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Because lesbian and bisexual characters now have longer shelf lives, network TV is beginning to go beyond the same trope-tastic story arcs.

I’m about to take ya’ll to church, where — every once in awhile — everything is gospel and nothing hurts.

Being queer is a lot like being Southern. Both identities refuse to be contained by border or stereotype.

Everything is slower in the South. I’m (slowly) realizing that this includes progress.

This tiny book is anything but your mother’s health education book.

In a recent Guardian article, British journalist and author Nick Cohen put on his whimsical ally cap and attempted to tackle an age-old question: Why are straight people so darned invested in what gays do in bed?

The exhaustive list of legends lost in 2012 includes many American artists and scientists, as well as one Costa Rican you’ve probably never heard of (but will be glad you did).

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but good sassin’ will knock you out for a week.

Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is only an effective strategy if you have boots to begin with.

Georgia’s got a hot new lesbian in her legislature and she’s at the helm of some pretty progressive policies.

This week, we are celebrating all things awkward and charming, like middle-aged morticians, make-up artists with drag sensibilities, adolescent tomboys and their wimpy male partners-in-crime, not to mention the overprevalence of denim button-downs in the 1970s.

With support for gay equality at an all-time-high and the focus on an aging generation of baby boomers, our LGBT predecessors are finally getting the much-needed care they deserve.

Actually, I love the image that comes from being from the same state as the Honey Boo Boo Child herself.

What can we stand to learn from a self-described ‘misfit’ living in rural Louisiana in the 1950s?

It’s not 2013 yet, but you’re gonna want it to be when you see what’s just pranced down the runway.

Despite its tongue-in-cheek name, Poetry is Dead Magazine’s Queer Issue is pleasant evidence to the contrary.

It’s likely that your parents are mulling over their own special set of holigay related dilemmas.

16 years after the original film, Foxfire is getting a reboot at the hands of French director Laurent Cantet. Think riot grrrl, but with saddle shoes.

A gay man in Florida reports being abused at the hands of his Christian group home. However, this is only the start of Florida’s problems with religion and the foster care system.

There must be something in the lingonberry jam and kaffebröd, as Sweden has given us so much great pop music in the last four decades.

Leah Horlick is an ass-kicking, award-winning Canadian poet who is taking the queer literary world by storm.

Remember what it felt like to finally stop wishing you were straight? Well, we’re in the same boat. Only this time it’s not us we’re talking about, it’s our hair.

Remember what it felt like to finally stop wishing you were straight? Well, we’re in the same boat. Only this time it’s not us we’re talking about, it’s our hair.

Raised in Virginia by a formerly Mormon White mother and a Black father employed in academia, Harris-Perry’s life is as layered as the points she’s so damned good at making.

Remember what it felt like to finally stop wishing you were straight? Well, we’re in the same boat. Only this time it’s not us we’re talking about, it’s our hair.