Zaina Arafat’s You Exist Too Much is the bi Arab romance novel l didn’t know I needed. We chat about the book, first-gen traumas, sexual ambiguity and Arab parents.

Grey’s Anatomy and Station 19 are giving the gays everything that they want. Plus updates on All American, Black Lightning, God Friended Me, Deputy, and Nancy Drew!

I am a first generation Iranian-Canadian queer on their first trip to Iran at the age of twenty-seven, forming connections to the land.

Highlights include: going down while wearing a nose ring, surviving the United States as a queer immigrant, living on the same college campus as your ex, and also how to perfectly time your break up. That’s just the beginning!

In a world guaranteed to make you frown, we’ve curated a list of things guaranteed to make you smile. Including: Brandi Carlile at ACL, Janelle Monae and Tessa Thompson in Lady and the Tramp, a comedy about Emily Dickinson, and intergenerational queer activists! Happy Sunday!

“Her first step into her first floor apartment was into a puddle of water. Everything was wet: furniture, photos, poems, journals, her shoes. The water lines on her walls marked the flood waters at a foot and a half.”

Read queer banned books. Support their authors. And maybe buy an extra copy or two of these and leave them in a school library near you.

Co-creator, Shadi Petosky is a trans woman and the cast is absolutely packed with queer and trans voice actors like Stephanie Beatriz, Jasika Nicole, Angelica Ross, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, Tyler Ford, Jazz Jennings, Laura Zak and Petosky herself.

“It’s a harsh reality that I will be priced out of my own life at this point if the AHCA gets passed and, quite frankly, I’m not done living my damn life yet.”

I needed Bollywood to show me it was possible to be a South Asian queer woman who could find love and have a happy ending.

My journey to self-love through the influence of Whitney Houston’s life and music.

“That’s when we slept in a bed together and when I woke up I said I missed you while I was sleeping.”

If I show you mine, would you show me yours?

Scrapbooking is for you and me!

Brush up on this year’s biggest news so you can impress that cute girl at your New Year’s Eve party.

Sometimes the clearest heads prevail in the cloudiest of rooms. And when it gets too smoky, don’t be scared. Be open, be vulnerable and embrace who you are. Because you are a beautiful, unique, stoned little snowflake and your time has come.

“It’s up to the poets. It’s up to us to continue.”

“I tried not to do that. I tried to keep the most important thing the story and the storytelling, because I think it gets annoying when you have an agenda. I would do anything to not be annoying.”

From meet cutes to sex, the best queer TV scenes of the year were almost all about romance. Almost.

Also, the anti-LGBTQ Leave Our Kids Alone movement showed up in LA, the history of pockets, and more queer culture + news reads.