There were 128 queer lady characters on TV this year, if you can believe that. It’s a brand new world.

“Remember that everyone around you, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, is grappling with a lot of the same things that you are right now: about what they want “family” to look like and mean to them, about sex and sexuality and learning to live in their bodies, about how to hold onto faith when it can feel like there’s not much going for it.”

“We are surviving. We are resilient. We are creative and resourceful. We have each other’s backs. We don’t want your pity.”

Susan Summer, the director of constitutional litigation at Lambda Legal, put it simply: “SSA should not be telling widowed lesbians and gay men already grieving the loss of a spouse—‘you live in the wrong state so you don’t get Social Security spousal benefits.'”

In which a number of plans go awry.

I am in an extended food coma from 10 days of eating nothing but fast food and concession stand snacks. Send help. But first, check out these lesbian romcoms, queer comedies and dramas.

The ABA passes a resolution that says they are really, really, really cool with LGBT rights.

Deal with it.

The GOP is digging its heels into the sand as the tide turns. But hateful platform language and fist shaking will not stop the ocean. Texas is too big to smother with such small ideas.

In a region known for being socially conservative and heavily influenced by faith communities, HRC’s Project One America seems like a much-needed advancement for LGBT rights in the region. But is the HRC prepared to help the South, an area with a long history of struggles fueled by racism from colonization to slavery to the Civil Rights Movement?

UMass basketball star comes out, Moroccan women take to the streets, The Monument Quilt takes the nation by force and more!

Forget every other time you’ve heard the phrase “Best Week Ever” used — this week trumps them all, my friends! Not convinced? Read all of these amazing comments, and you will be.

Search the hashtag #AB1266 on Twitter, and you’ll see what I mean by clusterfuck. It’s a mixture of conservatives, LGBT groups, names of California counties, statistics, and conflicting reports of what’s happened, and what’s next.

Has “Hey Did You See That Comment Friday?” become Meta? Included these week, several comments specifically chosen by other commenters. In the end, we all win!

We got chills and teary eyes in the first session when leaders from the southern based LGBTQ advocacy organizations we invited told us simply that we didn’t have to leave the south. I can’t remember ever having heard anyone tell me that so plainly before.

When you give a mouse a cookie, a lesbian begins practicing a new sport.

State officials have cited marriage bans as defense for the decision, and federal facilities in each state will comply with the policy.

There’s a lot to say about religion and queerness and how the two can (or cannot) interact, which is why we put together this roundtable with 12 different perspectives. We hope you share your own thoughts and beliefs in the comment section.

This week on NSFW Sunday: hook up culture is a sham, erotica writers are people too, when doing porn is feminist and more.

Tegan and Sara and the state of Minnesota could not be more adorable right now.