If you’re wondering what some queer people who aren’t me are thinking about when it comes to getting engaged and wedding planning (or not wedding planning), this installment of Blush and Bashful is for you.

Over the past couple weeks, I’ve watched forty features and the first two episodes of a TV show. Yes, forty. Consider this list a reference, a collection of short reviews for the rest of the year’s buzzed about films and films that should be buzzed about.

Queer science fiction, fantasy sequels, horror YA, experimental books, short stories, a memoir on (in)fertility, and so much more are heading your way this summer.

Your next community gallery is here! Come gaze upon nearly 170 queer bedrooms of our lives, and the queers who queer them. Safe for work, more or less!

If we don’t abundantly love each other, we can’t have an abundant relationship with God. I must embrace an interpretation of my faith that requires unconditional love for queer people because any less would be to deny my own humanity and that of my community.

“There’s this huge spoon with a cherry on it, pic op!”

Check out our top five picks for the month along with the rest of the LGBTQ book slate for February.

Alabama’s Supreme Court rules that embryos are people because God said so, and the implications for prospective queer parents in the state are dire.

Gird your sapphic loins we’ve got a brand new trailer, new photos and cast details on the queer women and nonbinary people who will be bringing gay chaos to our Netflix television screens this May 24th.

“Call Your Girlfriend” is not just a song that holds up as a classic sad bop — but as a work of art that asks us to radically reimagine how we might uncouple ourselves from each other in gentler, more entangled ways.

“For me, queering Black History Month is about making sure that future generations don’t feel the same pressure to choose between their blackness and their sexuality that I once did. It’s about leaving space to be all of yourself, at once.”

Hot fresh reads for a hot bookish Pride month!

“Catfish has been serving diverse, bittersweet queer representation for almost a decade and it seems like nobody notices.”

Domestic horror is gay as hell.

The L Word: Generation Q featured 12 new queer characters of color in its first season, but media conversations about the show have largely remained driven by white points of view. So, we set out to change that.

“Some people don’t like how many queer characters or NPCs are in our campaign, or when either of the women on the show talk too much. Anyone feminine in our society is still expected to be quiet, subservient, and apologetic. Of course I’m not going to make myself or my character more palatable for anyone else’ sake.”

“This was the first city that I chose for myself, and I’ve never looked back. This is home, and for good reason.”

Ever wonder what Pittsburgh has going for it besides Brian, Justin, Michael, Ted and Emmett?

If the idea of having children as queer women is a fraught and complicated topic, Good Manners opens itself up to the mess.

“For me, reading and speaking body language is like communicating in any foreign language — I concentrate hard, stumble, and make embarrassing errors. Turns out other queer autistic people have this problem too.”