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First Person

Confessions of a Ghost

Instead of disappearing from my emotional responsibility, I’ve decided to embrace the full transparency of a ghost.

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Book Features

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.

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Movie Features

Slow Takes: The Year of Queer Indie Musicians Creating in Solitude and Losing Their Minds

Horror has always been the most democratized genre.

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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.”

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Lesbian Sex

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.

Literature

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.

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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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.

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Queer Fashion

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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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Hayley Kiyoko Made Velma Gay With the Power of Her Own Lesbianism

Lesbians on Andor, how Derry Girls managed a happy ending, Emma Corrin in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and more!

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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Queen Latifah Profiling Keke Palmer for the Time 100 List? Uh, Yes Please!

Plus, these Megan Fox IG captions whip.

LGBT Book Reviews

Cecilia Gentili’s “Faltas” Is One of the Best Memoirs I’ve Ever Read

Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is an exciting and, at times, breathtaking addition to the canon of works about “messy trans lives.”

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News

Also.Also.Also: New Investigative Report Details Sexual Misconduct, Verbal Abuse, By Coaches in the National Women’s Soccer League

Taking our time breaking down Sally Yates’ report on abuse in the NWSL, Brittney Griner has an appeal date in Russia, and abled-bodied leftists cannot abandon disabled solidarity to “move on” from Covid.

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Playlists

I’m Qualified To Make You a Love Songs Playlist Because I Was Mildly Famous on 8tracks

I’m not saying every playlist I make is everyone’s favorite, but I have been enjoying doing it since my days of repressed feelings, plaid skirts, and passive-aggressive after-school text posts.