Being femme is being unafraid. Unafraid of shape, of texture, of color.

Is reading nonfiction case histories of women who love too much really what I want to do with my one wild and precious life?

The Bechdel test has always been dangerously limited when implemented carte blanche, especially when talking about people of color.

It will remind you why the world is worth saving and why life is worth living.

Lottie is officially the show’s Cassandra, Shauna’s dreaming of giving birth to a rotisserie chicken, and Taissa and Van go skinnydipping in the lake!

I put a lot of pressure on myself to learn and revel in the customs of “our people,” which meant that I always included a small scoop of the fish salad on mine and then tried to avoid it the rest of the night.

Plus updates on: 4400, Hightown, Queens, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Legacies, Nancy Drew, and NCIS: Hawai’i!

It was a banner year for queer horror! Plus, fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, nonfiction, YA, middle grade, poetry picks — and so much more!

Here’s the best television on Paramount+ Showtime with lesbian, bisexual and queer women characters.

The one where Dreamer levels up.

Alice wears a cute little suit, Tess and Shane bang bang bang, Finley and Sophie cry a lot, Carrie gets Bette a club soda with lime, Gigi and Dani are hot power lesbians in heels and so much more as we wrap up this season of The L Word Generation Q!

Finally we return to the stuff everybody REALLY misses from the original series, like vague dialogue, bats out of hell and funding the CAC

This week in Episode 203 of The L Word Generation Q, Bette Porter looks at art and yells at Gigi, Dani gets a penthouse, Angie meets her half-sister, Micah gets a new job and Sophie and Finley are faced with the very real possibility that they’ll need to invest in a new kitchen table.

Lesbian and bisexual characters have been straightwashed out of existence in many beloved Hollywood films. Here are 22 examples of times queer stories were de-gayed for mainstream consumption.

It’s because of the support of A+ members that we are able to take our time writing queer essays about the stories of our culture that matter, instead of fighting with corporate overlords and Google.

Kate Kane created Batwoman and the symbol that goes along with the mantle; but right here, Ryan proves exactly why she IS Batwoman.

“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.”

The one image that stands out to me after all this time — the one that I still, to this day, cannot believe — is during the series finale when all the straight couples were having sex, and, instead of doing that, Emily Fields and Alison DiLaurentis rubbed their bare ankles together.

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

Spiritually, we’re all making candles with Queen Latifah.