The Queer Life

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Mission Statement
The Queer Life is a site dedicated to providing articles, news, and entertainment that are relevant to an all-inclusive community of queer individuals.

The Queer Life is amplifying the voices of otherwise under-represented minorities: bisexuals, women, gays, lesbians, people of color, poor, trans*, polyamorous, and those with otherwise radical existences that challenge the status quo.
For whom?

All media created by The Queer Life is intended for all audiences which include those in the LGBTQQI community and the cisgender/straight identifying community. While it’s important for us to present information accurately and honestly, we try to appeal to all audiences without being didactic.

By whom?

Contributors can be from any background and all kinds of media are accepted (video, fiction, poetry, news, audio, photo, etc). We try to represent as many walks of life as possible, but if we’re out of line or you have criticism we gladly accept any comments or questions (refer to our contact page).

Here are a few quick tips when navigating our skill. First thing to note, when opening the skill you’ll be offered the latest episode, but if that’s not what you’re looking for, you can always find something more specific. This skill allows you to skip forward and backward by entire episodes, and you can also fast forward and rewind within episodes themselves. In addition, you can ask the skill to play the newest or oldest episodes released; or if you want to get specific, play a specific episode by saying the episode number. Try some of these commands:

**Skip Entire Episodes**
— [While Episode Is Playing] = “Alexa skip” or “Alexa tell The Queer Life to skip ahead 5 episodes”

**Fast Forward/Back Within Episode**
— [While Episode Is Playing] = “Alexa, tell The Queer Life to fast forward 2 minutes”
— [While Episode Is Playing] = “Alexa, tell The Queer Life to rewind 45 seconds”

**Select Newest Episode**
— “Alexa, tell The Queer Life to play the newest episode”