There were miraculous updates on beloved characters like X-Men’s Morph and Bob’s Burger’s Marshmellow, CaitVi became canon and then kinky, and Nimona was Oscar nominated!

From Skins to Feel Good, these eight characters turned out to be life-changing.

I’m talking about stories where the trans character’s transness isn’t the focus — where they’re allowed to be the worst behaved one or simply hot and getting laid or just really fucking good at their job.

We’ve got Kate Moennig and Abbi Jacobson in a new Liz Feldman comedy, specials from Ilana Glazer and Fortune Feimster, and more!

In honor of Bottoms, here are top queer cheerleader moments from film/TV.

We’ve got a biopic about a queer Italian rock star, a queer high school prom movie, a misanthropic lesbian journalist in a dark crime comedy set in Ireland, new seasons of We Are Lady Parts, Hacks and Acapulco and so much more! (Really!)

We’ve got the return of several queer-inclusive reality TV shows, movies like Bros and The Almond & The Seahorse, new seasons of Doom Patrol, Sort Of and Gossip Girl, and more!

Friends it is finally time for Yellowjackets Season Two! Also a queer British comedy horror show set on a cruise ship, the Nan Goldin documentary, 1930s lesbian trysts in “Perry Mason,” a Mae Martin stand-up special and more!

We’ve got new seasons of Vox Machina, Hunters and Ginny & Georgia; a cringe comedy indie film set at a destination lesbian wedding, an action series that strands a lesbian on an oil rig, Alan Cummings’ competition reality show with a non-binary contestant, a new “very queer” Anne Rice adaptation, HBO’s “The Last of Us” and so much more!

We’ve got the much-anticipated and very gay “League of Their Own” TV rebirth, a horror movie set at a gay conversion camp, the return of Never Have I Ever, the debut of the supernatural “Sandman” series and so much more!

We’ve got the return of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a super-queer Australian teen series, Netflix’s campy dark comedy flick “Do Revenge,” Beth Ditto in country music drama “Monarch,” Rachel Bloom starring as a lesbian TV writer in Hulu’s “Reboot” and so much more!

February is bringing many LGBTQ+ tidings including the last seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, Shay Mitchell playing gay again, celesbian-studded game shows, an Anne+ movie, Abbi Jacobson as an animated queer princess and more!

Cozy up for a gay October with secret lesbian relationships amid an alien invasion, a way-more-gay I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, new seasons of The Baby-Sitter’s Club and Love Life, Wentworth’s last dance, Kiersey Clemons as an animated activist, a true crime limited series and so much more!

We’ve got a series about lesbian vampires and a series about a queer actress angling to be in “Les Vampires,” a delightfully inclusive Queer as Folk reboot, Selena Gomez getting the girl in Season 2 of The Only Murders in the Building, a new 80s-set movie about a young Black queer singer and (truly) so much more!

What’s new and queer this month on streaming networks? We’ve got a new season of Dickinson, a Fran Lebowitz special, Anna Pacquin as a hot bisexual mess in Flack, Root and Shaw, a movie called “So My Grandma’s a Lesbian!” and so much more!

Natasha and Elise talk about what’s in store for their characters in the upcoming feature-length Carmilla movie.

Haircuts in film are often melodramatic, but they can be sexy, too!

“Jessi showed me that it was cool to focus on my ambitions and to form deep relationships with other girls instead of being boy-obsessed.”

“The violins kept getting more and more excited and so did I and by the end of that three-minute scene I was gay.”

“Ruth lifts her head, smiles demure and sweet, her lips swollen with kissing. ‘Can’t miss a chance to minister to a heathen like you, Idgie.'”