State of the Civil Union: On Illinois and Gay Divorce
Illinois’s State Senate has approved civil unions for same-sex couples – is it a sign of change or more of the same?
16 Holiday Songs That Don’t Suck: Your Autostraddle Christmakwansuka Playlist
Whether you’re the type who watches ‘Love Actually’ on loop from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve or you’re more of a Scrooge, we’ve got a suck-proof holiday playlist to tackle every mood. Cherry cherry boom boom, motherf*ckers.
How to Find a Therapist
FEELINGS. We have them. You have them. We often need to talk about them, with a professional. Here’s how you can, too.
This Week’s Comment Awards Comes With A Special Message
You’re beautiful no matter what they say.
Emily’s Team Pick: Intervention with Margaret Cho & Tegan and Sara Quin
This is a music video starring Margaret Cho and Tegan & Sara Quin. What else do you need.
This is a Post About Gay Grammy Nominees, Lesbian Movie Scenes, Johnny Depp, Neil Young
Grammy nominations are in! Adam Lambert, Lady Gaga and other people we like got nominated. Also Taylor Swift is Entertainer of the Year according to someone. Also some lists about gay things and characters and a Harry Potter thing.
Riese’s Team Pick: My So-Called Life Cast Panel from 1995
75% of the cast of My So-Called Life, including 16-year-old Claire Danes in menswear, on a panel at The Paley Center. Trust me your day has been made.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Hearing Returns to Washington, Is Better than “Cats”
DADT Hearings, Part Three, in which I AM GOING TO PUNCH JOHN MCCAIN IN THE F*CKING THROAT
Emily’s Team Pick: This Latke Recipe
Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made you out of clay.
Autostraddle Calendar Girls: Romi is Miss December
Meet the girl you’ll be staring at for thirty days starting exactly one year from today. For ‘Real.’
Listling Without Commentary: Actual Answers to DADT Survey Questions, Out of Context
“I believe that the impact would be devastating to me, my family, my unit, the military, our country and the world!”
US Reps Wanna Axe Smithsonian’s Gay Art, Should Have Something More Important to Do
Sarah: fuck republicans
Rachel: why do they hate everything beautiful and good
DADT Survey Results Are In: Gays Won’t Mess Up the Army (But John McCain Might)
The survey is in! Guess what? We were totally right. John McCain says it’s the wrong survey and also, he ate his meat so why hasn’t he gotten is pudding and also he wasn’t invited to Gates’ birthday party and also he’s cast in the chorus of Little Red Hen and he wanted to be the Little Red Hen and NO THAT IS NOT THE FORK HE WAS TALKING ABOUT he wants the Winnie-the-Pooh fork.
Laura’s Team Pick: The Joy of Stats
Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card.
Effing Dykes Presents: What Lies Beneath (Her Fingernails)
Krista from Effing Dykes has a cautionary tale of lesbian sexy for you. Are you ready? I don’t think you’re ready.
Minecraft Review: Down the Rabbit Hole and Back Again, Kind Of
Minecraft is all of your favorite things rolled into one affordable, compact package that gets hardlined right into your dopamine receptors and it stays there forever, I’m not joking.
Excuse Adam Lambert While He Kisses the Sky (and, more importantly, This Guy)
Remember that time you got high and watched Adam Lambert’s E! True Hollywood story and had a lot of feelings about gender, boy-on-boy onstage kissing, the history of counterculture/glam rock, American Idol itself and Adam’s hypothetical second album? Luckily I wrote that all down for you.
This is a Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Megapost In Which McCain Gets Crazier, Repeal Gets Closer, Etc.
The endless onslaught of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell posts may actually come to an end in the near future, as the policy will hopefully be decided once and for all this week. We have the details, as well as some thoughts on how we got here and where we go next.
NSFW Sunday Knows All The Things She Said About Lesbian Sex
“I go to bed like I used to go to karate.”
Heterosexual Supremacist Thinks Lesbians in the Military Just Haven’t Met the Right Corrective Rapist
The Daily Caller invokes gender essentialism, penis power, and insane logic to argue that gay men should be excluded from the military but lesbians should be allowed in. So that all the remaining dudes can turn them straight.