$204k So Far with 70% of Gifts at $50 or Less!? You’re Really Impressive!
This one’s for the people who love a little data on a Friday!
14 Famous Queer Ladies Who Got Gayer a Little Later In Life
“I’m finding, especially with women, a couple of different kinds of gays. I’ve met people who say, “I knew I was gay my whole life, and I lived this lie, and then I finally came out.” My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.”
The Comment Awards Are Going On A Celebrity Dream Date
“IS THIS MAGIC? WHERE DID YOU FIND MY JOURNALS???”
Also.Also.Also: The Best Boxer Briefs, as Ranked by Your Girlfriend
Mississippi became the first state to sign this year’s sweep of anti-trans bills into law (and some more readings about what’s coming next), misogynoir nearly killed Meghan Markle, and making it through this terrible sexless year.
“Riverdale” Episode 507 Recap: Cheryl and Toni Are Frenemy-Exes Now, and it Rules
Frightening at times and hilarious at others, it’s another chaotic but great episode of Riverdale that absolutely justifies the time-jump this season.
S L I C K: Sweet Dreams
“I had a kind of dirty dream about you. Do you want to hear about it?” You laugh, and fuck, that sound twists itself inside my chest like a fist. I want to make you laugh more. Your voice drops, somewhere between a whisper and a quake. “It started with me kissing you.”
According to Their New Interview, We Could All Be Dating Demi Lovato Right Now, Probably
At long last, Demi says she is “too queer” to date cis men, so now she’s free to call me.
“Good Trouble” Episode 304 Recap: Klompendansen
If you’ve been missing crying over The Fosters, good news — Stef and Lena are back to remind you it’s not where you come from; it’s where you belong.
Lez Liberty Lit Follows Mix Tape Rules
Toni Morrison as an editor; queer sex, food, and obsession; reimagining sex and survival; and more.
Pop Culture Fix: A New Star-Crossed Queer Love Vampire Show Is on the Way at Netflix
Ruby Rose says she’d return to the Arrowverse, Niecy Nash chats with Ellen about her “hersband,” Queen Latifah’s Equalizer has already been renewed for a second season, and more!
For Us and for You: We Want It All Is an Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics and Archive of Trans Literary Movements
In We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel aim to amplify a politics of trans people against capitalism and empire.
No Filter: Well Hello, Samira! Looking Incredible as Always!
Trace Lysette celebrates International Women’s Day, Quinn Wilson seems… neat, you know? And it’s so and cool and fine and normal that Janelle Monaé looks like this, hahahahahahahah we’re fine.
Also.Also.Also: NASA Named Landing Site after Octavia Butler, One Step Closer to Our Queer Space Colony Dreams!
Roxane Gay on becoming a queer elder before you’re ready, healing from this pandemic, the radical legacy of Dolly Parton, Drag Kings, and more!
QUIZ: Who’s Your Queer Celebrity Dream Date?
Do you remember those celebrity dream date quizzes in the back of teen magazines? Well for Autostraddle’s 12th birthday, I decided to queer it up!
Happy Birthday to Us! Here’s What We’d Say to Our Tween Selves
“In the future, there will be so many women’s basketball games on TV that you won’t even be able to keep up with them!”
QUIZ: How Well Do You Remember (The Gay Parts) of 2009?
Autostraddle got born in 2009 but believe it or not, a few other things happened too. Do you remember them?
A+ MEMBER COMMUNITY POST: What Advice Would You Give Your Tween Self?
sometime this year you are going to steal your first pack of cigarettes from *redacted*’s mom: please don’t ? you will like them far too much and also will feel bad forever for stealing
Autostraddle’s Turning 12 and We Want You to Ask Us Anything!
Truly the sky is the limit! Ask about anything!
You Need Help: How to Be Gay In Public
Being gay in public can be daunting, and it is not only because PDA discourse is fraught with questions of respectability and modesty. No, for us in the LGBTQ+ community, it can be a matter of life and death, so I completely understand your confusion and possible hesitance around showing PDA to your partner.
Meet Lauren Patten and Sonya Tayeh, the Queer Artists Ushering a Brighter Future for Broadway
Every once in the rarest while, an artist shows up on Broadway in possession of such exceptional talent — audiences start thinking about their future not in years but decades. Jagged Little Pill’s Lauren Patten and Moulin Rouge! The Musical’s Sonya Tayeh are such talents currently in the running for their first Tonys.