“If the flannel fits…”

Harlan Howard said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth” — I’m pretty sure queer folks have a lot of truth to tell.

“Most queer art is trauma porn, but not enough talks about how the traumatic relationships we have can actually inform our identity and bring us to that level of who we are.”

Even though I believe in complete body liberation and fat freedom, I don’t like to talk about my “I’ve been fat my whole life” baggage.

Plus updates on All American, All American: Homecoming, Harlem, Truth Be Told, The Legend of Vox Machina, and Criminal Minds!

On queerbaiting, bisexuality, and Jennifer’s Body. This essay is an exclusive excerpt from the queer horror anthology It Came From the Closet, on sale next week.

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.

This list has queer women testing their physical limits, queer men confronting their toxic masculinity, and even a few cute and sporty gay romances.

“Today I am 28. It is 2023. In Nigeria, it is illegal to do the things I did freely at the beaches in Toronto; watch my queer friends kiss under the eyes of a cloudy sun, hold hands with a woman on a rain-less night intoxicated by wine and wishfulness. I lie to a taxi driver, tell him that I have a fiancé. I show him a picture, a man. My cousin doesn’t know how often his image has saved me from lecherous men. Here, fiction can be a raft in a sea…”

A dozen books — from YA to romance to literary fiction to memoir — that center queer road trips all over the U.S. and abroad.

“Color coordinating the bat to the suit is iconiccccc dyke behavior.”

There were a few months where my mother, who lives back in Bangladesh, stopped talking to me after stumbling across some essays I’d written about my queerness. This confusing and heartbreaking time was when I truly understood the value of having a queer chosen family and support system.

189 TV shows with lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans women characters only got one season to shine before getting cancelled — including another three just this week. Here are just some of the many LGBTQ+ shows that were gone too soon.

The new Anna Nicole Smith documentary “You Don’t Know Me” features Anna’s ex-girlfriend as one of its primary sources, adding her story to an abundant but rarely discussed aspect of Anna’s life — her bisexuality.

If you want to live in a reality show, go ahead and sow chaos, but if you’d rather have a romcom, you have to let go.

The Ultimatum: Queer Love comes to an end after wreaking havoc on all our gay lives for three short but dizzying weeks.

Plus updates on Fantasy Island, Truth Be Told, All American: Homecoming, The Watchful Eye, A Million Little Things, and How I Met Your Father.

“Have you ever called someone the wrong name during sex?”

“I’m sorry I cannot get over the fact that the whole world is talking about lesbian legend Syd Colson today!”

This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.