10 Queer Haunted House Books
Let’s get gay and scared!
Baopu #104: Diaspora Time
What is diaspora time? It is a third plane between here and there, where time and geographies meet when people say they don’t.
Boobs on Your Tube: These “NCIS: Hawai’i” Queers Are Too Adorable to Function
Plus updates on Raising Kanan and Station 19!
“The Family Outing” Is a Vivid Memoir of Neglect, Secrets, and the Power of Family
Over the course of five years, Jessi Hempel came out as a lesbian; her dad then came out as gay, her sister as bisexual, and her brother as trans.
I Rediscovered Fanfiction This Year and It Reconnected Me to My Inner Teen
The best version of myself wasn’t achieved through reinvention. It was achieved through acceptance.
The Comment Awards Are As Gay As Velma
“Great day for all of us whose first foray into cosplay was wearing an atrocious tangerine turtleneck for half of second grade and saying jinkies a lot!”
How Many Times Does Shay Mitchell Have to Say She’s Bisexual???
She said she’s not straight in Cosmo, she said it in Maxim, she said it on YouTube, now she’s said it on TikTok. Wouldn’t it be cool if we just… believed her?
Into the A+ Advice Box #69: What If You Have a Stalker?
Supporting a partner with an HIV diagnosis, dating anxiety, dressing while pregnant, and more!
Clare Gets a Wee Lesbian Love Story in Derry Girls’ Final Season
“Just me. Just the one lesbian. The rest of them are straight.”
Also.Also.Also: Cherelle Griner Pleads for Brittney, “I Don’t Know if She Has Anything Left in Her Tank”
A visual history of WNBA kicks, the history of Black mermaids, and let’s look at some of the details of Biden’s marijuana pardon.
Michaela Coel Joined “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Specifically to Play a Lesbian
For so many of us, queerness is not about who we lay with at night — it’s about who we are when we wake up in the morning.
Confessions of a Ghost
Instead of disappearing from my emotional responsibility, I’ve decided to embrace the full transparency of a ghost.
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.
Slow Takes: The Year of Queer Indie Musicians Creating in Solitude and Losing Their Minds
Horror has always been the most democratized genre.
Anonymous Job Confession: My Boss Was an Egotistical, Predatory Dictator
“Cee showed me an audio recording she secretly took when she was alone with him.”
The Gay B C’s of Sex: T Is for Tribbing
Rubbing your bits against another hot bod is both physically and visually pleasurable, no matter what you call it.
Rainbow Reading: We Fell in Love (With Some Rad New Books) in October
When someone declared on Twitter “october is an inherently gay month” — they were right.
Diane Guerrero Is Exploring Her Sexuality, Possibility of Queer Communal Living
It’s more than a soft launch coming out in a magazine profile. Any day that another queer polyam Latina is walking around among us is a bit brighter than the day before.
Lizzo’s Yitty Set Changed My Life, It’s Worth an Internet Fight to the Death
Yitty has helped me spend less time looking in the mirror and more time doing what I actually want to do, which is be hot and gay in public.
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