“She’s a tomboy,” your mother says, frustrated. “I’m sure she’ll grow out of it when she gets interested in boys.” “More dolls,” repeats Mrs. Morris. They plan to doll this little problem out of you.

Also: Tessa Thompson is your favorite cocker spaniel in the new Lady and the Tramp, Shonda Rhimes really wanted Callie back for Arizona’s last episode, Ruby Rose quit Twitter over Batwoman backlash, Sarah Paulson and Sandra Oh finally met and chatted about how brilliant they both are, and more!

What lives in your praise house?

“Presenting as male every day hurts. When the ship is in port, it’s not as bad; I grow to hate coming in to work, but once the day ends I can go home and be myself. When we’re underway, it’s worse. I’m stuck being ‘him’ all day, every day. Sometimes for days, sometimes for weeks… once, for months.”

Norway’s outrageously successful radical teen drama “SKAM” has dropped its American spin-off and there’s one particular difference between the two that you, my queer friends, are really going to enjoy.

Three brides who opted for suits explain how their choice of attire ensured that their wedding was the best day of their lives.

“Honestly, my feelings toward Supergirl the show right now are not unlike Lena’s relationship with Supergirl the person.”

Lesbian archives, advocacy, prom, and of course, even more Janelle Monae news.

“Apparently INFJs operate more off feeling, and I would say that intuition very much commands my brain/heart ship, so it’s an accurate assessment. How’d this bitch know that I’m soft-spoken though?”

I was just a closeted teen lesbian, wishing on every star in the galaxy that I could one day waltz with Jennifer Lopez!

Every body has a history; yours doesn’t preclude you from pleasure. Go forth and jam!

Plus: You gotta watch this Ellen/Sean Hayes interview, a UK Bad Girls reunion, Lena Waithe remains the smoothest operator, a Fosters spin-off for the moms(??), a gay Emily Dickinson comedy, and so much more!

Truly, a hot take if there ever was one, except I’m backed by cold, hard facts.

Your family buys you weird gifts, your mom is kinda rude about your long-distance girlfriend, and you can’t move on after this breakup. Let’s get some shit done! Come on!

“The desire to be on a sketch show has been fulfilled, and I get to be on one which I fit into instead of being the brunt of the jokes.”

Flirting by watching Instagram stories, how to know if you can do long-distance, a Valentine’s Day Crash Pad Series sale and more.

The statistics on acceptance of LGBT people were generally staying the same or improving, until last year — when, as GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis puts it, “the acceptance pendulum abruptly stopped and swung in the opposite direction.”

I don’t want a Season Two. I want a dark comedy / procedural with two lesbian cops on the prowl, fighting crime and battling sexual tension.

This year was marked with so much bad – it throws the beautiful and the light into starker relief.

Kindergarten, 1st grade (2nd and 3rd grade photos mysteriously
absent because, again, third child and busy parents and if you’ve seen one school
photo of your kid, I mean, you’ve seen them all, right?) 4th, 5th, 6th grade
photos. You can really see me trying to add some andro-realness to my look and
my mother fighting me at every turn. She had a literal rule that I could not leave
the house without curling my hair (no joke) so I would put, as you can see, ONE
curl in it, maybe two, front and center, and be done. It was not easy to know how
to rock queer fashion in eastern Montana in the very early 1990s. My jeans
always had holes in the knees so at least there was that…