The statistics on acceptance of LGBT people were generally staying the same or improving, until last year — when, as GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis puts it, “the acceptance pendulum abruptly stopped and swung in the opposite direction.”
Kate McKinnon is as good at being Robert Mueller as you knew she would be, St. Vincent covers Sleater-Kinney, some gay news from Sundance, updates on The Bold Type and grown-ish, and more!
Helen James wins her case and is generally a real American hero I can get behind, new documentary about Black lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Sarah Waters on 20 years of Tipping the Velvet, Joan Greene is yet another LGBT candidate running in 2018, Melissa Etheridge wants an uprising of love, and more good stuff!
GLAAD Award nominations were announced today and Autostraddle got a fifth nomination!
Tig’s statement on the unfair no-good terrible cancellation of the wonderful One Mississippi, a new Heathers trailer continues to confound, Bellevue features a trans actress playing a murdered trans girl, Lena Waithe is gonna be on “This Is Us,”omg Black Lightning, the story of Steven Universe and so much more!
With Angela Robinson, Lena Waithe, and Laverne Cox donning the stage, three of the six women represented were out queer and trans black women. In the middle of this already big moment, these three women broke another glass ceiling.
Jessica Platt is the first out trans player in the Canadian Women’s Hockey League, Disney gal pal pairing you’ll freak out over, rare vintage photos of 18th and early 19th-century lesbians, 90-year-old lesbian veteran sues the U.S. Air Force, and lesbian herstory accounts you need in your life.
A new Supergirl trailer to watch while still talking about the One Day at a Time trailer, Ellen’s new game show and Runaways has been renewed, everybody’s eyes are on Lena Waithe, Sally Draper is Sabrina the Teenage Witch and a tweet that’ll make you smile guaranteed.
11-year-old Kyra Inglett and 36-year-old Kaladaa Crowell were murdered by the son of Kaladaa’s girlfriend, Robin Denson.
There were two Golden Globes ceremonies last night. One where men went about their business as usual and blithely collected their awards for unremarkable films, and one coordinated by the Time’s Up Initiative.
23-year-old Kerrice Lewis of Washington DC was a “free spirit” who was “full of life” and then on December 28th she was the victim of a horrifying murder.
A record number of LGBTQ Texans running for office, Nafessa Williams as Thunder in Black Lightning (swoon), America’s first lesbian mag herstory lesson, first trans woman in British Vogue suffragette spread, and choppin’ a whole hell of a lot of cilantro.
The Fosters is closing up and spinning off, can I get some affirmation on Tami Taylor being a lesbian in SMILF, lady-gay movies to look forward to in 2018, The Chi, Sarah Paulson, TV this week and so much more!
Two men with criminal records, Justin C. Mann and James W. White, have been arrested in the murder of Brandi Mells and Shanta, Shanise and Jeremiah Myers. Other details about the victims and the crime have also been released by police as friends and family struggle to process this devastating event.
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!
An 11-year old boy, a 5-year old girl, their 36-year-old mother and her 22-year-old girlfriend were found murdered in their basement apartment in what police are calling “not a random act.”
Plus: Jodie Whittaker takes over the TARDIS, Mary and Mel and Sue reunited for Christmas, some Steven Universe ballet, the new Grace & Frankie trailer, and more!
“Sexual justice has to adapt. The alternative is awful.”
Despite the world working as hard as ever to prevent us from doing so, black women — especially queer black women — did a whole lot of slaying in 2017.
Whether you’re Mexican, Puerto Rican, Costa Rican, Cuban, Panamanian or Argentinian, there were great examples of queer Latinidad for you.