Queer Chef Angela Dimayuga shuts down IvankaTrump.com, Beverly Cleary turns 101 and Ramona is forever 8, the first protest in SPAAAACE, gay marriage is good for ya, Virginia tells bigots to calm down, and more good news!

A Utah judge takes a child away from her foster parents because they’re lesbians, Texas daycare workers sue over respecting a trans child’s gender, threats and backlash at Mizzou, and more.

Queer pirates, spooning, Harry Potter puns, A-Camp virgins, and your gorgeous kitchens!

Also: Jen Richards and Angelica Ross join Laverne Cox on Doubt, Queen Sugar keeps getting it right, and Josh sleeps with Maggie’s straight girl on Younger.

Your move, Hollywood.

GLAAD Award nominations were announced today and Autostraddle got a nod for digital journalism!

“Four-and-a-half minutes was all it took to throw me back into this huge river of feeling, and it was exhilarating and rewarding and made me feel light and warm in a place that had been cold and damp for a long time.”

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop, and it did: “I am hoping to fill the stage with artists who are willing to donate 20 minute sets.”

Vanessa is thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail this summer and she’s taking us with her! Follow along as she walks 2,650 miles from Mexico to Canada.

“Numerous Hollywood actresses — Garbo, Gish, Dietrich, Jean Arthur, um, Kay Francis, Stanwyck, Bankhead, Del Rio, Janet Gaynor, etc., etc., — have enjoyed lesbian or bi relationships. Have you ever…?”

151 out of the 216 advice videos I helped create over the span of six years — answering questions submitted by young people — have been blocked, and our entire channel is no longer listed in the search for “Everyone Is Gay.”

Ring in the Trumpian dystopia with two games about corrupt government run by billionaires!

“I am so glad I joined A+ (even though it led to me drinking literal vodka water)”

Max and Anne actually have a conversation, and so do Arizona and Webber. Allison moves in on The Real O’Neals. And it’s time to talk about Aubrey Plaza on Legion.

Right now I’m a girl fighting a girl arch-nemesis and my headquarters is a ship with a girl captain and a girl mad scientist and I feel real good about everything besides my chaos level and the fact that I think my next mission is to rescue a boy from a boy.

Minnick and Arizona are about to be sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g; Pippy and TMI are full on smooching in an elevator; and Annalise Keating is taking her rightful place on the Throne of Slytherin once more.

“Her dreams are just real nights at lesbian bars
And then she wakes up covered in a man
Wish I didn’t relate so much”

Arizona and Minnick finally made out, Sara smooched Guinevere in Camelot, Eleanor and Max had a heart-to-heart, and who even knows what the heck happened on How to Get Away With Murder’s season three finale.

Taiwan’s ruling made me curious about how the news was being received by LGBTQ people across Asia. Did they too face cultural and institutional oppression against their gender and sexuality, or were their countries more accepting? Would the ruling have any impact on their livelihoods? Is Taiwan an inspiration for their leaders to consider marriage equality or LGBTQ rights overall, or will it not matter as much? I set out to find out by reaching out to LGBTQ activists in 42 Asian countries.

How a a 28-year-old Chicana pansexual cis woman living in the Midwest, working in the sex industry, and in a long-term queer platonic relationship does poly.