Wear the Band Shirt, Make Your Own Rules
Band t-shirts are a way of both presenting and defining acceptable enthusiasms, and the baseline for what kind of enthusiasm is permitted is always socially established by straight men.
Also.Also.Also: 49ers Lose Super Bowl, but Lesbian Coach Katie Sowers Is Still a Winner, Baby!
Demi Lovato on coming out to her parents, softbois, making queer history at historically black colleges, and it’s time to get ready for the Iowa Caucus.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 306: Lifesize with Jes Tom!
The “To L and Back” podcast is plunging RIGHT back in to the sloppy mud of Season Three! This week, comic Jes Tom joins us to discuss “straight” Dylan, strap-on dimensions, cheaters, birds and Sleater-Kinney!
Sunday Funday Loves The Big Game with Ellen and Portia
Happy Sports Sunday! We’ve got gay Super Bowl commercials, queer books that won’t make you sad, parks being named after Marsha P. Johnson, stories about little known queer history, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Among The Ashes
TikTok and porn aesthetics, the fisting emoji obvs, how to initiate sex without feeling awkward and more.
Black Queer People Writing Ourselves Into History: An Autostraddle Master List
We want this year’s Black History Month to be serious. But also – sexy, fun, JOYful. We want to reflect the multiple ways that black people see ourselves and walk through our world. And so, we begin here. By writing ourselves back into our own history.
The Dyke Kitchen: Dishes inspired by Chani Nicholas, Tracy Chapman & Bette Porter
The concept for today’s cooking adventures: making dishes inspired by three iconic lesbians who influenced us, and who we’d also want to invite to a dinner party to experience them experiencing our food — yes, very gay.
Baopu #69: Coming of Age
I don’t want my life before America to become abstract, but the distance in space and time makes some loss inevitable.
Queer Horoscopes for February 2020: Find What’s Real and Start Anew
In a year full of pressure, February brings some cosmic sweetness that can help heal or hearts—or encourage escapism.
Boobs on Your Tube: Those Thunder Grace Kisses Are Sparking up Black Lightning!
Plus updates on Nancy Drew, All American, Arrow, and The Bold Type!
Into the A+ Advice Box #10: Is She Straight or Into You? Can You Dress Gay? and More!
Be the cool queer cousin you wished for as a kid, the polite way to turn someone down, sex is still great without an orgasm, creating your own queer community when you feel alone in the world, and 20 other questions from everyday readers like you!
Wait, This New Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Movie Is NOT a “Carol” Sequel?
I guess this is Guillermo del Toro’s remake of the 1947 film noir Nightmare Alley, which, according to the plot summary I just read on Wikipedia, is literally Pretty Little Liars.
In Honor of Rude Women
“I aspire to be described as terrible and lovely.”
The Comment Awards Just Really Love Bees
“I made a little poem. ‘Rebecca and Tess? YES.'”
“Good Trouble” Episode 213 Recap: Daylight
Alice levels up her lesbian drama and her boundaries!
“Riverdale” Episode 411 Recap: Does Anyone Remember That Cheryl and Toni Exist?
I wish the relationship writing for Cheryl and Toni had an equal depth and dimension to it, but nay. They sort of just exist together these days.
“Tommy” Review: Edie Falco’s Los Angeles’ Lesbian Police Chief Steps Into a Complicated Legacy
Her sexuality, it seems, has been something of a personal and career liability, and part of the series will see her grappling to turn it into something empowering.
Lez Liberty Lit: Take Up Space In The World
The discourse around American Dirt, finding gay hope in The Bluest Eye, what it’d be like if books had smells and more.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 65, January 2020
“Sometimes with people my age it’s like are you gay or do you just live in a major city.”
“Work in Progress” Is Too Much and So Am I
Throughout its eight episodes Work in Progress showed the value in being there for people even when it’s hard – and the importance of knowing when to walk away.