Every birthday after I admitted to myself that I am queer has been a celebration of that fact. A celebration that I listened to myself, that I am not currently trapped in a marriage I don’t want, a marriage slowly draining me of life and hope.

Ruby Rose & Catherine McNeil are engaged to get married! Scott Baio called Jezebel a bunch of lesbians! Is it wrong for a gay person to edit Glenn Beck’s books? Plus, pot can maybe help autism, it’s important to come out as married, parents fail at preventing bullying, and insurance companies are buying into fast food.

We’re having a great time in here!!!

“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”

Gay people, especially lesbians of color like Jene Newsome, continue not asking or telling and being discharged anyways — and sidenote, Rapid City has a significant history of racial discrimination. J. Crew has discriminatory hiring practices, Elton got a death threat, gay men may or may not be able to give blood eventually, New Hampshire is standing for marriage equality, and the Paycheck Fairness may be able to make a difference for working women and their families. Also, Jon Stewart explains it all for you.

Are we all bi? Who’s tired of labels? Plus, the de-gay-ifying of A Single Man, Maddow’s just a journalist, New Hampshire will vote on repealing gay marriage, and we had so much fun at Stiletto on Sunday!

The way the media reported on the deadly Waco shootout, a trans woman was stabbed in Philly, there’s new restrictions on military style equipment for the local police and more news stories!

Mother’s Day brunch and Wentworth bring the revolution. Taystee shares truth and light. Natalie Portman is the dreamiest RBG ever. Oh, and it’s Mother’s Day, so call your momma. It’s time to have the talk.

“I’m finding, especially with women, a couple of different kinds of gays. I’ve met people who say, “I knew I was gay my whole life, and I lived this lie, and then I finally came out.” My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.”

Happy 4/20! Happy Easter! Happy Pesach! Happy Sunday Funday! Now put down those Peeps and/or matzoh and dig in to some good gay news.

Paul Clement is branching out and trying new things in his campaign to make sure DOMA outlasts the heat death of the universe.

A new study on “health work” in relationships shows that women take care of their men, women take care of their women, and men take care of their men. In other words, gay people are the best.

Gay history is having a lucky streak, more companies and good-looking individuals are batting for and cheering for our team, and someone is making Kanye West embroidery.

Manhattan is a very good place to be a girl who likes girls.

The priest who denied Barbara Johnson communion at her mother’s funeral and walked out during her eulogy is suspended — but higher-ups claim it’s got nothing to do with that whole lez thing.

A beautiful city with the best name for an LGBT organization you’ve heard all year.

So many things happened this year that weren’t terrible!

We lock ourselves up with a bunch of documentaries about religion and homosexuality, including For the Bible Tells Me So, Deliver Us From Evil, Tying the Knot, Religulous and Trembling Before G-d.

We discuss interracial couples and how the gay marriage movement could learn a thing of two from their struggles.

This week on The Real L Word, everybody cried because everybody hurts, sometimes.