I decided to meet Syd in Oakland to celebrate my newly healed chest. We hiked out into the Happy Boulders, selected our first climb and immediately took off our shirts. It was glorious, but also terrifying and vulnerable.

Many of us are intentionally spending more time indoors, and it’s a great time to pick up a new book. Here are some of the most exciting and interesting books by, about, for, or otherwise relevant to queer women, nonbinary and trans readers – not an exhaustive list, by any means, but a good place to start!

It’s Halloween in Riverdale — let’s have a freakin seance!!!! With a cursed puppet!!!!

YOU LETTERED IN BEING THIRSTY I LOVE IT I LOVE YOU!

Your favorite music store gal pals/secret fight club are returning!

“It’s not a fair comparison because Are You The One? was entirely queer and went on all summer and sooo many people I know were watching. However, I will say no one on AYTO was as crushable as Sammie.”

Also, King Princess’ FaceApp results, Jasika Nicole’s style icon and everybody’s at The Con.

Plus: Springtime Mary Oliver from the Atlantic archives, ButchCamp, grandparents are getting more gay-friendly, the stuntwomen of the MCU, teenage lesbians trolling homophobic politicians, and oh so much more.

These are all love stories.

Topics include picking/pulling/not coming, the gay neighborhood of Montrose, the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, non-profits, gay men walking fast, Bennington in the ’80s, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” abortion and Grease.

Get in here and recommend all the good (gay) books!

“can we call lesbian visibility day lesbian brigadoon”

“I see the dichotomies of Good Sandy v. Bad Sandy as something specifically magnetic for little baby gays, too, even if we were too baby to fully unpack that.”

What is in your lesbian canon? What books, movies and music do you consider essential lesbian material and/or lesbian art that is essential to your own understanding of your identity?

The failures of family, the joys of friendship, and a nonsensical but incredible musical number—just another day in Riverdale!

Eight books with steamy summer affairs between women, with some settings abroad to boot!

Theres been a lot of hate for “hard pants” lately…

Reclaiming queer procreation, dropping the last nap, stupid crows, Baby T. at A-Camp, and losta cute T. Rex pics.

“If Katie McGrath could spend her one precious month of Supergirl hiatus to go on the other side of the globe, where every spider is a killer, to kiss women on screen again, I can face another day of my gay life.”

As I watched “Area 51” become a trending topic and meme format over the weekend, I found myself wishing for some sort of brief explainer on the UFO-related events of the past few months, just so one could have some semblance of a fuck of an idea what was going on.