? Popular portrayals of fisting might make it the butt of a joke or overemphasize the perceived roughness of the sex act.

1 month ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

Jennifer Beals didn’t know she was assembling the pieces of what would become a book when she first began collecting ephemera on the set of The L Word, the landmark Showtime series that augured a new era for lesbian representation. What the actress did know is that a moment is just that: a singular, passing instant in time. That’s why she needed to capture it all, through photographs, interviews, old scripts, and other precious keepsakes.