#poweroftheclam

If love is going to exist — which, ugh, I guess it does — then it’s going to exist within the messiness of our lives. It’s going to exist alongside our families and our cultures and our hopes and our fears. It’s going to be hard and it’s going to take risk.

I should’ve masturbated in the shower. I need to be pushed against a wall. She smells like the ocean.

Contemporary YA novels don’t necessarily have happy endings so much as hopeful ones, and The Half of It follows this blueprint, delicately treading the fine line between saccharine and heartfelt with skill — and a few good jokes.

Freeforms’s new alternate-universe elite witchy fighters series didn’t waste any time getting gay, gay, gay.

Adam Lambert’s new music video for “If I Had You” premieres and surprisingly enough we love it. Boy George! Twilight! The Lost Boys! Burning Man! Zodiac! All You Need is Love! Love! Love! Dancing! And WHITE PANTS!

“I’d facepalm, but I can’t touch my face.”

Happy Sunday! A Megan Rapinoe Funko, a Billie Jean King Barbie, a plea for Rosie Perez, and more good gay news from the week!

LGBTQ TV and LGBTQ movies remain nearly impossible to rank at the end of every year, but for completely different reasons.

I am here for as many revisionist takes on history as you want to throw at me if it’s correcting centuries of queer omission.

Whether or not you’ve read Grease Bats, or PURCHASED THE GREASE BATS BOOK that just came out, you’ll probably find one of the crew who’s your comic character alter ego. Want to find out which one? Take this quiz!

A book party, you ask? For whom? For what? For Archie, I exclaim back! For our own Archie Bongiovanni, and for this here comic we have on Autostraddle dot com called Grease Bats!

There’s nothing like a beach date to the Northernmost tip of your home island of Cebu, Philippines to make you ponder the meaning of love and life, as part of the Filipino diaspora!

The one with the Anne of Green Gables fanfic in it.

If only these women had allowed themselves to consummate their love for each other.

“I wasn’t a sports gay until this article and now I love sports.”

We met the French ladies behind Wet for Her, a new sex toy line by and for lesbians and let me tell you it was just wild I swear it. Also, eden’s fantasys exposed, miranda kerr topless, coregasm & more!

Rumor has it you and your ex have found yourself potentially back in your feelings and might be considering dating again. Okay! Interesting! You do you, babe! I’m sure you’re fielding a whole lot of questions and judgements right now, depending on the situation, and probably could use some light guidance without judgement.

New trailers for GLOW and The Handmaid’s Tale, lots of queer actors and writers and directors talking to straight media for Pride, an amazing new musical fantasy project from Dee Rees, renewals for Pose and Queer Eye, and truly enough takes about Taylor Swift already.

GLAAD’s 2019 Studio Responsibility Index is here. Good news: Gay and lesbian rep is up. Bad news: Racial diversity is down, and trans rep remains at zero.