Let’s do it, queers. Let’s embrace our seasonal chaotic energy and manifest it into long-term, healthy decisions!

Author Kristen Arnett writes on growing up in a house where books were banned and becoming a queer librarian in Florida.

Fashion isn’t what makes this character toxic, but clothes can tell you a lot about a person. The clothes from Passages always tell a story.

As Banned Books Week nears, here’s who’s pushing for the bans and who’s fighting back.

Heather knows, she knows, how to connect with people through stories and writing, she knows how to make you feel seen, buoyed, valued, special, important, remarkable.

Meanwhile, the U.S. wave of anti-LGBTQ legislation is not limited to red states, so don’t think for a second that it is.

But face-blindess is a bitch.

She loves when I go a little feral with food.

What I’ll remember most about these films is the quiet, human moments. The laughter. The grief.

Plus updates on Station 19, All American, Fantasy Island, The Power, Saint X, Good Trouble, and NCIS: Hawai’i.

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day, the one day a year us lesbians take our corporeal form and make mischief in the streets in our flannel and Birkenstocks while singing “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”

Conservatives are going to try to leverage this tragedy to further paint trans people as violent extremists, to try and equate queerness and leftist ideals with domestic terrorism. We cannot let them win.

Stingers up!

You have 48 hours to cast your ballot in the Opposites Attract Region. We’ll return next week with one final first round of voting in the Friends to Lovers region.

“You and I are family.”

And also updates on Station 19’s heartbreaking return, Harlem’s season finale, Fantasy Island, A Million Little Things, the Equalizer, The Rookie: Feds, The Watchful Eye, and Truth Be Told. It was a big week, get in here!

7.2% of the population identifies as LGBTQ+, according to the latest Gallup poll. But the numbers for Gen Z remain high enough to suggest the future could be 20% LGBT+.

Kit and Jade kissed and smashed swords. They said, “I love you.” They lived!

Plus updates on Mythic Quest and that completely unhinged Monarch series finale.