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First Person

Just Checking In

I went through my mental catalogue of friends back in LA and sent my check-in texts. Almost all of them did the exact same for me this past fall during one of the longest and worst hurricane seasons to hit the southeast in recent years.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 14, 2025 5 Comments
Arcadia, CA - January 11: Thousands of people are able to pick up clothes, foods, toiletries during a wild fire relief for victims pop up of Eaton Fire at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia on Saturday, January 11, 2025. (Photo by Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images)
Community

How To Help People Affected By the LA Wildfires

These are some smaller orgs, Mutual Aid funds and GoFundMes you can support to help those impacted by the horrific LA wildfires.

Riese January 14, 2025 2 Comments
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Shopping

‘I Want Femme Lingerie That Accommodates an Abundance of Pubic Hair’

“Finding a pretty bra is relatively easy. However, I feel like I haven’t figured out what to do by way of pretty underwear.”

Summer Tao January 14, 2025 5 Comments
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TV Reviews

Max’s Short New Take on ‘Calamity Jane’ Is for the Lesbian Horse Girls

In Reframed: Next Gen Narratives, filmmaker Robin Cloud turns Calamity Jane into a tender lesbian romance.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 14, 2025 1 Comment
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Pop Culture Fix

Reneé Rapp and Elmo Say It’s Okay to Feel Your Feelings

Reneé Rapp singing on Sesame Street, Lucy Dacus is seeking hot mascs, Mary Malon on her trans character in Missing You, and more pop culture news for you

Valerie Anne January 13, 2025 2 Comments
Make Out Month kiss-in protest
Issues LGBT History

Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins

For nearly 50 years, queer activists kissed each other as a form of protest.

Stef Rubino January 13, 2025
Movie Lists

25 Lesbian Movies on Hulu That You Can Watch Right Now For Fun If You Want

Have you ever wondered which are the best lesbian movies on Hulu? Good news: we’ve got all of Hulu’s LGBTQ+ movies for all your needs related to women gazing into the eyeballs of other women!

Riese January 13, 2025 56 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Nicole Kidman Movie Are You?

In Babygirl, she gives one of her career-best performances and we just can’t stop talking about it. So even though at Autostraddle we tend to focus our attention on queer actresses, I’m making an exception today.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 12, 2025 5 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Episode 1702 Recap: Altered Egos

Two episodes in and the girls are already FLIRTING.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 11, 2025 3 Comments
Gabby Windey, a contestant on season three of The Traitors, explains that her time on The Bachelor ended with her being a lesbian!
TV Show Recaps

‘The Traitors’ Season Three Is Off to a Dramatic, Gay Start!

The world’s campiest, most dramatic show that is essentially a grown-up version of the children’s game Mafia is back for a third season!

Anya Richkind January 10, 2025 1 Comment
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AF+

I Love Living Alone, But My Girlfriend’s Ready to U-Haul

You’re not sure you’re ready to live with your girlfriend yet! Also, a reader is hurt by a friend’s rejection of her mother.

the team January 10, 2025 3 Comments
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Issues

The Worst Places To Make Out

I believe parking garages are some of the most cursed liminal spaces of the modern era — DO NOT MAKE OUT IN THEM.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 10, 2025 7 Comments
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Issues

The Best Places To Make Out

The best makeouts are like an ocean — wet, open, endless.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 9, 2025 3 Comments
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Book Features LGBT History

A New History of Gay Rodeos Explores How Cowboys Have Always Been Queer

Slapping Leather addresses how the idealized white masculine cowboy has always been a myth.

Lauren Herold January 9, 2025 8 Comments
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TV Lists

40 Lesbian, Queer & Bisexual (LGBTQ+) Amazon Prime Video Original TV Shows

What TV shows with lesbian, bisexual and queer women and trans characters are on Prime Video? What a good question!

Riese and The TV Team
January 9, 2025 20 Comments
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AF+

Baby Steps #4: And I Feel God At This Baby Shower Tonight

“When it comes to baby showers, my wife was pretty certain about what she wanted: not to have one.”

Riese January 8, 2025 6 Comments
First Person Issues

The Music I’ve Made Out To: An Ode to Queer Kissing in Public

I believe in making out at the club, at the dance party, in the backseat of your car, in the corridor to the stairwell of your building, in the movie theater, at concerts, on the beach, at sports events, and at the brewery where making out isn’t really the vibe but you’re so hot for it you do it anyways.

Stef Rubino January 8, 2025 6 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: There Is Something So Comforting About Dykes in Pinstripes

Towa Bird and Reneé Rapp unlock lesbian achievement level: wearing matching pinstripe suits.

Christina Tucker January 8, 2025
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Movie Lists

If You Hated These Award-Winning Trans Films, Watch These Actually Good Trans Films Instead

For every award-winning trans movie made largely by people who don’t know anything about us, there’s a good movie made with an understanding of us or — GASP! — actually made by us.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 8, 2025 4 Comments
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 13: Zoe Saldana arrives to "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" at the Ed Sullivan Theater on November 13, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney/GC Images)
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Zoe Saldaña Thinks Masculine Women Are Sexy and Girls Are Better Kissers

Golden Globe winner Zoe Saldaña talked to W Magazine about her childhood crushes, her first kisses and who she thinks is the most sexy.

Riese January 7, 2025 3 Comments
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