I think that it’s a good time to remember that before Kerry Washington’s role in Scandal there hadn’t been a black woman lead in a network television show in nearly four decades. But in the seven years since Scandal aired, there’s been a proliferation.

Did you read these 28 posts in 2017? Because if not, you should really fix that right away!

After April’s gentle lessons to release and surrender, May is here to get us into trouble.

Plus Mariah and Tessa are back on The Young and the Restless, Lucifer remembers Maze is bisexual, The Fosters finally gives us another kickass Lena episode and Corrie reveals its queer affair.

“Anissa has real game! She lowers her voice an octave, bites her lip even though no one can see it, and tells Grace how much she misses her. It’s sexy. So sexy. If Grace doesn’t call back by morning I am going to jump in my television ask Anissa out myself levels of sexy.”

Unpacking internalized homophobia (and lesbophobia, and biphobia, and transphobia, and misogyny, and MORE) is hard, but for you we did our best!

Our BIGGEST ADVICE BOX EVER! Highlights include: tips for lesbian sex on an airplane, helping others to use your correct pronouns, how to survive a family holiday, getting over your first high school heartbreak, getting out of an abusive relationship, finding new friends as a queer adult, and dental dams! Just to name a few!

All the glittery heart-driven DIY gay, lesbian, trans, and queer porn to watch right now.

The 2018 gay agenda, Allison Ikley-Freeman on being the first out Oklahoma lesbian legislator, new queer feminist bookstore opens in the Heartland, an LGBT Bible app, letters from Your Holiday Mom, a queer aesthetic of Black Womanhood, and more!

A showrunner for The L Word BABY!, Airbnb is trying, don’t get hacked, here for imperfect black female protagonists, Smitten Kitchen, queering modern day church, a brief Buffy interlude, and so much more!

“YES PUSSY IS ON THE LIST
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“I have a relationship to myself first. If that relationship isn’t solid and healthy I’m not good with anyone.”

Everyone should know the stories of the lesbian, bisexual, queer and trans women of color who’ve been the backbones of LGBT communities forever and ever. So make some popcorn and put your learnin’ pants on!

“Here was a community where race apparently didn’t matter, because we were all humans, made in the image of God. Where a pacifist, sensitive, caring Jesus was the primary male role model. I finally felt at home. I was promised complete acceptance and understanding, and all I had to give was… well, everything.”

Gay lady TV is pulling out all the stops before it gives away to the girls of summer. Updates on: Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon a Time, Jane the Virgin, The Good Fight, Siren, Station 19, and Coronation Street!

This isn’t the Saturday Morning Cartoon you were expecting, but it’ll probably be better than drinking a $5 cup of coffee with powdered creamer, you know?

Updates on Legends of Tomorrow, Fresh Off the Boat, grown-ish, The Arrangement, Grey’s Anatomy, 9-1-1, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Once Upon a Time and more.

This week we’ve got murder, turtles, stolen hearts and so much more!

Megan Rapinoe’s engayged, Erika Linder’s staring longingly out windows, a roller derby player became a local treasure, Tama Adrian is trans and running for office in Venezuela, and more big good gay news stories for you!

We talked to One Day at a Time writers, Becky Mann and Michelle Badillo, about gay representation on TV, how Autostraddle came to be in the script, their queer TV roots, what kind of LGBT stories are missing from TV and what’s in store for Elena in a potential next season.