Growing Up With “Mucho Mucho Amor”: How Walter Mercado Defined My Life
I grew up in a conservative family so I never really knew the words to describe who I was but when I saw Walter Mercado in his finery and elegance, I knew I was like him.
Pop Culture Fix: Jamie Babbit’s “But I’m a Cheerleader” Director’s Cut Will Stoke Your Homosexual Tendencies
Also: All the Bly Manor links you can handle, Demi Lovato’s new anti-Trump protest song, Megan Thee Stallion’s NYT op-ed, Stevie Nicks figured out how to use TikTok before I did, and more!
Bex Taylor-Klaus and Alicia Sixtos Got Queer Married, Good Things Do Still Happen!
Their dog Duggie was also in attendance.
No Filter: Cara Delevingne Reaches Double Leopard Print Stage of Quarantine
It’s time to check back in on Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson post break-up, Hayley Kiyoko is the cutest human GAP ad, Stacy London is cozy in glasses and in love, and how do we even live on the same planet as Janet Mock?
Jenni Olson’s Films Are Now On Criterion — Butch Dyke Longing For the Moment
When Jenni Olson made these films, she wasn’t thinking about pandemics or quarantines or anything else this year has wrought, and yet there has never been a better time to revisit these five movies.
Also.Also.Also: Break Out the Fainting Couch, Chika Is Singing Queer R&B Love Songs Like We’ve Never Seen Before
Elizabeth Warren’s Op-Ed on Amy Coney Barrett, 25 famous women on crying, is there a safe way to go home for the holidays? Plus, Gillian Anderson as Margaret Thatcher AND first glimpses of a young Princess Diana in bomb “The Crown” trailer drop heard ’round the world.
25 Lesbian Hauntings, Ranked by Lesbianism
Mona played with dolls. I play with body parts. Game on, bitches.
Let Us Now Praise One-Off Vampire Episodes
Somehow we have enshrined vampirism into the pantheon along with Christmas, Halloween and sometimes Thanksgiving as deserving of its own 20-45 minutes in the sun each year, particularly in the realm of procedurals, and you know what, sure! Why not. This is not all of the vampire episodes ever made, but they are pretty good ones, if I do say so myself.
“The Haunting of Bly Manor” Isn’t a Ghost Story, It’s a Lesbian Love Story — with Ghosts
Bly Manor is a well-written, beautifully acted, stunningly filmed horror series, with old ghosts and new ghosts and fun lore — and a lesbian love story for the ages
You Need Help: How Can I Be a ‘Good Ex’?
Relationships change. Relationships end. It’s not inconsiderate to move forward; sometimes being a good ex means maintaining boundaries.
Con El Aceite de Coco Nos Sanamos: Lessons From My Elder
In Ifa, a Yoruba-based religion, we believe that when we die, we are reincarnated into our same family lineage. I’ve imagined all the ways in which it would be possible that my grandmother was once my sister, or my aunt, a friend in a past life or even a version of me. We depended on each other in so many ways.
6 Queer-Owned Sex Shops You’ll Vibe With
As we stock up on toys and lube for winter, we can put our queer money back into queer-owned sex shops!
Watch One Day at a Time on CBS, or It’ll Get Cancelled! This Is Not a Drill!
You — yes, YOU! — can save our favorite queer sitcom One Day at a Time. All you have to do is watch it tonight (and the next three weeks) on CBS.
“Steven Universe: End of an Era” Reveals How Hard Rebecca Sugar Fought for Our Queer Gem Wedding
“But if Steven Universe gets a gay wedding, then every show is going to want a gay wedding!” “‘YES!’ I said. ‘GOOD! WHY NOT???'”
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Knows She Was Cagey About Being Queer, She Just Needed a Dang Minute
Also: Janelle Monáe’s virtual reality concert experience, a Dickinson season two trailer, Demi Lovato reveals the exact moment she knew she was queer, some photos of Viola Davis working out just because, and more!
AS Politics Survey: Where Our Readers Stand On Criminal Justice Reform
Where does the Autostraddle community stand on pressing criminal justice issues including bail, incarceration and police brutality? Here are our findings, based on the Autostraddle Reader Survey and Politics Survey that readers most recently took.
Carnal Knowledge Is the Sex Guide You Wish You Had In High School
Carnal Knowledge is full of the truths you wish you’d learned from your hip older sister if your hip older sister happened to read a lot of feminist literature.
To L and Back LIVE! Episode 509: Liquid Heat With Gaby Dunn, Mal Blum, Brittani Nichols and Cerise Castle
The lights are out and everybody’s making out and we are having a live episode that you can watch (or read the transcript of!) right now, and also a podcast episode! WOW!
Sunday Funday Trusts Kate McKinnon’s Bananapants Doctor More than the CDC
Also: So many Coming Out Day goodies, a trans woman changed her name to Ellen Potter to troll JKR, witches want to know whose spell gave Trump COVID, how your emoji got queer, and more!
Everything Is Subject to Change…
I idolized Shane, and the only trans man in the series, Max. I wanted to mirror their everyday existence. I wanted to emulate their cool. I wanted the attraction they seemed to be dripped in. I wanted the clothes they wore, I wanted my jeans to have a hole in the crotch like theirs did.