The Comment Awards Are Cuddling Up at the Christmas Tree Farm
“It is now my accepted headcanon that Rudolph is a lesbian who is very handy with her toolbox.”
Into the A+ Advice Box #49: Wanting to Want Monogamy
Crushing on your therapist, a partner controlling your time with friends, the long-term impacts of gaslighting, maybe getting married again, making adult friends via Facebook groups — the AS team gives A+ members advice on these topics, and more!
Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Manta
The Fun Factory Manta is a sex toy advertised “for men,” but what they really mean is “for people with penises.”
Also.Also.Also: Bisexual Legend Cardi B Named First Ever Creative Director in Residence of “Playboy,” That’s the WAP Agenda
Being single is more expensive on purpose, Janelle Monáe is curating Afrofuturist short stories, and If your coping mechanism through hell has been avoiding paying attention to what’s going on with SCOTUS, we have your required catch up reading.
“Twenties” Episode 208 Recap: Case of the Ex
Is it still a lesbian love triangle if there are four players? You, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, and your ex girlfriend’s (maybe) ex girlfriend who just loves to stir trouble.
There’s an Unexpected Lesbian in Hallmark’s “An Unexpected Christmas”
I love surprise lesbians, especially when they ruin Christmas for homophobes, so this little Hallmark movie was a hit for me!
Holigay Gift Guide: Stocking Stuffers Under $20 for the Sweetheart Whose ‘Stocking’ You ‘Stuff’
Shops this list of toys and accessories that are under $20 and have yourself a hole-y night.
There’s Something About a Scary Woman With Questionable Morals
Especially one who probably wouldn’t let me top her.
A+ Members Get 20% Off Autostraddle Merch — Including All New Designs!
Designs you helped us conceive! Your exclusive code is inside this post!
Lez Liberty Lit: Do Not Privatize Libraries
Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.
Foolish Child #109: Foolish Child(ren’s Books)
Do you know how beneficial a book about inexplicably loving random pairings of older women would have been to me at like fourteen, when Agent Scully met Agent Reyes?
December 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream
This December we’ve got the Sex and the City reboot and its non-binary Sara Ramirez character, a bisexual reindeer on Santa’s B-Team, a Black gay dating app inventor, the new Matrix movie, a queer character in a Christmas rom-com, a queer Real Housewife, a lesbian organic dairy farmer in an all-female dystopia and so much more!
Pop Culture Fix: Kathryn Hahn Is Our New Jo in the “Facts of Life” Live Re-Enactment
Even more lesbian Christmas movies, the first trailer for the Sex and the City sequel, The best Harry Potter novel isn’t written by JK Rowling, and more!
No Filter: All I Want To Do Is Celebrate Christmas Caroling Through the Night With Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts
Plus, Indya Moore for British Vogue? What else is there to say but “I’d like some more?” And hot moms (Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris) and cute baby? This is the future gays want!
NEW HOLIDAY MERCH ALERT: Gay Chaos Socks, Fresh Tees, Queer Hoodies, More Pronoun Pins, etc!
Fresh, bright, zesty Autostraddle merch served up just in time for your holigay gifts list.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for December 2021
As we come to the close of another pandemic year, I can only describe the collective energy as exhausted. Aren’t we all just a little tired of character-building growth opportunities at this point?
Also.Also.Also: Earring Magic Ken, An Ode to a Whole Entire Queer Icon
Congratulations to Barbados on becoming a republic (and celebrating with Rihanna, as one should!), lesbian feta cheese, and announcing Oestrogeneration — a magazine for trans women writers.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 86, November 2021
What terrible advice would you give your 16-year-old self just to see what kind of hell you could unleash on the world?
Classic Christmas Songs, Ranked by Lesbianism
The lyric “someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow” is very Sappho if you know what I mean. I’ll take any opportunity to find the dyke root in any piece of media, so why not rank some holiday classics by how much lesbian energy they exude?
Witchy Aubrey Plaza Prophesies “Happiest Season 2” ‘Cause Riley Needs Love Too
Ho ho ho, homos!