Probably if you had to make a list of things you wanted your tax dollars going to, abstinence-until-marriage sex education would not be one of them. Shockingly, there are some elected officials who feel the same way.
Did you know that Rilke’s Mom initially raised him as a girl? True story.
In which we meet ONE MORE LESBIAN and look for the key. The key to what? You’ll see.
Julie Goldman is doing stand-up in Los Angeles Wednesday night and you should go.
It’s Alex’s birthday and we’re having cake!! But you have to make your own cake.
The Becoming Visible Kickstarter page is running for another 18 days. That means you hardly have time to pledge away as much as possible!
A common practice in South Africa, corrective rape is an act of violence where lesbians are raped in order to “fix” them… as charming as that sounds, it is time to wave goodbye to that policy, for real this time.
“If Brooklyn hip hop knocked boots with PJ Harvey, Hesta Prynn would be their lovechild.”
Just get this and then write in it. God. It’s not that hard.
In which we talk about the future with Bklyn Boihood, “a collective that provides visibility and promotes the empowerment of masculine of center bois, lesbians, queers, trans-identified studs, doms, butches and AGs of color.”
The DOMA repeal bill is coming out the day after tomorrow, so you better hang on ’til the day after tomorrow, come what may! Also Ellen Degeneres & Martin Sheen & The Lynch have a petition for you to sign.
“It must be nice to sit on such a fat cash cow, and be able to spend the people’s money on bigotry at the same time you’re demanding we cut everything back.”
“You have to seek poetry out and, at least at first, you have force yourself to swallow it. Like a scratchy vitamin.”
I don’t want to write my essay, so here’s some Charles Bukowski poems.
Anton Hysén is the second professional footballer to come out in the history of professional soccer. The first died of suicide in 1998. Here’s how by coming out, Hysén is helping us change the world.
Hello today there is good news re: scholarships for gay kids and also gay marriage and also EUROVISION which is obvs most important. May or may not contain an otter, I can’t make any promises.
“Oh, to be ready for it, unf*cked, ever-f*cked.”
This is just a post (mostly) about old white men. But it’s happy. It’s Autostraddle is Pure Poetry week and this is how we do it.
This is an actual news headline. Senator Carl Kruger took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribe money – and then laundered it through his secret boyfriend.
“But Democrats… have managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”