So many LGBT Emmy nominees, most importantly Laverne Cox!

Digression 6: My first lesbian date ended on the roof of a small town Pizza Hut, but she knew what we were doing because she helped me push the dumpster up against the wall.

“My sister has Lhasa Apsos and one of them bit my son in the face and now I don’t like Lhasa Apsos and this is unintentional foreshadowing because it turns out I don’t like Marianna much in this episode either.”

“Steph is making cheese sandwiches with no condiments of any kind. Lesbian moms are cruel.”

“Welp, I just came out! And everything sucks! I don’t know how I’m feeling! Let’s have a fight and have sex.”

This is an especially epic edition of The Insider, if I do say so myself. There were a lot of funny chats during the Advice-a-Thon and you had SO many questions for the A+ box and Yvonne went on a press trip to Philly and so many other neat things happened!

We hate to tell you, Dorothy, but you ain’t in Kansas High Security Prison anymore, and Toto’s only looking out for Toto.

We’ve got a genderqueer lead, an intersex teenager, multiple shows headlined by women of color, the first ever recurring lesbian woman of color character in a primetime network superhero series and SO MUCH MORE!

Check out your favorite OITNB cast members talk about the complexity of their characters, the fun they had on set, and the relationships they fostered with the other actors.

White supremacy and racism, we know, have long and deep histories in American society. It’s not like it only occurred to Murrieta residents to be racist and xenophobic while browsing through their town’s blog.

LGBT people are leaving some of America’s famously gay neighborhoods but cool projects are highlighting feminism, queer families in children’s books, and masculine of center fashion.

Lots of super serious things happen in this episode where the metaphor of and literal Hurricane Wanda really picks up speed but all I can do is make fun of Portland and be miserable.

Famous people are saying smart things about Hobby Lobby, anti-discrimination legislation isn’t as effective as it should be, and the kids of LGBT parents are all right.

“Whether or not you are out in the world, being queer and belonging to a community of marginalized folks (even if it’s a community you only align with in a spiritual or distanced way) has its own problems with feelings of enoughness and the disenfranchisement or everyday trauma of living with an identity that is consistently questioned or belittled.”

I realized that one of the hardest parts about accepting my sexual orientation was that I literally did not believe that Black women were lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals or queer. I want to see stories of Black women with happy endings that entwine with my own realities and fantasies. I want to see us Black women no longer the Unmentionables or Untouchables, unafraid of the power and beauty of us loving one another.

Women’s studies. What the f*ck is that? And how the f*ck did it get that way? Let’s find out!

Ambient contact, having sex for the first time, smut, sideboob and more.

Cats with jobs, dinosaur facts and escapes from bad dates. It was a big week.

A girl spends 19 days in rural Tennessee with her girlfriend and her family, takes a million pictures, then tells her whole life story in just under 4,000 words. What’s not to love?

“She’s not the protagonist in this one but she does kiss a girl and is very self-righteous which I think does it for a lot of people.”