“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.”
“IS THIS MAGIC? WHERE DID YOU FIND MY JOURNALS???”
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.
Frightening at times and hilarious at others, it’s another chaotic but great episode of Riverdale that absolutely justifies the time-jump this season.
“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.”
At long last, Demi says she is “too queer” to date cis men, so now she’s free to call me.
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.
Toni Morrison as an editor; queer sex, food, and obsession; reimagining sex and survival; and more.
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
“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!”
Autostraddle got born in 2009 but believe it or not, a few other things happened too. Do you remember them?
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
Truly the sky is the limit! Ask about anything!
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.
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.
Moxie aims for riot grrrl rage and zine-ready radical politics but falls short, coming off more like a glossy mag for girl power that’s only loosely intersectional.