“It’s important to demonstrate interest in your partner’s passions even if you don’t share them, and Buffy’s passion is for wearing knee-high boots with skirts.”

Whether your thing is memoir, fiction, new poetry or YA, there’s definitely something coming out this summer by and/or about queer people that you’re going to want to throw in your bag for the beach, get points for in your library’s summer reading program, or share with that new babe you just started seeing who loves your poetry recs.

Plan a whole future together, as dearest friends. Why not? You’ve nearly kissed, once! You’ve spent a handful of hours together! It’s time to book passage on a ship!

12. Punch me in line for prison cabbage

“Lyra was a ball of energy, passion and wit. To know her even a little was an inspiration.”

In the mirror, I saw a scrawny, hollow-eyed girl dressed in ill-fitting boys’ clothes, a parody of a parody of masculinity. But in the screen, I saw myself made strong, confident, fearless, perfect.

Plus updates on: Boomerang, The Good Fight, and Roswell New Mexico.

Basically everyone we ever talk about is in this post. Lindsay Lohan’s new role & good behavior, Santana on the future of Brittana, Gaga does Alejandro on American Idol, Kristen Stewart defends her reputation for not giving a shit, Queen Latifah is writing a girl power scripted show for VH1, James Franco skirts the gay issue, new trailer for Machete starring Lindsay Lohan & Michelle Rodriguez, Ellen apologizes for offending the iPhone, and new PSA for Prop 8 Films.

“To everyone’s credit, something they never tell you about as a child is the metaphorical cowboy snowman ready to do the devil’s bidding in a marriage, so who, really, is to blame here?”

The Grammy Awards are extra queer, Ellen Degeneres is doing stand up again, trans folks speak out, and more!

Michelle Obama’s a true ally, Sue Bird’s joining the NBA, Brandi Carlile learns that Pluto isn’t a planet anymore, a rap for RBG and more!

Imagine a 2020 campaign where people of color, LGBT people, young people, single women — voters who have been taken for granted for YEARS — get to be the power brokers.

The new Netflix reboot of Shirley Jackson’s classic has made a lot of changes; one thing that’s stayed, though, is kickass horror lesbian Theo — now with a whole backstory of complicated family trauma!

Harlots’ second season has five queer women and a story that proves sex worker narratives are uniquely capable of illuminating the restless, uncomfortable gender dynamics and power structures that may experience shifts in style or public acceptance, but never by degrees of import or influence.

Plus: Updates on General Hospital and Younger; and Insatiable is as horrifying as you’ve heard.

Forgiveness may be an attribute of the strong, but we also have the memory of an elephant.

All the glittery heart-driven DIY gay, lesbian, trans, and queer porn to watch right now.

I think that it’s a good time to remember that before Kerry Washington’s role in Scandal there hadn’t been a black woman lead in a network television show in nearly four decades. But in the seven years since Scandal aired, there’s been a proliferation.

Updates on Legends of Tomorrow, Fresh Off the Boat, grown-ish, The Arrangement, Grey’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Once Upon a Time and more.

Scott Moore (dubbed “the second pregnant man” by the media) and his husband Thomas (also FTM) welcomed a new baby into the world yesterday, and TMZ has photos. And the homophobia and transphobia is ‘a-flyin’.