“Let me have the illusion that I am tough and mean please!”

February is bringing many LGBTQ+ tidings including the last seasons of Killing Eve and Better Things, Shay Mitchell playing gay again, celesbian-studded game shows, an Anne+ movie, Abbi Jacobson as an animated queer princess and more!

Welcome to the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards (previously known as the Gay Emmys)! These awards are meant to celebrate the best of television — through a lens of LGBTQ+ representation.

Aging while queer, a brief foray into wondering if straight women are OK, and what makes a gay bar… well, gay

Plus: a Captain Marvel deleted scene, a new trailer for Tales of the City, Ruby Rose chattin’ about Batwoman, Tessa Thompson continuing to be a superstar, Sue Bird’s out for the 2019 WNBA season, and more.

The history of lesbian weddings on TV: parents refusing to attend, wild ’90s hats, untimely deaths, a weed brownie rave on the Eiffel Tower, an impromptu prison wedding, the union of two solo gems and so much more.

Attractive queer humans put on sparkly clothes and so, in the tradition of our people, I’m here to ask them to step on my neck.

Oh did you want to see two queer Black women in bed together being sexy and laughing? Great news on that! We’ve got an exclusive clip from the premiere episode of Season 2 of “Twenties,” airing tomorrow at 10pm ET/PT on BET and BET HER.

The artistic masterpieces, the heartbreakers, and the fan fiction.

Whether you’re looking for eye candy or fashion inspo, here’s 100+ lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans women, nonbinary people and trans men looking great in suits!

A NEW BATWOMAN TEASER; Hayley Atwell is Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; Lizzo, Lil Nas X, and Lena Waithe join the Proud Family reboot; and Love Remains Not a Lie!

“After you sleep with the woman of your dreams, there’s only one right thing to do in that situation, which is to badly sing Anita Baker and also tell her you want to marry her.” Welcome to Autostraddle’s Twenties recaps!

Tia’s a complete scene stealer. She’s defies so many boxes or tropes of what we’ve been programmed to expect from a black lesbian on TV.

Disney’s first queer love song, Never Have I Ever’s Fabiola and Aneesa on coding queer clothing, more queer Fear Street chatter, and a Mary Tyler Moore doc from Lena Waithe.

309 Episode Stills are in and we’ve got Tina, Bette and Shane out here supporting Angie at her reading, Dre on The Aloce Show, Alice in Evil Knievel Chic and so much more.

“All around I wanted something sweeter. We so rarely see two BLACK women loving each other I was hoping it would be triumphant. I get that love and relationships are complicated but I feel like you can portray that in more interesting ways.”

I don’t know your weekend plans! I do know that Harlem, that new Black women’s friendship comedy with a surprisingly large amount of gays, could be a show that you watch.

“Would absolutely watch this movie directed by Celine Sciamma.”

Heather knows, she knows, how to connect with people through stories and writing, she knows how to make you feel seen, buoyed, valued, special, important, remarkable.

Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Issue is a stunning masterclass of QTPOC being our fly ass selves, Alison Bechdel on turning her life into art, the 1996 Olympic Women’s Basketball Team finally getting their due, and getting to know the girl in red.