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2 weeks 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.

1 month ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

This article contains spoilers and describes elements of White Lotus season 3. Kathoey — people who belong to an expansive, fluid category of gender in Thailand — have been alluded to throughout season 3 of HBO’s The White Lotus, from brief cameos of kathoey performers to crude remarks about “ladyboys” made by Saxon Ratliff (one half of an incest situation we can’t even get into here, played by Patrick Schwarzenegger).

1 month ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

Chappell Roan’s highly anticipated single “The Giver,” out March 13, is being interpreted as a service top anthem — because after all, that’s who to call when you need to get the job done!Roan debuted the upbeat country bop on Saturday Night Live in November of last year and the song has since gripped hold of Chappell stans and newbies alike well ahead of its official release.

1 month ago | them.us | Mathew Rodriguez |James Factora |Fran Tirado |Quispe Lopez

As the chanteuse Lady Gaga once sang: “No matter gay straight or bi, lesbian, transgender mice.” Or something like that. For a truly bizarre reason, right-wingers have rodents on their mind right now, even more so than when the internet was fantasizing about their parasocial Hollywood “hot rodent” boyfriends.

1 month ago | them.us | Quispe Lopez

When you say “gay sex,” what image does it conjure? Of course, there are the classics that straight people think are our only options — anal and scissoring — but we know that the unruly umbrella term can’t be summarized neatly. After all, what even is gay sex? Queerness is expansive, which is why we make it our business to create language and templates for our unparalleled sex lives. When mainstream conceptions of sex don’t include us, we’ve archived and reported on the ways we’ve created our own.