A wedding venue in Missouri that’s legally turning away a lesbian couple, Piper Kerman testifying before Congress about what it’s like for incarcerated women, Charly Keunang’s family is suing, and more.

Autostraddle walks you through the entire history of trans female characters on American television from 1965-2015.

Barney’s back! But there are some weird snow monsters! And a gorgeous but mysterious hunter woman! What’s going on!?!

Including Autostraddle’s own Lydia and A-Camper Magda!

We asked 3,500+ women in same-sex relationships what they fought about — from drinking too much to not seeing each other enough to being jealous of exes, here’s the results!

Oh hey so this morning we were on top of a magical mountain but now we aren’t anymore? WHAT HAPPENED WHERE ARE YOU WHAT ARE YOU PLANKING

If you’re counting, here are four more new lesbian and bisexual women on your TV. How long they’ll stick around is anyone’s guess!

Six were stabbed, leaving one teen girl dead, at Jerusalem’s Pride parade; an arrest has been made in India Clarke’s murder; a teen lesbian couple was attacked at Six Flags New England and more news stories.

“Does anyone know why is this is only a national holiday? What gives, America!? As the arbitrator of cheesecake and cheesecake vendors worldwide, I’m declaring today to be a global celebration for us all.”

Autostraddle’s webmaster Cee Webster has been a freelance web developer for 15 years. Here, she shares her thoughts on freelance working, ‘winging it’, the challenges of juggling many projects, and the perks of working when you choose.

Who better to decide the best movies featuring trans women than the trans women who watch them?

Really unclear why we didn’t spend at least one semester reading Emily Dickinson’s love letters to her girlfriend.

You came, you saw, you commented. And now, seven of y’all are gonna win some awesome prize packages for it. Get in here to watch my dog and I figure out who won what!

Seriously, that should be enough to convince you to read the book and this review.

Jeez, Abigail, what did the Grootslang ever do to you?

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

Affirming private messages. A peek into the vices and virtues of your favorite commenters. The lingering sense that you’re a part of something really special and full of love. THIS IS AUTOSTRADDLE SOCIAL AND I WANNA BE YOUR FRIEND ON IT.

Illustrated owls, Judy Blume’s new novel, the Lambda Literary Award winners, what Riese and Rachel have been reading, and more.

Rachel: “The writing & philosophy class I was required to take freshman year mostly sucked. But there was this one girl, Lizz, who seemed cool. She wore comic book tshirts and had beautiful shiny hair. One day after class, I announced to a friend, ‘Lizz is not straight. I can just tell.'”
Lizz: “There was something about Rachel that I just couldn’t shake. She spent a lot of time quoting feminist theorists who I’d never heard of and she had what I would later come to call ‘Congenital Gay Face.'”

This issue includes Laura and Luna gracing us with their ethereal presences, Dear Sour with tips on the best meal to eat on a full moon, the Pretty Little Liars caught in quite a scrape, and the Twin City straddlers hanging out and being adorable (per usual).