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• A Woman Possessed

  25-06-2026 20:00 via thestranger.com
  
  This story was originally published in The Stranger’s 2026 Queer Issue.It was from the glittering ashes of male-centric glam rock that one of LA’s first punk bands emerged. As a music-obsessed teenager who was convinced she’d one day marry Elton John (this isthe bi experience, people), Alice Bag met Patricia Morrison (Legal Weapon, the Gun Club) while waiting in line to see John guest star on Cher’s variety show. Later, when the two unsuccessfully auditioned for a post-R
  
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• Sea Change

  25-06-2026 19:55 via thestranger.com
  
  It got salty, and there were some rough waters, but unionized employees and management at Sea Creatures restaurant group came to a tentative agreement on a union contract Wednesday night, the union announced to The Stranger. This means that workers at acclaimed oyster bar the Walrus and the Carpenter and both locations of doughnut shop General Porpoise will work under a collective bargaining agreement, pending ratification by the union membership. The weeklong strike at the Walrus that has
  
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• Slog AM: Supreme Court Says No More Deportation Protection for Haitian and Syrian Immigrants, Europe Bakes, Mayor Katie Wilson Hires Temporary Communications Staff

  25-06-2026 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  According to state records, part of the chemical tank that ruptured in an implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packing Company pulp mill that killed 11 and injured eight last month had sprung a leak in late 2023 and early 2024. Records also show that state regulators have cited the mill for clean air and water violations since the mill’s parent company took over in 2016, including a 5,000 gallon spill of caustic white liquor in 2020 and a spill in March that submerged a worker in scalding pul
  
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• A Germaphobe’s Guide To Eating Ass

  25-06-2026 00:00 via thestranger.com
  
  In the mid-2010s, Time’s pronouncement that America had reached the transgender tipping point overshadowed another startling edict from Salon a few months later: Ass was the new pussy.Licking it. Suckling it. Introducing it to a curious finger. Dicking it down with fleshy and artificial phalluses. The world had caught up to Mozart, who, in 1782, penned “Leck mich im Arsch,” translated from German as “Lick me in the ass.” He probably meant kiss my ass, but who are w
  
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