The Vatican is soliciting opinions on a number of groundbreaking issues, including same-sex marriage, birth control, polygamy and forms of feminism “hostile to the Church.”

“Friess reacted to Mannie’s request that white gay men stop referring to themselves as ‘strong black women’ by threatening to withdraw hypothetical support of black women’s political and social issues (none of which he actually names)! That’s not allyship, that’s just another example of a person in power offering abstract and highly conditional support to an oppressed group of people with whom he claims a false and unrequited kinship.”

Search the hashtag #AB1266 on Twitter, and you’ll see what I mean by clusterfuck. It’s a mixture of conservatives, LGBT groups, names of California counties, statistics, and conflicting reports of what’s happened, and what’s next.

Inside: more event invites than you can handle, a lot of worthy causes, a historical case of The Unicorn, and the delicious taste of Republicanism slowly, slowly dying.

“QEJ will always be a philosophy. If you are a queer, you can be for economic justice. …You don’t have to have a 501(c)(3).”

Roseanne Barr for President.

So. Many. Cute. People. In. Love.

From prom to the Mormon Church, folks got a lotta ‘splainin to do.

Freedom to Marry, Freedom to Love, Freedom to Wear A Tampon Costume.

“Let’s take a moment of silence for all of us women in the U.S. who did not know until this season that in Canada y’all throw axes for fun, and who are now contemplating crossing the border. I can’t be the only one whose world was rocked this hard by axe throwing.”

In which neither Callie nor Arizona can ever respect boundaries and pickles become things that help save lives.

We have some allies in the Republican Party. So that means they aren’t all evil. No, seriously. Hear me out.

I’m about to hop a train to Louisville.

Bow down, bitches.

You deserve a hunk of hunk of burnin’ happy queer notes from the recent past today.

Get those ten vibrators into this cat cafe with your gal pal, STAT. We’ve got business to take care of.

Let’s take a long hard look at who else got nominated for GLAAD Awards this year besides us, with a not-to-be-missed section from Mey about the Comic Book nominees.

In New Mexico, eight county clerks have seen the same-sex marriage licenses they’ve been issuing this summer upheld by the courts, and the same may happen soon in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

We’re getting smart about feminism, then collecting our cash rewards for having suffered at the hands of the kyriarchy. Also, a cat mayor exists.

I’ve got fifteen new Drake songs stuck in my head, the best puppy vine of all time on my hands, and Laverne Cox, Janet Mock, and some random football couple waiting in the wings with a lot to say.