“Remember that everyone around you, Muslim and non-Muslim alike, is grappling with a lot of the same things that you are right now: about what they want “family” to look like and mean to them, about sex and sexuality and learning to live in their bodies, about how to hold onto faith when it can feel like there’s not much going for it.”

Carmen’s Team Pick: If you love marriage equality or Chelsea Clinton’s face, you’ll probably love this video and hate NBC for taking it away from you.

Vanity Fair’s Hollywood issue is getting better and Russia’s only getting worse.

Comics, Camp and Cara Delevingne.

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

It took a village to ruin Russia’s stance on gay people, and it’ll take one to save feminism.

Everybody comes back to help us forget everything that happened while they were gone, like heterosexuality!

Lawmakers across the United States are working to eliminate therapies from mental health practices that seek to “cure” homosexuality.

Say some Hail Marys and make a sign of the cross, because these episodes are a hot, sexy mess. If you’ve been hanging in there and waiting for some extra-flamey gay witch action, then these episodes are for you.

The new executive director of Garden State Equality, Andy Bowen, and I chat about the influence of queer radicalism on LGBT progressive organizations and movements.

Pope declares commission on sex abuse scandal, ACLU sues American Bishops, Cardinal Dolan declares he was “outmarketed” on gay marriage, and more.

From sharing showers to karaoke, photographer Maika Elan captures everyday life for LGBT couples in Vietnam in her award-winning series “The Pink Choice.”

When you give a mouse a cookie, a lesbian begins practicing a new sport.

“Book of Life” posits that my father is in a place more vivid than memory, which is is just a medium between the man who raised me and the man who waits for me in a place beyond time.

In which we scrape the bottom of the Grey’s Anatomy rice pot for the gay pegao.

The more we talk about things, the better they get. 2013 was proof.

Billie Jean King, Barack Obama, and Googoosh are standing on the side of gay love and the Olympics.

The ABA passes a resolution that says they are really, really, really cool with LGBT rights.

Topics include horror in New Orleans, late ’70s gay life in Kansas, family farming, turning 14 in Cincinnati, Teach for America and more!

Sea sponges, mermaids and Captain Hook.