65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023
Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.
Sam Reece on Shitty Craft Club, Coming Out, and What She Shares With Jenny Schecter
“I haven’t even seen some of the absolute queer canon of movies. What’s the one with Cate Blanchett?”
Pop Culture Fix: Your Guide to the 2024 Golden Globe Nominations (But Just the Gay Parts)
The 2024 Golden Globe nominations are here and I have the deep urge to tell you who is even remotely gay. Luckily, I share that same obsession with many Autostraddle editors. There was a color coded google doc and everything.
Queer Dungeons & Transgender Dragons: Exploring Gender Through Imagined Worlds
In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.
The Best Queer TV Scenes of 2023
What makes a great TV scene? The payoff of seasons-long romantic tension? The perfect needle drop in a climactic moment?
The Limits and Possibilities of an Anti-Zionist Hanukkah
For me, and so many Jewish people, the lack of certainty, the encouragement of complex discussion, is what connects us to our faith.
Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
Mini Crossword is a Fingersmith
Why was the snowman perusing a bag of carrots?
Quiz: Which Gay Holiday Archetype Are You?
Are you a Hot Cocoa Mommi, a Fire Pit Butch, a Chaos Elf?
Holigay Gift Guide: Things Marketed To My Former Gender That I Actually Want
I was always bad at being a girl but now, with inflation, fast fashion, and heightened capitalism…I am so glad I figured out I was trans years ago.
Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “The Handmaiden” Has More Sex Scenes Than You Realize
The horniest parts of The Handmaiden wouldn’t really be called sex scenes by the average viewer and certainly not by the vast majority of straight viewers. But to me, they are sex.
Survivor Season 45’s Queer Contestant Katurah Topps Has Won My Heart
After surviving a literal cult, Katurah reckoned with her complex, multi-faceted identity.
A+ Crossword Loves Fuzzy Fruits
What do you call an everyday potato?
Fletcher’s Drops New Song “Eras of Us” and Yes It’s About Her Ex-Girlfriend Shannon
Fletcher’s new song “Eras of Us” just dropped and today she released a music video and her fans are loving it and also yes it is about Shannon.
Boobs on Your Tube: Raising Kanan’s Third Season Begs Us To Reconsider What We Mean by “Bury Your Gays”
Also, catching up on Rap Sh!t and the season finale of Black Cake.
Into the A+ Advice Box #94: I Don’t Think My Queer Relative Should Get Married
Advice on supporting a partner rejected by their family, non-competitive boardgames, period depression…and more!
Holigay Gift Guide: Goblin Mode
We have gifts for those in your life going goblin mode this season or all seasons, presents for the filthy gremlins you picked up on your quest, and offerings for the absolute trolls who are near and dear to your heart.
“Eileen” Doesn’t Deserve To Be Called “Carol for Psychos”
The mediocrity of Eileen wouldn’t matter if the film was just a deliciously twisted affair where Anne Hathaway looks sexy as hell in a blonde wig. The problem is the film’s self-importance.
24 of the Best Songs by Queer Artists in 2023
At a time when rights for marginalized people have never been more perilous, consuming art made by queer and trans people feels particularly necessary and sacred.
Mini Crossword is Listening to “the rest”
How much does a pirate pay for corn?