It’s been a great year for hard-hitting investigative journalism.

Is that gross? That’s really gross, huh?

For smokers and the people who love them.

The NFL says hi to LGBT businesses, the World Cup may be like Sochi or worse, and queer women in sports continue to be ignored. Go team, go!

Making donations in people’s names can connect your family or other important people in your life with issues that you care about.

It’s the last recamp, in which people get married and dance and you say farewell to Mt. Feelings and have a lot of feelings about it.

When will Hillary Clinton step in and save us from this doom?

In which there is an expedition to a mall, an argument under the cover of night, and cucumber water.

An exasperated trans woman and her three narcissistic kids walk into a bar.

Sea sponges, mermaids and Captain Hook.

“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”

Summer shorts, Kristen Stewart and dino dykes.

“Fun as it was to mercilessly tear this show apart, the buck stops here.”

That sound you just heard was the collective gasp of every warm-blooded woman on planet Earth.

It’s a boy, until and unless he tells us otherwise, I thought. It’s a boy who will be raised without gender roles. It’s a boy who will be defined by their heart and mind, not by the organs that happen to be between their legs. It’s a boy who will be loved wholly, deeply, and completely by the two women who created him.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee chair, announced the creation of a Lesbian Leadership Council that would focus on cultivating lesbian participation in the Democratic party, which has had a broader LGBT leadership council since 2000.

Equaldex is giving LGBT folks around the world the ability to define and explain their own movements for the rest of us. And it’s helping us all to learn from one another in our parallel movements for equality.

Wow, Star Trek, you really know how to tackle those hard issues. Unfortunately, I think the show creators handled the issue of mail-order brides and human trafficking with ZERO TACT.

Bow down, bitches.

Was this the worst decade ever? Does facebook turn us into 6th graders? Does the word “emo” police male sensitivity? Also; one in 8 Americans are on food stamps, nerd-tivity scenes, Sasha Grey is more than just a porn star, veteran trans sportswriter dies in suspected suicide, Episcopal churches in MA can marry the gays now and Bart Simpson’s best chalkboard gags.