Remembering Stonewall Was a Riot: It’s Time To Meet Up For Autostraddle Pride 2019!
Happy Pride Month, loves. There is no better time than now to care for and about each other, and there is also no better time than now to organize.
The Great Angling Lesbian Society: A History of Chicago’s Lesbian Fishing Club
For one group of Chicago lesbians in the mid-1990s, building a queer community meant sitting around a barrel fire in the freezing, rainy April night, casting smelting nets and awaiting a barrage of tiny fish.
Pop Culture Fix: Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein is Queer IRL, FYI
Plus: New trailers for new seasons of Claws, Pose, and Jessica Jones; stabby Killing Eve news and interviews; Amber Benson’s playing gay again; Gentleman Jack has been renewed; that murdery lesbian cello Netflix movie, and more!
Chill or Be Chilled: 10 First Date Ideas for When You Want to Keep It Casual
Coffee and drinks are easy, but why stick to what’s easy? Get creative, but not so elaborate that your date thinks you’re madly in love with them and about to propose.
“She’s Gotta Have It” Season 2 Finally Gives Nola Darling The Bright Light She Deserves
“If Nola Darling is one of the most famous, even if uncomfortable, black queer women in pop culture – what does it mean for us that nearly everything about her is so closely tied to the man who created her?”
On the Hunt
My hunting experiences from youth to adulthood, in relation to my life as a black, queer woman of color.
Kristen Arnett’s ‘Mostly Dead Things’ Is a Funny, Dark Story of Messy Queer Love (also, Taxidermy)
Mostly Dead Things is the story of what happens to a young woman when her life is torn open and reset in a different pose, and how she deals with herself — and her queerness — as a part of that confusion soup.
For Your Consideration: Eating Seafood With Your Hands
Over the past four years, I fell in love, traveled many places, had my heart broken, unraveled. I also ate a lot of seafood platters. Here are some of them.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 57, May 2019
“can we call lesbian visibility day lesbian brigadoon”
Queer Your Ears May 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
I feel like we have some deeper, more interesting, more contemplative stuff here at Queer Your Ears this month.
“Killing Eve” Is Going to Keep Murdering Us
The season two finale came the closest the show ever has to giving us what we want. But what do we want?
The Perfect Queer Poem: For Defining Your Boundaries
The line breaks are hard to take. They make the poem feel like a fight: not knowing when to stop, talking over one another, losing your thread, gasping for air through tears.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 108: L’Ennui
Y’all, Jenny is about to take her tights off and we are so here for it!
Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Lizzo’s Hallelujah Moments
We’re settling into Gemini season with gay rodeos, news about the Aladdin remake, trans commercials to make you weepy, Pride collabs, gay rodeos, and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Practicing French Kissing
A French kissing refresher, censored queer sex ed, ballon fetishes, masturbating without using your hands and more.
Femme Brûlée: Rainbow Sugar Cookies
How about a sugar cookie-filled Pride?
Baopu #60: The Act of Remembering
How fluid is our memory?
Boobs On Your Tube: Gentleman Jack’s Misandry Remains Transcendent
Plus: JR and Petra try co-parenting on Jane the Virgin, Lena Waithe smooches Halley Berry on the mouth on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Kat’s new love gets complicated on The Bold Type.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Spring Has Sprung And I Cut All My Jeans Into Jorts, What About You?
Spring is the best time for fashion in my opinion! A time for light jackets, layering, body hair, cut offs, sunburnt tattoos, backpacks full of beer, all the good stuff! What are you wearing these days?
The Comment Awards Are Sending Will You Marry Me? Y/N Fruit Baskets
“IDK why the basket of fruit sent me over the edge, like, queer women have really been gay disasters since the dawn of time.”