Today Nepal’s queer community has fought to end fear, shame, and invisibility — and they made it fun.

It’s the Breaking Bad Downton Abbey Game Of Thrones Mad Men Modern Family Awards!

There’s still good news to be had at the dawning of a new year of love / feelings / friendship / Autostraddle reading in your underwear.

NOM was more than ready to misconstrue the findings of the latest study on gay families to make gay families look as bad as possible.

So many things happened this year that weren’t terrible!

” I did not feel one with the human race in that moment. That was the moment it had a direct effect on me & my rights – that is when I decided to make this documentary.”

According to the Saskatchewan Appeal Court, marriage commissioners cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriages on religious grounds, because it’s illegal and backwards and they say so. Saskatchewan: the province you didn’t know you loved.

On the upside, Zach Wahls gave a kickass speech about his gay family and you need to see it right now.

George W. Bush’s daughter Barbara Bush has released a video supporting gay marriage equality. For real.

A Westchester woman is suing her employer for denying her wife medical coverage.

In the last installment on out queer survival guide to weddings, we’ve got a tale of two disasters, a guide on finding your balance and advice on giving the right kind of fucks.

The majority of Americans support equality on a variety of gay equality issues — the government just needs to catch up. A look at 2011’s gay marriage initiatives around the country and hope for the future.

Ho, ho, ho, y’all.

Puppies, Ellen, puppies, feminism, PUPPY BOWL VIII.

“There was a great heyday in the 80’s in which I felt like you could publish anything, you could say anything – any of the initials, L, G, B, or T.”

“And as long as I have the privilege of being your President, I promise you, you won’t just have a friend in the White House, you will have a fellow advocate.”

Remember when you said that thing?

Confused by what happened in California today? Don’t worry, so is everyone else.

We made a lot of important strides in 2010, so obviously 2011 will be about people trying to push us backwards. Let’s make sure we don’t let them.

“…a class of people large enough to constitute a population majority—as women did—could not feasibly be “oppressed…”