1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (287+ words) Hello and welcome back to No Filter! This is the place where I trawl Instagram for posts from our favorite queer celebrities and collate them for your own reading pleasure! What a gift! “anniversary loading” has come to mark a…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) Hello and welcome back to No Filter, the place where we find out what famous gay people have been up to, via Instagram! Let’s rock! The Gilded Age has a strange spot in my heart, in that I never really…...

2+ mon, 2+ hour ago   (806+ words) In late April, in the back room of a gay bar in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, a yellow mullet appeared in a spotlight. Wearing a puffy jumpsuit that evoked Ronald McDonald, a lacy white ruff, and a smiley face over the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (218+ words) Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the former managing editor of TriQuarterly, and her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern,…...

3+ mon, 6+ day ago   (583+ words) The soft tunes of Najat Al Saghira’s song “Bahlam Maak” play as a figure sways behind a curtain, a wooden shower brush in hand. The song fades, as he begins to sing “She’s So High” by Tal Bachman. Occasionally dropping…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1204+ words) The thing I love the most about a Hallmark Channel movie is how delightfully predictable it’s going to be. As I get older, there’s a comfort in knowing how a movie is going to play out. I’m a sucker for…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1028+ words) I’m a sucker for a holiday romance. Give me all the fake snow, the fake small towns and the predictable plots. As long as the two girls kiss at the end, I’m in. That’s why when I heard about Tello’s…...

8+ mon, 1+ week ago   (311+ words) Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the former managing editor of TriQuarterly, and her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern,…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago   (425+ words) Sound the alarm and break out the hoses — we’re getting a gay firefighter holiday movie! And if you, like me, are a fan of Canadian television and movies, it will come as no surprise to you that this gay little…...

10+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1603+ words) Model Comedian proves once again that for Hearon, writing and performing comedy isn’t just a tool to get through the most grueling parts of living in this intense moment of anti-queer and anti-trans backlash, it’s a tool we can use…...