“I wanted to have nightmares about monsters or mass shootings. It was too embarrassing — in the midst of global catastrophe — to be concerned with something as frivolous as high school.”

Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.

When queer voices — especially those of trans people, and Black and brown people — are so frequently ignored or actively silenced, centering a narrator made up of them turned out to be an active effort.

Lesbian and bisexual characters have been straightwashed out of existence in many beloved Hollywood films. Here are 22 examples of times queer stories were de-gayed for mainstream consumption.

Remember that your queer brilliance and dreamy imagination and ecstatic love for one another is a key force for resistance, but that you personally don’t have to save the whole damn world.

At the end of the evening, Finley definitely takes the stage one last time to sing “Closing Time.”

Dating isn’t all sexting and thirst traps. It’s also heartbreak. This week we’re joined by Autostraddle’s Sex and Dating Editor Ro White to discuss break up strategy, when to break up, and the gay tradition of remaining friends afterward.

This 1990 film has everything: Robert Downey Jr making a salad, Eric Idle in a leopard-print robe, a vaguely European lesbian character named Susan, murder, three nuns, and so much smooth jazz!!!!

We love queer television because television brings us together, and nothing better defines that spirit than this little homegrown awards contest.

Let’s imagine these adorable queer icons as they’d be turning 18, maybe figuring things out, maybe beginning to search for queer community.

Oprah wants you to listen to “To L and Back” — which means we are close, personal friends with Oprah now! Also: the radical queer history of Atlanta, the UK bans conversion therapy, and the WNBA is back for its 25th season.

“Manhunt is really my attempt to show the utility and the importance of existing in discomfort.”

“That’s what envy’s like. Not just wanting what other people have, but becoming so consumed by it that you end up casting yourself as a supporting character in their story, instead of inhabiting the full and wondrous world of your own story, where you’re the main character.”

“I never really wanted to move in there and be like, “Hey son,” you know? That’s my stepdad voice.”

We knew, but the way Sophie and Ryan keep stealing smiles at each other, and confirming their relationship to their friends?! WE DESERVE THIS, OKAY!!!

When I was 12, men started to ask me for my number at the mall.

Kelly, Alex, and the Superfriends set out to help a little boy and his older brother but end up uncovering more than they bargained for.

What do you do with your facial hair, how do you make friends in your 30’s, where is your motivation these days, how do you cope with your wife breaking things off, with an unhealthy friendship, with changes in your sexuality? The team answers these questions and so many more!

Lottie is officially the show’s Cassandra, Shauna’s dreaming of giving birth to a rotisserie chicken, and Taissa and Van go skinnydipping in the lake!

“It will probably be sexy and unhealthy for both of us.”