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Furbies are awful, Furby Connects are worse. Here are five tech toys that aren’t Furbies.

Spoiler alert: Piper is the woooorst.

“Prince — the musician, the icon, the gender-bending dreamboat — taught me that the best and only thing I can be is exactly whatever I am. It doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else as long as it keeps me alive and sparkling.”

The alleged behavior of witnesses to the 1963 murder of Kitty Genovese, a lesbian barmaid who lived in Queens with her girlfriend, inspired the concept of “the bystander effect.” The only problem is that the story of the 38 apathetic bystanders isn’t even remotely true.

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

Sarah Paulson is crazy in love with Holland Taylor, y’all. Also: Ellen Page is headlining SXSW, Robin Roberts and Ellen get drunk together sometimes, Finding Dory gets a trailer, Cruel Intentions gets a TV remake, and Lita Ford confesses she quit The Runaways for a minute because everyone was a lesbian.

“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.”

At last night’s Democratic Presidential Town Hall the three Dem candidates talked about policy, their past records, and why Iowa voters should choose them as their date to the homecoming dance.

On Good Morning America to promote Mac’s VIVA/GLAM lipstick (all profits going to MAC Viva GLAM AIDS fund), Lady Gaga & Cyndi Lauper stay on topic about the importance of safe sex for gay & straight women. Also; suggested changes to the DSM V are OUT!, wanna be sexy Elmo for Halloween, shopping for love, sexism by the numbers, nuns go all Salt’n’Pepa on Oprah, and feminism at school.

It’s DADT News, and we’ve got good news and bad news. Dan Choi has been called back to active duty! Yes, really! Autostraddle catches up with DADT discharge Lissa Young for her reaction to last week’s hearing (“exhilarating and infuriating.”) Study shows black women disproportionately discharged under DADT (and the affects of all anti-gay laws hit the black community harder). Also; Iowans and New Jersey on gay marriage actions/reactions, Rhode Island’s gay marriage bill and more on Judge Walker.

Five Clexa stories to keep you warm on cold nights, some answers to some TV questions, and a fandom news roundup.

Empire’s midseason finale is b-a-n-a-n-a-s and Top Chef is back with two lesbian contestants!

A trans storyline on a murder show that isn’t horrible, a narrow escape on Arrow, more conflicting feelings about American Horror story, and a prayer that Carmilla and Laura will just kiss for six straight minutes some time soon.

Planned Parenthood has a response ad to Focus on the Family’s Anti-Choice SuperBowl ad and we think you’re gonna love it! The Advocate talks to a pro-gay-marriage Saints football player, top 10 banned super bowl ads, John McCain is cranky and hates gay people, girls who won’t date taller, Beyonce and Rihanna have blonde hair, GIRL SCOUT COOKIE MANIA and moms try to out-hot their daughters.

Perhaps the best praise I can give Carol is that ten minutes into it, I forgot it was my job to be a critic. Twenty minutes in, I forgot I was watching a movie at all.

This week on Faking It, everybody goes to prom and nobody has a good time, including me!

After eleventy hundred years of being pregnant, Daya finally has her baby.

This week on Faking It, everybody gets into costume play and makes bad choices.

In honor of our new Witch Hunt column, let’s talk about Hogwarts’ favorite gal pals.