Here’s how we’re gonna be brave and bold in the new year. What about you?

Autostraddle’s television writers on their favorite lezalicious, bisexual, queer and trans* ladies on the 2013 teevee!

A critter is someone who does things that normal people do in a way cuter than the average person.

“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.”

This one’s for all the Emily/Ali fans out there. Here’s some fuel for your fanfics.

There is now data that suggests viewers are more likely to watch shows with racially diverse casts and writing staffs. Imagine that.

Jeremy Yoder and Allison Matthies gathered data in a nationwide survey of sexual diversity in science, technology, engineering and math professions called Queer in Stem and answered some questions about their results.

What if we’re all wrong about Kanye West? What if we’ll never understand him. What if he and I share a soul.

Many of us were lucky enough to have teachers who didn’t make us queer as such, but they did help make it a little easier on us, sometimes even before we knew it about ourselves. Here’s to them.

How could you not love a vegetable that makes you think you got a UTI?

Go out to your local Halloween store, buy a overpriced plastic witch’s hat, and prepare to hold the fuck onto it!

The weed fairy’s coming, Colorado’s in the doghouse, and there’s a straight chick making a living as a male model. Or something like that. I was too busy licking the lesbianism off of my Samoas, actually.

Most people who love this movie would never categorize it as gay, but that’s just because they don’t watch it with hopeful queer eyes.

Welcome to the seventh episode of American Horror Story, featuring an award-winning musical score by Hans Zimmer. I’m sorry, that’s not Hans Zimmer; it’s two goblins humping on a Casio keyboard. My mistake.

I am not crazy; I am simply black, and queer, and butch, and transcultural, and therefore alone.

We sang, we danced, we laughed, we cried, we bobbed for apples, we got a bear hug, and we lived to tell the tales!

Canadian singer-songwriter who plays “some sort of Ani DiFranco/Sarah Harmer influenced mess of folk music.”

“I’m on a major self-love extravaganza journey.” Lex shares her perspective on religion and spirituality, A-Camp, Reiki, work, art, and life.

“Just when all hope seems lost, Zoe beheads the zombie while wielding a motherfucking chainsaw! Look who just became an interesting character!”

We may all worship at the well-spoken altar of Andrea Gibson, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more out there to love! Here are ten LGBTQ spoken word artists you should consider crushing on.