As Black women, isn’t that what we want to be afforded? A chance to be messy and vulnerable instead of tidy and unbreakable?

This week, on the Howard Stern Show, Demi Lovato confirmed that “Cool for the Summer” is about a relationship she had with a famous woman, thus suggesting her need to take a bite of the cherry was accomplished.

A+ members, let’s hang!

This movie has everything: a girl in a beanie who makes pizza pockets for a diner, a meddling friend who wears loud sweaters and makes scissoring gestures, a famous actress from a car commercial getting a key to the city, and so much more

Santana Lopez and Brittany S. Pierce, Everything Sucks’ Kate and Emaline, All American’s Coop, and Heartstopper’s Elle to name a few. This round features some of the most celebrated queer characters on television, and they need your vote!

Everything Now finds an impressive balance: It doesn’t romanticize eating disorders, of course, but it also doesn’t sensationalize them.

Just a little vintage eye candy for you.

Advice for a person who really wants to get over being grossed out by periods, plus advice about friendship from three different askers.

Your untethered choices during the Blue Supermoon in Pisces, a questionable and surely irresponsible horoscope.

Being gay and messy in your 20s is fun if you let it, so I’m wishing Lily-Rose and 070 Shake all the best. Also: a new podcast about gay music culture that I think you’ll love, and spotting a toxic boss while applying for jobs.

I love their more serious work, but I hope this new mix of levity is here to stay as well.

“I still wear my actual red Straddle This boxers!!”

It’s important for new and old fans of the WNBA to understand that while this league has 144 of the best women and nonbinary basketball players in the world, it’s also about more than basketball. It has to be.

My friendship with her actually ended twice.

In 1947, “Lisa Ben” launched the country’s first-ever lesbian magazine, Vice Versa. But by the ’90s, she’d withdrawn from public life and by the mid-2000s, she’d found a new passion: the Burbank Hometown Buffet restaurant.

Rise of the Pink Ladies wants the privilege of deciding when and how questions of race matter, but that’s not how it works — not on a fictional television show where teenagers sing on cafeteria tables for fun, and not in life.

Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.

I wondered if my friends were afraid that the honesty it takes to face that a relationship needs to end might be contagious. If they stood too close to me, they might realize they wanted to take a closer look in that mirror too.

Being engaged, planning a wedding, being a newlywed — all welcome topics of conversation! Divorce? Not so much! 

After surviving a literal cult, Katurah reckoned with her complex, multi-faceted identity.