“There are few shows that I have loved with the ferocity that I loved Orange is the New Black, and there are exactly zero shows that have broken my heart the way this show did. So when it came to the final season, I was trying to prepare myself for anything.”

As “Orange is the New Black” wraps up its seven-season run, our TV team weighs in on the show’s legacy — the good and the bad.

Brie Larson believes Carol and Maria are the “great love” of Captain Marvel, Ellen Page pens an op-ed in The Hollywood Reporter about hate crimes, Lilly Singh comes out, IndieWire’s 100 greatest films directed by women is pretty gay, and more!

Keke Palmer is the internet’s sweetheart, the Fire Island podcast you’ve been waiting for, and more!

The Morning Show is renewed! A poster and premiere date for Prime Video’s adaptation of Red, White, and Royal Blue! Michaela Jaé Rodriguez in AHS season 12! And more!

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day, the one day a year us lesbians take our corporeal form and make mischief in the streets in our flannel and Birkenstocks while singing “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

The conversations happening with this strike about the brokenness of streaming are inseparable from the ongoing “cancel your gays” conversation. The practice of streaming giants removing less-popular series from their platforms to avoid paying residuals especially hurts LGBTQ+ and actors of color, as it’s queer shows and shows with predominantly POC casts that are often on that notorious chopping block. 

This week, on the Howard Stern Show, Demi Lovato confirmed that “Cool for the Summer” is about a relationship she had with a famous woman, thus suggesting her need to take a bite of the cherry was accomplished.

Today the stage has been set for a historic double strike in Hollywood — the kind of which has not been seen in 63 years.

So many women who’ve suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.

Carmen and Riese talk about the entirety of Season Six of “Orange is the New Black,” which they thought they were going to hate at first but then it actually turned out pretty okay.

As Hot Strike Summer rapidly turns into Hot Strike Fall — I’ve become deeply interested in the trend where the forefront of labor movements are vocally and visibly, well, gay as hell.

It’s more than a soft launch coming out in a magazine profile. Any day that another queer polyam Latina is walking around among us is a bit brighter than the day before.

Also! An Orphan Black sequel, Danielle Brooks reacts to being cast in The Color Purple, bisexual Dutch speed skater Ireen Wüst has made history at the Winter Olympics, and more!

This Rosewood-adjacent teen drama knows exactly what it’s about: Teen girls doing slashings, teen girls getting slashed, mysterious notes and threats popping up in unlikely places in unhinged ways, and TWINS.

I love Black butches. Studs. Masc folks. I love them when they’re quiet and when they are loud. I love it they are soft — and when they are hard. Just a whole Dr. Seuss rhyme of loving them.

Every story can be told, if it’s told right.

I want to love all girl movies, all nerd movies, all gay movies — but yodeling Yoshi, this thing is nearly unwatchable.

“Women in the 1940s were conservative and respectful. This series tried to make them into whores and lesbians!”

I think this is always who I’ve been, and the other words were the ones I was trying on to see if they fit.