Most queer books focus on romantic relationships. These ones are centered on queer friendship.

Being miserable at your 9-5 job, your family isn’t wild about your fiancee and you’re embarrassed to get married, you’re not wild about your current roommate, and people think you might be related to your gal BUT YOU’RE NOT. Come on in!

Topics include women in the KKK, the Confederate flag, women’s magazines as aspirational employment centers, smartphones & teenagers, Captain EO, murder, the stories we tell ourselves and more.

Read queer banned books. Support their authors. And maybe buy an extra copy or two of these and leave them in a school library near you.

As the daughter of lesbian mothers, I always knew I had a sperm donor, and that I could meet him when I was 18. I loved my moms; I loved my queer family. Still, I had always wondered what part of me was cut from a different cloth.

“She wouldn’t let me sit next to her on the bus on the way to camp! For some reason, I had this elaborate Charlie’s Angels-esque fantasy about her where we kicked down the emergency door of the bus together and like idk did a heist or something?”

A San Junipero sequel? Maybe! Plus Emma Stone as Billie Jean King, a new zombie movie from Ellen Page, some Rachel-on-Rachel sex from TIFF, Supergirl’s new teaser and more.

2017 was the best of times and the worst of times. LOL JK it was the absolute worst of times. But the queer TV was pretty good.

Happy Birthday, Grey’s Anatomy. (And before you ask, yes, I managed to fit in Callie and Arizona’s brief shower sex scene from season six. )

Hey, we may be small – but that doesn’t mean we’re small-minded!

“Her first step into her first floor apartment was into a puddle of water. Everything was wet: furniture, photos, poems, journals, her shoes. The water lines on her walls marked the flood waters at a foot and a half.”

In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.

We’re over New Year’s resolutions – here’s what we’re looking forward to in 2018. What about you?

We’re having a great time in here!!!

With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.

These podcasts are for the chingonas, the jotxs, and the baddass Latinxs who need some audio magic in their lives.

Molly Ostertag knows how to draw to women (with tails and cat ears and fangs) having sex like Cate Blanchett knows how to seduce young shopgirls.

“Just wait, as soon as the cameras start rolling, she’s gonna go all right-wing on her ass.”

From fiction to anthologies and histories to graphic novels, the last ten years have shown that telling our own stories is essential to building a community and garnering the strength to live an authentic life.

It’s about queer identity and finding happiness and purpose in life and living for yourself not for others and yes, loneliness. It’s a coming of age story, but for twenty-somethings dealing with struggles of identity, sexuality and mental health.