Unaccomplished Goal For Summer #4: Write a screenplay about a 20 year-old girl who realizes that her life long dream of becoming a child/teen star will never be realized. Call it “That’s Not So Raven”.
Allie is the cutest thing that’s ever happened to the J. Crew kid’s section.
From “The House of Yes” to “9 to 5” to “Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion” and beyond, women are really really funny. Especially Parker Posey and Lisa Kudrow, apparently.
Crystal’s Team Pick: Sometimes you just need to eat a sandwich and chill the fuck out.
Double illegal < double rainbow.
Sarah’s Team Pick: Some brilliant Canadian person figured out that queer and beer rhyme, and then they made a festival out of it. Damn.
Lily’s Team Pick: “After I read the piece I laughed and then I cried and then I did the weird laugh/cry combo where you’re not quite sure which one you are doing because you have SO MANY FEELINGS.”
Any of you who were ever banished to the swampy softball field for practice or wore decades old polyster uniforms while the boy’s team got new ones understand why Title IX exists. But is it working?
Your favorite all-girl bands are hitting the road together for The Lady Killer Tour, and Autostraddle has an exclusive backstage pass!
The brief that John Boehner and his lawyer Paul Clement filed to try to have Edith Windsor’s case against DOMA dismissed is exactly as full of anti-gay gems as you thought it would be.
Free at last, free at last. Thank Ilene Chaiken almighty, this show is finally f-cking over at last.
Australian researchers found that gender-based violence puts women at a much greater risk of mental health problems. Hopefully the new guidelines around healthcare for women will help with that.
The future is bright for the brave high school students who fight for GSAs in their schools.
Are you doing this right now? There is absolutely no excuse not to.
If there’s anything more annoying than passing out at the blood test facility and waking up without a slice of pizza in the vicinity, it’s trying to pay for the blood test in the first place. But things are finally changing.
Daily Fix: Adam Lambert’s gorgeous new gaaayy song, “Outlaws of Love,” Gaga co-hosts The View, Miley Cyrus is REALLY into the gays, Julie Goldman & Brandy Howard tell hilarious stories for 3 hours, plus details on the new RENT revival.
Carmen’s Team Pick: “Tres Gotas de Agua” is Latina Moms talking about their LGBT kids, and this post is me talking about that and also me talking about me. Because I relate.
In which we announce the contest finalists so you can read their stories (maybe cry a little) and VOTE!
Holly Miranda has released a rather rad recording. She’s giving it to you for free.
“The original hipster had come down to Earth.”