Backstage at the DapperQ show. Copyright Joi Ong.

Do you have to wear a suit to work? Can you wear an approximation of a suit? Here’s how!

Model at The Gladiator Fashion Show at the LAB in Brooklyn, NY, April 15th, 2012. (via http://www.dapperq.com/2012/05/gladiator-fashion-show/

Perhaps you have overlooked some of the many beautiful amazing posts we churned out this year.

We’re everywhere.

It’s Spirit Day when everybody wears our favorite color, purple, to support LGBT youth! We’ve made a gallery to celebrate!

This is maybe the last article you will ever need to read about boots.

Just because you’re staying home doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look your most awesome. Check out this New Year’s Eve fashion advice for homebodies.

Denim? I just met ’em.

“As quickly as the tomboy femme has risen to the heights of wlw stardom, however, she’s also grabbed the attention of an unexpected internet subculture: Christian influencers.”

Photographer Maro Hagopian documents the NYC queer scene; is an icon; throws a party; fosters a community.

“I love that every time Melissa King posts a photo with a puppy she says ‘I’m just their uncle,’ as if she knows that the second she gets a dog, all of our hearts are going to explode.”

Dapper Q’s young adult fashion show, Diversity Prom, the queerest albums of the year, Pride stuff, REI at A-Camp, and more!

Los Angeles’ first “Equality Fashion Week” featured incredible queer and trans designers on the rooftop of a fancy hotel and we had fun!

Submissions are now open for our next quarterly theme issue: But Make It Fashion.

The Sante Fe High School shooting and the threat of male violence, Janet Mock on being a boss, combating insomnia, protecting women’s healthcare, plus other important topics to cover together. Welcome to a new week!

She’s joining the cast of Madam Secretary as a series regular. We don’t know much about her character from this picture but also we kind of know everything.

We’re looking for a Fashion/Beauty Editor and a few new Staff Writers to join our team! Also: we pay!

“I would give anything to see Rachel start a discussion with a writer that begins with ‘Can I be frank'”

Nats Getty photographed by Molly Adams for Curve Magazine via DapperQ