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AF+

Should I Get Married Before Trump Takes Office?

An international couple ponders a visa marriage before Trump takes office. Also a reader wonders if dietary restrictions can be a dealbreaker.

the team December 20, 2024 4 Comments
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Movie Reviews

‘The Room Next Door’ Is Almodóvar’s Tribute to Life Through Death

If Pain and Glory was a reckoning with self and Parallel Mothers a reckoning with Spain, The Room Next Door is a reckoning with the entire world.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 20, 2024 6 Comments
A collage of queer movie scenes with a gold 2024 in the middle.
Movie Features

Autostraddle’s Favorite Queer Movie Scenes of 2024

The team was horny at the movies this year and what a blessing.

The TV Team December 20, 2024 4 Comments
HOLIGAYS scene from Yellowjackets where Shauna and Jeff have brunch with Jackie's parents
Comedy Holigays

Excuses To Leave Your Family Holiday but They’re Just Plot Points From Yellowjackets

“I don’t mean to be rude, but a wolf literally just ripped off half my friend’s face.”

Motti December 19, 2024
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Christmas Movie Features

In Search of a Queer Christmas Horror Classic

If one quality ties the Christmas horror subgenre together, it’s an oddball, camp sensibility that almost always feels at least a little bit queer.

Payton McCarty-Simas December 19, 2024
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The 25 Best TV Shows of 2024 With Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Characters

It’s been a very uneven year for television with lesbian, bisexual and queer characters — but these 25 shows stuck with us.

Riese and The TV Team
December 19, 2024 7 Comments
Two pictures of M Arida cutting hair on the sides of M Arida posing on a couch.
Hair

Meet the Instagram and TikTok Sensation Creating Gender-Affirming Haircuts

“I want to get all my queer and trans people feeling as good as they can and very proudly be able to present themselves in defiance.”

Elyssa Maxx Goodman December 18, 2024 3 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Celesbians Were Really Partying It Up at Sarah Paulson’s 50th Birthday Party

Including a special Star Trek-themed birthday tribute from Tig Notaro!

Christina Tucker December 18, 2024 4 Comments
collage of christmas movies
Christmas Movie Lists

45 Christmas Movies With Lesbian, Bisexual, Queer or Trans Characters

In a world once lacking Christmas movies with lesbian, bisexual, queer women and non-binary characters, the tides of the North Pole are shifting, and we’ve got a great list of LGBTQ+ Christmas movies for you!

Riese and The TV Team
December 18, 2024 34 Comments
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Theater

The 30 Longest Running Broadway Musicals, Ranked by Lesbianism

Thanks to the Wicked movie, theater gays are so up.

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the best queer books of 2024
Book Lists

The Best Queer Books of 2024

This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.

Casey December 18, 2024 16 Comments
Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker
AF+ Queer Pregnancy

Baby Steps #3: Allegedly Essential Baby Products, Looking for Gays On The Baby App and Surveillance Anxiety

Of the many allegedly essential items we must procure for our baby — how many are actually essential and why do I feel so weird about surveillance products? Also: trying to figure out who all’s gay here on the Baby App boards.

Riese December 17, 2024 29 Comments
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Politics + Activism

Shroud Waving: On Trans Death, Callousness, Ancestors

Through all of the media and political bluster surrounding trans children, no one ever bothers to ask those of us who were trans children and are now adults what we think.

Morgan M Page December 17, 2024 2 Comments
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Sex

‘Every Time I Go Down on My Partner, I Get the Nastiest Acne of My Entire Life’

I haven’t struggled with acne almost at all in my lifetime, but after eating my partner out, I break out with a “beard” of zits that lasts all week.

Summer Tao December 17, 2024 14 Comments
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Holigays Shopping

Laneia’s Favorite Things: Gifts for a Casually Elegant Gay Lifestyle

From a vintage nutcracker to the perfect lip mask to REALLY GOOD BEANS.

Laneia December 17, 2024 11 Comments
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Movie News & Trailers

Wicked Part Two Will Be Named After the Gayest Song From the Musical

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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 16, 2024
Jane signing about Sabrina Carpenter on Saturday Night Live
Pop Culture Fix

On SNL, Jane Wickline Suggests We Start Queer Rumors About Sabrina Carpenter As a Treat

Jane Wickline does a bit on SNL about Sabrina Carpenter’s undeserved lack of queer rumors, Angelina Jolie and Cynthia Erivo do Actors on Actors, Margaret Cho’s got a new single, and more!

Valerie Anne December 16, 2024
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“Gifts” for the Chaos Friend Who’s Always Getting Into Predicaments Big and Small

Embrace chaos, embrace inevitability, embrace the fact that being able to locate one’s own keys quickly and easily will be life-changing for someone continuously misplacing them.

Nico December 16, 2024 2 Comments
TRAИ​Ƨ​A album cover art
Music

The TRAИƧA Compilation Album Is Queer and Trans Artistic Collaboration at Its Finest

TRAИ​Ƨ​A features the work of over 100 artists and musicians across many genres, disciplines, and levels of experience.

Stef Rubino December 16, 2024
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TV Feature

Autostraddle’s Favorite Queer TV Scenes of 2024

From meet cutes to sex, the best queer TV scenes of the year were almost all about romance. Almost.

The TV Team December 16, 2024 4 Comments
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