“It was like we were living in this alternate reality, where the north was celebrating and down here in the south we were wondering what the fuck was going on,” said Hali Felt.

These women mounted movements, won awards, told important stories, and otherwise shook the sh*t out of this planet in 2015.

Kim Davis goes back to work, San Francisco jails take steps to house trans women in correct facilities, April Gross is the second woman to score in a college football game, and more news.

“There’re only 135 hours or so until I get to Los Angeles and I can feel every single one.”

“They are terrified and they are angry and they are operating in a reality that quite simply does not exist. There is no war on Christmas.”

She told America they couldn’t pray away the gay, and she was right, and we believed her.

“I will probably be Connie Britton Editor from now on. Also heading up our Star Witness Akita division.”

“I am still crying an amount that for me is significantly higher than average, what’s up with that?”

Britney Spears is thinking of the queer children, two trans activists in Ecuador are expecting, Bo Obama just turned 7, a bunch of high schoolers f*cking hate the Westboro Baptist Church, and I put a photo in here of Kate McKinnon dressed as Dana Scully in middle school. AND MORE!

Canada’s gonna have a trans woman on a federal ballot, Markie Beth learned to scuba dive just to propose and there’s proof, H&M’s sister company launched a trans-centered campaign, Madonna told Russia to f*ck off and P!nk would like to teach the world to sing a new song for Ellen.

“Put a rainbow on it”

“After explaining who Shannon was in relation to me, we were let in to go through airport-like security around 7:40, I was handed a laminated piece of paper with ‘Applicant 1’ on it and an accompanying feeling of having won at waiting in line, and we were let up to the floor for the interview at 8.”

Is Game of Thrones going there with Yara and Daenerys? Seems like maybe! Waverly and Haught make out twice on Wynonna Earp. Catherine and Marjorie’s story takes center stage on Veep. And Audrey gets A-ed on Scream.

With millions of subscribers between them, these lesbian, bisexual and otherwise queer-identified YouTubers are taking over online video content with their channels, one view at a time! Read the list of the top 100 YouTube channels at Autostraddle.com!

The Department of Justice finds the Baltimore Police Department definitely discriminates against Black people, a Houston man gets life in prison for murdering his daughter and her girlfriend, LAPD shot and killed 14-year-old Jesse Romero, there’s a shortage on injectable estrogen and more news stories.

Texas has made a huge (and hilarious) mistake, two girls in Tallahassee were elected prom king and queen, Zoe Quinn won her lawsuit, Trevor Noah dropped some truth bombs about bathroom bills, Australia’s Labor party wants someone to tackle LGBT discrimination, and more good gay news!

Canada’s PM Justin Trudeau backs an important bill that would ban trans discrimination, immigration and LGBT activists are on a hunger strike to protest the detention of trans women, a UK court rejects an Indian lesbian couple’s request to stay in the country, LGBT activists in Lebanon stage a rare protest and more news.

Additionally, Miley Cyrus is a cartoon bird, Ellen Page has another kickass movie on the way, Hannibal is dying a slow death, and Fox is making a movie about SCOTUS’ love affair with gay marriage.

Lindsay Amer is the cool Queer Big Sister you wish you had when you were a wee tot and she’s changing the landscape of kid-friendly content for ages 3-7.

A lesbian couple from LA says they were arrested for kissing in public when they visited Hawaii on vacation and are now filing a lawsuit, Paul Ryan will be our next Speaker of the House, Tara Hudson is being sent to a men’s prison, Cleveland is outraged about how the investigation into Tamir Rice’s death is being handled and more.