The diners from Grease, Gilmore Girls, Twin Peaks, and Riverdale

Quizzes

Quiz: What Diner From Pop Culture Are You?

It’s Diner Week, and we’re asking an important question: What famous cinematic diner are you?

a plate of red sauced ravioli. a pair of legs are emerging from one of the ravioli with a pair of crutches. there's also a mobility cane and a set of legs with a leg brace and crutches.

First Person

Scenes From a Jersey Diner

This is what it means to be from New Jersey. The roughness around the edges isn’t hidden away or sugar-coated.

An old television screen shows an image of eggs and bacon. Behind it are planets and rock formations. There is a meatball with red onion for its rings, looking like Saturn. A hand holds a remote.

First Person

Welcome to Diner Week — What Are You Having?

Welcome to Diner Week, a 12-part series of essays by Autostraddle writers and editors set in diners.

Geekery

Pokémon as Lesbian Movies

It’s been a rough week; have some Lesbian Pokémovies.

Webcomics

Reine #37: Unrestrained Summer Fun

There’s more to life than work. Fight for the four day work week, paid vacation, flexible hours! Get out there!

Zaara accuses Junior of stealing her earbuds. She's wearing a blue flannel top over a short white tank top and black pants.

TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: “Grown-ish” Trades a Performative Lesbian Lovefest for Nacho Night

Plus updates on The Chi, For All Mankind, Only Murders in the Building, Roswell, and American Horror Stories.

A still from They/Them in which Veronica [Monique Kim], a bisexual Asian woman with dyed red and black hair buzzed short on one side and Kim [Anna Lore] a white lesbian with long blonde hair, sit on a dock on a lake at a gay conversion camp. They have looks of deep concern and worry on their faces.

Movie Reviews

“They/Them” Review: Peacock’s New Queer Slasher Is Too Timid for Its Talented Cast

For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.

Raptor Boyfriend characters, including a raptor on a skateboard, a winged fairy holding a book, and a teenage bigfoot.

Geekery

“Raptor Boyfriend” Video Game Review: You’re a Cryptid? That’s Cute

Queer dating sim “Raptor Boyfriend” lets you pursue the cryptid of your dreams.

A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"

Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Know: Lesbians Find a Way

(Jeff Goldblum voice) “Lesbians… uh, find a way.”

The cover art for Renaissance by Beyoncé features Beyoncé on an iridescent horse.

Music

Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” Is an Unapologetic Dedication to Blackness and Queerness

I’ve grown to see sampling, when done well, as a love language, a way to remain connected to our history and communicate with the musical innovators who shaped, and continue to breathe life into, our culture.

a nonbinary Black person smiles a small smile against a colorful glass artwork backdrop. text reads Into the A+ Advice Box

AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #65: So You Think You Might Be Gender Fluid

Advice on studying with ADHD, envying they/them pronouns, finding the best outfits to match glamorous heels, masturbation, and more!

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First Person

Here’s How Our Lives Have Improved Since Quitting Drinking: A Candid Conversation Between Sober Queers

“I love that sober sex is so much better for me. Even masturbating is better.”

A photo of Breonna Taylor is seen among other photos of women who have lost their lives as a result of violence during the 2nd Annual Defend Black Women March in Black Lives Matter Plaza on July 30, 2022

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Finally, 4 Police Officers Federally Charged in Breonna Taylor’s Murder

What should an LGBTQ museum be, the many benefits of a four-day work week, just how big abortion won in Kansas and what that means for the midterms, and more.

Photo 1: A group of kids on a little league baseball team gather around their coaches. Photo 2: The writer, Drew, as a young child stands on a baseball field wearing a Mets uniform, a baseball hat, and a baseball glove. Photo 3: Drew holds a bat and wears a 2 jersey and baseball hat while smiling at the camera. Photo 4: Drew swings at a baseball (and is clearly going to miss). Photo 5: Drew wears a 22 jersey and baseball hat and is standing over the plate with a bat, ready to swing.

First Person Sports

An Interview With My Dad About Baseball

And about being the parent of a trans kid.

Brittney Griner #42 of the Phoenix Mercury warms up before Game Two of the 2021 WNBA Playoffs

Sports

Brittney Griner Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison by Russian Court, Let This Next Step Bring Her Home

Today is harder than most. But I have to hope — because really, what’s the other choice? — that this guilty verdict is the next step to bringing her home, quickly and safely. There’s no other way.

A pop art in the style of a 1950s comic of a woman laying in bed at night, she looks terrified. Above her in the dark is bright yellow lettering: L, Lesbian Bed Death"

Lesbian Sex

The Gay B C’s of Sex: L Is for Lesbian Bed Death

Why did the term “lesbian bed death” stick around in the queer imagination? Well, it’s catchy. And it’s scary!

Isabel Sandoval in a black Miu Miu sweater sits up on a yellow picnic blanket. She's wearing blue eye shadow and her face is lit in golden light. Shadows of leaves are seen on her face and the blanket.

Movie Features

Slow Takes: “Shangri-La” and What Makes a Great Short Film

Since the rise of video, “just go out and make something” has been a rallying cry to young filmmakers. I would add not to lose yourself along the way — in content or form.