In Pandemic Times, I’m Having a Digital Victorian Gay Romance
COVID-19 turned our relationship long-distance. We’re getting through it with Jane Austen and love letters.
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.
Mourning Betty Dodson. Plus, what’s up with anti-sodomy laws, r/ToyControl, setting boundaries, and more.
Then in bold, at the top was one item called Spaghetti With That Meat Sauce So Delicious.
“Safe spaces were never granted to the marginalized. There’s no freedom without fighting.”
Last week I was full of the nervous anxiety you feel when you know something big is about to happen, and you’re just counting down the clock. This week I’ve been full of the nervous anxiety of indefinite waiting. And yet, in that time, so much has happened in the world. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we share some reflections on the 2020 election and news on events from Vienna to Poland to Ethiopia to the Philippines to New Zealand to Chile.
Listen, sometimes we all enjoy gay male mermaids.
Is it a “friend” coffee or a “date” coffee, unemployed and feeling unmoored, negotiating initiating intimacy in a relationship with two people on the asexual spectrum, you feel like your best friend is making questionable dating decisions, grooming your armpit hair, taking a break from therapy, you’ve never been in a long-term relationship, trying to exist outside of capitalism, possible pelvic floor concerns — and more!