Remember that time we told you 60% of heterosexual women were attracted to other women? Yeah that’s not true and it’s one of many numbers/statistics we’ll be discussing today!!

It’s Cyber Monday! I can’t help you with electronics, but here are my best suggests for Books, DVDs, Games and American Apparel Briefs. Get all your shopping done deeply discounted and move on with your life.

Catholic Charities Illinois called off their legal fight to continue providing foster care and adoption services for heterosexual couples only. They’d rather just provide adoption services for no one.

Thirteen awesome last-minute adorable queer costumes for your crafting pleasure. I swear, even right now, you still have time to make a hilariously awesome (Gay) Halloween costume.

“The fact that they are mustering the courage to come for help on their own is indeed a paradigm shift.”

It’s not a revolution … but it’s solid. It’s sweet, it’s snappy, it’s clever, smart, delicious. It gets away with things American teevee shows never try for. It’s everything television should be.

All sorts of things are being done and said about gay and trans people in Australia; here are some of them.

Alternative lifestyle haircuts and candy striper uniforms. Need I say more?

Lesbians and bisexual women are 2-3 times more likely to smoke cigarettes regularly than straight people, which might be one of the 46 reasons I’m finding it hard to quit.

We discuss interracial couples and how the gay marriage movement could learn a thing of two from their struggles.

My fingers have actually started melting onto my keyboard.

“In this second installment, we discuss topics like “undoing” the effects of puberty, intimacy with a trans* person, and how to address gender ambiguous people.”

Being shy but strong, another round of Prop 8 Trial bigotry, the annals of OK Cupid, Sea Monkeys, gay pride in Cuba, a lesbian does The Baby Project and so much more!

GO! Magazine has a list of 100 women they love. We love ’em all, too, but a few have a special place in our heart.

In which we talk about all the wit, humor, and love you contributed to the site this week and introduce our new feature, “Autostraddle Social Group of the Week”

I know you’re missing Emily’s awards, so I’ll just finish this sentence with Eh?

This took forever because Dinah Shore but hey look, progress is being made with DADT and also the rest of the world seems pretty ok right now!

“You have to break the shell, be okay with who you are regardless of the cameras and know that there’s someone out there who’s gonna relate to you. There’s no character space so if you’re not yourself that shuts off the whole reason for reality TV. Especially when it’s something about lesbians — that’s for everyone, even for gay boys, we’re fighting for visibility.”

It turns out everyone has feelings, not just you!

Hello today there is good news re: scholarships for gay kids and also gay marriage and also EUROVISION which is obvs most important. May or may not contain an otter, I can’t make any promises.