Plus updates on New Amsterdam, Charmed, Nancy Drew, and Top Chef. Also “Gen Q: Season 2″… this summer perhaps?

On putting the safe decorations in the closet and letting my home reach its full gay potential. On taking up space in my own space.

“I spoke about gender identity, sexuality, and my past with journalists and people in Hollywood who just didn’t understand the language I was using. It was a culture shock for me.” — Daniel Sea

Stop hanging out on that cliff and get in here for recap of Season Two Episode One of “The L Word Generation Q,” in which Sophie looks great in a suit and Shane is ready to liquor in the front and poker in the rear!

“To really be in a moment where I could fully inhabit and celebrate all those things that we call limitations. Or let me say that better, what we perceive of as a limitation, being an incredible source of strength. I love that.”

1. Come out to my family. 2. Buy a plane ticket anywhere.

In the spirit of continuing to make Autostraddle March Madness more interactive, I’ve reached out to some fanfic writers to offer their thoughts on what makes their favorite subjects worth shipping.

Clea DuVall manages a real Christmas miracle in Happiest Season by capturing the distinctly queer and quietly heart-wrenching experience of not being able to share your real self with the people you love most, when all you want to do is shout from the tallest chimney in town that you’ve found your person, that you’re in love.

I am ready to be fearless. To dream beyond Black womanhood and know that I — Black, queer, and not-quite-sure — am worthy, so worthy of all of the love, affirmation, and power the universe can muster.

For All Mankind, Apple TV+’s alternate history/sci-fi series, has a sweet lesbian love story with Ellen and Pam, buried under a whole lotta moon rocks.

Part of this job is making peace with the fact that I will, in fact, never get everything done that I want to.

Symone was my favorite because she’s a Capricorn. Now she’s my favorite for so much more.

“In conclusion, Aubrey Plaza is a precious gem and I would die for her.”

Riese: So then we cut to Dylan’s condo or wherever.
Carly: Wherever Dylan lives.
Shannon: Her corporate housing.
Riese: Yeah, her corporate — Dylan has her tea because she’s like, “I’m entertaining a British woman at 11:00 p.m.”
Carly: “So I must make tea!”
Shannon: “Crumpets and tea.”

Valerie and Meg look back at Critical Role’s gayest moments in 2020 because queer D&D is their favored terrain.

“That’s my whole junior high experience: No, I don’t want to be friends with you. I actually want to have sex with you.”

It’s less that Winslet feels like Ronan’s mother and more that she feels like Ronan’s dull aunt she sees once a year at Christmas.

At Crow headquarters, Sophie is doing that thing you do when you have a crush on someone and you can’t stop thinking about them so you stare at their photo and compare it with a masked vigilante’s and wonder how you never realized they had a secret identity and somehow that makes you love them more.

Loneliness is an old bedfellow of mine; despair, my oldest friend. If I can come to embrace those parts of myself I’ve always tried to push away — perhaps, that is the only lifelong love I can count on.

14 first messages that will have you burning up your matches list (with queer pop culture references!).