“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.”

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!

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: 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.

“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.”

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!

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!

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.

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 updates in Ackley Bridge and Claws.

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!

I keep looking for labels. When I first read about nonbinary identities, I think of my family, and whether there might exist a word in Polish that means the same thing.

Two queer American expats want to tell you everything that made them fall in love “Gay Paree!”

“Turns out there’s nothing better than f*cking under cover of deep, tall grass in the sunshine. Currently protecting my field spot like a dragon.”

Topics include ice cream, Rosie O’Donnell, the summer of scam, freestyle halfpipe skiing, the capitalist takeover of higher education, JT Leroy, marriage, Bob Fosse and more!

We’ve got some breakups and breakdowns and questionable drunken decisions and a THRIVING new throuple and a school play with a very small cast and also Quiara’s still in town and she’s got a big surprise for Shane!

“Lyra was a ball of energy, passion and wit. To know her even a little was an inspiration.”