If queer creators are so worried about backlash from the community that we begin to self-censor, then the only interesting queer work will be made by straight people.

Some of the best gay covers from new artists and also your faves including Tracy Chapman, Brandy Carlile, Tayla Parks, Me’Shell NdegéOcello, kd Lang, Joan Jett, Halsey and Santana Lopez.

“We need a commercial with Sarah McLachlan’s ‘Angel’ playing over the image of a queer teenager finding nothing but Good Housekeeping in their search results.”

Elliot Page will be honored at OutFest, The L Word The L Word The L Word, Ashley Nicole Black’s NYT profile, Beanie Feldstein and the trailer for American Crime Story: Impeachment, and more!

There’s nothing inherently more lesbian about watching two famous cishet Rachels playact queerness than watching a nonbinary drag queen kiss the shoulder of a trans woman drag queen.

Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK bans conversion therapy, and the WNBA is back for its 25th season.

Also: Janelle Monáe’s virtual reality concert experience, a Dickinson season two trailer, Demi Lovato reveals the exact moment she knew she was queer, some photos of Viola Davis working out just because, and more!

Niecy Nash is getting her own daytime TV talkshow, more lesbian Bly Manor outtakes, The L Word: Generation Zoo, a new album from Miley Cyrus, and Dolly Parton’s new Christmas movie has already replaced Carol in my heart.

If you think all the buzzer-beating action happened in the NBA this week, it’s probably because you didn’t have access to WNBA games.

The first new Brandi Carlile single in three years!! A new personal essay from Roxane Gay, voting rights threaten white power (never forget), and revisiting the iconic Pink Motorola RAZR phone.

Pray Away is, at best, picking at a scab — and, at worst, poking a dirty finger into a gaping wound.

The only thing less believable is how well behaved all these cats are around coffee mugs and pastries.

Clea DuVall manages a real Christmas miracle in Happiest Season by capturing the distinctly queer and quietly heart-wrenching experience of not being able to share your real self with the people you love most, when all you want to do is shout from the tallest chimney in town that you’ve found your person, that you’re in love.

“For some of us, that will always be our relationship to gender. I’m a woman. I’m trans. I’m non-binary. All those words feel right for me. But I’m still naked walking down that dark alley a little unsure of who I’m meant to be.”

I don’t want to put any songs on my breakup playlist that any of my exes have used, or are using, to woo their new girlfriends.

At the end of the evening, Finley definitely takes the stage one last time to sing “Closing Time.”

Get familiar with her and her recipes in this handy ranked list.

Setting up boundaries around family members can be a complicated and painful thing, but doing so without the support of your partner will likely be more difficult, and could potentially create some challenging situations for the two of you to navigate.

The film goes beyond mere representational milestones. It’s beautiful, it’s laugh-out-loud hilarious, it has two whole musical numbers, three whole Britney Spears references, and is just bursting with queer creativity!

Of 118 major studio releases in 2019, 15 included gay men, eight included lesbian or bisexual women, and zero included trans characters.