It’s time for another week of activism and adorableness!

“Even though we broke up for all the reasons, then you see the person you were with and are like, “you wouldn’t do that thing with me, but you’re doing it now, so maybe it wasn’t the thing… it was me.”

Women making military history, a newborn shoot to top them all, the White House’s first trans official, a pride flag in my homeland, and more!

Ellen Page ruined Ted Cruz’s day at the Iowa State Fair by calling out his backwards views on LGBT rights. But it totally made our day!

The 2016 Lambda Literary Award winners, summer reading suggestions, why hardcover is the new vinyl, why language is colonized and more.

Mississippi is the latest state to pass an anti-LGBT bill that protects people who don’t believe in same-sex marriage, trans people and extramarital sex; the man who killed Islan Nettles took a plea deal to get a shorter prison sentence; Texas is considering protecting “religious freedom” in its constitution; a man from LA killed his son because he was gay and more news.

The first-ever summit for Native American youth at the White House, an affirmative consent law in New York, Baltimore’s police commissioner is fired, and more news!

Stef and Lena celebrate the fourth year of their first year anniversary.

It has arrived! The day is here! The Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments about marriage equality this morning.

A lesbian couple wins their lawsuit for being wrongfully arrested; Purvi Patel, the woman convicted for feticide, appeals her case; three men are wanted in the attack of a trans woman in Brooklyn; Bill Cosby is set to go on trial for sexual assault and more news.

Ireland could be the first country in the world to have voted, as a population, for marriage equality. Though she be small, she is mighty.

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory saves face with an executive order to clarify HB2, but it doesn’t actually do anything; a New Jersey school district approves a pro-trans bathroom policy change; married lesbian couples in Indiana are suing the state for not allowing both parents to be on birth certificates, and more news!

Two of the biggest LGBT legal issues on everyone’s mind right now are the upcoming Supreme Court hearings on marriage equality and Religious Freedom Restoration Acts. How are the two going to impact each other?

Nearly 62 percent of Irish voters cast their ballot in favor of marriage equality!

When it comes to their queer female characters, these shows are hitting it out of the park.

Violence in Ferguson, several deaths at the hands of police, what’s happening with the lesbian fired from a Catholic elementary school, judges in Ohio dealing with same-sex marriage, and more.

The Lesbians Who Tech Summit in New York City is coming up October 1-4, and is packed with events like TED-style talks and what is literally called “networking that doesn’t suck.” Comment on this post for a chance to win a free Summit pass!

Links, updates, and further reading on the Pulse shooting, the aftermath, the victims, the gunman, gun control, politics, some resources and centering queer Latinx voices.

How trans women became the victims of the latest conservative backlash, Jian Ghomeshi’s acquittal, the horrors inherent in seeking asylum, Islamophobic threats from Trump and Cruz, and more.

Gosh, so much! Like Amandla Stenberg and Rowan Blanchard being “The New Activists,” two TV pilots centered on lesbians of color (one is a Wanda Sykes project!), the history of burying your gays, girls posing as ’90s teen idols and you know, like I said, a lot of things!