Jess sits down with Judy Gold to talk about finding her niche as a Jewish lesbian comedian, working on The Rosie O’Donnell Show, the R Family Cruises, meeting her girlfriend through a Time Out New York singles ad, making it in the notorious boys club of comedy, starring Off Broadway in Love, Loss & What I Wore and her brand new one-woman show.
Come join the good clean fun with our Autostraddle WoW guild! It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to the game, a l33t raider who’s gonna pwn my face or you don’t even know what the f*ck I’m talking about! Everyone’s welcome!
The 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles, California featured Wanda Sykes, Constance McMillen, Adam Lambert, Drew Barrymore, the cast of GLEE and much more! We’ve got your gallery with captions & highlights of the night — including Wanda Sykes’ wife Alex and Constance McMillen’s guest who you might recognize from October ’09’s Brave Homo Headliners.
Wheeeeeeeee it’s Sunday Funday! Jillian Michaels follows up her Ladies Home Journal bisexual reveal by telling “Women’s Health” she’s dating men & women (we’ve got full scnas!). There’s a lesbian Muffia in NYC and gay superheroes, Bollywood might have a lesbian movie someday and Gaga will be on American Idol. Also, books! And Anyone But Me!
Sexy herstory from “On Our Backs” – the lesbian porn magazine that changed everything. Also; gay sex media addiction, the trans woman porn project, female viagra again, tandem boob press, sex writing & more!
Indie pop singer-songwriter Hailey Wojcik is playing a concert this Wednesday in support of her latest album, ‘Diorama.’ As a special treat for Autostraddle readers, she’s giving away two free tickets to the NYC show.
It’s Reading Rainbow time at Autostraddle! We talk about which of the Lambda Literary Awards nominees we’re most excited about reading. Spoiler alert: a lot of awesome out lesbians and bisexuals wrote fantastic looking books in 2009. Just FYI.
It’s Saturday, which usually means nothing, but today it means comment awards! You guys are so funny; we love you.
Obama is ordering the department of Health and Human Services to allow same-sex couples hospital visitation rights! Plus, the White House squashes Elena Kagan gay rumors, Constance McMillen will lead the NYC Pride parade, and today is the National Day of Silence.
Remember record stores? The ones built of bricks and mortar? They didn’t disappear the day you bought your MacBook. Your local record store continue to be a pivotal part of the music landscape and to celebrate, there’s Record Store Day – an international event happening on April 17. To celebrate, we’re reminiscing about the first record we ever bought, you should too –
Guest contributor John Moon of Achtung Baby! geeks out with an iPad for our entertainment. Hey, if you don’t have one- why not live vicariously?
“Exit Through The Gift Shop”, a street art documentary/film from Banksy that you should definitely check out.
Michelle Rodriguez will face the lesbian music at GO Magazine’s 4th Annual “Readers’ Choice Nightlife Awards” in NYC on Tuesday. We’re going and you should too! Dani Campbell and more. All the info is here.
Meet the women “saving” the UK’s pubs and the woman banned from all of them and also; your friends, your womanhood and your education are making you drunk! The New York City LGBT Community Center’s rainbow flag was burned, countering the truth on anti-bullying day, Funky Brown Chick loves FourSquare and there’s still time to be queer & buy queer!
Melissa Etheridge and Tammy Lynn Michaels announce their separation after 2 children and nearly 9 years together. The lesbian universe weeps another loss.
Here’s a list of some laid back/athletic friendly looks that I’ve seen around or imagined or talked about with friends. You should probably start wearing them because common consensus is, they make panties drop.
Adam Lambert & the Laser Light Spectacular & Camila Grey perform on American Idol, Ellen is on a “sugar fast” and talks about Portia, The Sarah Silverman Program may be dunzo, New Now Next Award nominations, and Kathy Griffin bedazzling her vagina and getting a pap smear poolside at a hotel in LA tomorrow.
The Out Top 50 Most Powerful Gays in America ranks a lady at the tippy-top (and a handful of others!) Constance McMillen may not be attending prom, but she’s gonna be grand marshall of the pride parade! A day of firsts, shaving woes, Mike Huckabee is a bigger asshat than we initially thought, and how you can help make the Martin Luther King Jr. Memoiral.
Admit it: The real reason you bought your iPad is because your cat feels left out when you use your iPhone. His tiny paws can’t seem to type on that tiny touchscreen, so you did what any loving cat-owner would do. You bought him an iPad with its paw-friendly, giant touchscreen. Problem solved!
Teevee came out of the closet last night and was SUPER gay. We count down all the reasons why. Plus, the US of Tara features the most non-event coming out ever, Jennifer Knapp is a cute lesbian who used to sing Christian music, hating Twilight is so last year, and House’s Thirteen talks about bisexuality.