North Carolina’s anti-gay Amendment 1 looks like it might succeed.

The world’s most populous city has enough going on to make your queer little head spin.

“…these voices are comparing LGBT people to Nazi Germany, predicting that equal treatment of LGBT people will lead to the total collapse of society, and even making accusations of satanic influence.”

Tegan & Sara have a book they’re gonna release with their CD!! Health Care! Glee! Gender Makeover! EllDrew kisses in Marie Claire! I’m gonna live forever! Sarah Waters is gonna get a prize! Did Annie pay her debts? New Anyone But Me preview!

Evan Rachel Wood will be a blood-sucking lesbian, maybe. Ted Kennedy sponsored a number of LGBT and human rights bills. Tori Amos has feelings about Lady Gaga.

Let’s cuddle and enjoy lesbian books, community building on behalf of gays everywhere, Jane Lynch in a suit, Rose McGowan’s lesbian posse, and a two-piece swimsuit.

“Living here and having grown up here you almost forget it’s so different. I never had to worry about walking down the street with my girlfriend holding my hand. And if this show — if me coming out — helps one person, then it was worth it.”

“interviews with two dozen former contestants — most of whose agreements expired after three years — from half a dozen reality series suggest that the programs routinely use isolation, sleeplessness and alcohol to encourage wild behavior.”

A bunch of links to things you should know and care about or perhaps already do.

Mormon-owned leading web hosting company Bluehost has a very sketchy record of arbitrary censorship and endorsement of anti-gay causes. Find out why Autostraddle was offline this weekend and get the truth about Bluehost.

The last 20 minutes were some of the best I’ve seen on this show. It was fun and quality and featured all those verbs they sing about in that opening song we all cream over. Um, fighting, winning, fucking, whatevs. Up until that? Blah blah podcasts blah love cindy blah. You get the picture.

Who knew there could be this much drama about………brussels sprouts?

First ‘The Wedding Banquet’ trailer teases homages to original while also paving its own way (namely, by adding LESBIANS).

The next couple months are bringing lots of new queer books to shelves, but sapphic Romantasy in particular is booming this winter.

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.

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

It’s Banned Books week. We can do our part and get reading.

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day, the one day a year us lesbians take our corporeal form and make mischief in the streets in our flannel and Birkenstocks while singing “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.