Topics include a face transplant, Janelle Monae, business school, Jodie Foster, mattresses, the men who brought 9/11 home, letters to the editor, last meals, writing advice from Rick Bass and moar!

Well this is your very own Rachel Fucking Walker without a shirt. Why are you still reading the excerpt?

“I came out to bosses and people I had just met and guys who hit on me and former boyfriends and doctors and professors and relatives and Facebook and even the grocery store cashiers. I wanted to assert myself, my identity.”

July is smokin’ hot with Drea and her musical poetry and haikus! You won’t know if you want to be her or be with her, you know? Luckily there’s an questionnaire at the end.

“I had to fight for this body. Since the day I was diagnosed with bone cancer at age fifteen, I began to wage wars on multiple fronts. I fought to be normal – and when that failed, I fought to appear normal.”

The Kink Panel wanted to give you guys all the resources so you can follow along at home.

“I had shared a moment with myself that was loving and forgiving, and I found myself believing that I was enough.” We’re so excited to introduce you to Parneet! Lots of love here.

Miss April talks tattoos, sex, psychology, queer girl dance nights, more sex, more tattoos and being the black sheep. Meet your new Calendar Girl!

Chloe’s beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of dark coffee. And Intern Grace? Well, her smile is like a breath of spring, her voice is soft like summer rain and no one can compete with her, yipee!

“Not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. But everyone is entitled to a chance.”

Meet the first of our 2014 calendar girls! Cynthia will warm your icy winter heart with giant, delicious flowers and her sunny/sexy good looks.

Four more years and ten commenters we want to put in office.

This post aims to answer pressing questions such as, “now that the fundraising campaign is over, how long ’til we get to see the new website?” and “when is my fundraising t-shirt gonna be here???”

This week on The Real L Word, everyone fought about stupid shit and something terrible happened and there was a lot of crying.

This week featured famous people coming out times 3, pies cream sandwiches, rompers, and also BRUNCH.

2012 AS reader survey results (click to enlarge)

“Being funny is like any other artistic skill, but to wield it successfully requires outspokenness, unapologetic honesty, supreme self-assuredness, and an outright refusal to pander. And those aren’t exactly the traits we foster in our little girls.”

This week gay people were campaigning, praying, and throwing glitter. We’re sitting down with Rosie and kickin’ back with Ellen. Also, there is a kitten inside.

How Dan Savage and other queers introduced straight people to non-monogamy.