Baltimore rapper Rye Rye has toured with M.I.A. and worked with rapper/producer DJ Blaqstarr. Now after a brief hiatus following the birth of her daughter, Rye Rye is back and playing three shows at this year’s SXSW.
The lawsuit for those injured in the Atlanta Eagle bar raid needs your help, Roy Ashburn is a lying hypocrite, General Petraeus has worked with queers in the past and hasn’t been raped by a man yet, the VA Attorney General wants to take away college protections, Minnesotans are giving it their all for Uganda, and Roseanne wants to save the gay Mormon kids.
Oscars 2010 “Live-Blog”/Open Thread with Autostraddle! Plus we make up for a year without film coverage by giving you our opinion on the 2010 Oscar Nominees! Get out your laptop, there will be lots of gay people, but no Jay Manuel.
We recap episode 406 of Skins, in which JJ meets a cute girl at the candy shop and everyone tells him love won’t last, including Emily. But all hope is not lost.
Adam Lambert closes Sydney Mardi Gras with a For Your Entertainment gay sex carnival, complete with codpiece and half-naked gay sex-dancers! This Sunday there is a FUNDAY EXPLOSION with Lady Gaga, lesbian prison weddings, Johnny Weir in cute outfits, gay Catholic sex scandals, a new tumblr for you, and also Lilo in a funny coat.
Humans grapple with definition of sex, plus homosexy artists, photographers & tumblrs, vintage space dildos, butch lesbians on queer porn, lezzy sex award winners, Freja Beha Erichsen’s full frontal, and 92 naughty Alices in Wonderland.
Jess G. initially wrote off “Voice On Tape” by Jenny Owen Youngs as another pleasant indie-pop song by a cute, guitar-playing girl. But then the chorus hit, and she thought, “Ohh, sexy.” This is the first in a series of Audiostraddle spotlights on SXSW artists.
“The mission of the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) is to establish a “living history” archive of past and present queer zines and to encourage current and emerging zine publishers to continue to create. In curating such a unique aspect of culture, we value a collectivist approach that respects the diversity of experiences that fall […]
Black History Month controversy in LA Schools likens RuPaul to OJ Simpson and Dennis Rodman as unsuitable role models, suspends three teachers. Also; stylist misquoted about Shiloh, NEW RUNAWAYS TRAILER!, Roseanne on Marie Osmond’s son, ABDC Lady Gaga challenge, Lohan at 16, Johnny Weir interview, women & Oscars & 35 Best Dance Sequences from Films!
This was a big week, with the second episode of In Your Box Office and interviews with both NOH8 frontman Adam Bouska and Dani Campbell and worldwide gender panic. You said funny things and we want you to know that we were paying attention.
Jennifer Beals, Supreme Being of Life, talks to Autostraddle about her new photography project The L Word Book, disappointment in Obama, the Johnny Weir controversy, the possibility of a movie, the TiBette phenomenon, closeted Hollywood actors, and just what makes her so goddamn perfect.
I spent a long time trying to figure out why it’s taken me so long to find this tumblr, but then I looked through the archives and realized that it’s only existed for 4 days. Help them out guys, submit pictures so I have cute things to look at!
On Wednesday we asked you if the Shiloh Jolie-Pitt “IS ANGELINA TURNING SHILOH INTO A BOY” magazine cover was offensive. You said yes. America (and glaad) agrees… but Life & Style still defends their insanity. Also! Lesbian prom controversy, an irritating NYTimes DADT Op-Ed, how to save feminism from Glenn Beck and making O Canada gender neutral.
To celebrate the March 30 release of Melissa Auf der Maur’s record & multimedia project “Our of Our Minds”, Audiostraddle is giving away a prize pack that includes the OOOM record, tshirt and comic book.
Yes it’s that time again… what time? Time for our third Autostraddle Calendar Girl! Ladies, gents and otherwise-identified girl-lovin’ persons, meet Miss March!
THIS JUST IN! Carmen de la Pica Morales aka Sarah Shahi is attending The Dinah! Also; DJ Samantha Ronson will be bravely facing her lesbian fans, and Kathy Najimy and Mo Gaffney bring their Off-Broadway play The Kathy & Mo Show to the west coast for a special Dinah performance.
This (early) edition of Geekender is a love song to video games maps! Because I love cartography, and by cartography I guess I mean gaming. But hey, everybody likes Mario 3 and Zelda, right? AND THERE’S A SECRET BONUS QUESTION which is: Would you join an Autostraddle guild in WoW? Because that’d be hot.
Riese recaps last night’s episode of Law & Order SVU starring Kathy Griffin as a lesbian activist — not so bad, even without the Mariska Hargitay lesbian kiss (we’ve got VIDEO!) Also; Tegan & Sara acoustic videos, Lohan’s memoir, Johnny Weir on Joy Behar, Lady Gaga in Cosmo, Adam Lambert in Sydney and a Dana Delaney headline way more offensive than SVU.
NOH8 Campaign photographer Adam Bouska talks to us about the night it all began, his surprise engagement to partner [and NOH8 visionary Jeff Parshley], his dream celebrities to shoot, why the hell Lady Gaga and Adam Lambert haven’t posed yet, backlash from the anti-gay contingent, and gearing up for the hot & sweaty Dinah Shore open shoot later this month.
Life&Style Magazine wants to know WHY IS ANGELINA TURNING SHILOH INTO A BOY? and we want to know when this shit gets officially offensive, ’cause quoting Focus on the Family is scaring us. Also; Funny or Die’s presidential reunion, guns are everywhere in Starbucks, big tobacco loves the gays, and ice dancers take cultural appropriation to new lows.