Highlights of this summer’s festivals include Jill Bennett & Cathy DeBuono’s ‘We Have to Stop Now,’ Chely Wright’s coming out story, “Show Me Love meets 500 Days of Summer” and ‘Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same.’

Welcome to the third annual Autostraddle Hot 100 of real living breathing queer ladies.

My fingers have actually started melting onto my keyboard.

Lady Gaga’s working with Cher, Lindsay Lohan’s getting groped, nobody’s wearing clothes, everybody is in love, and New York City just might be getting a lesbian mayor.

Filing tax returns as a gay couple is awful, but surprisingly, this year the IRS actually seems sorry about it.

This week Obama’s administration informed the state Medicaid agencies that they had better start treating gay families equally as far as Medicaid benefits, DOMA or no DOMA. Also, Lady Gaga at Pride, Tina Fey, Chloe Sevigny, and very cute videos featuring marriage equality and/or dancing children.

“All Mycoskie had to do was type “Focus on the Family” in to that long skinny box at the top of his browser. Oh, he’s using Firefox? So the top right box.”

“People grew up in church, so a lot of us lived in shame. What did we do? We wandered around lost. We married men, and then couldn’t understand why every night we had a headache.”

Another installment of stories you should read and things you should know about. Includes time travel.

For same-sex families who can’t be legally married, second-parent adoption is often their best option. Well, not anymore.

There are so many girls on the television this season! Autostraddle has your guide to the best new fall shows and where to find the queers.

You can run, but you can’t hide! (But you *can* walk off the stage like nothing happened because you have no soul.)

We won a thing in California again! However if we hadn’t won THIS thing, I’d probably be screaming from my eyeballs right now. Real loud.

What is the role of artists in the fight for queer equality — if they have one?

Queer girls from 40 different schools give you the uncensored scoop on what it feels like for a gay lady on their campus — from hookup culture to dyke parties to activism and academics.

Why a group of six queer Asian American women are producing, acting in, and writing a groundbreaking queer web series, and why you should care.

“Acceptance of same-sex sexual attractions and sexual orientation may not mean the formation of an L.G.B. sexual-orientation identity. Alternate identities may develop instead.”

General Petraeus doesn’t care if you’re gay, hater gets hated on at CPAC 2010, Martha Coakley is done with DOMA, and marriage rights are getting people angry in Lisbon. Also, gays are gaining ground in Texas, and should gay news media stay objective on Prop 8? Also, see how Stephen Colbert prepares the Olympic Gay Pride House for their guest appearance!

Our money’s on Kelly LeBrock, but I have a feeling you wish it was Scully.

Is it really possible that basically half of all college-educated gays are still in the closet at work?