Once the rain finally stopped, Equal Love Taiwan snapped a photo of the clouds breaking open to reveal a literal rainbow. Gay couples will be able to begin getting married on May 24th! 

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!

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

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!

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.

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has come under fire from LGBTQ activists and community members for discriminating against LGBTQ people in their processes.

“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.”

“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.”

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)?

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!

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

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!

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.

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

“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.”

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!

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.

What do I say when I think my friend might be rushing into marriage? Trauma and opening up a relationship, exploring sexually with a long-term partner, feelings about a (possibly straight) quarantine crush, and more!