“I think, ‘I will never be like them. Never.’ Though I can live here, I can work here, have a house here, but my mind is not like theirs. Because we all come here with a little war inside and it never stops.” Elvira Brodskaya and her wife fled persecution in Russia and settled in New York. But even in the U.S., they can’t escape all the fears of their past.

Kiersey Clemons talks to us about sliding into those Instagram DMs; her undying love for old school Disney channel; being an out queer black actress in Hollywood; and of course her new movie, Hearts Beat Loud!

“I watched her zip up her white dress in the mirror; I watched her cross and uncross her legs; I watched her, and my friends watched her, and in the movie we were watching the other characters, men and women, watched her. I hated her so much, and so purely, with such satisfaction. I couldn’t look away.”

“i have taken a few pop quizzes on this and got back 100 straight which I am”

“I like to think I’ve put my talking-back skills to great use as an adult who enjoys proving points and getting the last word and being right.”

” is “Let’s Make Cheese Boards and Never Leave the House Again” a title
or is it a tweet”

Janelle Monáe made an album just for me and you, and it’s your solemn duty as a queer woman to go and listen to it right at this very second and share all your thoughts and emotions in the comments.

Some of these songs and/or albums are dark, slow, and ponderous, great for really sinking into your mattress. Most of them, though, are cute, sweet, upbeat tracks that helped me keep going when it seemed like I was going to never leave my house again.

We first heard about Pose back in December, when it was reported that Ryan Murphy was developing a show around the ’80s ball culture scene that would feature 50+ LGBTQ characters and the largest number of trans series regulars in American TV history.

“Being a queer black woman in America,” Monáe tells Brittany Spanos, her interviewer, “someone who has been in relationships with both men and women — I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker.’”

“Life is hard enough, let me have this.”

Shane McCutcheon self-sabotages, Emily Fields co-depends, Cheryl Blossom is scared to commit — and a team of real live functional adult queer women are here to help.

What to do if you feel lonely, what to do if you’re a victim of revenge porn, how straight parents fail at talking to queer kids about sex, how (and why it’s fun) to put ginger up your butt, what your Venus means and more.

Topics include Samira Wiley covering Bust Magazine, Hayley Kiyoko lesbianing on Jimmy Kimmel, Moulin Rouge! The Musical’, sexually fluid mermaids in Siren, Evan Rachel Wood working through trauma on “Westworld,” Jay-Z’s reaction to his Mom coming out, a queer thriller for the #metoo era starring Zoe Kravitz, The CW’s renewals and so much more!

Jane the Virgin saw the audience reading Petra as queer and gave her a female love interest. Simple as that.

You’re really gonna wanna see this video Heather made us while on painkillers after taking apart her Roomba to see if she could put her Roomba back together.

One already has a sequel not even a month after losing Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars, but let’s take a closer look.

The “Heathers” reboot pilot dropped yesterday and Heather and Riese are here to tell you why it shattered their queer dreams into a million tiny terrible pieces.

We’re going to ignore the straight cis white dudes on Time’s list and focus on what really matters.

Who’d have guessed?