Boobs on Your Tube: These “Bachelor in Paradise” Queers Will Not Be Outdone By “Are You The One?”
Plus updates on Why Women Kill, Grand Hotel, and BH 90210!
Democratic Debate 3: Maybe Civility Didn’t Win the Day, but Neither Did Biden
Let’s recap the highlights and lowlights for each candidate and talk about what we mean when we bring up “civility.”
Things I Read I Love #297: Anyone Who Wears a Carabiner With a Certain Sprezzatura
Topics include BH90210, the cost of Amazon’s next-day delivery, Joe Exotic’s giant tiger zoo, Marianne Williamson, college admissions, lesbian bars, working at Trump Soho and more!
Top 10 “A Black Lady Sketch Show” Sketches to Send You Into the Weekend Laughing
Have you caught up on A Black Lady Sketch Show yet? If not, why are you robbing yourself of joy?
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Are Your Back To School Impulse Buys?
When back to school season comes around, what can you not resist buying? What school supplies make your heart go aflutter? Come hang out in the Friday Open Thread and tell me everything!
Serial Box’s “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter” Continues Cosima and Delphine’s Story
Orphan Black’s story continues in a new medium, jumping in right away with updates about Cosima and Delphine.
The Comment Awards Are Asking: Are You The One?
“I went out last night with another Rachel…it wasn’t super awkward until she told me her ex’s name is Rachel.”
What We Love and Hate About Dating Capricorns
The best tops. Sorry not sorry.
Perfect Dates For Every Stage Of Your Gay Relationship
A lot has been written about first dates — but what about the second date? The third? Beyond?
8 Great Trans Fantasy Novels
Eight excellent fantasy novels with trans main characters coming your way!
No Filter: Megan Rapinoe Dresses Up and Also Undresses To Make Her Cover Girl Dreams Come True
Let’s celebrate Evan Rachel Wood’s birthday, AZMarie’s brunch, Amber Heard’s U-Haul, Keke Palmer’s Playboy shoot, King Princess’s glove lunch and Megan Rapinoe’s Marie Claire cover story!
Foolish Child #54: Meet Cute
“Gay panic!”
Cracked Apart
In the middle of a winter night in 1973, while the residents of a small island fishing town in Iceland slept peacefully in their beds, a crack opened up in a flat patch of farmland and began spewing fire.
Pop Culture Fix: Shane McCutcheon Made Kate Moennig Gay, Too
Also: Gillian Anderson falls in love with her characters, more on Brandi Carlile and The Highwomen, Kristen Stewart blesses Robert Pattinson’s Batman, Evan Rachel Wood meets a basically human robot IRL, the joy of ’90s erotic thrillers, and more!
Vote Now in Autostraddle’s Second Annual Queer TV Awards!
Queer women’s television has grown significantly in recent years. Still, we’ve watched our best continue to be sidelined by a straight white male majority that won’t pay attention to queer stories, women’s stories, stories about people of color. Well, no more my friends!
“Are You The One?” Finale Sees Queer Community Triumphing Over Odds, Going Skinny-Dipping, Winning Money
The “Are You The One?” finale was a fitting end to the best season of reality TV in the history of civilization, and everybody came out to party about it.
Insta Crush: Jamie Thrower, the Fat Femme Behind Studio XIII Photography, Creates Visual Love Letters to Our Community
“I believe that stepping in front of a camera is one of the most vulnerable things you can do, and so I want everyone who allows me the honor of photographing them to feel celebrated and seen and loved.”
Are You The One?’s Paige Cole on Coming Out, Finding Love and Breaking Bisexual Reality TV Barriers
In which Paige’s perfect match is trying to get her to watch The L Word for the first time.
What Kind of Houseplant You Should Get Depending On Your Flavor of Lesbianism
Do you vacillate between extreme distance, and then merging/clinginess/overdoing it? Then watch out. Succulents like consistent LACK of attention.
Tag Yourself: A Quiz to Find Out Which Grease Bats Character You Are Once and for All
Whether or not you’ve read Grease Bats, or PURCHASED THE GREASE BATS BOOK that just came out, you’ll probably find one of the crew who’s your comic character alter ego. Want to find out which one? Take this quiz!