Today, the voting commences for the CLASSIC sub-regions of the Canon vs. Fanon Contest. You have 48 hours to cast your ballot and then we’ll be back to unveil another region shortly thereafter.

Whedon and Rowling don’t get to lay claim to the stories we wrote, whether they were in fan fiction, on forums, or even just in our own, quiet thoughts. We own the narratives that give us meaning.

The women featured on this list include Final Girls, monsters, and everything in between.

“Stephen Universe is a cartoon show about a little boy with a large mouth who wears flip-flops regardless of weather or situation. Rebecca Sugar made the show and she is bisexual. Stephen has imaginary friends who live in a big jewelry emporium in outer space famous for its ability to fuse different types of gemstones and rocks into each other.”

Planning on spending a lot of time on the couch? Here are 31 shows that would be good even without lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified queer female characters but luckily, they do!

Buffy business, a PSA from the cast of Transparent, a new Canadian lesbian movie gets a U.S. release date, respect for Kristen Stewart, and more pop culture news!

Once I saw Heather Hogan stop a man who had been calling her “doll” in his tracks by asking him “What’s your name, buddy?” and that’s the same energy as Endora refusing to remember Darrin’s name correctly.

We’ve come so far since same-sex kisses on television only happened once in a show’s entire run, rarely involved lesbian or bisexual characters and generally were obscured by somebody’s hair!

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.

It was both the best idea and the worst idea I’ve ever had.

Autostraddle looks at the best costumes ever, with inspiration from queers and their friends — Buffy, Lindsay Lohan, Carlytron & Robin, Ellen DeGeneres, My So-Called Life, The L Word and more!

“Christina is, energetically, equal parts over-the-top gay man and elder straight woman.”

“I doubt that Santana was written from the jump with the intention to make her a lesbian, but sometimes that’s what a coming out journey feels like — like you’re in a show and the writers chose a new direction for your character mid-way through Season Two. You can still look back and find a way to make it all fit together, though. Stories and lives are fluid like that.”

The one where nearly every single member of the Team discusses some of the best (Golden Girls) and most questionable (Grey’s Anatomy) TV shows out on DVD.

We have actual *couples* going against *each other* this round! Including Yellowjacket’s Van and Tai and First Kill’s Calliope and Juliette! Plus Buffy’s Willow, SLOCG’s Leighton, and 26 other queer teens on TV who are clawing for your votes this March Madness!

No matter the point of the movie, the training montage is a moment of unabashed euphoria: Here’s our “hero” (or “heroes”) doing what it takes to attempt to beat the odds.

Everybody on this list except Angela Chase really believes in themselves and I truly do appreciate that in a human being.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya returns to her stabby gay list from 2019 with some important updates.

It’s Big Gay Dinner night in Purgatory and there’s an appetizer of potato licking, a main course of zombie interrupting, and magic ring activating for dessert.

Here are the queer lady ships that made us/destroyed us; what are yours?