Holigay Gift Guide: For Your Long-Distance Friends
Maybe you, like a lot of queer people, found your community online and don’t live near your friends.
Mini Crossword You Can Pinpoint on a Map
Situate your mind inside these 10 clues! Everything else can wait!
The “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” Trailer Promises Whitney Houston and Robyn Crawford, Dancing Together
In the ten years since Whitney Houston’s passing, one of the sweetest journeys to witness has been the purposeful reclaiming of her legacy by Black queer people.
Holigay Gift Guide: 10 Gifts With Daddy Energy for the Masc Top in Your Life
If you’re looking for a gift that says, “Spank me, Daddy,” I’ve got you covered.
Writing for Autostraddle Helped Me Find the Words for My Real Coming Out
“To come into myself, to really integrate my queerness as an essential part of myself, I needed to start telling the stories I had been holding in for so long.”
There Were 122 Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer and Trans Candidates in the 2022 Midterms, Here’s How They Did
A red wave was coming, they told us. But they didn’t account for a new record for out LGBTQ candidates, who ran the table all across the country.
How Art Modeling Carried Me Through an Abusive Relationship
“I wanted to be a landscape or a place that couldn’t be contained.”
Rainbow Reading Stands With the HarperCollins Union Strike
Today, the unionized staff of HarperCollins are going on strike, and if you care about queer books and the future of queer publishing, you should care about this.
What If, Lube?
Lube. Just lube. Lube for regular sex, with or without toys. Lube anytime, for anything. It’s lube!
Word Search: Have You Seen My Feather Earring?
I regret to inform you that we’ll also need to find that fedora.
The 68 Absolutely Gayest Ways You Met Your Gay Partner(s), According to the 2022 Reader Survey
“We met in 1995. I was in grad school and had a job at the campus women’s center. I helped her hang an art show. We later hung out at a feminist science fiction convention. We’ve been together ever since.”
Pop Culture Fix: Ryan Murphy Wants to Reboot “Glee,” Maybe Bring it to Broadway
Rebel Wilson welcomes a daughter; the cuddly calm of Sapphic Pop; Janelle Monáe’s suitcase is full of costumes; and more!
My Anxiety Turns Life Into a Horror Movie
Most of my fears are around dying, maybe because I don’t understand it.
It Was Like Living on the Moon
“It was like needing food, and eating a pile of smooth, round stones instead. It was almost a life.”
Interview With My Wife: Mia
“I know, now the thought of sleeping in is just as exciting as a full blown affair to me.”
No Filter: It Is Possible I Have Never Seen a More Handsome Photo in My Entire Life
Also, DAMN Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts are good at making me feel single!
Mini Crossword to Test Drive
Escape, however briefly, into this supremely queer crossword made just for you weirdos!
Also.Also.Also: Keke Palmer Enjoys the “Delicacy” of Girl-on-Girl, Is a Fan of Subs (Being One)
Revisiting Britney Spears’ conservatorship one year later, a photo essay of queer Americana, and it’s no coincidence that the Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse is on Election Day.
Queer Naija Lit: Akwaeke Emezi’s “The Death of Vivek Oji” Delves Into What Is Born in Death
Emezi’s ability to immerse the reader into multiple characters’ realities and tell a story that isn’t just one narrative but infinite is reminiscent of Toni Morrison, even as Emezi creates something entirely new in Vivek.
A List of 10 Gay Mushrooms
“This mushroom was last seen in a lesbian club circa 2006 wearing a vest and skinny tie.”