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Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Scream,” “Hannibal” and “Complications” Are All About That Bad Blood

Plus Lena keeps not telling Stef about how her boss kissed her, and Doc Yewll is so unimpressed with the St. Louis arch comes crumbling down.

By Heather Hogan| June 29, 2015 | 44 Comments
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Hey, It’s Another Queer Woman of Color on Summer TV!

The new TBS comedy, Clipped, features a queer woman of color playing a queer woman of color!

By Heather Hogan| June 22, 2015 | 22 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 301 Recap: Lesbian Request Denied

Lena makes the very bad decision not to tell Stef that she kissed Monty.

By Heather Hogan| June 12, 2015 | 16 Comments
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: 16 Summer TV Shows You Can Count On For Queer Characters

16 shows, 26 confirmed queer characters. Plus, a downloadble PDF calendar with premiere dates!

By Heather Hogan| May 25, 2015 | 34 Comments
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The Fosters Episodes 220-221 Recaps: Dystopian Robot Apocalypse

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

By Heather Hogan| March 26, 2015 | 25 Comments
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The Fosters Recap 219: Monty Python And The Holy Grail

Lena and Stef keep secrets from each other, and it is not good. Worse, though, is Jude and/or Connor gets shot!

By Heather Hogan| March 11, 2015 | 20 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 218 Recap: The Mating Rituals Of Meerkats

Lena and Stef chat about some sexy handcuff situations, while Jude and Connor kiss right on the mouth.

By Heather Hogan| March 4, 2015 | 21 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 217 Recap: Hard Knock Life

Stef and Lena agree to let Callie go, and Rosie’s got a brand new house.

By Heather Hogan| February 25, 2015 | 18 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 216 Recap: Emotional Orgasms

The kids all leave the house for one night, so Stef and Lena get down to the serious business of drinking wine and scissoring.

By Heather Hogan| February 18, 2015 | 32 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 215 Recap: The Unicorn Flies at Midnight!

Jude and Connor pinky hug while Stef and Lena glower at each other.

By Heather Hogan| February 11, 2015 | 12 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 214 Recap: #LenaTwerking

Lena teaches Stef to twerk, says the phrase “heteronormative thinking,” continues to be flawless.

By Heather Hogan| February 4, 2015 | 15 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 213 Recap: The Limit Does Not Exist

Stef and Lena take down the pillow wall, get naked … and talk about their kids.

By Heather Hogan| January 27, 2015 | 5 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 212 Recap: The Great Wall of Body Pillows

Lena and Stef’s gaggle of children make it impossible for them to get their scissor on. Again.

By Heather Hogan| January 20, 2015 | 10 Comments
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Autostraddle’s Favorite LGBT TV Characters Of 2014

There were 128 queer lady characters on TV this year, if you can believe that. It’s a brand new world.

By Heather Hogan| December 30, 2014 | 33 Comments
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Here’s 35 LGBTQ Female TV Characters of Color Who Made 2014 A Very Queer Year

There were more queer female characters of color on TV in 2014 than the total number of queer female characters on TV, period, five years ago.

By Heather Hogan| December 23, 2014 | 23 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 211 Recap: Cotton-Headed Ninnymoggins

Stef almost Stefs-up Christmas, but Lena swoops in to save the day.

By Heather Hogan| December 9, 2014 | 11 Comments
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Pretty Little Liars and The Fosters Got You Lesbians in Pajamas for Christmas This Year

Paige McCullers in Santa Boxers is just the right mix of naughty and nice.

By Heather Hogan| December 8, 2014 | 11 Comments
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Also.Also.Also: A ‘Bend It Like Beckham’ Musical and Other Stories We Missed

VAMPIRE DEER. Clarissa Explains It All, Rebecca Solnit on feminism, Fireball whiskey, cats, BLACKandSTEM and a woman, the first bra, Southern Baptists, and so very much more!

By Laneia| November 5, 2014 | 18 Comments
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Okay Wow Let’s Process “The Fosters” Right Now

Can we talk about Season 2 of The Fosters? Because I feel like we need to talk about it.

By KaeLyn| August 20, 2014 | 37 Comments
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The Fosters Episode 201 Recap: Things Unknown

The Fosters is back! You’re excited. Let’s talk about it.

By VillageQ| June 19, 2014 | 7 Comments
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“The Fosters” Episode 121 Recap: 10,000 Chickens Come Home to Roost

“That’s right — the characters on this show abusing their power has become so commonplace that I am now desensitized and can only think of denim.”

By Vikki Reich| March 27, 2014 | 16 Comments
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