Autostraddle March Madness 2024: Fill Out Your Brackets Now!
Our theme for this year’s contest is “The Kids are All Right” and it was chosen for a reason. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of right-wing attacks on LGBT kids.
From “Bring It On” to “Love Lies Bleeding”: The Best Training Montages of All Time
No matter the point of the movie, the training montage is a moment of unabashed euphoria: Here’s our “hero” (or “heroes”) doing what it takes to attempt to beat the odds.
Real Life Late-90s Lesbian Spaces in the South Where the Drive-Away Dolls Could Have Stopped
Being from Florida, I know how easy it is for the history of queer and trans people to be lost to time, and I think it’s an important part of our fight for liberation to buck against that where and when we can.
Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature
The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.
Mini Crossword Loves a Good Portmanteau
As I get older, I remember all the people I lost along the way.
I Accidentally Crushed on a Rocket Scientist Lingerie Model Who Was Actually AI-Generated
I hunger for the exploits of smart, beautiful women, and Instagram is happy to feed me. So when she was recommended to me, I foolishly took the profile at face value.
Which “Drive-Away Dolls” Character Are You?
Are you the free-spirited Jamie or the uptight Marian? Or maybe you’re a hippie chick played by Miley Cyrus with an affinity for making plaster casts of your lovers’ genitalia?
AF+ Members: Pick the Winners of the Autostraddle March Madness First Four
La Brea’s Izzy vs. Bel-Air’s Ashley Banks! Dare Me’s Beth vs. Big Shot’s Mouse! Gen V’s Marie vs Jordan! Everything Sucks’ Emaline vs. Ginny & Georgia’s Max! Are you ready to tip off this year’s edition of Autostraddle March Madness?? LFG.
Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: Drive-Away Dolls Is Suffused With Lesbian Sex Throughout
“Justice for shower sex! It’s so controversial but I’m very pro.”
Reine #58: Communication Era
“Oh, I remember sexting on Tumblr! Vintage. I can vibe.”
AF+ Crossword Is Gayer Than Charlie’s Angels
You used to be able to get air for free at gas stations, but now it’s a dollar.
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1611 Recap: Living for Your Lip Sync
It’s a star-making performance from someone I already knew was a star.
Boobs on Your Tube: Carina and Maya Are Entering Their Hot Moms Era, You Know I’m Here for It
But this is Station 19’s last season. These are the last few weeks we will ever spend with Maya and Carina. They deserve a happy ending. So I’m going to step into that joy and stand ten toes down in it.
Reneé Rapp Calls for “Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza” From GLAAD Awards Stage
What most struck me about Reneé Rapp’s willingness to say the words “ceasefire in Gaza” from the GLAAD stage is how rare it is, even now, to see eventhat level of advocacy at all.
Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo
Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point University’s luxury dorms for America, a teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld and more longreads for you.
Bound Joins the Criterion Collection, a Win for Sapphic Cinephiles
It will become the 9th film directed by and about queer women to join the collection. Listen, I know this is important for Cinema reasons, but it’s important for Horny reasons, too.
Nothing the Medical Examiner Can Report Will Change Nex Benedict’s Cause of Death
It feels safe to say that Nex died as a direct result of trauma from the physical altercation at the school. Maybe not just the one, maybe so many more. Maybe years of bullying, of ostracization, of feeling unwelcome and out of place at the school he was required to attend every day.
“Love Lies Bleeding” Is a Queer and Carnal Neo-Noir Western
Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian have explosive chemistry, gazing at each other with an intensity that feels both too soon and eternal.
Kyle Richards Says She Was Curious To Kiss Morgan Wade in “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Reunion
Kyle Richards answers questions about whether she and Morgan Wade are dating in the season 13 reunion.
Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up
Plus advice about leaving a controlling partner and getting second dates.