Despite tepid reviews for most of this fall’s new shows, we’ve got plenty of new and returning lesbian and bisexual characters to be very excited about as well as quite a few lady-helmed productions.

“I asked Riese if she thought I would ever have sex again if I started wearing kaftans from World Market and she said no.”

“I somewhat resemble the old man from ‘Up’ in both appearance and temperament.”

Jude and Connor come out, and Monty finally stops keeping her lips to herself.

Everybody comes back to help us forget everything that happened while they were gone, like heterosexuality!

“I had to to my best to serve the story, but the final season just didn’t do these women justice. It should’ve been a celebration of love and friendship.”

In which neither Callie nor Arizona can ever respect boundaries and pickles become things that help save lives.

This week on “Faking It,” Amy goes to a hot underground rave party and interacts romantically with another girl who likes girls!

It’s time to introduce you to my last and final monsters. These were the people I had wanted from the very beginning, actually, they were pretty fully realized into their own identities — working with everyone else in the project involved pulling out their narratives a lot more to get what we wanted, but for these three… my muses! It was not so difficult.

Alex, Jess, Lily, Riese & Natalie attended the Anyone But Me launch party where we rubbed elbows with the cast and crew including Susan Miller, Rachael Hip-Flores and Nicole Pacent.

Here’s our roundup of the biggest, best, and worst events for gay people in 2009.

This week on Glee, everybody graduated and old loves blossomed anew!

“For some reason this movie really wants us to know that sometimes Britney and Jamie Lynn have wrestling matches and Jamie Lynn always wins.  Picture that for a minute.  Now move on.”

“No one can deny the intense ’90s danceability of the Mortal Kombat theme. I even poorly choreographed a half-time dance routine for the cheerleading squad I was briefly a part of before being unceremoniously removed after punching a fellow cheerleader.”

Go out to your local Halloween store, buy a overpriced plastic witch’s hat, and prepare to hold the fuck onto it!

I’ma let you finish, but Autostraddle had one of the best MTV VMA liveblogs of all time! Of all time!

“By the way, just to keep the record straight, I was fucking HER! She wasn’t “fucking Lea DeLaria”! I’M THE TOP!”

Paige throws Emily a surprise birthday party but Emily shows up completely pissed off. This is not going to end well.

We may all worship at the well-spoken altar of Andrea Gibson, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more out there to love! Here are ten LGBTQ spoken word artists you should consider crushing on.

“I came out to bosses and people I had just met and guys who hit on me and former boyfriends and doctors and professors and relatives and Facebook and even the grocery store cashiers. I wanted to assert myself, my identity.”