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a collage of lesbian actors including rosie o'donnell, keke palmer, fortune feimster, jodi foster, stephanie beatriz, queen latifah, elviara, jane lynch and jodie foster
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

The 60 Most Prolific Lesbian and Bisexual Women Actors

These are the lesbian and bisexual actors who have appeared in the most television shows and cinema film movies and major theater — and some of these names might surprise you!

Riese March 21, 2024 27 Comments
16 contests in the Brainiacs region
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: “The Kids Are Alright” Round One — Brainiacs

One Day at a Time’s Elena Alvarez, The L Word: Generation Q’s Angelica Porter-Kennard, Skins’ Naomi Campbell, Buffy’s Willow Rosenberg, Derry Girls’ wee lesbian, and so many other gay nerds are looking for your vote!!

Natalie March 20, 2024 6 Comments
kristen stewart and katy o'brian in bed being hot in a photo by Luke Gilford for THem Dot Us
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Lesbian Entertainment Ranked By Tank Tops and Kristen Stewart Without Pants

Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian’s very hot cover shoot, moving on from “Love Lies Bleeding” with a list of other ways to watch lesbians in tank tops, Kristen Stewart using “naked dressing” to make a point, Drew on NPR, Tig Notaro on her new special, Elliot Page’s new project and more!

Riese March 20, 2024 2 Comments
Zoe Lister-Jones' Band Aid: a recent picture of Zoe Lister-Jones with an image from Band Aid behind her in blue.
Movie Features

Seven Years Ago, Zoe Lister-Jones Made the Straightest Movie Ever — Now It Feels Super Gay

Knowing that Lister-Jones will divorce her husband and come out as queer, completely recontextualizes what’s on-screen.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 20, 2024 1 Comment
Liv Hewson in a red vest at the GLAAD Awards
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Liv Hewson Is Happy To Be Gay on Television

Plus, here’s what other queer celebs wore to the GLAAD Awards.

Christina Tucker March 20, 2024 2 Comments
Love and Hot Chicken by Mary Liza Hartong
LGBT Book Reviews

Two Women Find Love in a Quirky Southern Town in “Love and Hot Chicken”

Slow burn romance in a small Southern town gives this queer novel its heat.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 20, 2024 2 Comments
4 down / 4 letters / clue: WNBA All-Star Game team
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Has Much at Stake

After dinner my wife asked if I could clear the table.

Emet Ozar March 20, 2024
Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore in The Hours
Movie Reviews

“The Hours” Welcomed Me Into a Lineage of Sapphic Suffering

I watch The Hours whenever I’m sad.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 19, 2024 5 Comments
Health

10 Things That Surprised Me After Top Surgery

I’m six weeks post-op from Top Surgery, and I’m learning a ton. I’m learning more about my body and my dysphoria, my goals for transitioning, and most importantly, life without boobs.

Motti March 19, 2024 8 Comments
two Black women are smiling while asking each other questions on a first date
Dating

50 Gay Questions To Ask on a First Date

Have you ever seen a ghost or experienced a haunting?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 19, 2024 4 Comments
lesbian with fingers pointed at them and fire and so much
Gender

You Need Help: Everyone Thinks I’m Lying To Myself About My Gender

“If you were to ask me my gender, I’d say ‘lesbian.’ The problem is people in my life will not stop asking me if I’m nonbinary or trans. Everyone keeps asking if I have new pronouns.”

Riese March 19, 2024 8 Comments
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
LGBT Book Reviews

Judith Butler Elucidates Dangers of Anti-“Gender Ideology” Movement, Doesn’t Sufficiently Answer What To Do About It

Why does Butler spend so much time trying to refute these illogical suppositions in the first place?

Stef Rubino March 19, 2024 7 Comments
JoJo Siwa being like HEEEYYYYY
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: So, JoJo Siwa’s Getting Tattoos For Her Already-Named Future Children

A plethora of updates on JoJo Siwa’s future children and new music, Devery Jacobs discusses queer Native representation, Derry Girls’ “wee lesbian” talks mental health and more pop culture news!

Valerie Anne March 18, 2024 1 Comment
Elena Alvarez from One Day at a Time, Rue Bennett from Euphoria, Santana Lopez from Glee, and Casey Gardner
TV Feature

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.

Natalie March 18, 2024 8 Comments
The Best Training Montages ever feature: A collage against a grey backdrop with images from Stick It, Bring It On, and Million Dollar Baby.
Movie Lists

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.

Stef Rubino March 18, 2024 9 Comments
Marian and Jamie from Drive Away Dolls against a background of Florida maps, bar signs, and palm trees
LGBT History Movie Features

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.

Stef Rubino March 18, 2024 2 Comments
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake
LGBT Book Reviews

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.

Lauren Herold March 18, 2024 1 Comment
1 across / 5 letters / Grammy winner Victoria who wrote "Touch Me" about Kehlani
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Loves a Good Portmanteau

As I get older, I remember all the people I lost along the way.

Darby Ratliff March 18, 2024 3 Comments
a collage of an AI model with red hair
Comedy

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.

Summer Tao March 17, 2024 4 Comments
A collage of Drive-Away Dolls characters for the which Drive-Away Dolls character are you quiz.
Quizzes

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?

Drew Burnett Gregory March 17, 2024 7 Comments
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