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.

“The disability community needs to spend some time asking itself: How are we working together across movements in the progressive space? How are we centering the voices of people with disabilities who are fighting multiple oppressions? How are we embodying sustainability of ourselves in such a time where it seems like the ground underneath us is always shifting and we are drinking not from a fire hose, but from a flamethrower?”

You’re walking down a city street with your headphones turned all the way up, swaying to the beat, so lost in the rhythms that you forget that you’re on your way to work. That’s summer, in a nutshell: you living your best life, with a great song to accompany it. But that begs the question: what’s the song that’s soundtracking your life in the summer of 20GAYTeen?

Plus: The Handmaid’s Tale wines debuted and were cancelled in the same day, Evan Rachel Wood on Westworld season three, Rebecca Sugar has so much good stuff to say about queer kids, the season six trailer for Orange Is the New Black, and more!

Here’s how we handle TV that lets us down, the shows we think successfully turned it around, and our ultimate dealbreakers.

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.

Plus updates on Ackley Bridge and that Westworld season two finale!

Unfortunately, the majority of lesbian movies end with women throwing themselves from the roofs of buildings or having their hearts obliterated — but there are a handful of lesbian films guaranteed to make you smile or swoon or just feel a general sense of queer contentment.

“for a second i was like…………….did i break this channel
with my confession”

It’s not perfect, and last week’s episode on Kat’s identity really missed the mark, but there’s a lot to love about this queer, feminist show.

Plus: Vida has been renewed; new trailers for G.L.O.W., OITNB, and Anne With an E, Alia Shawkat opens up about that NYT interview, Lena Waithe is everywhere this Pride, and so much more.

Plus updates on Queen Sugar, Into the Badlands, Westworld, Imposters, and Mi Familia Perfecta!

Lots of queer comedians are getting comedy specials, the cast of the She-Ra reboot, Cat Cora makes a pizza pun, Janet Mock and Ryan Murphy seem like a pretty great team, Billie Jean King loves Abby Wambach, Sue Bird thinks Megan Rapinoe is the poster child for gayness, and more important entertainment information!

The Sante Fe High School shooting and the threat of male violence, Janet Mock on being a boss, combating insomnia, protecting women’s healthcare, plus other important topics to cover together. Welcome to a new week!

The bill protects and allows faith-based adoption agencies to reject potential families if they believe the family’s lifestyle and/or beliefs contradict the agencies’ religious beliefs.

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

The Out Top 50 Most Powerful Gays in America ranks a lady at the tippy-top (and a handful of others!) Constance McMillen may not be attending prom, but she’s gonna be grand marshall of the pride parade! A day of firsts, shaving woes, Mike Huckabee is a bigger asshat than we initially thought, and how you can help make the Martin Luther King Jr. Memoiral.

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.

How much do you know about the various personal entanglements of various lesbian, bisexual and queer celebrities? There’s only one way to find out, and it’s this quiz. Seriously there’s no other way.

Station 19 is gay out of the gate, Star buries a gay in a completely heartbreaking way, Legends of Tomorrow unleashes an army of Avas, Nyssa is back(!) on Arrow, and Once Upon a Time is going out with a lesbian bang!