It’s not the Gay Emmys, but it’s the next best thing!

“Nothing the show will throw at me will ever doubt my faith in the foundation of their love. NOTHING!! So don’t even try it, Jane the Virgin. This is an official warning.”

I think that it’s a good time to remember that before Kerry Washington’s role in Scandal there hadn’t been a black woman lead in a network television show in nearly four decades. But in the seven years since Scandal aired, there’s been a proliferation.

“ok who sent me an autostraddle email address request for kristen stewart”

This is brave and historic. But it’s played intimate and vulnerable and small and more than anything, normal. Just two people sharing together. Like we have seen straight people do a thousand times.

These were entire TV episodes that paid off queer storylines that had been building, or approached lesbian and bisexual and trans stuff in ways we’ve never really seen on-screen, or expanded queer storytelling into genres where it’d been lacking, or utilized new TV platforms in queer ways.

I loved the whole thing, from beginning to end, and I think Alex and Sara were exactly what the other needed right now.

Turn on all the lights in the house and come read about the Winchester Mystery House, haunted cabins, songs playing from beyond the veil, and our deeply unsurprising number of experiences with ghost cats.

Plus Chantal is back for a minute on Queen Sugar, lesbian orgasms abound on Grey’s Anatomy, and Annalise gets the upper hand on her therapist in exactly one session on HTGAWM.

I needed to know how they did it. I needed to see if the “way that we live,” was a way that I could live.

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Sometimes living with other people, even loved ones, can prevent you from doing the things your heart really wants — like being completely naked in your living room or kitchen, for example.

Yes, we’ll be talking about “Love Island”.

This isn’t just gonna be another post about, like, Apple Watches. I know y’all already know about those.

“I loved the Church, and I loved the gospel. I was the kind of Mormon who politely dismissed myself from classrooms when teachers showed R-rated movies. At my first and only high school rager, I texted my mother to pick me up because I felt out of place amidst the drinking and smoking. That was me, Straight-Edge Dera, except apparently I wasn’t so straight.”

Little help?

“i feel like one of the best parts of getting older is learning new and surprising things about yourself, like how hot older slytherin women are”

Every time I return to it, The Handmaid’s Tale offers me something new. In the Hulu series, the “new thing” is “more lesbians.”

Whether your first girl crush was on Kim Possible (or Shego), Vanessa Hudgens, Raven Symone, the girl from Motocrossed or Demi Lovato, we all remember these movies as having way more queer lady content than Disney probably ever intended to put in there.

Black Mirror found a loophole through the Bury Your Gays conundrum but skirted near one of the most frustrating disability tropes in the process.