You Need Help: Real Talk About Your First Strap-On
“Help! I just got a strap-on and it turns out I’m not so skilled at using it (yet). How do I learn?”
Autostraddle Commenter’s Own Most Beautiful Songs in the World Playlist is Now Streaming on Spotify
Laura’s Team Pick: You know how you know your website has really amazing readers? When one of them reads through 236 comments to compile a playlist, it’s a pretty good clue that you’ve got good people hanging around.
Original Plumbing Needs Your Love, Support, Cold Hard Cash ASAP
Original Plumbing deserves a new website, and in the spirit of brotherhood and the revolution and Autostraddle redesign karmic juices, I’m urging you to make it happen.
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2014: Chloe and Intern Grace are Double Miss February
Chloe’s beauty is beyond compare, with flaming locks of auburn hair, with ivory skin and eyes of dark coffee. And Intern Grace? Well, her smile is like a breath of spring, her voice is soft like summer rain and no one can compete with her, yipee!
A Prairie Homo Companion: Prairie Homo Catholic Contradictions
“I took a long bus ride to the “good” school where I could learn how to speak French and be Catholic, where the girls, instead of pretending to be dragons from Harry Potter, gossiped about which Backstreet Boy they’d eventually marry.”
“Marrying Well” Might Be Important For British Men, Is Not Necessarily Evidence of Feminism
“When asked whether their daughters thought their financial future was dependent on having a husband, only 31.9 per cent agreed. By contrast 37.7 per cent of those with sons thought having a wife would make them financially secure.”
We’ll Probably Win A Thing: Colorado’s Civil Unions Bill Looks Promising
Colorado’s probably going to have civil unions soon! Totally counting these chickens before they hatch; feel ok about it.
Here’s A Chance to Share Your Very Own Memoir With The World
I’m going to participate in The Memoir Project and of course I think you should too.
Westward Homo! In Which We Pack It In, Load It Up, Party Down and Get Out Of Town
In the first of a series charting newlyweds Robin & Carly’s move from NYC to California, the ladies find a new place, pack and ponder leaving their world behind for a big bright temperate tomorrow!
Anti-Gay Groups Going Broke For Breaking Our Hearts
With groups that oppose gay marriage finding it hard to find money to do so, the tide may be more decisively turning in gay rights’ favor.
Brittani’s Video Party: 25 Ways to Piss Off Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara bring the funny, 25 ways to piss off your girlfriend, and 2 new lesbian web series. There are lots of real life lesbians in this video party. You’re gonna love it.
Also.Also.Also: Canada’s Census Actually Provides Data on Gay People and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Hillary Clinton is so over your bullshit.
Obama Wants Same-Sex Immigration Reform, Congress Prefers to Just Argue About It Forever
A Canadian’s take on how backwards the struggle to get immigration reform for same-sex couples has turned out to be.
Time Out New York Wants You To Date Gabby
Vanessa’s Team Pick: Time Out New York magazine thinks you should date Gabby and obviously we wholeheartedly agree.
How Sick Is “Sick Lit”?
“We were thirteen years old, and these stories confirmed our suspicions that the world was a cruel, sad place, riddled with surprise tragedies and untimely deaths.”
Going Down (South): The Gospel of The Southern Divas, Part I
I’m about to take ya’ll to church, where — every once in awhile — everything is gospel and nothing hurts.
The Dapper Fashion Blogger Dog Of Our Dreams Is Real and There Are Pictures
Gabrielle’s Team Pick: Fashion blogger dogs. This might be the high point of my life.
Yet Another News Outlet Fails Queer History 101 by Erasing Trans* People from Stonewall
“When the media fails to recognize the role trans* people have played in LGBT history, it fails to recognize and advance that equality.”
Get Baked: Not Your Grandmother’s Bobotie
If moussaka and quiche had a baby that went through a spicy rebellious phase, it would be named bobotie.
Almost Famous: Sparrowhawks
A flannel-loving alt-folk-pop band from the UK with a stellar debut EP that you can download for free.