The city isn’t very outwardly hostile, and once you find a pocket of queer friends to start connecting you to others (one thing this guide will hopefully help you do!), we think the ‘Nati can be downright grand.

“As this Black History Month winds down, let’s remember that reclaiming histories is not a one-shot deal. Let’s take time to be thankful for these lesbians who kept it queer and kept it real.”

There’s no place like the Fosters’ home.

Hot. Cool. Yours.

“Whose sperm is this?” she asked me once. Maybe it was the first time. “It’s mine,” I said. I didn’t know what else to say. I had paid for it. No one else was coming to get it.

Gifts for blackhearts, strawberry kisses, white knights, red hot lovers, hearts of gold, blue valentines, you and your girlfriend. Really it’s all in here. All of it. Try me.

Lori Petty of “Tank Girl” and “A League of Their Own” fame joining the cast of “Orange is the New Black” is just the latest in casting news for our favorite Netflix original series.

Are Diva Cups the new Swiss Army knife?

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While the first Sailor Moon anime’s English dub was infamous for removing its lesbian couple, the 20th-anniversary reboot plans to keep the queer characters the way they were intended.

Let’s put the LGBT in D and go strolling through the snow.

Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning will make out in The Runaways, Adam Lambert responds to the Out 100 controversy, we look at the women of the Out 100, we wish fourfour could recap “ANTM: Where Are They Now?” and Tila Tequila says she’s a lesbian because she was born naked. Seriously.

Welcome to the seventh episode of American Horror Story, featuring an award-winning musical score by Hans Zimmer. I’m sorry, that’s not Hans Zimmer; it’s two goblins humping on a Casio keyboard. My mistake.

It’s everything we want this year! And probably a few things you want, too.

Which should change first — society or the dictionary?

“The Nintendo showed up Christmas morning. All my friends had a Super Nintendo, but my parents held out for so long (bless them) that my brother and I skipped right to the Nintendo 64.”

Melanie Gillman’s webcomic As the Crow Flies tells the story of a young, queer girl of color trying to find her place at a Christian camp filled with people she can’t relate to.

The Vatican is soliciting opinions on a number of groundbreaking issues, including same-sex marriage, birth control, polygamy and forms of feminism “hostile to the Church.”

Two queer comic professionals are starting a brand-spanking new anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy comics featuring queer characters and stories. And the best part is, they’re looking for contributions from people like you!