“Lesbian Connection was founded in a decidedly pre-internet era, when there were no lesbian characters on TV or in the movies, no lesbian stories on library bookshelves, no out queer pop stars on the radio. Finding another lesbian, another queer person, was always a victory.”

In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.

Sunny Laprade and Violet Stanza talk about their queer variety show, Dolls on Tour.

Happy Lesbian Visibility Day, the one day a year us lesbians take our corporeal form and make mischief in the streets in our flannel and Birkenstocks while singing “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

How do you build chosen family? Should you consider pursuing romantic connection when your friends have become more distant? And do we have ideas for your anniversary celebration? (We do!)

Now we are older and wiser! We can look back on our favorite toxic ships with compassion or horror or both.

“I’m not in a place where coming out to my family is a reasonable option. Fortunately, I have a husband who is more than happy to cover me during my prolonged phone conversations with other partners.”

It doesn’t even matter if Australia is your team — because one of the best takeaways of the docu-series is that our team, us queers, we’re the ones who are winning. 

I texted my best friends, “I think studying religion is making me horny,” because I’ve been wanting to jump everyone’s bones (respectfully). A young queer woman chronicles a week in her sex life while studying religion at an Ivy League school.

The stories of trans youth go largely ignored by the American public in our cultural conversations about their lives, but Nico Lang is giving everyone a chance to change that with their new book, American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era.

The Fall of the House of Usher presents its take on “The Masque of the Red Death” with heightened horror and humor.

“Does Elliot Page give me notes? Elliot has not given me any notes but I would be open to hearing them.”

Fashion isn’t what makes this character toxic, but clothes can tell you a lot about a person. The clothes from Passages always tell a story.

Also more queer W love and Carmen’s Fits of the Week.

Mystery, intrigue, potential ghosts, lots of gossip, queer people, and Amy Acker. Who could ask for anything more?

Plus updates on All American, Survivor, Fantasy Island, The Power, and A Million Little Things.

Bella Ramsey stars in yet another heartbreaking lesbian love story, a snapshot of what it may have been like to be queer and in love in a time of witch trials.

What I was feeling was genuine familiarity. What I was feeling all this time was seen.

Jinkx Monsoon’s Chicago run breaks records, maybe Willow isn’t really canceled, Lily Tomlin’s had it with Ron DeSantis, and more.

But sometimes it shows its work on only the most basic level.