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So You Want to Dress Like the Main Character

Is pretending I am the protagonist in romance novel a fun way to tamp down some of my nerves about being back out in the world? Yes!

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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: No Seriously, Free Britney

Fighting for America’s last 21 lesbian bars, the dos and don’ts of Hot Vax Summer, and let’s go bisexual Loki!

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AF+

S L I C K: Plum

I dreamt of finger nails tracing my back, deep kisses, biting lips and hips pressed together. I desperately needed to cum.

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AF+

OUR A+ Personal Questions AMA is NOW! 11am-4pm PST

The AMA is NOW! Get creative, pry a little (but be kind please), dig deeper. We want to get to know you!!! Feel free to ask AND share your heart out in the comments.

A collage of gay HGTV episodes: an older lesbian couple, trans star Dominique Jackson of Pose, and a younger lesbian couple sitting on grass.

House & Garden TV Lists

The 11 Queerest Episodes of HGTV

I’m a home improvement gay, determined to watch enough HGTV to one day level up. Thus it just leaves me with a lot of ideas but lacking the capacity to bring any of them to fruition. I can talk a good game, though!

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Straddleverse

A Capricorn Without a Routine: A Day of Work

I wish I was the kind of girl who woke up at the same time every day, had an extensive skincare situation dialed in, and had finally cracked the code of which intense journaling system would help quiet my overworked and perpetually anxious brain, but that’s just not who I am.

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TV News & Trailers

Exclusive Trailer Drop! Con Todo Netflix’s “Visions of Us” Is an Absolute Love Letter to Queer Latinx TV and Film

It’s one thing for white gays to line us up and tell our stories for a scorecard of ‘diversity points,’ it’s quite another when we’re given space to really do it for ourselves. There’s ugh… no other way to put this… it also has some interviews of me? Alongside Stephanie Beatriz and Tanya Saracho? So please take me to my fainting couch immediately.

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Gender

A Gender by Any Other Name: What Does the Term Genderqueer Mean to Us in 2021?

“I feel like people started enacting these borders around it and categorizing it, and that felt so bad and wrong, and the antithesis of everything that it should be. Then, some people also really conflated it with the idea of being genderless or agender, and I’m like, “No…” I feel a lot of gender feelings! I don’t know what they are, or what they mean, but they’re there.”

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First Person

The 5 Stages of Choosing Myself During A Pandemic

If you keep pumping your arms, your legs will know what to do even when the world is crumbling around you.

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Meet-Ups / Events

June Town Hall Transcript

The transcript for the June Autostraddle Town Hall is now available!

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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Bisexual Badass Bombshell Harley Quinn is Back, Puddin!

Harley Quinn is sexy and screaming in The Suicide Squad trailer, plus a Disney+ musical Pride event, a bisexual buddy for iCarly, Sharon Stone has some feelings about Meryl Streep, and more!

Straddleverse

Stacks of Boxes and a Bottomless Inbox: A Day of Work

It felt like this kind of thing came so easily when I was 25!

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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: I Recognize One God, It Is Sha’Carri Richardson

Cara Delevingne and Ana Taylor-Joy are just two pals supporting each other, hmmm??? And a belated Happy Birthday to Jessica Betts, the iconic hersband herself!

Cara Delevingne in front of her Vagina Appreciation Tunnel

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Cara Delevingne’s Home Has a Vagina Appreciation Tunnel, That Checks Out

An official directory of 54 queer-owned bookstores across the US, Navajo Nation celebrates its first official Pride Parade, women in the craft beer industry, and Onlyfans is leaving the sex workers who built it behind.

The author and her family pose for a photo at a previous Pride event.

LGBT Pride Parenting & Family

Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride

As a gay parent, I have a lot of grievances about Pride — not one of them is about bare body parts or leather dykes and daddies.

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Straddleverse

A Creature of (Bourgeois) Habits: A Day of Work

Our trans subject editor, out in the wild and with a gay bottle of mezcal.

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Politics + Activism

Chicago’s Black Sex Workers Hold Each Other Up

I thought about what it meant to be part of Black sex working community and our long history of organizing, mutual aid, protests and movements. I thought about what it meant to stand beside one another screaming at the top of our lungs.