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Judge Rules Casino Waitresses Are “Sex Objects” First, Employees Second

Or as he says, “…for the individual labeled a “babe” to become a sex object requires that person’s participation.”

Laura Mandanas August 5, 2013 8 Comments
TV News & Trailers

VIDEO: The Melissa Harris-Perry Show Does “Orange Is the New Black”

Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Uzo Aduba, Kate Mulgrew, Laverne Cox and Piper Kerman on her show and Laverne Cox name-dropped Autostraddle and it was awesome.

Riese August 5, 2013 23 Comments
Food and Drink

Ode to My Pantry: Consuming Food without Chewing

If you’re as food info hungry as I am, sometimes your eyes and ears are called on to truly satisfy your cravings.

Kristen August 5, 2013 13 Comments
LGBT History

More Than Words: Pronouns Pt. 2 — How’d Gender Get In Here?

“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”

Cara August 5, 2013 18 Comments
Community

Straddler On The Street: Aimée

Aimée talks about her femme identity, what it’s like to have lupus, and the cultural differences between the United States and Ireland.

Vanessa August 5, 2013 28 Comments
TV Feature

How “Real” Is “Orange Is The New Black”? Comparing The Show To The Memoir To The Numbers

A look at the stories behind the stories and the humans behind the characters and the numbers behind those stories in everybody’s favorite lezalicious prison dramedy.

Riese August 4, 2013 66 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Make Sex Radical

This week on NSFW Sunday: radicalizing sex by making it about pleasure, friends with benefits, orgasming for seven hours on film and more.

Ryan Yates August 4, 2013 13 Comments
Society + Culture

This Land Was Made for Gays & Queers This Sunday Funday

Tegan and Sara and the state of Minnesota could not be more adorable right now.

Carmen August 4, 2013 14 Comments
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Pretty Little Liars Recap 408: The Guilty Gay’s Handbook

This week in Rosewood Rumer Willis drops by to show off some sexy pictures of Emily drilling. Drill, baby, drill.

Lizz August 3, 2013 14 Comments
Geekery

Three Cheers for Online Community With Amy T. Falcone, Queer Webcomic Artist

Falcone has a new comic forthcoming, called Clique Refresh, and it’s “a love letter to internet friends and what it means to feel most at home online.”

A.E. Osworth August 3, 2013 2 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Will Throw Their Pie For You

Tampons, cat allergies and Orange Is The New Black. Always Orange Is The New Black.

carrie August 2, 2013 5 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Raven Symone Is Gay: Now You Can Say “That’s So Gayven!” With Abandon

Raven Symone is finally out!

Jamie August 2, 2013 34 Comments
Sex

Unchained NYC: Flogging, Spanking, and Dommes, Oh My!

“I just need to hit you with this,” said the woman at the door. She held up a rubber stamp and I held out my hand. “Well, not hit you hit you. But it is that kind of party.”

Guest August 2, 2013 7 Comments
Straddleverse

Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Katie is Miss August

“I came out to bosses and people I had just met and guys who hit on me and former boyfriends and doctors and professors and relatives and Facebook and even the grocery store cashiers. I wanted to assert myself, my identity.”

Robin August 2, 2013 47 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Ellen Is Hosting The Oscars, Which Will Have 100% More Gay and 100% Less Seth MacFarlane

Here’s hoping she gives Gladys a call during the show!

Kaitlyn August 2, 2013 12 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Orange Is The New Black” Episode 107 Recap: Butches and Dogs! Dogs and Butches!

Butches and dogs! Dogs and butches! What can be better? Nothing, actually. Nothing is better than butches and dogs.

Kate August 2, 2013 40 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #86: An Outsider Is Likely To See Things That Insiders Will Not See

Topics include Kimani Grey, stripping in a boomtown, grief, Reddit and the Boston Bombing, Rodney King, “Sex and the City,” Mary Gaitskill, sexism in the Texas legislature, travel guides and more!

Riese August 2, 2013 6 Comments
Music

Captain’s Log: Chick Bands Get Loud

This month’s edition is all about chick bands – badass women who play their own guitars, program their own beats and hit their own things with their very own sticks.

Stef August 2, 2013 18 Comments
Movie Features

Guilty Pleasures, Girl Power, and Jamie Babbit: The Autostraddle Interview

We talk about being a queer filmmaker, guilty pleasure movies, and the complicated politics of sex scenes.

Kate August 2, 2013 4 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Cheryl Boone Isaacs Appointed First Black President of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Is Badass

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences took a big step into the present by selecting its first ever African-American president and third woman president.

Mey August 2, 2013 5 Comments
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