As we come to the close of another pandemic year, I can only describe the collective energy as exhausted. Aren’t we all just a little tired of character-building growth opportunities at this point?

This Virgo season has a definite good girl gone leather daddy vibe.

Leo season is all about love, but keeping your heart open is hard work.

“I had a kid two years ago and have really struggled working out my gender after that. My body changed a lot in ways I did not like and I’ve been trying to come to terms with my identity as a person, rather than just my kid’s mum.”

Make peace with uncertainty in all your relationships, and trust that Virgo season will help you achieve some needed clarity.

Somewhere between Zoey’s orientation visit to California University on black-ish and the debut of grown-ish last week on Freeform, the writers decided to make her imperfect — and that’s a good thing!

About eight months sober at that point, I had two thoughts scream through my mind at nearly the same time – first, “Oh hell yeah, all the whiskey at my fingertips” quickly followed by, “Oh hell no, this is cruel.”

“Eclipse season officially ends this month, as the Full Moon in Pisces on the 6th closes out this lunar cycle. Everyone breathe a deep sigh of relief… and take a moment to check out where you’ve landed.”

This month begins with all the feels turned way high. With three planets in Cancer, we’re getting a guided tour through the more sensitive places in our hearts.

With several planets traveling through Taurus this month, we’re attuned to a slower pace and a sweeter sense of life.

“My goopy brain instantly convinced me that this event would singularly make or break our relationship and that if it went poorly it would be my fault. But I swallowed my anxiety and said yes. Then I immediately started thinking about my outfit.”

“I actually felt like the earth mother goddess I had envisioned becoming. I decided I wanted to be pregnant forever.”

“We’re all normal, as long as we are having sex in ways that are consensual, risk-aware and injury free. Our bodies? They’re normal too. Beautiful, even. That should be the core concept in any comprehensive sex education, in my opinion.”

Until complete marriage equality reigns, our feelings on tacky lingerie and weird patriarchal traditions are kind of a moot point so we’re allowed to be bitchy when we judge them, right? Mmmkay then.

MTV’s post-college dramedy “Underemployed” features a lesbian at the center of the action, and she’s pretty fucking cute.

Maybe young people aren’t going to be the saviors of the campaign for equal rights for gays.

This post contains a lesbian kickboxer and gay penguins.

We believe that the best lesbian movies rank among the very best movies, period.

Autostraddle’s TV Team shares our picks for the best TV shows of 2020 featuring girls, gays and theys.

“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”