Some of these songs and/or albums are dark, slow, and ponderous, great for really sinking into your mattress. Most of them, though, are cute, sweet, upbeat tracks that helped me keep going when it seemed like I was going to never leave my house again.

Janelle Monáe made an album just for me and you, and it’s your solemn duty as a queer woman to go and listen to it right at this very second and share all your thoughts and emotions in the comments.

So far away! Courtney Trouble gets blunt about LDRs.

“wait there are nipples on shutterstock??”

Topics include Samira Wiley covering Bust Magazine, Hayley Kiyoko lesbianing on Jimmy Kimmel, Moulin Rouge! The Musical’, sexually fluid mermaids in Siren, Evan Rachel Wood working through trauma on “Westworld,” Jay-Z’s reaction to his Mom coming out, a queer thriller for the #metoo era starring Zoe Kravitz, The CW’s renewals and so much more!

Evan Rachel Wood talks to OUT about how her own experiences with abuse informed her role in “Allure,” VIDA kicks ass at SXSW and promises brown butch visibility, Kate McKinnon’s new spy movie, Eurovision’s Saara Aalto comes out as a lesbian and so many more important lesbian and bisexual pop culture stories!

What did everybody know… and when did you have no idea?

Gay updates on: Riverdale, Once Upon a Time, Life Sentence, 9-1-1, Legends of Tomorrow, The Fosters, and Grey’s Anatomy!

Everyone needs a geek or two in their lives, maybe a geek or three in their bedroom, so why not follow a few on Twitter? Hell, follow 41 of ’em! Here’s Technostraddle’s list of 41 lady geeks who like to Tweet! Tweet at them! Tweet on them! DM them saucy things! Go wild!

Brace yourself for the “Heathers” pilot, Melonie Diaz is playing gay again this time in Charmed, Lena Waithe’s “Twenties” is going to TBS, “Every Day” is a gender-hopping love story, Cherry Jones stars as a lesbian in “The Party,” the dudes who wrote Everything Sucks! on their inspo and so many other important YES VERY IMPORTANT stories!

Here are eight light-hearted books featuring queer women (mostly lesbian) characters of color. Some are YA, some are romance, and one is science fiction/fantasy. All are fluffy gay goodness!

Grey’s Anatomy, grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Fosters, and Sara Ramirez in that tux!

Reading this Dinah Shore live-blog PART TROIS, updated constantly, is almost like being at Dinah Shore’s legendary lesbian Palm Springs weekend historical event of fun. Miley Cyrus is in this one!

It is not a small thing for Y&R to cast Mariah’s love for Tessa in the same mold as one of the show’s great supercouples, Nick and Sharon. It’s a normalizing force for a conservative audience that might not view a same-sex story that way.

Topics include celesbian gossip, “Professor Marston and The Wonder Women, “Strangers,” Carmilla, Tegan & Sara returning to The Con,” Danger & Eggs, Survivor’s Remorse getting cancelled and so much more!

It’s whimsical and fresh and progressive and tender in parts and hopeful in other parts and compelling throughout.

River Song and Thirteen sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. Also let’s talk about: That Wrinkle in Time trailer, Wonder Woman’s continued domination at the box office, and American Horror Story: Bees.

Angie announces, “I’m the jefe now!” with one of the harshest American “j” sounds ever and decides there will be a talent show and the guard/hostages will perform. So, we know where this is going.

I did my own research, aka I texted a bunch of my queer and trans friends to ask them about their body hair. What do you do with your pit hair? How does that choice connect with your gender, your other identities, cultural or family expectations?

We’ve got around 30 lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters in this Summer 2017 TV Preview that’ll keep you cool for the summer, even though it’d be even cooler if there were more than 30 and they all had bigger parts!