The age-old challenge: what to get for your rad, free-thinking, take-no-BS, burn down the cisheteropatriarchy, revolutionary friend or loved one? Capitalism sucks. These gifts don’t!

We’ve got love and basketball, queer rock camps, Nanette coverage, and more! Happy Sunday!

Plus: Wildfang activism, not ALL Geminis, elderly lesbians watching Hayley Kiyoko, and hero queer teachers.

“I think, ‘I will never be like them. Never.’ Though I can live here, I can work here, have a house here, but my mind is not like theirs. Because we all come here with a little war inside and it never stops.” Elvira Brodskaya and her wife fled persecution in Russia and settled in New York. But even in the U.S., they can’t escape all the fears of their past.

Mike Pence got a gay welcome from his neighbors, lesbian couple wins against bakery homophobes, trans military ban goes bye-bye, why we kiss at midnight on NYE, PA and AZ voters are pro-LGBTQ, and some self care tips for the new year. Smooches!

How to organize a meeting that won’t result in headaches, boredom, or existential dread.

Don’t give Trump a moment to get comfortable. Let’s start fucking shit up as soon as he starts being sworn in.

Plus: queer women are working hard not to become collateral damage as men in Hollywood fall like dominoes to sexual assault stories, women and POC directed more TV than ever this year, these adorable lesbian hockey players and their baby, and news on The Handmaid’s Tale’s return.

There’s a lot of news in here! Alice Isn’t Dead is coming to TV and so is 2 Dope Queens. Shay Mitchell’s playing gay again. Anna Paquin joins Tell It To The Bees. Amandla Stenberg stars in The Hate U Give. St. Vincent is directing a brainbender. And so much more!

Girl Scouts, Jinkx Monsoon, Bisexual Doctor Who, and nude lesbian rappers! Happy Sunday Funday!

“No matter how many memos he issues, the law is on our side.”

“I was in the military for four years, military police, and I never once experienced something like that.”

Beer horoscopes you can drink, DREAMer Daniela Vargas, Daria, being trans in a conservative school, Texas take a fucking seat, you too NPR, Lego making dreams come true, and so much more!

After a decade of using our community to score votes, the Tories have shown that they were always waiting to throw us under the bus.

These are stories of trans people who have served or are serving in the US military; their experiences range from the positive to the deeply traumatic and everywhere in between. 

Hillary calls out Trump at LGBT fundraiser, unicorn frappe style thief you’re welcome, a new free font in honor of the creator of the rainbow flag for your next protest sign, British teachers’ union support LGBT-inclusive all-ages education, ignoring advances from dudes like a damn lady ostrich, the L.A. Times embraces singular “they,” and your LGBTQ YouTube content is no long blocked! Yay!

Totally gay companies, a totally gay District Attorney, a bunch of totally gay policies at the state level, some totally gay women in theater, and also some good news about The Golden Girls.

Come for the snark. Stay for the real-ass news and advice about how to take back our country.

Twenty percent of millennials ID as LGBTQ (that’s a lot), Gauri Sawant stars in a Vicks ad that will melt your heart, Georgia says “No Means No” to anti-LGBT bullshit, a queer dance party protest at Ivanka Trump’s place, and more good good shit.

How to use a message triangle, come up with impactful slogans, and why we need to sharpen our words to fight back.