Disney won’t stand up for gays, JK Rowling keeps coming after trans women — and then there’s The Owl House, telling the sweetest, gentlest, most beautiful story about two baby gay witches falling in love.

The weather is getting warmer and the LGBTQ+ books are only getting hotter! Queer book lovers, get ready we have all your spring blanket reading needs covered.

Read the 700-word essay I wrote for a zine in college about queer representation on Glee even though at the time I identified as STRAIGHT.

We knew, but the way Sophie and Ryan keep stealing smiles at each other, and confirming their relationship to their friends?! WE DESERVE THIS, OKAY!!!

Ava gives Gwyn the love is love speech, Sara tries to unfix a fixed point, and Spooner comes out as asexual!

“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”

It’s not the first time DuVernay has added queer characters to a pre-existing canvas: in 2016, she added Nova Bordelon, a bisexual journalist/activist, to the world Natalie Baszile created in Queen Sugar. The goal, the creator told television critics earlier this week, isn’t representation, it’s normalization.

Every other week, I’ll run my metal detector over the literary internet, dig up whatever beeps, and present to you my findings.

There are plenty of people out there still rooting for Jackie Quiñones; it’d be nice if it felt like the ones crafting her story were among them.

If you thought 2021 was a banner year for LGBTQ+ books, wait until you see what the first three months of 2022 have in store for queer book lovers.

Malinda Lo talks about writing queerness in different genres, butch/femme dynamics in literature, and the gay Macy’s of the 1960s that didn’t make it into her book.

What is happening this fall for Black queer women’s representation is unmatched, there is not a single point ever in television history where you could even find something comparable.

This recap is late because I wanted to wait and see if Whitney & Romi’s sex scene would tip the balance in our favor in the Prop 8 Trial. Mission accomplished. JK THIS EPISODE OF THE REAL L WORD WAS SO WEIRD.

The Superfriends gear up to fight the big bad, then dress up to celebrate Alex and Kelly’s wedding in the series finale of Supergirl.

The team digs into questions about a partner’s conservative family, dealing with a crush on a new friend, figuring out what to wear for your wedding (!!!), and more!

“I learned to accept that I contain multitudes, and neither my sexual orientation nor gender identity are exempt from my multifaceted nature.”

Kash has created the ideal commentary on trans representation by abandoning that project altogether.

Also! The tricky trans politics of FX’s Y: The Last Man, Rosanny Zayas on Afro-Latina representation, Courtney Vandersloot makes more WNBA history, and more!

“Sepideh Moafi’s tongue is acting. Her tongue has more compelling storylines this season than many of the core characters, I would argue.”

Cozy up for a gay October with secret lesbian relationships amid an alien invasion, a way-more-gay I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, new seasons of The Baby-Sitter’s Club and Love Life, Wentworth’s last dance, Kiersey Clemons as an animated activist, a true crime limited series and so much more!