Venus is asking your partner to tie your tie, and putting on a garter belt and stockings just as they’re leaving for work to maybe make them stay a few extra minutes, and putting on an old thing they got you ages ago that will make them weepy because oh my god, how do you still have it? Venus is call and response.

Also: Viola Davis in leather pants, more queer action on The Purge, Viola Davis in leather pants, updates on 9-1-1 and Killjoys and all your favorite daytime TV, and Viola Davis in leather pants!

Plus: The best/gayest episode of All American yet, gayness abounds on Charmed, what-the-fuckery is here to stay on The Purge, a new bisexual character on Chicago Fire, Chris decides love isn’t a lie on S.W.A.T. and more!

Almost 100 amazing humans sent pictures for our #TransDayOfVisibility Community Gallery! Get in here and celebrate our lives!

And Ximena smooches Callie right on her mouth!

“Polyamory and queerness are pretty much inseparable for me in practice.”

Stef and Lena celebrate the fourth year of their first year anniversary.

“She asks me how it went, I say it went bad. I don’t say much more because she hates hearing about my family like they hate hearing about her. It goes better when I keep it to myself.”

It doesn’t get any easier in the Sweet 16.

Plus updates on Into the Badlands, Siren, Star, Once Upon a Time, and help figuring out how to watch Vida!

Queer Sex, a collection of interviews with trans and non-binary folks on sex, love and intimacy, is a map to erotic empowerment. In this excerpt, author Juno Roche explores her fears, hopes and erotic potential.

Lesbians Who Tech has had rockstars all the way down.

We started with 64 couples, now we’re down to 32. Did your picks make the cut? Does your fave have what it takes to make it to the Sweet 16? It’s survive and advance, people! Survive and advance!

Quick updates on Lucifer, 9-1-1, and Legends of Tomorrow!

Black Queer Portland, queer parents going through the foster-to-adopt process, and sensual haircuts.

It was a pretty exciting night for queer and trans folks at the 90th Academy Awards!

Topics include Tiffany Haddish, Lena Waithe, swear words in poetry, pain patients suffering due to crackdowns against opioid addicts, Disney/MGM Studios Backlot Tour, Cambridge Analytica, Hollywood child molesters, why the subway is late and so much more!

Evan Rachel Wood talks to OUT about how her own experiences with abuse informed her role in “Allure,” VIDA kicks ass at SXSW and promises brown butch visibility, Kate McKinnon’s new spy movie, Eurovision’s Saara Aalto comes out as a lesbian and so many more important lesbian and bisexual pop culture stories!

Plus three trans actors played three trans characters on TV this week, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend adds another bisexual, and updates on your favorite soapy soaps!

Life and legacy of Thomas the bisexual goose, can cats be gay or bisexual?, gay Olympic athletes snub Pence, MeMe’s “very very gay” Diner, and more gay good stuff!