A mini-edition of “Straight People Watch.” Also, Roxane Gay’s favorite things of 2019, menstrual cups can save you, and the history of Playboy’s first black cover girl.

All these movements, whether for Black liberation, queer liberation, abortion rights, affordable housing, or labor, are intimately connected, and the struggle of queer labor organizers makes that abundantly clear.

Brittney Griner and Diana Taurasi are both coming back to the Mercury, a new poster for The Marvels, Poker Face has been renewed, and more!

In 2013, Sue Kerr published her first memorial post for a lost trans life to her blog Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents, which has been running since 2005. More than a decade later, when the mainstream media failed to meaningfully cover the death of Nex Benedict, she once again used her blog as a vital community resource.

Keke Palmer and Javicia Leslie in X-Men cosplay, Glee is going to haunt us until the day we die, and Apex Legends is adding a trans woman character.

Building power across the lines of cis and trans teaches me that there are many people who will fight alongside trans people to win a better world.

Lynda Carter is here to remind you Wonder Woman is a bisexual icon, Margaret Cho shines in Fire Island, Doctor Strange is coming to Disney Plus, and more!

A flowchart for reading about abolition, reclaiming summer as a fat brown babe, and is it ever OK for straight actors to play queer roles?

Also! I seriously cannot believe this Sara Ramirez Variety cover, Brittney Griner’s supporters have a new strategy to free her, Matthew Morrison Mr. Schue’s his way to getting fired from So You Think You Can Dance, and more!

Cocaine Bear has finally hit theaters. Apparently he only terrorizes straight people? But we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to be part of such an important cultural conversation. And so, we have ranked fictional bears by lesbianism. 

The wild story of eggnog, Sarah Jessica Parker nostalgia and a million other reads for your New Year.

Elliot Page will be honored at OutFest, The L Word The L Word The L Word, Ashley Nicole Black’s NYT profile, Beanie Feldstein and the trailer for American Crime Story: Impeachment, and more!

Also, the first 8 minutes of In the Heights, Clea Duvall created a not-for-kids cartoon, and more!

Fionna and Cake are coming to HBO Max, there was definitely something going on with Olivia and Paula in White Lotus, new queer horror and queer love triangle TV, and more!

The first new Brandi Carlile single in three years!! A new personal essay from Roxane Gay, voting rights threaten white power (never forget), and revisiting the iconic Pink Motorola RAZR phone.

Some new Kehlani dropped! Also: Lil Nas X in a feature interview about Black queerness that must be read, and a link about DaBaby losing DaBookings, because I couldn’t help myself.

Harley Quinn is sexy and screaming in The Suicide Squad trailer, plus a Disney+ musical Pride event, a bisexual buddy for iCarly, Sharon Stone has some feelings about Meryl Streep, and more!

Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK bans conversion therapy, and the WNBA is back for its 25th season.

COVID returns to the forefront of this week’s Extra! Extra! as we look at the outbreak of COVID in India and the threats posed by variants across the globe. We look at the one thing that’s proving stronger than COVID: capitalism and how that’s impacting our recovery. The team also examines new developments on the immigration and criminal justice fronts and ponder what it means to hear the president tell transgender Americans he’s got their backs.

Niecy Nash is getting her own daytime TV talkshow, more lesbian Bly Manor outtakes, The L Word: Generation Zoo, a new album from Miley Cyrus, and Dolly Parton’s new Christmas movie has already replaced Carol in my heart.