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From lawmakers punishing colleges that include LGBT authors in their curricula to elementary and high schools that would rather silence gay and gender-nonconforming youth than face the bullying head-on, these are the stories that had us screaming at the screen this week.

From the mind of Gina Gershon springs the new Starz show, Harem, about an ambitious slave girl to a Sultan during the Ottoman Empire. I don’t have to tell you that if they miss the multitude of possibilities for Sapphic interaction in period clothing circa the 1540’s then they’ve done it wrong!