Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball used as a chair and the eventual debut of a really really cute little baby boy.

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.

“Women in the 1940s were conservative and respectful. This series tried to make them into whores and lesbians!”

Join me on this wet ride to Horny Jail.

“If the flannel fits…”

“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…”

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

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.

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

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.

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

“I don’t believe in hope. But I’m also optimistic. I have that kind of ancient Greek philosophy about hope, that it arrests man’s despair. It makes you stuck.”

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Plus updates on Class of 09, How I Met Your Father, and the season finale of Saint X!

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