The character-driven Thanksgiving is set almost entirely in a single location, and unlike most small-screen coming out stories, this one spans 22 years because Denise’s journey is a marathon; not a sprint.

May is Masturbation Month! Here’s how the AS staff does it, featuring first time stories, all the weird places we’ve masturbated, how we feel about that and more.

At least one-third of the lesbian and bisexual female characters in major studio films last year appeared on-screen for under ten seconds, which is only one of many problems revealed by GLAAD’s 2016 Studio Responsibility Index.

You never have to watch a cis white dude play video games again.

Five lessons that start to explore just how much we can learn from our queer and trans forebears in AIDS activism.

“This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing — I mean, this is the definition of injustice.”

Every time I return to it, The Handmaid’s Tale offers me something new. In the Hulu series, the “new thing” is “more lesbians.”

“This movie is like visual Zoloft in that I haven’t worried about anything while watching it but I haven’t felt alive either.”

Hey, we may be small – but that doesn’t mean we’re small-minded!

“I am so glad I joined A+ (even though it led to me drinking literal vodka water)”

Twenty percent of millennials ID as LGBTQ (that’s a lot), Gauri Sawant stars in a Vicks ad that will melt your heart, Georgia says “No Means No” to anti-LGBT bullshit, a queer dance party protest at Ivanka Trump’s place, and more good good shit.

It’s time for a little Earp family history lesson, kids.

“I thought changing something on the outside would change the wrecked ruin of me on the inside. I thought somehow the inside would get a memo from my outside and get into shape. It didn’t, but my hair is the first way I was able to gain autonomy over my body.”

Your community gallery for May! Nearly 100 queers doing the work!

“Once in college I ate popcorn for seven straight meals. That’s over two days of nothing but popcorn.”

Welcome home, Cat Grant!

Priestdaddy, the poet’s new coming-of-age memoir, has a lot of twists and a lot of power.

Kiss the girls you wanna kiss.

“It is, and I say this without any hyperbole or doubt, the closest I have EVER come on television to seeing a love that looks mine and looks like how I express it. Ever. Ever. EVER.”

On Easter Sunday, I didn’t go to a church, but I quietly praised God at brunch in community with friends and strangers and so many carbs and those tiny Cadbury chocolate eggs.