Riese’s Team Pick: Mr. Sexsmith Wants Your Top Hot Butches Nominations
It’s time to nominate your favorite butches and learn new pronouns!
Ani DiFranco Appreciation Club Meeting #2: Ani DiFranco Is Trying to Break Your Heart
Every song has a ‘you’ / A ‘you’ that the singer sings to / And you’re it this time / Baby, you’re it this time.
Lip Service Episode 103 Recap: Everybody Must Get F*cked (Up)
BBC3’s Lip Service had an episode last week. We watched it and NOW only nearly a week later, can tell you what we saw. It involves lesbian sex both upside down and right-side up, and some smoldering glances from Frankie/Shane and a cop doing a girl on a desk. Also; feelings.
Colbert & Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear Makes a Point: “If We Amplify Everything, We Hear Nothing”
Happy Halloweenday Funday It’s Sunday The Funnest Day. Are you dressed up right now. Are you wearing lingerie with mouse ears. I dunno I heard that was a thing. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally To Restore Sanity: it happened! Also there’s a new James Franco interview and Kurt is gonna get a gay boy kiss!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants Your Sex
Why have sex when you can read about sex and look at sexy photos? That’s what we thought too.
Midterm Elections Cram Session: Autostraddle’s Gay Guide to Voting on November 2
Who thinks homosexuality is like alcoholism? Which queers are running for office in California? What the hell are the midterm elections anyhow? Why do the Republicans think they have this one in the bag? The answers to all these questions and more in Autostraddle’s official guide to the 2010 Midterm Elections.
Friday Fix: Essence’s Lesbian Wedding, Stephen Colbert’s Gay Fear, Other Stories
Essence’s first lesbian wedding! Early returns from DADT Survey have good news! And Stephen Colbert faces his fears, which include the editor of OUT Magazine, Feministing interviews Rachel Maddow and Winston is a snail for Halloween. Also, moar, with a special appearance by Anderson Cooper and the Jersey Shore (not together).
Laura’s Team Pick: WTF Should I Be For Halloween
Dot com.
Takin’ it Back Day: Anti-Gay Politicians ‘Apologize’ For ‘Queers Should Commit Suicide/Get AIDS’, ‘Can We Marry Dogs?’, etc.
An Arkansas school board member responded to a call to fight homophobic bullying with, surprise, homophobic bullying. Good thing he resigned last night? Sort of. And while we’re on topic; apologies for comparing gay marriage to marrying tables/dogs and predicting homo-apocalypse.
Carolyn’s Team Pick: National Novel Writing Month
You could be the next Sarah Waters!
Boo! It’s Hey Did You See That Comment Friday!
Nobody said anything about Harry Potter this week.
5 Autostraddle-Inspired Halloween Costumes for the Queer Soul
Do you want a socially relevant, Autostraddle-inspired Halloween costume this year? Well, you should.
Am I In a Dysfunctional Relationship With Barack Obama? We Talked Last Night and it Was Weird
I know this is supposed to be about Obama and civil rights and his sit-down with lefty bloggers and the gay issues he wasn’t interested in supporting at the time and also his Daily Show appearance, but it’s really about me. Because isn’t everything.
15 Lesbian or Otherwise-Inclined Girls Need Advice. Your Advice.
Tegan or Sara? Are sororities gay-friendly? How do you mess with Texas? I don’t have all the answers. But maybe you do.
Rachel’s Team Pick: Write Like A Motherf*cker
If you had a two-sided chalkboard in your living room I’d write humility on one side and surrender on the other for you.
Crystal’s Team Pick: Crystal Castles ft. Robert F*cking Smith
We were lovers, now we can’t be friends. Fascination ends. Here we go again.
Dan Choi is People
How far is our group from that fever pitch of anger and refusal to wait any longer that brings things –and people like Dan Choi — to a boil? It’s the most painful point of all. But also, potentially, the most sad and the most powerful. A look at Dan Choi’s Village Voice cover story, “Bad Lieutenant.”
Maro Hagopian, Photographer of Choice C*nts, Celebrities & Characters, Threw a Party
Photographer Maro Hagopian documents the NYC queer scene; is an icon; throws a party; fosters a community.
Obama Makes Surprise Visit to DADT Meetup, Promises to Bring Repeal and Dessert Next Time
Obama stops by a DADT Meeting but he didn’t bring me a pony or a repeal but maybe we will get the repeal for Christmas? Also; Rachel Maddow chases down Joe Miller to talk about DOMA, gay partners get deported, Omaha votes against civil rights
Glee Episode 205: Rocky Horror Glee Show, Extra Genderf*ckery Edition
Glee takes on Rocky Horror, and all the weirdos & freaks lose their shit. Don’t worry, they did it justice!