Spoiler alert: it takes more than “tolerance.”

Put the coffee on, homos, because “this gross example of child abuse is a wake-up call that everything about the gay movement isn’t acceptable.”

“It’s up to the poets. It’s up to us to continue.”

In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.

Get out your dream journal!

Spoiler alert: some dads are the best, California loves us, and wombats are the future.

Ladies, you are now welcome in the wide-world of baseball analysis, at least according to one broadcasting booth. And if you are as awesome as Michele Smith.

This week: Eileen Myles, Emily Books, lesbians in comic books, Lady Business, technology and fiction, and what we’re reading.

Maggie Keenan-Bolger is interviewing queers, taking down histories and making plays, and she wants YOU to participate.

In the past two years, nine teenagers in Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin School District have committed suicide. The district is represented by Michele Bachmann, has numerous anti-gay policies. Coincidence? Critics think not.

Sally Ride, a lesbian, the first American woman in space and one of my childhood heroes, died today at the age of 61.

Topics include my thirties, Canadian health care, women’s writing, anti-bullying programs and what the hell to do with your life according to Margaret Atwood and/or David Foster Wallace.

“Being funny is like any other artistic skill, but to wield it successfully requires outspokenness, unapologetic honesty, supreme self-assuredness, and an outright refusal to pander. And those aren’t exactly the traits we foster in our little girls.”

Photographs of lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified women, 1850-1999. Seriously this is really cool.

“Carolina girls are the best in the world.”

This week’s topics include Mitt Romney being a jerk, tornadoes, the history of telephones, the psychology of fraud, writing in the dark, paying your way into restaurants and so much more!

“When I see lesbian couple after lesbian couple with not only matching haircuts and clothes but matching skin colours, I feel alone.”

On the third day, they created the heaven and earth, read some poems out loud, talked about coming out and religion and spooning and discovered the truth about cats and dogs.

The problematic aspect of the discourse around Chick-fil-A is that it isolates the anti-gay rhetoric and investments as its sole transgression against the queer community.

Topics include Fresno, internet marketing, consumerism vs. crafts, the McWane foundries, Justin Bieber, the opulence of hip-hop, tumblr and so much more!