“If we are going to mourn our lost trans siblings, family and community members publicly, we need to do right by our community and contextualize their deaths with accuracy and intention.”

Cereal, haircuts, and strange noises from the Girl Scout tent!

Some interesting Jewish people to enjoy with your apples and honey.

Topics include ratings for When We Rise, same-sex smooching on a Disney cartoon, Moonlight, LeFou being gay obviously, and also some important Nancy Kerrigan news.

btw we have some bonus Lesbian Kens in this post for you

I hope you’re good with your fingers.

“Out beyond ideas of likable and unlikable comments there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”

A reader asked for some wedding looks for a person with an androgynous/femme aesthetic that they could wear to a straight family member’s wedding and I immediately asked to make a style guide because getting fancy for grandma while still feeling like myself is one of my favorite things to do.

“ok who sent me an autostraddle email address request for kristen stewart”

“I am so glad I joined A+ (even though it led to me drinking literal vodka water)”

“This is only tangentially related to your question, but I think about the same girl nearly every time I put on mascara.”

This week we’ve got genius column ideas, eloquent troll slayers, librarians and so much more!

Join Whoopi Goldberg, Judith Light, Jane Lynch, Janet Mock, Sarah Paulson, Holland Taylor and more in sharing a meal with our LGBT elders — and then tell us all about it!

It’s LGBT History Month, a month-long annual observance of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender history, a topic which is near and dear to our hearts because it is definitely NOT near OR dear to the hearts of anybody in charge of public education.

These numbers could make a serious difference for the LGBTQ community and now we’re not gonna get ’em.

Topics include Donald Trump in 1997, The Tower of Terror, My So-Called Life, Steve Bannon, Tom Hanks, Chipotle, Carl’s Jr, how we break, and more!

” is “Let’s Make Cheese Boards and Never Leave the House Again” a title
or is it a tweet”

“Do you think Putin is upset that we did not include “Vladimir” in this list? It is a pretty lesbian name.”

“i feel like one of the best parts of getting older is learning new and surprising things about yourself, like how hot older slytherin women are”

“I would give anything to see Rachel start a discussion with a writer that begins with ‘Can I be frank'”