Come out, come out, wherever you are! The Autostraddle team gives you tips on how to come out to your friends.

Believe it or not, Peacock has a surprisingly robust slate of television shows with major lesbian, bisexual and queer women and/or trans characters. Here’s a list of our favorite LGBT TV shows on Peacock.

Even if her attraction to Veronica is mostly relegated to fantasies, that doesn’t make it not “real.”

“I know, now the thought of sleeping in is just as exciting as a full blown affair to me.”

What are you to do when you are a Vietnamese asexual and aromantic woman who grew up in white, cishet, francophone-dominated Montreal in the 1980s and 1990s?

“You can’t ask me that. Well, you can ask me. But I can’t tell you.”

These are the television shows of 2018 that stand out for their artistry and innovation AND also feature lesbian, bisexual, queer or trans women characters.

“At the start of every year, I feel an itch to plan and make vision boards and examine my life and my goals. I knew one thing on my 2018 to-do list was certain and it was getting married and having a wedding.”

“She asks me how it went, I say it went bad. I don’t say much more because she hates hearing about my family like they hate hearing about her. It goes better when I keep it to myself.”

2016 was the best of times and the worst of times. JK, it was the absolute worst of times. A lot of queer women died on TV. But a lot of them kissed and made googly eyes at each other too.

A League of Their Own, Sort Of, The Last of Us, and more! Here are the winners of the 6th annual Autostraddle TV Awards.

“I believe that stepping in front of a camera is one of the most vulnerable things you can do, and so I want everyone who allows me the honor of photographing them to feel celebrated and seen and loved.”

Our fundraiser perk super special You Need Help is here!

2017 somehow turned out to be the best year ever for lesbian and bisexual women on television — but we’ve still got a ways to go.

I started the 31st week of my pregnancy crying over the kitchen sink as I crammed my gestational diabetes breakfast into my mouth. It wasn’t the pregnancy hormones this time. It was the overwhelming grief and the sudden realization of what it means to be a parent.

“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”

Getting a life-limiting fetal diagnosis like trisomy 18 is devastating to expectant parents, who usually choose to abort rather than wait for an inevitable miscarriage, stillbirth, or a painful brief life for their child. But after Roe’s overturning, parents in many areas won’t have that choice at all, making an already heartbreaking situation more dangerous and traumatic.

111. I wrote hundreds of love letters to Janet Jackson. I never sent them, but was convinced that we would end up married some day.

I tried for a long time not to have a smart phone.

“In conclusion, Aubrey Plaza is a precious gem and I would die for her.”