Dan Savage Wants Baby Queers to Know: It Gets Better
Hi. Have you done something to take care of someone else today? Maybe you should, right now. It’s easy. You can do it on the internet. You love the internet. I love you.
Lesbians’ Home Set On Fire, World Still Crazy, Mean
This is a really depressing news day, but on the bright side, at least you only have to read about it, and not have your house burned down or endure a custody battle in court.
Good News, Ladies: You Can Be Good At Math, Bad At Feelings
Feel free to be a brilliant scientist and total emotional wrecking ball today as an author debunks all the gender myths about how your brain is too female to function.
Lesbians ‘Reflect Changes in China’ by Kissing ‘Romantically,’ Sporting ‘Boyish Fashions’
In China, “transformative change” is observed when two teenage girls, one with a “masculine hairstyle,” kissed on the subway “in an unmistakably romantic way.” Meanwhile in the US, someone’s son wants to wear a dress, someone else’s son comes out every day and pro-gay-bullying organization feels bullied. Kids these days!
This Week In Bisexuality: We Are All Made of Mega-Slut
Why is everyone being mean to bisexuals on the internet? Is this about Lindsay Lohan getting out of rehab somehow?
What Happened To Mitrice Richardson
The recent discovery of Mitrice Richardson’s body finally put an end to the speculation about her whereabouts – but there are still important questions that need to be asked about how she disappeared in the first place.
Can Queer Sex Queer Sex Ed?
Sex education in American high schools has been put through the gauntlet in recent years. What has this meant for the baby queers? Guest contributor Missy S. breaks it down.
Does Gay Marriage Make Gays Straight?
It’s three days until you can get legally married in California, so you had better get all your feelings about the bourgeois upper-middle class heteronormative paradigm out now, before they have to come out in couples therapy later on. While you’re here you can check out an infographic on Lady Gaga, find out which person you have possibly heard of came out this week, mourn the passing of Portland’s only lesbian bar, and celebrate BABIES with NEIL PATRICK HARRIS.
Parents & Heteros Join Queers Demanding Gender-Neutral Clothing
The internet wants to know where our gender-neutral clothing is at. Obviously all the queers at Autostraddle have a lot of feelings about this. It’s a mini-roundtable!
Valedictorian Calls Out U.S. School System, Brainwashed Students, Herself
Erica Goldson, valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School, used her graduation speech to deconstruct the institution rewarding her. Must read & process: “Now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. While others sat in class and doodled to later become great artists, I sat in class to take notes and become a great test-taker.”
Tel Aviv LGBT Center Shooting, One Year Later: March to Equality, Tell Someone You Love Them
The image of Tel Aviv as a liberal gay haven was shattered last year when a gunman injured 15 and killed two youths at an LGBT community center a few months before I was headed there for a study abroad program. On the one-year anniversary of the shooting, LGBTQ Israelis are marching from Jerusalem to Knesset in The March for Equality. Although I was not there today, I also have feelings on this.
How Many Studies Must Gay Parents Win Before They’re Free to Adopt?
Are you a gay or lesbian parent who needs defend the legitimacy of your family to an individual or legal body today? There’s an app I mean a series of studies and scientific research for that.
Counseling Student Sues For Right to Disregard Science, Enforce Homophobia
A student at Augusta State University has sued the school because it has allegedly asked her to alter her Christian beliefs (i.e., not advocate gay conversion therapy) before allowing her to graduate from its counseling program.
Cardinal Suggests Gay Priests Come Out, Get New Jobs.
Panorama Magazine has footage of three Catholic priests having sex with men. Cardinal Agostino Vallini says it’s time for gay priests to just come out and leave the church. Being gay and being raised Conservative Catholic, I think this reflects a new attitude that I actually really like, and here’s why.
Colleges Making Fancier Gyms Instead of Smarter Graduates
Colleges keep building buildings and raising tuition, but who benefits? Katrina The College Runagay has feelings about college and Sarah has facts and together we have ourselves an article about student debt, generational job market issues, and you know, the point of college etc.
10 Best Quotes From Midsummer’s Great Girl-on-Girl Feminist Cyberwar
It’s a new dawn & a new day for feminism on the internet, and a lot of ladies have said a lot of things about it and even if nobody won The Daily Show/Olivia Munn/#yallarejustjealous cyber-wars, some of those things are really important things! Also, Jezebel is taking over the internet if that’s ok with you.
Taylor’s Team Pick: Double Rainbow Oh My God
Every once in a blue moon (or a Blue Moon, because I was probably drinking one), I stumble upon a meme so perfect in every way that I must share it with the masses. I’m not much of a meme-chaser, sure I love a lolcat every now and again, but this, my friends, is a […]
Yvonne Moore Sued Her Church For Performing “Disgusting” Gay Marriage, Which is Crazy
Yvonne Moore, “world’s worst church lady” (according to THAT’S GAY), sues her church for 250K for that gross lesbian wedding they threw. But hey, let’s check out that book she’s been reading in “Autostraddle’s Primer on New & Old Testament’s Mentions of Homosexuality” which will soothe your soul, even if you’ve eaten trail mix, which’s bad for your soul. FYI.
Medicating Away the “Gay” in Your Fetus: There’s an Actual Doctor For That.
You knew that conservative right-wing homophobes hated gay people, but did you know how much? No. You didn’t. Trust us.
Google Cares More About Your Gay Family Than America Does, Has Money For You
Google has just made an announcement that they’ll step in where the federal government has left us out in the cold: they’ll begin compensating gay and lesbian employees with domestic partners for the extra taxes they pay that straight married employees don’t. We tell you what it all means, why, if you dare to trust it [we’re not sure we do], Google [might] save the [gay] world.