“Like Russia itself, my parents’ instincts are torn. My birth country can’t make up its mind whether it wants its culture to be a part of liberal Europe or conservative Asia, my birth parents can’t make up their minds between simply loving their only child and feeling like there is something fundamentally broken about me now.”

Is this show ridiculous? Of course! Am I at all interested in watching TV shows that DON’T feature a talking severed head of Kathy Bates? NOPE NOPE NOPASAURUS REX!

“The Talosians realize that Pike isn’t sold, and try to seduce him with a bizarre harem illusion with Vina as a green exotic dancer. Dayum, Pike. You’ve got some weird fantasies.”

This week on Glee, everybody sang Billy Joel songs and everything hurt!

I hope you like dad jokes, because this recap is chock full of them.

“You may have lost someone who may have meant different things to you than they did to other people, but at the end of the day you know who they were to you, and perhaps what they meant to your community of queers.”

“Diversity in any show will make that show stronger. It’s just hard to stay interested in the opinions of 87 straight white dudes in a row.”

Emily talks about the badass A-Camp tumblr she runs and her camp feelings, her incredible rainbow hair, and how she wants to collaborate with all of you power queer Straddlers.

Brooke takes a crack at writing and tells you her thoughts on Empire State of Mind.

I hope your terrible facial hair overtakes your face and you choke on it.

“Red’s husband is like, whoa, free-thinking woman, are you on your period or something? Who let you out of the kitchen?”

Sometimes the clearest heads prevail in the cloudiest of rooms. And when it gets too smoky, don’t be scared. Be open, be vulnerable and embrace who you are. Because you are a beautiful, unique, stoned little snowflake and your time has come.

Rosewood is crawling with masks this week, but all Emily cares about is when she, her shoulder and Paige are going to be back in action.

Zines, lesbian MPs, international news, gay TV, bad news, sexual spectrums and lesbian poetry about manicures.

Topics include binge-watching TV, wikipedia, Mary Kay, why The Great Gatsby sucks, Freedomland!, ANTM, Hunter S. Thompson, oversharing, lesbian nightlife romances and more!

Because lesbian and bisexual characters now have longer shelf lives, network TV is beginning to go beyond the same trope-tastic story arcs.

Alex, Riese, Marni and Mary hit up the GLAAD Awards in San Francisco last night and spent lots of quality time with Adam Lambert, Brittney Griner, Mel B & Jessica Clark!

This week on Glee, The New Rachel dreamed a dream that Glee was good again and Marley-Kate wrote some songs with Lord Tubbington and Finn missed sociology!

Mariel Cove is a sexy new erotica serial by and for queer women, which means I had to have it immediately.

It’s the long awaited season finale of Pretty Little Liars! Questions are answered (sort of), Red Coat is reveled, Spencer goes pantless and Rosewood has a new lesbian couple!