A writer reflects on accessing desire in trying times and the romance of collective liberation — playdates that range from toppy to bratty, a bottom with endearing nonverbal cues, a “hole-within-a-hole,” and a Zoom date with their girlfriend daddy.

On May 11, GLAAD hosted its annual awards ceremony, celebrating queer and trans media and celebrities. But outside the doors of the venue was where the real queer activism took place, an action organized by ACT UP NY taking shape.

We love these fictional couples — even if you don’t.

We’ve got a biopic about a queer Italian rock star, a queer high school prom movie, a misanthropic lesbian journalist in a dark crime comedy set in Ireland, new seasons of We Are Lady Parts, Hacks and Acapulco and so much more! (Really!)

With films like Drive-Away Dolls, Love Lies Bleeding, and Challengers, the movies are sexy again. But I’m not writing this piece to gloat — I’m writing it to get greedy.

I wear a leather vest for a shirt, a black cowboy hat, and pearls for added flair. The party is in a discreet, always-changing location, available only by word-of-mouth invite.

Monday night I had the honor of sitting amongst basketball legends at the 2024 WNBA Draft. The gayest thing in the room? The crowd! Seated in front of me was a group of lesbians that included multiple ex-girlfriends attending together.

Homophobes are angry about a children’s cartoon being inclusive again, Maya Hawke’s Anxiety is a hit in Inside Out 2, there is a new lesbian musical on Broadway (this is not a drill!!), Station 19’s Danielle Savre and Stefania Spampinato talked with NBC about #Marina, and more!

“Straight Couples Who Aren’t Fucking Are Appropriating Lesbian Bed Death Culture”

Their romance also encapsulates the protagonist figuring out she’s a top, a journey I always love to see!

From queer tweens solving middle school mysteries to amateur sapphic sleuths investigating 1920s Harlem, I guarantee all these queer mystery novels are winners!

Arizona Robbins is back at Grey Sloan Memorial, but does Grey’s Anatomy do right by the longest running lesbian character on network TV? Also Maya and Carina are still stuck in babyland on Station 19, Clea DuVall was a judge on Top Chef: Wisconsin, and updates on The Equalizer, All American, and more!

“We totally called the gay thing,” Kelly Jones, one of Famous Pop Star’s fans, said after the news broke. “The cryptid thing, not so much.”

Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.

It will become the 9th film directed by and about queer women to join the collection. Listen, I know this is important for Cinema reasons, but it’s important for Horny reasons, too.

It feels safe to say that Nex died as a direct result of trauma from the physical altercation at the school. Maybe not just the one, maybe so many more. Maybe years of bullying, of ostracization, of feeling unwelcome and out of place at the school he was required to attend every day.

But this is Station 19’s last season. These are the last few weeks we will ever spend with Maya and Carina. They deserve a happy ending. So I’m going to step into that joy and stand ten toes down in it.

On the new season of Girls5Eva, Gloria is determined to sleep with every type of girl from “pre-Friends Courtney Cox” to “cigar mommis.”

David Lynch’s 2001 masterpiece has a thematic core that has been largely ignored.

If you have yet to see Past Lives, you should watch it as soon as possible. But I think you should read the film, too.