Also in our weekly LGBTQ+ TV round-up, updates on The Chi, All American, iCarly, Motherland: Fort Salem, and The Republic of Sarah!

“It’s astounding, and it’s not just for me. I’m winning for so many people out there, so many babies out there, the generation that comes after me — that’s who it’s for, it’s not for me.”

Lesbian and bisexual characters have been straightwashed out of existence in many beloved Hollywood films. Here are 22 examples of times queer stories were de-gayed for mainstream consumption.

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.

“The bisexual couch looks like a threat.”

“With each tattoo I’m actively reclaiming my own identity. Every tattoo on my body is an active choice — An exercise in autonomy.”

Also: That Batwoman finale, Loki is (finally, canonically) bisexual, close out Pride with some happy lesbian movies, and never enough Buffy.

Fighting for America’s last 21 lesbian bars, the dos and don’ts of Hot Vax Summer, and let’s go bisexual Loki!

It’s one thing for white gays to line us up and tell our stories for a scorecard of ‘diversity points,’ it’s quite another when we’re given space to really do it for ourselves. There’s ugh… no other way to put this… it also has some interviews of me? Alongside Stephanie Beatriz and Tanya Saracho? So please take me to my fainting couch immediately.

Plus also, Naya Rivera’s final role, teasers about Work in Progress and The Boys, lots of Batwoman goodness, and more!

There’s all-out bigotry, and there’s all-out triumph. At the center of the wave of anti-trans sports bills are trans kids who just want to play.

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.

You: The two women from my past who I judged too quickly during a chance brunch encounter

Me: The dyke who apparently projected her own hangups about middle school onto you

We’re jam packed with no less than 8 (!!!) queer tv recaps for you! Including: That heart wrenching rollercoaster on Station 19, 911, All Rise, Top Chef, Charmed (guest starring Ali Liebert!), Legacies, Nancy Drew and you know how everyone was streaming Jupiter’s Legacy last weekend? Well, there’s some gays in there too!

The Silence of the Lambs was right. Trans women and law enforcement are enemies. All it got wrong was the villain.

Friends was the first time I saw my transness on TV, but it wasn’t Chandler’s dad — it was Chandler.

The finale of Wynonna Earp’s fourth (and likely final) season is a love letter to the fans by way of a big gay wedding.

The news these last few weeks has been… a lot. This week’s Extra! Extra! takes a look at the devastating anti-trans legislation just passed in Arkansas, the Chauvin trial, voter suppression, the pandemic that is not yet over even if we’re all pretending it is and more.

An erotic witch comic, the new hot dating app keyword, why asexuality should be part of sex education and more.

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!