“I want to remind anyone who is reading this that it is possible to survive. There is a richness in our history that we can call upon to learn how to survive.”

(Bear training is also secretly for people who want to get wifed.)

And how a beloved orange tabby cat became a voice for America’s union workers.

It’s time to cast your vote for the very best in LGBTQ Teevee!

Here’s a brief glimpse into the deepest materialistic desires of Team Autostraddle – these are all the things we want besides a very long nap!

Swimsuit makers don’t care about gay people. Luckily, we do! And so do a lot of other people, actually — guest bloggers on this swimsuit spectacular include Queer Fat Femme, Fit For a Femme and Brandy Howard from “In Your Box Office”.

Tales of the City reboot, The Handmaid’s Tale blesses the fight, Pose vaults to the 1990s, HBO debuts a Skins-esque show starring Zendaya canoodling with a trans character played by an actual trans actress, OINTB says goodbye, G.L.O.W moves to Vegas, LGBT documentaries debut for Pride and so many more summertime TV gems to look forward to!

Stories include The Bi Life reality dating show, the final season of Orange is the New Black, new lesbians on God Friended Me, Practical Magic, Lena Waithe’s new show about sneaker culture, Kristen Stewart in an outfit, Riverdale’s flashback episode, Jen Richards in Tales of the City, “Her Body and Other Parties” getting a show at FX, Transparent: The Musical, Melissa McCarthy playing lez in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and so much more!

Planning on spending a lot of time on the couch? Here are 31 shows that would be good even without lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified queer female characters but luckily, they do!

So many women who’ve suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.

Jane the Virgin, Arrow, and Grey’s Anatomy close out the TV season and ready us for the return of Orange Is the New Black.

We’ve got a genderqueer lead, an intersex teenager, multiple shows headlined by women of color, the first ever recurring lesbian woman of color character in a primetime network superhero series and SO MUCH MORE!

Grab some popcorn and get comfortable, kids, because it’s time to catch up on our favorite teen drama about tiny liars who are pretty.

Paige throws Emily a surprise birthday party but Emily shows up completely pissed off. This is not going to end well.

REI brought some extra joy to our writers’ lives by opening up their catalog and letting us choose gifts to give each other!

These are the moments that I can still taste, still feel on my hardest days.

Over 30,000 votes later! Here are your winners and our critic’s picks!

It’s Pride month; have you heard? Have you danced in the streets, wearing a rainbow flag, surrounded by topless women, shouting your queerness and here-ness, maybe honking a horn or ringing a bell? Here’s hoping!

With Gillian Anderson’s Sex Education landing on Netflix, it feels like the perfect time to gather our TV Team and talk about sex on TV, specifically queer sex on TV, and its evolution over these many years.

It’s gonna be cool for the summer with all these TV shows featuring lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters.