Another fabulous list of the country’s Gayest Cities is causing quite a stir! Let’s compare The Advocate’s rankings to the most Autostraddler-populated cities and get your take on it.

Wanna spend your Pride cash on original t-shirts from lesbian and queer-owned businesses and LGBTQ+ stores? We’ve got a great list!

Let a lot of smiling queers and beloved celebrities in rainbow decor into your heart today!

On discovering a doppelgänger in an unlikely place.

It hooked me from the opening staging — that chugging rock guitar, the Pure Moods candelabra in the background, the of-a-specific-time aesthetics and choreography (“The Temple” includes inflatable sex dolls being tossed through the air like beach balls) that makes the whole thing feel like a pile of “Keep Austin Weird” t-shirts gained sentience.

With so many LGBTQ+ owned shops out there it’s gonna be a joy to put money back into your community this holiday season!

Kai Cheng Thom’s new book of essays is coming out in August, the first two books from Roxane Gay’s brand new press are releasing, Elliot Page’s much anticipated memoir is available, Jacqueline Carey is returning to her Kushiel’s universe, and more!

This December we’ve got the Sex and the City reboot and its non-binary Sara Ramirez character, a bisexual reindeer on Santa’s B-Team, a Black gay dating app inventor, the new Matrix movie, a queer character in a Christmas rom-com, a queer Real Housewife, a lesbian organic dairy farmer in an all-female dystopia and so much more!

Cozy up for a gay October with secret lesbian relationships amid an alien invasion, a way-more-gay I Know What You Did Last Summer reboot, new seasons of The Baby-Sitter’s Club and Love Life, Wentworth’s last dance, Kiersey Clemons as an animated activist, a true crime limited series and so much more!

For photographer Josie Norris, the decision was more than a form of birth control. It was gender-affirming care.

A new study shows that it does seem to get better for bullied gay kids, but doesn’t provide much insight into how we can make things better for them now.

On anti-transness, surveillance, and why we should all be paying attention.

A red wave was coming, they told us. But they didn’t account for a new record for out LGBTQ candidates, who ran the table all across the country.

If you’re going to talk about The Slap at least read Black queer writers, an organization supporting LGBT kids Florida, and losing all ambition after two long pandemic years.

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.

I also solve the urgent mystery of what happened to Lip Smacker Dr. Pepper.

“I was guilty and heartbroken and I wasn’t ready to let go of her: my first kiss, my first time, my first girlfriend, my first love, my first everything and before that, my best friend.”

These cities, counties and states passed some ballot measures last night that are worthy of at least one small sigh of relief.

This week’s Extra! Extra! looks at a whole slew of non-election related news, including LGBTQ+ rights and the trifecta of global pandemics: police violence, climate change and COVID-19. And then, of course, we do take a look at election-related news too.

This was the way we found power over pain: Move.