“People were always so impressed that you didn’t leave me, but your gift wasn’t staying — it was seeing. Most people don’t get to transition under the pansexual gaze of someone who loves them the way you loved me.”

“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”

Yes. Niecy Nash got gay married. Love wins!!

I think it’s very Cancer of me to watch Mary Lambert’s “She Keeps Me Warm” music video on Valentine’s Day just so I could feel my heart clench and cry a little.

Niecy Nash Says and Jessica Betts, Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman, and all your favorite grown-up gay love stories! Plus Canadian World Cup soccer star Quinn came out as transgender (congrats!!), and some ‘Pro-Sex, Anti-Fascist’ art to decorate your walls.

The wedding was a bust but we sure do have a lot to talk about! Come on in and join our dear friends for the most fight-packed episode in L Word history!

Is it a date or are we just friends? Why not both! This week we’re talking about fucking your friends with Autostraddle Community Editor and fucking your friends expert Vanessa Friedman.

Plus, an All-American episode that gives Bre-Z some of the best work of her career, biphobia rears its ugly head once again on grown-ish, and a hilarious and spooky episode of Nancy Drew!

We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.

Spiritually, we’re all making candles with Queen Latifah.

Also: Mulan is coming to Disney+, Lena Waithe is making an open marriage drama at Amazon, Lifetime orders an LGBTQ+ Christmas movie, and more!

Extra! Extra! is on a bit of a holiday schedule, so we’re here today to round out 2020 with the news from the last couple of weeks. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we cover judicial actions on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.K. and the U.S., the latest in Trump corruption scandals and pardons, updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently passed stimulus package and more.

“i’m going to take a shower and see if it [amy lee voice] wakes me up inside”

Last night, ten contenders for the Democratic nomination gathered in the First in the Nation caucus state for the LGBTQ Presidential Forum. Organized by One Iowa, The Gazette, The Advocate and GLAAD, the forum offered the most robust discussion of LGBT issues of the 2020 campaign thus far.

The finale of Wynonna Earp’s fourth (and likely final) season is a love letter to the fans by way of a big gay wedding.

This week on The L Word: Generation Q, MIcah attempts to navigate Porter-Kennard family therapy, Gigi and Dani get boozy, Finley explores her opportunities, Alice and Tom save shellfish lives and A BLAST FROM THE PAST returns to cause trouble for Shane.

2020 was terrible in every way except for queer books. There were so many amazing queer books published this year! Here are 67 of the best of them.

In upstate New York, a nursing home eviction due to a debt has indefinitely separated two women’s enduring love by 80 miles.

Ava and the Legends follow an alien lead back to the 50s while Sara finds herself on a strange planet with Gary and…Amelia Earhart.

Star Trek is finally officially trans! Plus virtual concerts by Brandi Carlile, women truckers for suffrage, Fawzia Mirza got married, “The Glorias” trailer is here, and more! Happy Sunday!