15 things that prove queer women won 2020, the fight to include HIV-positive people in COVID-19 vaccine trials, women undoubtedly ran rap music this year, and Christine Baranski knows you love her. It’s the last link roundup of the year so I made it MAXIMUM sized, let’s do this!

Congratulations to trans lesbian Kate Freeman, making book girls everywhere very proud. Also: an oral history of fashion’s response to the AIDS epidemic and 8 holiday horror movies to stream when you wish 2020 would just end already.

It’s Nancy Meyers Week somewhere in the world! Also: James Baldwin’s magnificent friendships, throples making history, and will 2020 be the year we lost forever?

A love letter to queer fan fiction that you don’t want to miss. Also: the legendary Dionne Warwick, giving trans kids everything they want this Christmas, Ellen Degeneres has the Coronavirus, “Black Swan” is now a Hanukkah movie, and are pandemic cats keeping their own secrets?

Ding Dong! The Witch (Might Be) Dead! Also: some judgement free advice on how to keep everyone around you safe if you traveled home last week for Thanksgiving, and mourning all of our “almost” romantic relationships.

The Squad is keeping it real about the fashion limitations of working class women of color in the halls of Congress, President Obama on not “abandoning the possibility of America,” Megan Thee Stallion said get ready for a Hot Girl XXXMas, and yes — be proud you learned how to masturbate from a book.

Here’s some smart stuff you can read in between obsessively refreshing those result maps, including: Judith Butler on Donald Trump, memes galore because we’re never getting out of this hell, and why your therapist was right — you really can’t plan for uncertainty.

Fortune Feimster got married, Laverne Cox is on the cover of Paper Magazine, women making pizza are hot — pun not intended, and links for all your big post-Amy Coney Barrett is on The Supreme Court rage feelings.

Clea DuVall and Tegan and Sara unite to give the gays everything that they want! Also, the Pope said that thing he said. What happens if Roe v. Wade if overturned? And while we’re talking nightmares, here’s how to survive election night.

Gay Santa is bringing us a “Euphoria” Christmas special in their bag of toys! Also: Self-help hacks at the end of the world, Emma González on voting, and yes this one apartment really was perfect in every way — except for the ghosts.