By now, if you’re part of the internet reading class, you’ve inevitably heard ad nauseum how Niko Hines of The Daily Beast went to the Olympic Village and got into some capital-T Trouble. Armed with a handful of dating apps, a disregard for their sanctity, and his very straight privilege, he proceeded to collect…
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"Women arent as impressed by looks as gay men are. They wil play a cute trade with a shitty personality in a minute."
If you have never listened to Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, I will tell you right now: you probably won't like it. Not exactly in the you-won't-get-it type of not liking it, but because it is actually painful to listen to. The piece begins with the marimbas pounding out a single tone in quarter notes, quickly…
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We have a problem, America. Among the poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free, there's a community yearning a little more than the others, yearning for the attention and support they so obviously deserve. And that community is the Underwhiteprivileged.
It's Saturday morning, and I call Brian's name. He's asleep on the lower half of our cold, metal bunk bed that Mom purchased out of a catalog. He murmurs something like a growl, but I don't ask for clarification. I bolt down the ladder, race barefoot across the hardwood floor and down into the basement where hints of…
All bodies are beautiful, and no one has the right to tell you there's anything wrong with yours, but some of us (many of us?) are currently working to change the details of the flesh we live in. Maybe it's health related. Maybe it's vanity related. Maybe it's a role in a play. Who cares? It's your body, and you have…
Want to feel old? It was just announced today that Pete Davidson, twenty-years-old, will be coming on board to SNL's cast this fall. In addition to doing comedy in New York, and being part of Guy Code, he has also had a guest role on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. On Jimmy Kimmel Live back in April he revealed how much of a…
"You know, you're not that fat. Chubby? Yes. But not that fat."
Maybe a shoddy Skype connection was the best medium for an interview about our inability as humans to fully know one another. We talk and our speech sounds perfect to our own ears, but on the receiving end who knows how much has been conveyed, how many words have broken up. I didn't realize it as I was speaking alone…
Beloved online dating coach, and friend of BackTalk, Virginia Roberts of The Heartographer, has clued me in that OkCupid is making some changes to its set of default profile questions (the ones that show up on your profile page, not the endless stream of questions exploring such philosophical topics as whether nuclear…
Update: You can read my full interview with Jacob Clifton here.
In the ongoing evolution of American gay rights, you might expect some strange occurrences to transpire before arriving at the correct, no-brain answer on how to treat members of the LGBT community (which, as a refresher, is to let everyone marry whomever they want, and treat everyone like human beings. Period.)
Designers Kimberly Linn and Katie Streeter have bestowed a precious, precious gift on the world, and we had no idea we were hungry for it: Lesbian emojis. "What on Earth could lesbian emojis be?" you may be thinking to yourself in your sad lesbian-emojiless existence. "How ever could lesbians need lesbian-specific…
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This cat has no intimacy issues.
CHARACTERS: JASON, BRANDON, SERENA (WAITRESS), VOICE OF MATTHEW
Are you a woman who's interested in attracting women who like other women? Yes? Great! Comedienne and YouTuber Hannah Hart has put together the most authoritative of primers to teach you how to sneak in close and slip that arm around your lady crush's shoulder—with absolute assurance that your new belle is into you.
