A queer Pakistani American female wrestler and Mexican American bookshop owner love story, Michigan providing transition care for trans inmates, new Apple emojis that you probably need right now, an end to gender stereotypes in advertising in the UK, The LGBT Inclusion Act, and lots more good news!

The Methodist Church elected a lesbian Bishop, Amanda Nunes made UFC history, small victories in the states for queer parents and baby gays, guinea pigs in hats, and whole lot more good gay news!

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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

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!

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

“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.”

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.

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.

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

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.