This week: Eileen Myles, Emily Books, lesbians in comic books, Lady Business, technology and fiction, and what we’re reading.

Malinda Lo spoke with Autostraddle about her new book Adaptation, diversity in YA, gay girls making out, and how much she loves us (spoiler alert: a lot).

Rachel’s Team Pick: “You look a lot more friendly in person than you do in your comic.”

A definitive collection of queer comics through the past four decades.

“I just realized wow, there’s so much to be said from the whole range of perspectives: trans women and trans men and everything in between.”

“And so while I would have loved to have done what Laura did, to go to New York and try to find myself, I did the more conventional thing, and I think I was not alone in that.”

HI, IT’S HERE, THE MOVIE IS HERE

The 2012 Lambda Literary Award finalists have been announced! I want to read everything.

If you like lesbian history as much as I do, then you’ll love all these books about queer life in various towns, states, cities and countries. Your input is welcome!

We’re going to read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and it’s going to be great.

Is Young Adult fiction unfriendly to LGBTQ characters? The answer is “absolutely not” or “yes,” depending on who you ask.

“I’m not less gay when I take the rainbow sticker off my car. I just know that if I have that in my car, I’m going to piss off people who are already angry at me.”