After facing backlash from sex workers and advocates, OnlyFans reversed its decision, stating on Twitter that the company has “secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community.” But will those “assurances” stick?

Let’s imagine these adorable queer icons as they’d be turning 18, maybe figuring things out, maybe beginning to search for queer community.

“It’s getting worse now that people are returning to “normal” — the world is going back to the way it was, but we’re not going back to the way we were. And, like you said, we maybe never will.” — Heather answers an advice question about Long Covid from one of our A+ members in this special standalone advice box.

Mint Simon, the brand new solo project from the lead singer of alternative pop trio Caveboy, talks with me about finding fluidity in gender and sexuality during quarantine and re-emerging more themselves than ever.

Rapid movement and careful consideration, following the established path yet leveling up to take a new chance: the Chariot explores what it means to push past our own limits and find victory, success, and personal power in moving beyond all that we have already known.

Being in your 30’s with no queer dating experience, packing a carry-on for a long-distance date, dealing with astrology if you don’t believe in it, and more!

This week we’re talking about the political strife in Haiti, the US’s messy exit from Afghanistan, the development of new COVID variants, your bimonthly legislatively institutionalized moral panic report — and the attacks on citizens’ rights plus the attempts to hold them at bay that are rocking Texas legislative chambers.

Also! Updates on Bel-Air, Home Economics, Grey’s Anatomy, Legacies, and All American.

What do you do with your facial hair, how do you make friends in your 30’s, where is your motivation these days, how do you cope with your wife breaking things off, with an unhealthy friendship, with changes in your sexuality? The team answers these questions and so many more!

These music videos just perpetuate the idea that you have to look a certain way to be worthy of love.

Hong Kong’s drag scene, Free Britney, how to find an LGBT-friendly pediatrician, Candace Parker and more!

“I made a little poem. ‘Rebecca and Tess? YES.'”

They’re playing a lusty non-binary queer comic. Plus trailers for: Feel Good, Betty, Black Lightning’s series finale, that St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein comedy, and more!

Also! Finally! An official still of Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya in Birds of Prey! Queen Latifah will play the lead in the Equalizer reboot, the first 99 seconds of season seven of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Lizzo’s flute should get its own Grammy, Bex Taylor-Klaus chats about their new lesbian character on Deputy, and more!

It’s been a busy few weeks with heartrending news developments centered around the violence of residential schools in Canada against Indigenous people, many major decisions from the US Supreme Court, ongoing crises in Texas, and the continuing spread of COVID-19 and deadly variants around the world.

The Hierophant urges us to let the things that we are sure of settle into our blood and our bones, even as we dream of the stars and the secrets that surround us. We keep moving forward, even as we find solid tethers to our past and allow there to be ambiguity in our future.

Here’s what we loved this year, and what pained us to see.

Natalie and Heather got together to talk about the record breakers and the heart breakers.

Sara and Ava try to honeymoon, Zari tries to solve the mysteries of the universe, and Spooner and Astra try to fix human Gideon.

“…Everyone is happy and has regular and satisfying tent sex.”