We recap Episode 405: Effy, in which Freddie and Effy take a little mania along with their love, and Katie F*cking Fitch wears a sexy angel outfit.

“Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to have brunch with country music icon Dolly Parton this Sunday, August 7th.”

Come join me in this red sparkly vinyl diner booth and tell me about your life! Would you like a bite of my grilled cheese?

Disabled people deserve to know, from our school days, that we’re not just cases, diagnoses, or “not really disabled”; we’re part of a community with its own histories and triumphs.

Kitten Summer Games, saving money, losing all your friends, staying goth, Pride in a small town, what mass killers have in common, Samira Wiley is wearing your t-shirt, art as activism, and so much more!

Things aren’t going great for Donald Trump’s campaign this week, the dangerous SCOTUS ruling that says evidence obtained illegally can be used in court, Tamara Dominguez’s murderer charged, and more.

Grieving a friend lost to suicide in childhood, the effects of harmful compulsory masculinity, and looking around at a life that could just barely have been imagined then.

It’s officially Pride month! Obama says so! Also Stonewall Inn gets official, bisexual bisons, immigrant-owned tamale co-ops, feminist Hogwarts slogans, Canadian indigenous people in video games, Amandla Stenberg has some hair and life advice for you, Brazilian women demand an end to rape culture, free food for Pride, supporting incarcerated LGBT parents, new emojis, and vagina manga memoirs.

Are your parents spies? Also: coincidences, lots of important women who changed the dang universe, Kesha, embryos, Kristen Stewart’s makeup situation can be yours, genderqueer and pregnant, skydiving quidditch and so much more!

Could 2016 BE any more brutal for lesbian and bisexual TV characters?

“I made a choice about how I would look, and didn’t realize until I’d done it how unprecedented that was.”

Another day, another stray arrow in the eyeball. Plus: Hannah has her first queer hook-up on Girls.

A rap duo from Cuba fighting homophobia with rhymes, an arctic fox that just can’t stop laughing, a laundry list of times anti-gay legislators tried to pull some bullshit and failed in the past week, updates about SF Pride and the St. Patrick’s Day parades that will melt your queer heart, adorable photographs of a femme proposing, and a changing tide of acceptance for those of y’all hoping to adopt some kiddies.

“Dryland,” by Sara Jaffe, is a quiet coming of age tale clad in flannel on the outside; on the inside, it’s draped in gorgeous prose.

Another year, another 21 people closer to everybody being gay!

“There is nothing I love more than sharing a deafeningly silent, poignant moment with 300 other audience members; grinning wide through a rousing musical number that makes me want to stand and cheer; or tearing up at a matinee with the gray-haired woman seated beside me.”

It would be like Rachel’s “Helping you Help Yourself,” but with more of a Stef vibe and maybe just a series of gifs or images with captions that get right to the heart of the matter. Like “DON’T GO TO WORK LATE, ASSHOLE.”

From lesbian gangs killing old ladies in a nursing home to actresses with Mommy issues to inspirational schoolteachers, these are ten of the first-ever lesbian characters on American primetime television, 1961-1977.

The first episode of “New Deep South,” a webseries created by women-founded new media startup “The Front,” kicked off with the story of a young couple ready to get married and have a baby, against all odds.

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