Also.Also.Also: My Mutha’s The Gay, Female Weezy
This week, OINTB continues a takeover while Michelle Tea keeps on being amazing.
Bollywood’s More Gay-Friendly Than Ever — So Where Are All the Queer Women?
While queer visibility is rising in Bollywood films, there is still a long ways to go for queer women.
Queer Outfit of the Week: Summer Day Date
It’s 100,000 degrees outside, summer’s not yet over and you’ve just met the girl of your dreams. You’d better bust out your summer date outfit!
GaymerX Is The Gaming Convention Made For Queers, But Important For Everyone
They had to show gamers why something like this needed to exist. More than that, they had to show the world why something like this needed to exist.
Back to the 80’s and Section 28: Anti-Gay School Policy Resurfaces in the UK
A decade after its repeal, sex ed policies which are alarmingly similar to Section 28 have cropped up again, raising questions as to how much autonomy schools should have over sex and relationship education syllabi.
“Orange Is The New Black” Episode 112 Recap: Typical Lesbian Processing
This episode’s theme is “people are mad at Piper and we don’t really blame them that much” and I know y’all agree.
Defining For My Own “Right” Way To Be A Mom
“As a lesbian mom, it was especially hard to fight the urge to do the “right” thing, however slippery a concept that was, because I was representing a community, not just myself, I thought.”
NJ’s Gay Conversion Therapy Ban Is Great, Not Indicative of Christie’s Conversion to Decency
Perhaps Christie’s evolution could help push Republicans into being less bigoted and terrible to queers. But that, of course, might be pie in the sky.
The Poet and the Scientist: Poetry Slams ‘Til Sunrise
National Poetry Slam 2013! We laughed, we cried, we stayed up until ungodly hours of the night to cheer on our friends and favorites.
Make A Thing: Constellation Pendant Necklace
Yet another way to wear your astrological sign with pride.
Religious Gay Acceptance on the Rise; More Than Just Marriage Happening for Gays at the Altar
From President Obama’s reelection after his marriage equality statement to the Pope’s message that that gay people should not be marginalized, the future is looking a little brighter for LGBT people of faith.
What I Learned From Buffy About All The Versions Of My Queer Girl Self
“At any given moment, you might turn into a rat, a demon, a werewolf, or a lesbian. In Sunnydale, no one was ever what they seemed, and by the time you’d figured someone out, they had already turned into someone else.”
Ode to My Pantry: Pineapple
Together we can conquer this hedgehog-like fruit.
Binary or Blank: Germany Allows Parents to Refrain From Gender Assignment at Birth
Germany becomes the first country in Europe to give parents the option of male, female or neither in birth certificates, sparking what could be “comprehensive reform” in how gender is legally categorised and understood.
Straddler On The Street: Marika
If you have read Autostraddle even once, it’s likely that you’ve seen some of Marika’s brilliance in the comment section. She is one of our most frequent commenters, and she was kind enough to chat with me about science, hammocks, food, and family.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Wearing Cute Underpants
This week on NSFW Sunday: hook up culture is a sham, erotica writers are people too, when doing porn is feminist and more.
Sunday Funday Is Getting Gay Married Across the World
Don’t let the door hit you, Prop 8.
This Is a Love Letter With an Ending Just For You [UPDATED]
An Autostraddle first.
Sisters Nightclub Closes, Leaves A Hole in Philly’s Lesbian Nightlife and Our Hearts
It was 2008, I thought I might be gay, and I had gone to the only lesbian bar in Philadelphia in fearful hope that someone else might be able to figure things out for me. Now that bar is closing.
Queer Your Tech: Why I’m Addicted to Fallen London!
Fallen London! is a text based game that centers around a protagonist (you) who winds up in Neath, which is basically London except one mile under the earth’s surface, in a world where death is semi-permanent, devils are accessible and corpses sometimes have tea with you.