How “True Blood” blew its chance to respectfully write a queer woman of color, and how maybe just maybe they are about to make up for it.

This week on The Real L Word, some people fell in love and some people yelled at each other and some people can be content playing bingo and paying rent!

“Happiness is a gay ribbon…”

You can be a Chief Executive Scout too! (As long as you aren’t female, queer or compassionate.)

Things from your childhood that you probably didn’t associate with homosexuality, but now you will.

Brittany is a caring nurse on her way to the top and a gymnast with a penchant for handstands. You’d better be able to throw a football!

Let’s take a video-guided tour of the movement called ‘female rap’ with appearances by Salt-n-Pepa, Aaliyah, Lil’ Kim and more! Also, there’s a playlist.

This week on The Real L Word, Romi and Dusty reunited, Whitney and Sara visited Connecticut, Amanda went to a dinner party in New York with Kiyomi and Somer couldn’t make it! Hijinks ensue!

“I think the one thing that really sticks with me from my childhood is that I felt very alone–I felt like no one else’s family was like mine, so I just sequestered that part of my life and didn’t talk about it with my friends or acquaintances.”

Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.

In which it is revealed that moms have sex lives and there is clearly something in the Rosewood water.

The “brony” fandom is a lot more Sapphic than you’d think, at least as far as their fanfiction goes.

Staceyann Chin’s got some explaining to do.

Australian actors Renee Lim (Alex) and Debra Ades (Scarlet) open up about their experiences shooting The Newtown Girls. Also, watch the season finale!

This week on The Real L Word, everyone fought about stupid shit and something terrible happened and there was a lot of crying.

Lip Service actor and musician Heather Peace opens up about everything from her new album, Fairytales, to how it felt to take DS Murray down to rock bottom.

Jess chats with the couple about camp, the reality TV experience, the upcoming election, finding an anonymous sperm donor, Smash, Oprah, their Real L Word comrades and — in an Autostraddle exclusive — the sex of their baby, due in October!

Oh, I’m sorry, did you think neon went out with the 80s? You’d be wrong.

Forget everything you know about the Midwest, Chicago’s got as much big-city queer action as either coast.

The gay foreign policy spokesman Romney hired tolerated about two weeks of B.S. before jumping ship — yep, it’s gotten that bad over there.