“Every day since my father died has been at least a little fucked up. There is no such thing as a non-fucked up day when you are a Daddy’s girl without a father.”

“It is the weekend Beyoncé releases her “Formation” single and a bad queen has just performed it without breaking a sweat. I am watching the queen and learning that the way not to sweat is to move so little that every move seems like drama. I’ve got the not moving part down, which is how I am here at a club with a roommate whose friends want to meet the Black girl she let live in her house.”

“I was unstable and grieving and more suited for a patient friendship than the dramas of new love. But I loved her and in thirst, I acted unlovingly by climbing into a lap in which I wasn’t welcome. My behavior is the definition of obscene.”

“Why some people mean? One income that isn’t a livable wage plus racism will do that to you, and you can’t imagine the rage until you’ve lived it.”

“Instead, I jump back into the mind of the girlish woman I was at 28, the one who didn’t know enough about the consequences for unacceptable motherhood to plunge headfirst into the fire. It has taken me much longer than my mother to see the gift of my own naiveté.”

I AM THE ONLY trans guy ON CABLE! But instead of integrating me into your show, you’ve progressively emphasized how my differences make me at odds with the lesbian community and the only personality trait you’ve given me is “self-loathing.”

Wynonna gets to know her sister’s girlfriend a bit better as her and Haught run around town getting into all kinds of hijinks.

Our panel answers your questions about getting knocked up, adopting, the challenges and rewards of queer mom life, and so much more!

I’m guest editing an essay series for Autostraddle next month and am looking for personal essays about how your black queer life has been saved or influenced by art in all forms, from television to sculpture.

Thanks to the Wicked movie, theater gays are so up.

On specific language, families, mispronunciations, and revisiting Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake.”

Which of the many LGBTQ+ Glee Club members are you? Now is the time to find out!

I don’t know you. I never did. But I presume that in all of our family, perhaps, I am the only one who could even begin to understand you.

Purgatory’s Trivia Night turns into a competition for who has the tastiest brain and Waverly learns why Nicole has been too afraid to show her face in town.

And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives…

To mark this wonderful, made up celebration of mothers, Autostraddle brings you a list of people with gay moms — and odds are, you’ll be surprised by a few of them.

Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.

Some essays and stories about our Dads — the good, the bad, and the very complicated.

“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”

The feel-good books centering queer parents you should read right now.