I used to love grocery shopping after my divorce. I would buy things that only I liked.

“The thing that gets me about a lot of people’s just criticisms of Fifty Shades of Grey is, as a romance novel, as a ravishment novel, it’s a lot closer to real SM, real sexy pulp, than most.”

In today’s Generation Q Episode 307 recap, we’ve got Fletcher’s album release party, Carrie adopting Finley and taking her bowling, Tom rescuing a kitten from a vent in Alice’s office, Dani and Dre getting their sexual tension on and so much more!

In 2012, a Condé Nast website called style.com published an article with the headline: “IS LESBIAN CHIC HERE TO STAY?” In this thrilling piece of supposed journalism, the writer remarked, “Lesbians! They’re everywhere.”

Plus updates on Burden of Truth, The Republic of Sarah, and Motherland: Fort Salem.

If queer creators are so worried about backlash from the community that we begin to self-censor, then the only interesting queer work will be made by straight people.

This week on The L Word: Generation Q, Alice is forced to eat two buckets of popcorn, Shane releases an endangered bumblebee into the wild, Sophie does a solid Matthew McConaughey impression, Dani is rescued from a near-collision with a scooter by a handsome prince and so much more!

“I always envisioned this book as something that would allow me to talk about how I got to know masculinity as an adult through sex work and reflect back on how I came to know masculinity from the time I was younger.”

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.

Fabiola’s story taps into a real dynamic in queer communities, but “Never Have I Ever” couldn’t bring itself to actually identify the problem for what it truly is: racism.

“I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN!” Bradley yells from the floor where she is sitting (gay) and eating a plate of waffles.

“Thanks for listening to my lesbian soccer rant!”

Endless conversations on dialectical materialism, class wars, and late-stage capitalism do little to address the current realities that plague visibly non-white people, trans people, and sex workers. The violent realities of capitalism have real, tangible consequences for people most affected by white supremacist violence and the constant refrain of “do the reading” does nothing to address them.

Luz and Amity don’t just represent a possibility, or offer recognition. In them, I see a reflection of exactly who I used to be.

Astrid & Lilly Save the World is a fun, silly sci-fi show with two fat female heroes, one of which is queer and crushing.

Plus! Things are going really well for Jukebox on Raising Kanan — until they’re not! And Motherland: Fort Salem is prepping for the plague. Relevant!

“I definitely played rugby with the 2004 version of the Hey Mamas lesbians.”

“In the 90s, everyone was telling kids they could be anything they wanted to be. But when people saw who I wanted to be they were like, maybe not that though, maybe that’s a little much.”

The third season Master of None eschews any clean, simple picture. When a happy love story about Black lesbians in love would have been easier, instead it holds up a mirror of what we don’t like to see.

Viola Davis and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom racked up big time at the SAG Awards, Miley had herself a time at the Men’s Final Four concert, wow Conservative Christians are mad at the implication that Satan is gay, and more!