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I remember when I was in college, I went to a close friend's childhood home for Thanksgiving dinner with his family. My friend was openly gay at school, but he hadn't told his parents yet at the time. While we helped his mom prepare dinner in the kitchen, she told us a story about a kid in her class who was afraid of coming out to his parents. “I just feel so much for this child who believes there's a possibility that his parents won't accept and love him. That must be so hard.” To me, she was…

Why I declare...

Today is the day we've all been waiting for. Today nosy people can finally definitively know what music has been playing in their friends' and acquaintances' headphones over the last 11 months. Today's the day when you remember why you're not paying $9.99 for Apple Music. Today is Spotify Wrapped Release Day. Every year, Spotify gives you stats on all of the abjectly embarrassing music you've been jamming to since January. It tells you your top songs and artists and even curates a playlist of y…

A fun fact about me is that not only am I gay , but I'm also a homosexual. That was my go-to line for coming out of the closet when I was a teenager because I thought taking a comedic approach to tell people about my gayness would ease the awkwardness of the whole ordeal. Spoiler alert: it did not. October 11th is National Coming Out Day, celebrating queer people owning their truth and openly sharing their sexualities. I'll be honest with y'all: I've been coming out for almost nine years, and a…

He got told

I'm going to let you all in on a little secret. A lot of gay people do eat at Chick-Fil-A. Don't get me wrong; I don't think supporting homophobic businesses is something to celebrate, but when I'm stuck at a layover at the Philadelphia International Airport, and there's nothing else but Burger King…my allegiance is going to lie with the good chicken. As a gay person, I can tell you that most people who are high and mighty about not eating at Chick-Fil-A are straight. Something in the straight…

Spanish singer Rosalia went viral on Twitter this week for her exaggerated expressions while performing her song "Bizcochito." Multiple videos have raised of her in different outfits doing the same movement, appearing to be miming chewing gum. The goofy videos have gotten the meme treatment so much that nobody can seem to get Rosalia off of their Twitter feed. If you'd like to consume all of your Rosalia memes in one concentrated gulp, then you've come to the right place.

Who could forget the adorable little boy who starred in his own incredibly passionate viral Lady Gaga lipsync videos? Staten Harry, a Little Monster whose YouTube lipsyncs of Lady Gaga's music went viral in 2018, is back in the discourse for reasons nobody could have predicted.

Not all websites are straightforward beacons of great content. With many forms of social media, whether Twitter , Tumblr, or Reddit , it sometimes feels like it takes years of feed curation to get to the good stuff. Who and what are you supposed to follow to find the good content on those platforms? I've found that following people with similar tastes but some notable quirks or personality traits you don't necessarily relate to is ideal. When I was on Tumblr as a kid, I followed a bunch of peop…

Twitter got a new main character yesterday. Writer Hanna Rosin went viral for her bad take in this now-deleted tweet. The movie in question, Fire Island , is a romantic comedy based on Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice which follows a group of friends traveling to the titular gay vacation destination of Fire Island. Fans of the movie mocked Rosin for her take that a film about Asian gay men needed to pass the Bechdel test to have any merit. Some feminist film fans use the Bechdel test to determ…

There are a handful of unspoken rules for proper wedding etiquette that are mostly just common sense. Don't show up too late or too early. Don't bring a plus-one unless you were offered one. Don't be the most wasted guest at the wedding . Don't make an impromptu speech. And perhaps the biggest faux pas of all—don't wear white. This is probably an out-dated rule, as many modern brides and grooms opt out of the traditional wedding-wear these days, but the intent of the rule still stands. No one s…

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