Playlist: Gay Broadway Morning
Every song on this playlist is a little push forward for you, reminding you that you are perfect just as you are. Now go out there and live loud just like a musical theatre enthusiast should!
The Autostraddle Team’s Ten Most Influential Teen Albums
The music you listen to in your teen years mixes with your hormones and emotions and overwhelms you and permanently molds you. You make mix tapes, you go to shows, you buy band t-shirts and posters, you get ill advised tattoos. It’s a lot of fun.
Time to Be Floored by Shea Diamond’s Stunning New Video for Trans and Self-Empowerment Anthem “I Am Her”
I’m beyond honored and blessed to premiere the new live version of “I Am Her,” Diamond’s powerful anthem stripped down into an a capella performance.
7 Albums by Women That Got Me Personally Through 2016
2016 sucked, so I listened to a lot of music by women. It helped! Here’s seven of them which came out this year and thus were appropriate to use as a year-end recap list.
22 Most Lesbosexiest Music Videos of 2016
Princess Nokia, Dodie, Hayley Kiyoko, Tegan & Sara, Nina Sky and so many other artists blessed us this year with some very queer video imagery this year!
A Yoga Playlist for the Grief of This Year
“In the twisting lunge, think about the line of pain this stretch brings out of your hip and low spine. Think about the fact that this is a very specific place in your body. Donald Trump might never stretch this part of his body. So how would he get the strength that this particular part of his musculature has to offer?”
Playlist: Middle School Dance While Unknowingly Gay
Slow-dancing.
Tegan and Sara Created Their Own LGBTQ Foundation In Response To This Garbage Fire Year
“We will fight against the repressive legislation of the incoming Trump administration.”
Playlist: Driving the PCH Desperately Seeking Healing, Also Probably You’re Crying
Sometimes everything falls apart. Sometimes shit hits the fan. Sometimes the only thing that makes sense is doing something that never really does.
Brittani Nichols Likes You And She’s Proving It With Her New EP
Brittani Nichols Likes You is the thing about Brittani Nichols. It’s sexy and it’s funny and it’s real and it’s raw and it’s further proof that she can do anything she wants to do.
PLAYLIST: 30 Covers of The Greatest Christmas Song Ever
You already know what this is gonna be, don’t you?
Gaby Dunn And Allison Raskin Star In Satchmode’s Extremely Gay New Video For “Happiness Pt. 1”
If you’re into Very Famous Millennials and angsty lesbian drama (and you are, or else you wouldn’t be on this website), today is the day you’ve been waiting for.
Kristen Stewart Brakes For Zebras In Rolling Stones’ New Video for “Ride ‘Em On Down”
Would you like to watch Kristen Stewart drive a muscle car irresponsibly while licking a blue lollipop? Today’s your lucky day, bucko.
Lauren Jauregui is Bisexual: “Fifth Harmony” Singer Comes Out Gloriously In A Biting Open Letter To Trump Voters
Fifth Harmony member Lauren Jauregui is a proud bisexual Cuban-American, and also has some very choice words for Donald Trump voters so LISTEN UP.
What’s Going On in Alicia Keys’ New Gay Song “Where Do We Begin Now”
On her new album HERE, Alicia Keys first in three years, she has a lot of songs, but none as specifically suited to our interests here at Autostraddle than “Where Do We Begin Now,” a confusing song about first time sapphic attraction.
Playlist: I Bought a Baby Pink Stationary Bike and I’m Okay With Myself
I realized something inside of me had forever changed the first time I was smoking with the windows down and the music loud in my car and thought to myself “Huh, I could imagine myself doing SoulCycle to this song.”
Well Beyoncé and The Dixie Chicks Were Fucking Great at the CMAs
Hey, did you watch the 50th Anniversary of the Country Music Awards last night? I didn’t either! But I did watch Beyoncé and the Dixie Chick’s performance of “Daddy Lessons” and hot damn! It was fucking amazing.
LIVE STREAM: Tegan and Sara’s Halloween Concert Tonight!
Come on in and watch this live performance with me! The pre-show starts at 3:15 EST. The show starts at 9:15pm EST. Then share all your feelings in the comments.
Playlist: Such A Nasty Woman
Play these songs with the windows down today and drive past a white man’s house. Join the movement.
Not As Weak As We Seem: How Punk Band G.L.O.S.S. Gave Trans Women Our Voice
“Art made by and for marginalized people is vital. It allows us to connect our experiences with others and empowers us by showing us that we are not alone. G.L.O.S.S. resonated with so many trans women because their songs reflected a lived experience which validated our own.”