“As I walked across the mall wondering if the way I walked made me look obviously lesbian, my mind switched to thinking about how much weight I’d have to lose to fit comfortably into those Capri pants.”
Autostraddle’s very own Nat got in a horrible wreck in LA and now her two amazing dogs are missing. Help her find them!
How grim has the future of a DADT repeal become in the new, Republican future? Kinda grim.
Do you have a job? WELL THEN CLEARLY YOU AREN’T A TWENTYSOMETHING WITH A GRADUATE DEGREE. Are you hiring. Can I send you a resume.
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Ricky Martin gets the Oprah treatment for his new memoir, SamRon tweets about the XTina rumors, the 16th Annual Out 100 issue is upon us, and the women of SNL remind you how they make the show watchable.
Are you hungry? YOU BETTER GET THAT WAY.
November can get pretty chilly – good thing we’ve got Jaime, the blazing hot, globe-trotting, community organizing Autostraddle Calendar Girl for this month!
Making sense of the election results the day after: how much we lost last night, what it means to have lost, and how hard we’re going to have to work to win it back.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sees liking girls and being gay as mutually exclusive. Also, Suze Orman says it gets better.
Prop 19 failed so that means no marijuana-induced anarchy in California! Also apparently there’s some sort of serious Republican Invasion happening, which sounds pretty wild. Christine O’Donnell lost tho!
P!nk’s new music video for “Raise Your Glass” features gay wedding, other queer things. Let’s take a look.
A lot of us feel like books saved our life during our teen years; also, though, sometimes books can actually save your life! A list of ten YA novels that deal with the themes of suicide for gay youth.
Portia de Rossi walks Oprah through the eating disorders she developed as a result of being a teen model and the stress of hiding her sexuality as she climbed the Hollywood ladder. Her story is universal, whether you are gay or have ever been on a diet.
A progressive Chicago-area synagogue, which serves gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Jews, learned that a mail bomb involved in a foiled Al-Qaeda plot was addressed to its building. Although the bomb was never intended to reach the synagogue, we still have questions. Was this meant to be a general message of hatred for a religion, one specifically targeted to the LGBTQ folks and their allies, or just a general “fuck you” to all of humanity?
Our 2011 Calendar is coming. Pre-order is available now for $20. Buy things, support Autostraddle.
We’re doing things one day at a time now and this was a pretty good day as far as they go. A megachurch pastor has come out so that his story can save lives, educators in Britain are educating on queer heroes to end anti-queer bullying, and librarians are honoring the authors of queer books for kids.
It’s time to nominate your favorite butches and learn new pronouns!
Every song has a ‘you’ / A ‘you’ that the singer sings to / And you’re it this time / Baby, you’re it this time.
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.