It’s Your Anniversary: Rent Was My First Class On Anti-Capitalism
I felt even more galvanized by the queer anti-capitalist characters I had come to know so well — and felt seen in the small choices I made to work towards an anti-capitalist future.
You Need Help: Your Future In-Laws Won’t Come to Your Wedding
It’s obvious you love your fiancé very much, and want to protect them from any agony the world wants to hurl at them. Unfortunately, you mostly can’t. But here’s what you can do instead.
Sundance 2022: “Mija,” “Sirens,” and “Nothing Compares” Find Hope in a Hopeless World
This year at Sundance there are three documentaries about women in music — women who are tasked with navigating the hostile industry and our even more hostile world.
Pop Culture Fix: One Year of JoJo Siwa Being Gay
Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne are making a second lesbian movie, Tessa Thompson and the many layers of identity, Jasmin Savoy Brown is having a moment, and more!
Eight Queer Punk and Counterculture Books Set in the 90s
90s queer punk / counterculture / DIY books coming up!
“Euphoria” Episode 203 Recap: Great Tits and Kurt Cobain’s Haircut
It’s a big deal to have a trans girl character who is wearing a binder! I wish I trusted Sam Levinson to get into it more and to do it well.
Morgan Thomas On Weaving Genderqueer History Into Their Debut Short Fiction Collection “Manywhere”
“I was really interested in writing about specifically Southern and genderqueer characters, in part because I felt like I hadn’t seen myself in both the literature and in the sort of ‘mythos’ of the South. So I wanted to fill in that gap.”
Quiz: Which 70s Soul/Disco Diva Are You?
We often romanticize the 70s for the music and the fashion — the two best parts about the decade. But could you really hack it as a badass babe in that era?
Very Special Gay Episode: In 1986, Golden Girls Created the Most Enduring Lesbian Joke on Television
10 years before Ellen, 25 years before Santana (and if you’re keeping track — 35 years from today), Blanche Devereaux launched the joke that just will not die.
Sundance 2022: “Framing Agnes” Is a Complicated Tribute to Trans Invisibility
Framing Agnes is about about the truths we share and the truths we will never know.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1403 Recap: Blue Balls
RuPaul may have just RuPauled more than he’s ever RuPauled.
Reine #30: Conversation Hearts
Is romance dead?
Boobs On Your Tube: “Queens” Gives Us The Best Coming Out Speech in Years
Plus! Updates on 4400, Nancy Drew, New Amsterdam, NCIS: Hawai’i, and Claws!
Danielle Brooks’ Lesbian Character Is the Only Reason to Watch “Peacemaker”
In Danielle Brooks’ lesbian character Leota, Peacemaker finds the depth that it appears to be looking for in its star John Cena, and coming up short.
Play This Autostraddle-Themed Spinoff of Wordle for a Good, Gay Time
This version of the internet’s latest favorite word puzzle game features words associated with Autostraddle. And you can play right now!
The Comment Awards Are Dressing Like the Antler Queen
“The 80s welcome you back with a glass of lemonade in a clear plastic glass with lemons on it, and a smile on its face.”
Into the A+ Advice Box #52: NEW YEAR, NEW LOOK
How to get a queer haircut, should you use a toolbelt during sex, and how can you queer business formal wear? The AS team answers these questions about your look, and more!
“The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” Co-writer Abigail Barlow Is Already a Bisexual Legend
One year ago Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear were two friends so obsessed with 19th-Century British sex scandals and town gossip. Now they are Grammy nominated for Best Musical Theater Album.
Also.Also.Also: Rest in Elegance and Luxury, Andre Leon Talley
The best readings on Andre Leon Talley that I could find. It’s a good night to think about racism, fatphobia, and fashion.
“And Just Like That” Miranda Casts Herself in a Gay Rom-Com
The energy Miranda is giving in this scene — and, in fact, in this entire episode — is that little pig named Wallace from the Geico commercials who hangs out of the car window holding a pinwheel and screaming.