Five vampire couples who may not be safe to hang around when they’re hungry, but are pretty good girlfriends

If you can’t handle the titties, get out the strip club, babe. Even if it’s a fictional one.

Queer women’s television has grown significantly in recent years. Still, we’ve watched our best continue to be sidelined by a straight white male majority that won’t pay attention to queer stories, women’s stories, stories about people of color. Well, no more my friends!

The theme for the first issue is Seasons of a Dyke. Deadline to submit is Thursday, 8/15. See what it’s all about!

We can debate the actual quality of Euphoria, but what’s undeniable is Sam Levinson is writing about people most of the film and television world has ignored. After two failed movies focusing on cis white people and one mediocre HBO movie about an old cis white guy, Levinson discovered what Hollywood at large still hasn’t.

I’ve lamented that I’m never going to see my stories on screen until I make it happen for myself. Never have I felt that to be less true. There are so many of us out there making work for ourselves, and each other.

You have 48 hours to vote for your faves!

8 great queer women-focused poly SF/F books coming right up!

“My armor was a smile, Santana’s was an insult. And bless her for it.”

Carmen and Riese talk about the entirety of Season Six of “Orange is the New Black,” which they thought they were going to hate at first but then it actually turned out pretty okay.

Here’s how all the (and gay-adjacent) shows fared at last week’s network upfronts.

Pot smokers have more sex, share sex content everywhere, when anti-depressants change your sex drive and more.

LGBTQ representation in literature is important. Also, chicken picatta is delicious.

“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”

Jasika Nicole, Jazz Jennings, Laura Zak, Shadi Petoski, and Tyler Ford open up about the joy of working on Danger & Eggs and what it would have meant to them when they were younger.

Co-creator, Shadi Petosky is a trans woman and the cast is absolutely packed with queer and trans voice actors like Stephanie Beatriz, Jasika Nicole, Angelica Ross, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, Tyler Ford, Jazz Jennings, Laura Zak and Petosky herself.

The GLAAD Awards were chock-full of cool people who do work that gives us hope… but what gives THEM hope? Follow us on this magical mystery tour and find out for yourself!

This weekend, Katy Perry received the HRC’s “highest honor,” the National Equality Award, and everybody’s talking about her inspirational speech — but does Katy Perry really deserve an award for LGBT advocacy in the first place? And does it even matter, really, when you consider the impending heat death of the universe, etc.

Is this show really only six years old? It feels like a lifetime ago.

Your votes are in and you’ve chosen your favorite comics in seventeen different categories celebrating not just the best in comics, but also the best in positive representation for queer women and non-binary people and feminist themes, for the Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards.