From lesbian gangs killing old ladies in a nursing home to actresses with Mommy issues to inspirational schoolteachers, these are ten of the first-ever lesbian characters on American primetime television, 1961-1977.

I did a quick interview with the founder of FlirtyQWERTY, a free and feminist emoji app, about desegregating tech, bringing people together, and flipping people off.

Celebrate International Fisting Day with these scenes from the Crash Pad Series.

“Cast members in a devised show are able to create and develop honest depictions of characters who hold the same identities as the actors. These representations are far more complex, interesting, and truthful than characters we as directors and creators could develop on our own.”

“That’s what these awards are, a deep and profound thank you to all of the people who make us glad that we didn’t listen when we were told that girls don’t read comics.”

This week on Faking It, everybody gets into costume play and makes bad choices.

Our goal is to recognize and celebrate webcomics, graphic zines, comic books, graphic novels and other forms of sequential art that feature both excellence in the art form and excellence in representation for girls and women (especially queer girls and women) and feminist themes.

I hear he’s a socialist. That’s cool. But also he’s an old straight white man, like the vast majority of American politicians, so what would his alleged socialism mean for people who aren’t old straight white men?

The Broadway version of Alison Bechdel’s classic graphic memoir made me feel weird, sad and fist-pumpingly excited.

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

Lambda finalists, queer representation in comics, Emily Books getting more awesome and more.

All I want this year is more representation, better representation, the return of some of my faves and about nine other things.

“And every time she has sex with a man, she is ass naked. Literally. I have seen her ass now twice. My problem isn’t her being ass naked. She has straight sex and is naked, but this other character has gay sex and both of them — bras on, underwear on.”

Carmen Carrera, a transgender model and activist is set to star in a brand new docuseries about a group of young trans women living in Chicago. The series, produced by Tyra Banks, will debut its eight hour-long episode run on VH1 in late 2014 or early 2015

“Fun as it was to mercilessly tear this show apart, the buck stops here.”

“An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone’s secrets to spill out.”

Brush up on this year’s biggest news so you can impress that cute girl at your New Year’s Eve party.

The great tides of fashion are ahead! Come scope the massive styles (and cute bois and grrls) under the sea in Atlantis 2050: Marimacho’s Spring/Summer 2014 New York Fashion Week debut!

While queer visibility is rising in Bollywood films, there is still a long ways to go for queer women.

On what Obama said (and didn’t say) this morning when he surprised everybody with a speech expanding on his thoughts about the Trayvon Martin ruling.