Rihanna encourages a gay superfan to come out, the fight for LGBT equality is raging on worldwide, Janet Mock won a Shorty Award for her activism, everyone still hates your dumb anti-LGBT legislation, and a hedgehog from the AS community is in here trying to pick up a stick! Seriously, come for the news but stay for this hedgehog.

Pippy and TMI get another small side story on Rosewood, Nyssa pops by on Arrow, Orphan Black gets gag-y gross, and two more queer women have bitten the TV dust.

How do real-life communities based off of online ones maintain safe and inclusive spaces? Let’s talk about it!

This week on Faking It, everybody has to pick a label. Literally. Also, girls kiss other girls, in contexts both unexpected and SIGH expected.

If this show is anything like Jersey Shore, this house is in serious need of a dedicated smush room.

Julien Baker’s artistry is about making the best out of nothing — making light out of the darkest times, carving faith out of doubt, building connections with strangers.

Studying abroad or going long distance isn’t a death knell for a relationship, but I’m hearing something else in your question.

There’s so many stories in here! The Bury Your Gays conversation is going strong, Ellen DeGeneres’s beard speaks out, Abby Wambach is ashamed of her DUI, Caitlyn Jenner joins the cast of “Transparent,” videos from the GLAAD Awards, new trailers for Salem and “Grace & Frankie,” we mourn the end of The People Vs. OJ Simpson and SO MUCH MORE!

Supergirl’s feminism is definitely 101, but we all had to start somewhere.

“Sidetrack is a show largely about my life and my experiences, because after years of watching so much television that erased me, I just wanted to write myself in.”

On the very last episode ever of “Faking It,” everybody attends a very weird New Year’s Eve party.

No longer solely gladiatorial in nature, we’re seeing a boom in what kinds of stories games can tell. And with that expansion, I’m personally seeing a lot of games tackle issues of ethics, games that directly interrogate the player’s sense of right and wrong.

Jeanette Winterson and personal growth, weeding out books and library collections, whether or not copy editing is dead and more.

The more I look at film trends over these past social media-soaked years, the more I see the same pattern emerging. The films that end up doing well and making an impact are those that treat their characters with enough care to make them complex, treat their audience with enough respect to make the story engaging and compelling. Ellen Page’s new film Tallulah is one of these films.

Don’t label me — I’m
a non-het identified
poly pagan witch.

Misandrist. Lesbian. Vampires.

Could 2016 BE any more brutal for lesbian and bisexual TV characters?

These are the most talked about, most acclaimed, most beloved and most watched lesbian movies that were birthed into the world after Autostraddle dot com.

When it comes to their queer female characters, these shows are hitting it out of the park.

“I’ve been thinking recently that queer time for me is a self-declared snow day. A chance to stay in bed and explore ourselves unhindered by the outside world. A chance to exist, to play — free from the hetero pillars of career, marriage, and lineage.”