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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Stephanie Beatriz Is a Non-Magical Disney Heroine In the Enchanted “Encanto”

Benedetta is lesbian nun camp melodrama, Ryan Murphy’s Pray Away is fucking harrowing, people are still watching the heck out of Legend of Korra, and more!

Legends of Tomorrow Episode 609: Avalance, Sara and Ava, at a birthday party looking surprised and holding a baby alien

TV Show Recaps

“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 609: Laugh Tracks

Sara and Ava lead the team on a sitcom-themed adventure to prove that representation matters by way of saving Behrad’s favorite show.

on the left, a white femme human holds some boxes, is smiling but mostly obscured by the large cardboard box. to the right, a more visible femme who is asian is holding two boxes stacked on top of each other and grinning. text over the image reads: Into the A+ Advice Box

AF+ House & Garden

Submit Your Questions! Into the A+ Advice Box: Spaces & Places

A+ Members! Have a space you want to fix up, but aren’t sure how? Fighting over space with someone else? Struggling to find the kind of space you’ve always dreamed of? Let us help you!

Fear Street's gay characters look alarmed in the foreground as a late 70s summer camp looms in the background

Movie Reviews

“Fear Street: 1978” Plays it Too Straight for a Queer Slasher

Fear Street Part Two riffs on the original Friday The 13th movie with its summer camp setting, and we trade in the 90s nostalgia of the first Fear Street for late-70s nostalgia.

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Gender

Myths About Testosterone and Fertility, Told Through Three Perspectives

Many who have taken testosterone have become pregnant and birthed babies, and there is no evidence that testosterone impacts fertility long-term. But the myths about testosterone continue swirling.

Photos representing eight of the possible answers from the quiz: Jane the Virgin, Bend It Like Beckham, Pose, The 100, True Blood, Queer as Folk, Lost Girl

Quizzes

Quiz: Which LGBT TV Trope Are You?

Would you prefer to Hide Your Lesbians or to Bury Your Gays? This quiz will let you know where you’d end up in the wonderful world of Lesbian and Bisexual TV Tropes.

NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Super Into PDA Now

It’s time to make out. Plus, gender-neutral sex tech, just break up if you want to break up, how to talk dirty and more.

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Webcomics

Reine #23: T Shirts

No sleeves are safe from my scissors.

AJ & Alexis stare at each other with swoony eyes after an office hookup

TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: “The Republic of Sarah” Chooses Lesbian Lust Over Love for the Lord

Plus! Valerie Anne is trash for Motherland: Fort Salem, Drew loves a queer Valentine’s Day Dance, and Natalie is so hype on Leverage getting queer this year! And! Betty, In the Dark, the return of grown-ish, and All American’s backdoor pilot with a non-binary character.

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AF+ Lesbian Sex

Here’s Your Full Video Workshop Breaking Down Everything You Need to Know for Strap-On Sex

The latest in Queer Sex 101, our series of real live queer people teaching you everything you need to know about real queer sex continues, with a one-hour workshop from sex educator, Autostraddle writer, SLICK editor and More, Please! editor Ro White on strap-on sex.

One Last Stop review: The cover of One Last Stop: A queer Asian woman in ripped jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket, and red sneakers stands on the Q train. A white bisexual woman with red hair, carrying a cup of coffee, wearing black boots and a black jumper-dress walks by and notices the woman in the train. The cover says "One Last Stop."

LGBT Book Reviews

Casey McQuiston’s “One Last Stop” Is an Unmissable Queer Rom-Com Full of Hope, Humor, and Heart

In Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop, Jane and August fall in love in the all-consuming, omniscient, dramatic, lifelong lusty way only queers and fan fiction characters do.

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LGBT Book Reviews

Heather Corinna Makes Menopause Accessible, Hilarious, and Queer AF in “What Fresh Hell Is This?”

Come for the Victorian menopause psychoanalysis mad lib; stay for the ode to cooling pillows. Heather Corinna has gifted us the queer and trans-inclusive book about menopause you didn’t know you desperately need to read, with delightful illustrations by Archie Bongiovanni!

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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Strapping On Their Toolbelt

“I asked my partner what they’d do if I showed up like ‘I heard you had something that needs hammering’ and they acted like they didn’t hear me.”

In a still from Legally Blonde, Vivian and Elle are sitting together while working on their laptops.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Legally Blonde Came THIS CLOSE to Having a Gay Ending, What like It’s Hard?

Elite sports are failing Black women, readings on Sue Bird and Lil Nas X, the anxiety of girl tripping this summer, and Let Elle Woods Be Gay You Cowards!

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AF+

S L I C K: Accept Transformation, Part 1

The thing swaying in front of her didn’t even register as human at first. It seemed about as alive and conscious as the vibrator thrumming between its legs. Just a sex toy, executing its designated purpose without end.

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Relationships

Is It My Partner’s Mental Illness Affecting Our Relationship – Or Abuse?

If you feel like a relationship is taking you away from yourself, if it’s making you sad and anxious, if it makes you doubt yourself… that information is more important than any diagnosis ever could be. Your first and most important relationship is the one you have with yourself, and your diagnostic criteria for staying or going is whether you are acting in integrity with yourself.

Demi Lovato and Noah Cyrus holding each other at the YouTube Pride Concert in 2021

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

BREAKING: Are Demi Lovato and Noah Cyrus Dating or What???

If you don’t make your public debut as a couple at a party for Space Jam 2, did you ever really date?

An illustration of two 50's-styled women whispering to each other; a bubble above their heads shows they're talking about the Love Hamma, a vibrator shaped like a realistic hammer with a hammer head on one end and a slightly curved shaft on the other where a hammer's handle would be.

Sex Toys

Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Love Hamma Thrusting Vibrator

Lifting the pink Love Hamma Thrusting Vibrator from its packaging unlocked something deep inside me. A need I hadn’t realized existed. A dyke dream previously unnamed. I wanted to get fucked by this hammer-shaped vibrator. Pounded, if you will.