A prime selection of Mean Moms and Women Who Could Beat Me Up.

“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”

Sara Ramirez is here to quench our collective thirst, Melissa King’s jawline remains undefeated, and Stacy London rocks an aspirational bold look!

Adventure Time: Distant Lands will escalate Marceline and PB’s relationship, Lena Waithe on humanizing Black people on screen, why aren’t big studios interested in LGBTQ rom-coms, putting Black icons on magazine covers isn’t enough, and more.

The aftermath of covering protests in Portland, how the WNBA is honoring Breonna Taylor, France’s first transgender mayor and more!

“I too am in ‘active negotiations’ to include LGBT content in my holidays – by setting up an OkCupid profile.”

Come with me on a journey into the best of what HBO Max has to offer fans of lesbian, bisexual and queer television.

If you’ve read this far I think it’s pretty clear that I love a highly competent femme with a lot of personal problems.

Also: Legends of Tomorrow season 6 will cause Avalance angst, PLL’s Alison and Emily are back together off-screen apparently, spend the day with Laverne Cox, and more!

How NYC’s jail policies are being changed in response to Layleen Polanco’s death, the highs and lows of last weekend’s NWSL Challenge Cup, Sonia Sotomayor’s legacy of standing against systemic racism on the Supreme Court, and more.

Who will take up the plaid representation when she’s gone?

The Legends face Fate herself, a slew of Encores, and some teary goodbyes in their final battle of Season Five.

Here’s some good news: me and all my friends hate the cops! Also, a FREE Be Steadwell concert, Hawa Hassan is making lamb burgers, and Utah is celebrating women’s suffrage. Happy Sunday!

This week’s Extra! Extra! honors all the victims – past, present and future. Oh it needs to stop – there must be an end to the long list of names we memorialize. But I’m not naive enough to think more lives won’t be lost before we reach that point.

You can now stream “Saving Face” FOR FREE! Amazon is turning “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” into a TV series, there’s lots to read about “Dead to Me” and here’s some Noelle Stevenson approved She-Ra fan art for your enjoyment.

Megan Rapinoe and Sue Bird keep taking their cute couple act on the (virtual) road! Plus, Christian Cooper — the survivor of that racist verbal attack in Central Park — is already a black gay icon, sex workers in favor of you using hand sanitizer, and so much more!

“Wearing pants? In this economy?”

“the sex bench is like all the flatware in beauty and the beast collecting dust waiting for somebody to come along and use it to feel purpose / meaning again”

The COVID-19 quarantine, which now, perhaps, connotes to be known as a period of extended doldrums for gender transitioning adults across America, has produced its share of coping mechanisms.Autostraddle caught up with two financial advisers who serve transgender clients, Timothy LaPean and Hans Heath.

If love is going to exist — which, ugh, I guess it does — then it’s going to exist within the messiness of our lives. It’s going to exist alongside our families and our cultures and our hopes and our fears. It’s going to be hard and it’s going to take risk.