Is that gross? That’s really gross, huh?

For smokers and the people who love them.

The NFL says hi to LGBT businesses, the World Cup may be like Sochi or worse, and queer women in sports continue to be ignored. Go team, go!

Making donations in people’s names can connect your family or other important people in your life with issues that you care about.

When will Hillary Clinton step in and save us from this doom?

“Book of Life” posits that my father is in a place more vivid than memory, which is is just a medium between the man who raised me and the man who waits for me in a place beyond time.

In which there is an expedition to a mall, an argument under the cover of night, and cucumber water.

“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”

Summer shorts, Kristen Stewart and dino dykes.

“Fun as it was to mercilessly tear this show apart, the buck stops here.”

That sound you just heard was the collective gasp of every warm-blooded woman on planet Earth.

Equality around the world — from Argentina to Ohio.

It’s a boy, until and unless he tells us otherwise, I thought. It’s a boy who will be raised without gender roles. It’s a boy who will be defined by their heart and mind, not by the organs that happen to be between their legs. It’s a boy who will be loved wholly, deeply, and completely by the two women who created him.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee chair, announced the creation of a Lesbian Leadership Council that would focus on cultivating lesbian participation in the Democratic party, which has had a broader LGBT leadership council since 2000.

Equaldex is giving LGBT folks around the world the ability to define and explain their own movements for the rest of us. And it’s helping us all to learn from one another in our parallel movements for equality.

Meredith Baxter officially comes out to The Advocate, after joining the gays on our recent Sweet Caribbean Cruise (she’s gonna be in Jill Bennett & Cathy DeBouno’s web-series!). Also, Zach Quinto confesses his love for Anyone But Me, we declare Adam Lambert as Autostraddle’s Sexiest Man of 2009 and an incredible photoshoot inspired by Prop H8.

Wow, Star Trek, you really know how to tackle those hard issues. Unfortunately, I think the show creators handled the issue of mail-order brides and human trafficking with ZERO TACT.

Bow down, bitches.

A show about “celebrities” with “relationship problems” being solved by a “professional” team of therapists. Quotation marks intentional.

The rainbow nation is a country of contradictions and complexities when it comes to its queer citizens, and as LGBT South Africans mourn Mandela they also worry about the future.