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All about Ellen, an opportunity to hear the shofar in the new year, a bewitching new show (that’s gay), and cute wildlife photography to give you a break from the news! Happy Sunday pals!

Plus: a teenage girl is battling homophobia with cake batter, women carpenters are building homes for the houseless, lesbian football, and all the gay clubs in Utah that are open on Christmas, and more!

Topics include a sneak peek at Killing Eve Season 2, Sabrina’s Lachlan Watson journey “from lesbian to trans to non-binary,” “thank u next” co-writer Victoria Monet on coming out as a queer black woman, a lot of things about The Favourite, Christmas movies ranked by queerness and so much more!

Women and LGBTQ people made history Tuesday and Donald Trump will finally face some checks and oversight in Congress.

A closer look at the Bert & Ernie kerfuffle, Cher’s incredibly queer new music video, Amandla Stenberg covers Seventeen Magazine, Alyson Stoner talks to Into about her sexuality, Desiree Akhavan’s new Hulu show is about being bisexual and dating, Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger star in a new lesbian period drama and so much more!

A disproportionate number of prisoners identify as LGBTQI. On the 15th anniversary of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, we look at what the bill has done to protect them — and what challenges remain.

Plus: Mel and Sue are getting their own TV show (they’re assassins!), the Charmed trailer is here, Kate McKinnon has joined the Fox News sex scandal movie, Lena Waithe’s new sitcom stars a black queer character, lesbian frenemies according to the NYT, and so much more!

Plus: Marceline and PB in the Adventure Time finale, Alex Danvers is maybe getting a new love interest, Roseanne’s gonna die in the Connors spin-off, LGBTQ rep in kids’ shows, rebooted TV with POC characters, and more!

Also: She-Ra reboot pictures finally, a new teaser trailer for Doctor Who, Cher and Meryl Streep smooching for some reason, Renee Montoya’s in Margot Robbie’s Birds of Prey, that damn Heathers reboot won’t die, Keira Knightley playing bisexual legend Colette, and I literally have no idea what this not-gay gay movie is with Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick.

In a post “love-wins” America, we’ve circled back to the underlying legal thinking of the 1950s. In the late 2010s and especially under Trump, gender and gender conformity are back under the legal microscope in a move that targets the gender nonconformity fundamental to aspects of gay identity for many, and also increasingly and dangerously, trans people.

#Blessed, granny panties, a survey for the southerners, lesbians are getting a lot done, 4-H what the fuck man, Hayley Kiyoko, meet G Flip, and so much more!

A personally curated list of complicated feelings surrounding July 4th, trans feminist vampire slayers, Meshell Ndegeocello has a new music video, and other evening news ready to take you into the weekend.

In an interview with King Princess for Wonderland Magazine, Amandla Stenberg reveals a recently uncovered truth about her sexual orientation — “I realised that I’m gay – not bi, not pan, but gay.”

Interviews with cast of Pose, queer women in World War II, Janelle Monáe of course, and coming out because you’re in love!

Samira Wiley tells Ellen she’s the Lord of the Lesbians on “Ellen,” Starz picks up “Take My Wife,” Janet Mock talks about “POSE,” a new clip from Disobedience, Hayley Kiyoko on the beautiful girls of Coachella, Bachelor in Paradise does some next-level queerbaiting and more!

Plus a new music video for Hearts Beat Loud, gayness abounds in Incredibles 2, a powerful interview with Janelle Monáe, Lena Waithe continues to receive all the awards due her, lesbianism cut from Jurassic World, One Day at a Time and Vida stars team up to stop this family separation bullshit at the border, and Margaret Cho doesn’t understand why everyone’s still grappling with her bisexuality.

It’s a scary time to be a minority in this country, but the 2018 Midterms offer a little bit of light in the darkness. According to the Victory Fund, this is the first election in the history of the U.S. where LGBTQ people are running for office in all 50 states. They join the record number of women running for office.

“Sexual justice has to adapt. The alternative is awful.”

Witnesses told police Steven Endsley had an “ongoing disagreement” with Danielle Smith about her sexual orientation.