GAY AFFIRMATIONS/ART/JOY NEEDED 🌈✨ bc I’ve had too many weird/uncomfy/lightly homophobic encounters recently😟

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Lily · Answer

Heartstopper: Gay teens making me cry w their sweetness

Jacob · Answer

HEAVEN IS A GAY BAR: This is giving aughts in the club energy. Crank it up, dance alone, and let the DJ save our souls.

Wine Guy · Answer

LeNOSE - Orange You Glad Life’s Not So Bad: This new hand soap from LeNOSE is one of the best things I’ve smelled. Better version of Aesop. Can’t believe it will only be 10 bucks.

Quinn Trail · Answer

Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow (Official Music Video): The sweetest song. Always makes me cry!

cee · Answer

this beautiful picture of lucy dacus and julien baker: it’s literally so beautiful and romantic and every time i look at it i tear up

Nitabel · Answer

Accessing the Queer Liberation Library through Libby: The Queer Liberation Library is a free, fast-growing digital library of queer-content ebooks and audiobooks, as well as a queer zine archive and a wide array of supportive resources for the LGBTQ+ community. This volunteer-run non-profit serves as a vital tool against isolation and literary censorship. It’s also a great collection.

The best part is, you can access it through Libby! Just sign up for a free membership and you can stack your virtual QLL library card with your local library card(s) in the Libby app.

Sarah · Answer

Janelle Monáe - PYNK: 💖💖💖

alie k. · Answer

Seth Bogart: the art and world of seth bogart are pure fun queer anarchy. he’s involved in several cool bands, works with john waters, and makes zany, fun, gay as hell art in many forms. simply one of the best!!

molly · Answer

colorado lesbian dino license plate: love this so much that i spent an hour trying to figure out if i could register like a cheap trailer (?) in colorado and then just keep the license plate (NOT FEASIBLE)

molly · Answer

our flag means death: i think about this tv show constantly. cannot believe something so goofy turned into something i talk about in therapy. kiwi and gay!

molly · Answer

the bones beneath our skin - tj klune: i liked this one almost as much as a house in the cerulean sea… read it in one sitting! a delight to read esp after reading like three horror novels in a row

molly · Answer

one last stop: i quite enjoy the queer found family of this book - i consider it slightly sci-fi but i am not a genre expert. regardless - a good read.

molly · Answer

adults: the hardest i’ve laughed at a show in years!

Rocky · Answer

Queering the Map: Sometimes I remember this exists and open it up just to scroll around the world and read a few stories or affirmations and it makes me feel hopeful. I hope it helps you too ✨

Maryn · Answer

Amber Glenn's homage to Heated Rivalry on Dancing With The Stars: Queer Olympic gold figure skater Amber Glenn dancing to "All the Things She Said" and SHE NAILED IT, a must watch

Elena · Answer

Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers: Two short stories which together tell of a human rethinking their purpose and what brings them fulfillment, and a wild robot learning about humans needs.

Even with such thoughtful subject matter, the book stays refreshingly grounded and light and leaves you feeling buoyed. A hopeful and illuminating balm for the sensitive soul that paints a beautiful picture of what life could be like if we opt to take real care of the living world around us.

Elena · Answer

My Old Ass: One of the best films of the last decade, so hilarious, heartwarming, and wise

Elena · Answer

Julia Jacklin’s record, Pre Pleasure: One of my all time favorites, a true desert island record that I could listen to every single day and never ever tire of.

I feel like a lot of people liked Pressure to Party and then dropped off? But this is Julia at her finest so far imo (I cannot wait for Gem to come out) - her voice is strong, a little silky, a little rough around the edges of emotion, but she hits the high notes with breathtaking clarity. Hard not to sing along off key to some of these epics like Love (Try Not To Let Go).

Put it on, look out the window, maybe it’s drizzling at first but by the time the record ends you’ll be ready to go outside to watch the sky turn colors.

I have on vinyl and not to snob about it but I DO think it makes a difference.

Elena · Answer

Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown: IYKYK!! An iconic book, read to release all shame and be inspired to just ~live~ as your most true and unapologetic self.

Molly Bolt is a legendary narrator, character, and woman-favoring bisexual, and thankfully unlike so many other stories of queer women, this one is not tragic!!

If you’re easily scandalized you will need to have your pearls handy for near constant clutching.

Elena · Answer

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: Ohhh to laugh this hard from the first page feels so good!! I describe this book as The Hunger Games meets The Westing Game but with lesbian necromancers in space. Gideon is one of the most lovable characters I’ve ever met, and Harrow is obsession-worthy. My partner and I dressed as them for Halloween a couple years back (the photo is V as Gideon). Gideon and Harrow’s dynamic, all the way to the last page, rocked me to my core. I truly love every book in this series, but will always have a special place in my heart for Gideon the Ninth.

Also important to note that audiobook is fantastic!! I would absolutely recommend reading (rather than listening to) the second in the series Harrow the Ninth or you may become extremely confused, but listening to Gideon was even more enjoyable than reading it because the voices are so good.

Joy Fowlkes · Answer

Experienced by Kate Young: My “straight” friend worried she was gay after reading. Basically, new gay falls into instalove, and her girlfriend won’t commit until she’s reaped…

Dylan · Answer

DYKE ring: on my gay wish list <3

Dylan · Answer

Rina Sawayama - This Hell: GOT MY INVITATION TO ETERNAL DAMNATION! GET IN LINE, PASS THE WINE BITCH... WE'RE GOING STRAIGHT TO HELL!

one of my most played songs of the last few years. the lyrics are IN-cre-DI-blé (this hell IS better with you), the video is SO FUN (hot gay throuple disco rodeo) and the dopamine is ~fLoWiNg~ directly into my veins.

the way my spine fucking TINGLES when she references Shania, Britney, Whitney, Lady Di, Paris...

LET'S GO GIRLS!

Dylan · Answer

Being Gay Hat: it's true....it's also exhausting being this stunning and brave.....

Dylan · Answer

dog years + lesbian relationships: where is the lie

Dylan · Answer

Catherine McCafferty: i get so flustered watching her interviews... like she is out here living my dream

Dylan · Answer

Lucy Diamond: a lesbian killer is on the loose! not a villain - just misunderstood!!!

Dylan · Answer

I Kissed A Girl: Dannii Minogue hosts what's been described as Love Island for lesbians & it's so bad that it's good.

I've already learned a new word 10 minutes into season 2: HOETRY.

It's fun, it's trashy, it's an educational experience.

Dylan · Answer

The L Word Tee: words cannot express the desperation I have to own this t-shirt UGH

Dylan · Answer

Missy Pantone: Your school has no gymnastics team this is a last resort!

Dylan · Answer

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown: i love adrienne maree brown's mind!

Dylan · Answer

Please Like Me (2013): i adored this show, time for a rewatch

Dylan · Answer

Bottoms (2023): Could the ugly untalented gays please report to the principal's office?

Dylan · Answer

Australian Queer Archives: The largest collection of material relating to so-called Australian LGBTIQ+ life, and the largest collection of non-Australian LGBTIQ+ material in so-called Australia.

Dylan · Answer

Frances Cannon: a queer multidisciplinary artist based in Naarm (Melbourne)

Dylan · Answer

Come See Me in the Good Light (2025): A deeply poignant doco about poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, whose queer love story unfolds with humour, tenderness and fierce devotion as they navigate a terminal cancer diagnosis. You'll cry tears of laughter AND tears of sorrow.