Did you miss your chance to HUMP! at On the Boards? Or maybe you want to watch the magic one more time?

By popular demand, we’re streaming the 2022 HUMP! Film Festival for a limited time over the next three weekends!

As you undoubtedly know, HUMP! is the annual film festival where sexy amateur filmmakers share their lustiest five-minute dirty movies with the world. This delightfully sex-positive fest features all sorts of horny fun, including hardcore, softcore, live action, stop action, animated, musical, kinky, vanilla, straight, gay, lez, bi, trans, and genderqueer flicks that are guaranteed to have you squirming in glee!

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For liberals, the Court is out of reach for a generation. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Geoff Livingston / GETTY IMAGES

The Supreme Court has sucked for as long as I have been alive, and at this rate it will continue to suck even harder every year until I die.

Just in the last few weeks, the Court has voted to cover up US war crimes and to create a precedent that would allow states to permanently reduce the voting power of minorities. By summer, court-watchers expect SCOTUS to return abortion rights to the coat-hanger era, return diversity standards in college admissions to the pre-Civil Rights

In the same way that water is always wet, the Pope is always Catholic, and Sally Field always delivers her most climactic lines in threes, a story told by Harvey Fierstein is always absolutely spellbinding. An actor (Hairspray, Mulan, Cheers, Independence Day, etc), writer (Torch Song Trilogy, La Cage aux Folles, Kinky Boots, etc etc), and comedian, Harvey has lived a million adventures and is the platonic ideal of an entertaining party guest, the person everyone else wants to feel worthy of being seated next to. And what seatmate could be more worthy than the incomparable Bianca Del Rio? A talented comic performer whose

Seattle’s art scenes are undergoing a sort of springtime resurgence. In the drag world, there are not one but two 10-week-long competitions happening right now. Matt Baume
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Guess how much it cost the 5th Ave Theatre to keep these two from getting COVID-19? TRACY MARTIN, COURTESY 5TH AVE

A new Netflix documentary shows how Boeing’s

A womb and a tomb. Lester Black

Happy cutoff day!! Anything that wasn’t a budget or that wasn’t necessary to implement a budget needed to pass out of the House or Senate in Olympia today at 5 pm. I’ll write more about the blood left on the floor next week, but one death jumped out at me: A bill to legalize backyard cottages statewide is done. Hard to say why at the moment, but Sen. Lisa Wellman (D-Mercer Island) hung a bunch of amendments on it that would have watered down the proposal. Some Democrats want to be in a housing crisis forever.

Some bad cop bills made it

“Here is a job for you. Make this work.” Charles Mudede

Joe Biden enjoyed another monster job report this month. The economy gained 678,000 jobs. Employment is, according conventional standards, nonexistent (3.8%). There was also a significant rise in Black employment, a key political indicator for Democrats.

We are basically in a boom that will, as it expands, weaken the inflation story that the GOP has made into its main flag for its charge into the midterms. The flaw in that story? The economy is growing.

This means the stagflation argument (i.e. no or negative growth with rising inflation), which helped the right regain power in a toxic post-Nixon world,

After Yang premieres this Friday.

The film After Yang is not your standard science fiction flick. It is minimalist in its depiction of technology, centering on family and memory as opposed to the flashy gadgets of its future. Written and directed by the video essayist turned filmmaker Kogonada, it is not only getting a wide release this weekend but showing as part of this year’s Seattle Asian American Film Festival.

Notably, the film has a wondrous score by composer Aska Matsumiya that perfectly complements its low-fi sci-fi world. If you aren’t familiar with her work, you best fix that ASAP. You can hear her eclectic music in the underrated

Jess Stein

“It Can’t Rain All the Time”

Very true. JK

This can either be read as words of encouragement or consolation.

“Be Gay Do Sins”

Got it. Jk

Check and check. Thanks, Sarah Epperson!

“Stop the Sweeps”

A small sticker. JK

Forgot where I saw this one.

“Success Is the Best Revenge”

Sorry this is blurry, I was drunk. JK

Very true. Makes me think of this song:

“Crypto Mining Harms the Earth”

Spotted on Capitol Hill. JK

What animal do you reckon this is?

“Anti Christ”

Why does this make him actually seem cooler? JK

Freaky!

“Housing Is a Human Right”

Don’t let KOMO see this. JK

Have you read my

I’ve interviewed so many queer people whose favorite characters from books, movies, and TV are not the heroes, but the villains. Ursula, Magneto, the Wicked Witch, Loki — to say nothing of crushes on Bowser, Maleficent, and Skeletor. The best explanation I’ve heard for this phenomenon is that in a world where LGBTQ+ people are routinely identified as evil, it’s empowering to associate with a character who’s emphatically, gleefully, powerfully villainous.

That attitude undergirds Save Yourself, a promising and very queer comic out this week that, I’m sorry to say, doesn’t fully measure up to what I’d hoped it would be. But despite the story’s stumbles, it’s a