And so we talked all night about the rest of our lives…

How to Get Away With Murder is showcasing two black queer women — both at the height of their careers — grapple with power and their queerness. It’s rare to see a queer woman of color wrestle with either theme on TV but two… at the same time? Completely unheard of.

I am here for as many revisionist takes on history as you want to throw at me if it’s correcting centuries of queer omission.

Which LGBTQ candidates have the best shot at making history in 2018 and, in doing so, help return Nancy Pelosi to the Speakership (however temporarily)?

“In high school, I kissed a girl for the first time. It felt too comfortable and too right to think I was anyone but whom I was in that moment. I’ve followed that honesty my whole life.”

We’re back for a barely conceivable fourth installment looking at the big dogs, little dogs and doggy dogs of more lesbian and bisexual women of history who were obsessed with them!

“Marriage is a magic word. And it is magic throughout the world. It has to do with our dignity as human beings, to be who we are.”

I could be anything, my mother taught me. I could be anyone I wanted. Except for being an atheist lesbian — that wasn’t really on the menu.

Be the cool queer cousin you wished for as a kid, the polite way to turn someone down, sex is still great without an orgasm, creating your own queer community when you feel alone in the world, and 20 other questions from everyday readers like you!

Mary Lambert talked to Autostraddle about vulnerability, the impossibility of separating the art from the artist, and her incredible new book of poems.

Plus: How to Get Away With Murder does a gay thing, 9-1-1 does a good thing and doesn’t kill its gay; and updates on Mayans M.C., The Purge, Young and the Restless, Grey’s Anatomy, and Station 19!

Queer comedians have been using their unique perspectives to provide scathing, riotous commentary on everything from politics to pop culture for decades.

Plus updates on Beverly Hills 90210, Claws, Bachelor in Paradise, and Ambitions!

“It’s important to demonstrate interest in your partner’s passions even if you don’t share them, and Buffy’s passion is for wearing knee-high boots with skirts.”

Your guide to all the shows that were smart enough to create a lesbian, bisexual, queer or trans woman character, thus inspiring within us deep wells of desire to view these programs with our very own eyeballs.

Plus updates on: 911, How to Get Away with Murder, American Horror Story, the season finale of Why Women Kill, and new gays to look out for on Nancy Drew!

Does baking a cake for a gay person amount to being forced by the state to artistically express your personal support for gay weddings? Bizarrely, that’s kind of what the Supreme Court is being asked to decide.

Plus: The dictionary destroys another bigot, Ellen Page keeps being right, Japan and Switzerland get closer to marriage equality, a big court win for a trans nurse, Asia’s “gay Netflix” is coming to India, and more!

Regardless of whether you ultimately see the use of militant force as an admirable tactic, the truth is that any progress the queer community has made is at least in part to all those queers who refused to play by the rules, the queers who behaved badly, the queers who believed that unjust laws must be broken as a method of survival.

Here’s a brief glimpse into the deepest materialistic desires of Team Autostraddle – these are all the things we want besides a very long nap!