Sepi Shyne is the first out LGBTQ+ Iranian-American elected anywhere in the world, the first woman of color ever elected to the City Council and cements the first female majority in West Hollywood history; her wife asked her the hard-hitting questions about her race and plans for the future.
If you have ever met a mountain, you know that can’t nobody really own a mountain because they are too majestic, too strong, too beautiful to be tamed or owned. So I guess mountains are kinda like Black folk.
I’ve been told I should try to reclaim my ancestral healing practices, and this is something I would like to do. When I try to learn about Chinese things, it feels performed. I wonder if me learning qigong is any better than white lady yoga.
Black women didn’t save this democracy for you and we don’t need your “Thank Yous.” We need you to follow the example that Black women have set for more than the last 200 years: Roll up your sleeves and get to work. Here’s a few concrete places where you can start.
Oh my glob, the Bubbline episode of Adventure Time: Distant Lands; Selena Gomez will play trailblazing gay mountaineer Silvia Vasquez-Lavado; A New York Christmas Wedding features a queer couple; very interesting bisexual Doctor Who rumors; and more!
Kate Moennig declared that “badass things happen in Philadelphia!” Also, Indya Moore with that Ivy Park drop, Stacy London birthday kisses, and Janet Mock is now and forever will be the H.B.I.C.
COVID-19 turned our relationship long-distance. We’re getting through it with Jane Austen and love letters.
Scientists warn that the climate crisis could kill off great tits, how to break it to your family if you’re not comfortable risking coronavirus to come home for the holidays, and a fundraiser to save the 15 U.S. lesbian bars left standing.
In February, I found myself sitting in a folding chair in a country club just outside of Pittsburgh, directly across from Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.
Are they dating, are they in love, are they having sex, are they best friends? It’s one of We Are Who We Are ‘s queerest pleasures that it’s not about definition.
The girls are so scared of the realities they’ve been given that their fantasy — murder and all — feels like the only choice. They don’t know yet that there’s a whole world of creative queer people out there.
The pandemic has made ghosting easier for those who might otherwise act like mortals.
On the 24th day of quarantine, I turned on all of the lamps in my room and took off all my clothes. Then I stood in front of the mirror and stared.
Yes, this specific nightmare is ending. But we are nowhere near achieving our actual dreams.
Baby, all I want for Christmas is this moooooviiieeee.
Gunpowder Milkshake? Gotta be gay. Also, Jamie Murray claims Myka Bering, Ashley Nicole Black claims the Stacey Abrams biopic, and I claim Batwoman season two as the best thing on TV.
From nursing (THANK YOU!) to forestry to operating a particle accelerator, our A+ members reported working over 500 different jobs in the 2020 Autostraddle Reader Survey.
It’s less that Winslet feels like Ronan’s mother and more that she feels like Ronan’s dull aunt she sees once a year at Christmas.
“Knowing what’s up doesn’t totally make it better, but it helps.”
Riese: One boob out. I love the one boob out.
Carly: One boob out is incredible.