Ultimately, Zigzags was fueled by the nostalgia of all the places I’ve loved and left and missed. There’s a lot of flirting and parties and witty banter, but it’s very much about the necessary and heartbreaking recognition of when it’s time to move on.

Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.

After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.

Gird your loins, Bette and Tina are back in town! Meanwhile, Alice is getting cancelled, Finley and Carrie are walking up a moderate incline, Tess is dancing on her own, Shane’s got a big pitch, Sophie’s got a show to run and just like you, Dre loves Dani!

The AS team talks finding queer community with your lesbian sister, coping with a harmful mother-in-law, feeling ignored by your parents because you’re childless and more!

Black & Pink is hosting their annual Holiday Card Campaign to support our LGBT fam inside, it will surprise no one that the pandemic has raised our blood pressure, plus the queerness of the 90s and Green Day.

This overlooked kinda-Christmas movie from 2009 features Drew Barrymore as the bisexual daughter of a telephone wire enthusiast who never takes his jacket off and also Kate Moennig is in it!

Charmed and Star Trek Picard are coming back, a trans lesbian on The Dropout, Lizzo’s got a reality show and Evan Rachel Wood’s got a documentary, Kate McKinnon is Carole Baskin and more queer situations to anticipate on your teevee this month!

February is bringing many LGBTQ+ tidings including the last seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, Shay Mitchell playing gay again, celesbian-studded game shows, an Anne+ movie, Abbi Jacobson as an animated queer princess and more!

You don’t need to have one particular vibe, type, or style. You don’t have to have it all figured out now, next week, or next year.

Valerie and Nic break down all the gay, the goo, and the Earpy in the 90-minute special, Wynonna Earp: Vengeance.

At my Catholic all-girls middle school, I liked to tell people I was Buddhist. It was my feeble attempt at preteen rebellion. I enjoyed interjecting, “Oh yeah? Well, I don’t believe Jesus was real because I’m Buddhist!”

We’ve also got updates on Home Economics, New Amsterdam, Work in Progress, American Horror Story, In the Dark, and A Million Little Things!

Topics include Aldi Supermarkets, Whitney Houston, McDonald’s, Brazilian Butt Lifts, The Rosie O’Donnell Show, COVID in Kirkland, restorative justice and more!

Plus updates on Burden of Truth, The Republic of Sarah, and Motherland: Fort Salem.

Dolly Parton loving Lil Nas X is all of us gay aunts loving Lil Nas X, Phoebe Bridgers is getting sued, Remember Britney not just for her tragedy but as the Pop Queen she is, and Happy National Coffee Day.

Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.

This week on The L Word: Generation Q, Alice is forced to eat two buckets of popcorn, Shane releases an endangered bumblebee into the wild, Sophie does a solid Matthew McConaughey impression, Dani is rescued from a near-collision with a scooter by a handsome prince and so much more!

Any movie in which sisters reunite to kill bad boyfriends feels like Christmas to me, okay?

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve watched forty features and the first two episodes of a TV show. Yes, forty. Consider this list a reference, a collection of short reviews for the rest of the year’s buzzed about films and films that should be buzzed about.