Defeating this bill is a matter of life and death to the transgender, gender non-conforming and intersex people of color who depend on Medicaid to survive.

Shraya’s lyrics tease apart the ways in which trans girls’ emotional lives are drawings rendered in chiaroscuro, the play of light and shadow: The power and relief of discovering one’s identity in private intertwined with the pain of objectification and sexual violence.

#Ham4All, Ellen Page with a guitar, Gabby Rivera on Pride, KaeLyn’s face on a wall, Lesbians taking over Texas and more!

As millions of people lined busy streets in gayborhoods across the world for Pride weekend, 1.7 billion people began celebrating Eid al-Fitr  —  where after a long hot month of fasting from dawn to sunset Muslims throw a three-day party (in some places it lasts over ten) celebrating community, good food and impeccable outfits. As two holidays intersected and Queer Muslims began celebrating life at the intersection, a new holiday was born: PrEIDe.

Never before have my distaste for a show and love for its cast been so at odds.

Making wine in space, modern medicine doesn’t take women seriously, a solar eclipse is coming up soon and so many more links!

btw we have some bonus Lesbian Kens in this post for you

I’ll never be able to think of the band LMFAO in the same way again.

Also Orphan Black and Wynonna Earp are back this weekend, Angela Robinson’s Wonder Woman biopic, a couple of new trailers for a couple of queer shows, Rachel Maddow’s cable news prowess, news from the set of Carmilla, and more!

Here are eight books about adult bisexual ladies going about their full, complex lives. There are definitely some sexy times to look forward to but sex isn’t the focus of the narrative.

“It’s a harsh reality that I will be priced out of my own life at this point if the AHCA gets passed and, quite frankly, I’m not done living my damn life yet.”

“Three Kids, Two Femmes, a Butch and a Cat: Visions of Queer Domesticity”

Maggie and Kara work together to save Alex’s life. (And reader, they do.)

Hi, I’m new here! This week, I’m having feels about The Handmaid’s Tale and airplane turbulence. Come say hello! *cue group hug*

“She was an attractive woman, you know. If she hadn’t told us she was a lesbian, she could’ve been in a Miss America contest!”

Out magazine talks to Lady Gaga’s lesbian jailyard girlfriend, performance artist Heather Cassils, about kissing Gaga (‘intense’), butch/femme, trans, gender identity, performance art & everything you care about. If you’re wondering what Tila Tequila is up to these days, we’ve got an update. Plus, Tegan & Sara talk to Mother Jones about Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga is trying to brainwash you into joining the Illuminati, “Chloe” premiered last night, more outcry over Skins, and Adam Lambert is in Japan.

“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”

Straight fanfiction? I don’t know her.

“Before becoming a parent, I looked at parenting through rose-colored glasses — with an able-bodied person’s perspective. It was drilled into my head by other people, well-meaning as they were, that I probably shouldn’t have children.”

How to organize a meeting that won’t result in headaches, boredom, or existential dread.