Sara Ramirez and Stephanie Beatriz want to be the sunshine in your lives, this administration remains a hellmouth, a roundup of the most rainbow places you can visit, and EVEN MORE LINKS FOR YOUR WEEK!

Plus updates on Into the Badlands, Siren, Star, Once Upon a Time, and help figuring out how to watch Vida!

Plus updates on The Good Fight, Grey’s Anatomy, and Once Upon a Time!

Topics include Samira Wiley covering Bust Magazine, Hayley Kiyoko lesbianing on Jimmy Kimmel, Moulin Rouge! The Musical’, sexually fluid mermaids in Siren, Evan Rachel Wood working through trauma on “Westworld,” Jay-Z’s reaction to his Mom coming out, a queer thriller for the #metoo era starring Zoe Kravitz, The CW’s renewals and so much more!

Forget your ridiculous national championships, Natalie’s on a search to crown the best first on-screen kiss.

There’s rainbow wave of LGBQ candidates running for office. All of them are dissatisfied with Trump’s status quo, have strong convictions, and to make the world a better place. Here are their stories.

Topics include Chili’s, writing after/through recovery, Andrew Lloyd Weber, alcoholism, “the male glance,” Trump’s Miss Universe gambit, co-living and so much more!

“The desire to be on a sketch show has been fulfilled, and I get to be on one which I fit into instead of being the brunt of the jokes.”

“I watched her zip up her white dress in the mirror; I watched her cross and uncross her legs; I watched her, and my friends watched her, and in the movie we were watching the other characters, men and women, watched her. I hated her so much, and so purely, with such satisfaction. I couldn’t look away.”

“guys do you think i’ll ever have sex in a penthouse with floor to ceiling windows and a view
like while i’m still young enough to be bendy”

The Canadian Government’s new guidelines on processing LGBTQI refugees includes more inclusive language and highlights concerns about stereotypes.

“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”

We finally wrote another roundtable, and it’s about feminism! This discussion is gonna take a while, so we’re going to start this by talking about how we first became feminists. Share your own experiences in the comments!

Lambda Literary Award nominees have been announced, Zines will outlive the internet, a bookstore-bar in the Bronx, sexual assault in creative fields, California periods and more.

Minnick and Arizona are about to be sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g; Pippy and TMI are full on smooching in an elevator; and Annalise Keating is taking her rightful place on the Throne of Slytherin once more.

As homophobic Christians dominate more of the national discourse, and as Religious Freedom acts of various permutations strip rights from queer and trans people across the U.S., reclaiming the Gospel has begun to feel urgent.

We need intersectional critical thinkers to flood the political landscape and help win the war on facts. And with the most blatantly ableist President in modern history knocking on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, disabled folks have got to lead that charge.

On Wednesday we asked you if the Shiloh Jolie-Pitt “IS ANGELINA TURNING SHILOH INTO A BOY” magazine cover was offensive. You said yes. America (and glaad) agrees… but Life & Style still defends their insanity. Also! Lesbian prom controversy, an irritating NYTimes DADT Op-Ed, how to save feminism from Glenn Beck and making O Canada gender neutral.

Autostraddle staffers opened their bags — you’ll never believe what happened next!

Let’s talk about our favorite queer characters on television and their (possible, probable) favorite Pleasure Chest sex toys!