Buffy is a queer rite of passage. Everybody’s got a Buffy story. These are some of ours.

This week, Buffy celebrated its 18th birthday, so we’re rejoicing with some sexy Faith/Buffy and Willow/Tara stories.

One dark and stormy night, like so many queer people before me, I eagerly introduced a friend to the world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Welcome to “I Just Now Saw,” a new column in which I attempt to conduct conversations about television shows you watched ten years ago and I just now saw for the first time. First up: BUFFY!

A rundown of all the things you can celebrate the 20th anniversary of Buffy by buying.

It’s called Buffering the Vampire Slayer and there’s gonna be original song recaps in each episode. It’s true!

“GIRLS MAKING OUT. GIRLS MAKING OUT EVERYWHERE. ALSO VAMPIRES.”

Lindsay Lohan’s MUSE photoshoot looks better as a short film – but where’s the other girl? Logo brings Buffy, Willow and Tara back to your TV, everyone ever is reviewing ’09 and handing out awards, MTV cancels “It’s On With Alexa Chung” and adds “Jersey Shore” to the bottomless pit of reality TV shows — which happen to be Michelle Obama’s guilty pleasure. We also have a lot of love for Adam Lambert!

Willow and Tara in love (and alive) forever!

Here at Autostraddle, we love kickass women. We’re presenting a list of 20 of our favorite kickass fictional heroines as a way to jumpstart this feelingsfest and leaving the rest up to you!

Five vampire couples who may not be safe to hang around when they’re hungry, but are pretty good girlfriends

“At any given moment, you might turn into a rat, a demon, a werewolf, or a lesbian. In Sunnydale, no one was ever what they seemed, and by the time you’d figured someone out, they had already turned into someone else.”

Vanessa’s Team Pick: Next time someone tells you Buffy is no longer relevant, stake them in the heart. No I’m totally kidding (sort of) but you can show them this new blog of limericks about the Scoobies instead.

Vanessa’s Team Pick: Wanna see behind-the-scene footage from some of Buffy’s epic fight scenes? Yeah, I thought so.

On this week’s Buffering the Vampire Slayer, Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs have rewritten the lyrics to “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” as “BUFFY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE.”

As it turns out, watching strong women kick ass is good for society and your mental health.

More queer Nike World Cup commercials, good news from The Marvels, queers on 90 Day Fiancé, and more!

It’s no accident that one of the first major lesbian relationships in television history began in an episode where no one was able to talk.

The joint memoir tells the emotional tale of Kristin Russo and Jenny Owen Youngs fighting to keep their labor of love alive through personal struggles, a global pandemic, and a hellmouth opening up around them.

Janelle Monáe’s dreamworld, Lily Tomlin’s just getting started, a new queer slasher, and more!