2018 has been a banner year for hot queer people on television. Growing up as a queer kid, this was kind of all I ever wanted (besides being accepted for "who I was," blah blah blah).
But that's the not the only form of progress. Wherever you look (that's not the Trump White House), queer people have been making headway — in Congress, film, music, theater, and on social media.
The queers are taking over, and for good.
SEE ALSO: 'Queer Eye's Fab Five geek out over well-dressed Avengers and Iron Throne hopefulsJust look at all the strangely uplifting facts before us: Queer and trans people had a record-shattering year on television. They broke absurd amounts of ground in government. They made some charmingly slubby and kind cis men look handsome and good.
In the midst of this apocalypse, we had Janelle Monaé and Tessa Thompson locking eyes in hot pink vagina couture.
Here are the best queer moments in culture in 2018.
Congratulations to Sharice Davids, the first openly queer elected official from Kansas, and the first Native American woman elected to Congress. Plus, she's got guns (the good kind).
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Who cares what Kanye West thinks about anything when you have videos like this one?
They swapped spit, and it was extremely graphic and good.
The Miseducation of Cameron Postis nostalgic and thoughtful.Boy Erasedis a movie.
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How often do we see celebrity queer couples in the public eye, forget young adults? These two have great politics, a tender relationship, and wonderful fashion, especially for Los Angeles, where things can easily go sideways. For god's sake, they're currently reading Price of Salt together. Go to Instagram and watch them like each other's posts and support one another in the comments.
Known as the "lesbian Jesus," "Queero" Kiyoko had a groundbreaking year in music. Not only did she win MTV's Push Award, given to socially conscious artists who make progressive change, she accepted it with this line: "This validates any queer woman of color, that you can follow your dreams.”
Her debut studio album this year, Expectations,won critical acclaim and plenty of Instagram likes from one of the toughest critics in the industry (me).
Sometime in 2014, bisexual lighting, characterized by neon blue and pink light, became a meme on Twitter. The meme was borne out of an episode of the BBC's Sherlock where Watson appears to express homosexual desires for Holmes, all while bathed in pink and blue light. Pink and blue are colors of the bisexual flag.
We saw a lot of that lighting this year, including in the movie poster forBlack Pantherand in Janelle Monaé's music videos for Dirty Computer.
Bisexual lighting at its finest Credit: mashable composite/getty images Tweet may have been deleted
Rippon was America's first openly gay ice skater to perform at the Olympics. He turned down an invitation to meet with notorious homophobe Mike Pence, then heading the U.S. delegation. Both Kenworthy and Rippon treated us to a lot of adorable queer-affirming selfies and biting jokes on Twitter.
Democrat Krysten Sinema will be representing Arizona and all the queer government nerds desperate for representation.
Davis became famous among the Mike Huckabee set after she refused to sign marriage licenses for same-sex couples. In the 2018 election she lost to Democratic challenger Elwood Caudill Jr., by about 650 votes.
The movie's star, Daniela Vega, was also the first openly trans presenter in Oscars history.
Jacobson came out in an interview with Vanity Fair while promoting her movie 6 Balloons.She's bi, and she appears to be a great person. What a combo.
The man responsible for some of the New Yorker's best scoops and basically anything good on Twitter came out in a speech at an LGBTQ awards ceremony.
They both starred in Lizzie, the movie about the infamous, supposedly queer Lizzie Borden, rumored to have killed her parents with her maid and lover, Bridget.
Was the movie good? No, it was awful and monumentally tedious. I nearly fell asleep during the murder scene.
Still, I'm so here for queer romance on screen, especially when one of those actresses is actually queer.
According to a GLAAD report, 2018 was the best year yet for LGBTQ characters on broadcast television. The report found 8.8 percent of all regularly occurring characters on broadcast TV to be LGBTQ. And 50 percent of LGBTQ network regulars are now people of color.
The show, which features a record five actors, tells the story of New York City's ballroom scene in the 1980s. It's deliciously weepy and good.
A soon-to-be Academy Award-winning queer period drama? Yes, please!
Queer Eyeis the best thing to happen to toxic masculinity since forever. This season's cast was particularly woke, kind, and tender. They went deep into the heart of red America and brought out the best of that place.
For that, and for everything else on this list, we should be grateful. Here's to an even more magically queer 2019.
