Plus, a Thanksgiving flashback stuffed with queer family drama on this week’s Black Cake.

Parvati Shallow — already a gay icon and the winner of Survivor Season 16 — is queer and dating non-binary comedian Mae Martin. AND Survivor Season 41 winner Erika Casupanan came out as a lesbian!

“The adrenaline rush from the sport is addictive in nature, but it’s the community that keeps you coming back.”

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH, FREAKS!!!!! MRS. VOORHEES IS MOMMI!

Plus updates on SaintX and How I Met Your Father.

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

I’ve created a queer version of the classic board game Life! Let’s play, gays!

“Unapologetic” may ultimately be a testament to a mother’s love for her children, but it takes the audience on a journey of her career that’s worth relishing.

“Legislators pass laws enabling families to control children and defund social services that support them, all in the name of protecting the wealthy, white, girl body. These policies, which are part of the theater of stranger danger discourse, endanger children by isolating them in their homes, where Lego fortresses can become wine cellars, tombs. JonBenét as a symbol becomes the sacrifice used to sustain this system. Her story becomes a dark illustration of the consumption of the violence and abuse inflicted on girls and women.”

It might seem ridiculous to you, reader, to hear a man compare queer kink to biological fatherhood, but I’m trepidatiously taking the stand in defense of duality.

I’ve been willing to put this aside and accept the love she’s willing to give me. But it’s all come to a head now that my health insurance finally approved my top surgery.

In 2013, Sue Kerr published her first memorial post for a lost trans life to her blog Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, which has been running since 2005. More than a decade later, when the mainstream media failed to meaningfully cover the death of Nex Benedict, she once again used her blog as a vital community resource.

“I’ve been ostracized, people don’t even know my side of the story. And they just stopped talking to me because they’ve talked to my ex.”

You have no idea how long it took me to figure out that this was the only definitive takeaway from this particular data analysis.

In an excerpt from her new essay collection Thin Skin, Jenn Shapland examines childfreedom.

“We’re building a people’s movement that champions bodily autonomy and self-determination, collectivism, and the pursuit of fulfillment,” says Eliel Cruz, co-founder of Gender Liberation Movement.

Advice for a 49-year-old who’s anxious that she may not be wanted in spaces and social circles where most people are younger than her.

Sunny Laprade and Violet Stanza talk about their queer variety show, Dolls on Tour.

How far will you go for your favorite celebrity?

Is there a Joni Mitchell album that wasn’t born from some heartbreaking or devastating experience?