“I’ve been ostracized, people don’t even know my side of the story. And they just stopped talking to me because they’ve talked to my ex.”

Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories, a new book by cultural historian Diarmuid Hester, shows us what is possible when we consider space in this way.

Rent will never be a perfect movie. And it never needs to be. Because Rent is best enjoyed singing it loudly at the top of your lungs, dancing until you break a sweat, and the collapsing exhausted against your couch with your best friends.

I’m so sorry the people you’re around have made you feel unwelcome because you don’t follow their narrow definition of what being a queer woman looks like.

Is the era of polyamory over? Are more queer people returning to monogamy? Or is it just a shift in the cultural conversation?

Like all the Graceling books, Seasparrow allows the woman at its center to be angry, and hurt, and confused, and scared and messy and even downright unlikable sometimes. That’s what makes the series great!

Top Chef’s latest chefsbian Rasika is winning hearts and taking names (plus, this week we were given the present of a sleeveless Kristen Kish!). Also: updates on 911 and the second season premiere of Beacon 23!

There’s a certain amount of risk calculation you have to do when you’re the only queer mom in a group of parents.

Also, let’s play a game: UFO or Christmas lights? Plus updates on Megan thee Stallion’s trial against Tory Lanez, getting high on mushrooms with your mom, and how to donate when you don’t have the money.

The history of lesbian weddings on TV: parents refusing to attend, wild ’90s hats, untimely deaths, a weed brownie rave on the Eiffel Tower, an impromptu prison wedding, the union of two solo gems and so much more.

However you choose to engage with Banned Books Week, I hope you’ll think about the books that have led you to the person you are today.

“I was always bisexual. Even in college, I dated a man and a woman at the same time, and they knew about each other.”

How social media is a lie, how to dress for a Catholic wedding, and is that girl who’s currently in a relationship into you?

Some of these trans advisors, coaches, and planners operate outside the system, identifying as anti-capitalist and advocating for integrating social justice values into investing. Some exist inside bigger, more established firms working from the inside out.

“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”

“My partner and I have an open relationship. While we used to be really honest about things, when I met someone I actually liked, E, they decided they didnt want to know about it.”

“It’s really a choose your own adventure. You could just go see really great comedy. You could go see these tiny independent solo shows. There’s a reading of A Streetcar Named Desire with Alexandra Billings and Brian Michael Smith and Rain Valdez.”

Hollywood’s transphobia is no match for the shot of adrenaline that is finally being out to yourself and the world.

Lo’s newest offering is beautifully composed, often feeling like a peek into your best friend’s hot (queer) girl summer.

We’ve got an anti-vaxxer with a literal worm in his brain, a Christian Nationalist axe-thrower, a World Wrestling Federation founder, a former log-roller reality TV star, Marco F*cking Rubio and so many more bigoted losers nominated for Trump’s cabinet.