If you’ve been here for 10 seconds, you’ve seen user paper0flowers comment on something. Now it’s time to meet the girl behind the username!

My best friend died one year ago today.

Jess chats with the couple about camp, the reality TV experience, the upcoming election, finding an anonymous sperm donor, Smash, Oprah, their Real L Word comrades and — in an Autostraddle exclusive — the sex of their baby, due in October!

NPR Morning Edition: Major New York LGBTQ Film Festival, Newfest, Goes Virtual Autostraddle film writer Drew Gregory appeared on Morning Edition to discuss Newfest’s online festival. Study Hall: Corporate Folly and the Collapse of Queer Media GayTimes+ followers in the footsteps of two queer, feminist publications, Autostraddle and Bitch Media, that have built durable brands […]

New Samantha Irby! New Leah Johnson! Get excited for these upcoming LGBTQ+ and feminist book releases, and support queer authors this spring.

Whether you’re convinced America is on the brink of collapse and want to get your loved ones some gear to survive the coming hellscape, or you think they could use some quality hiking and camping stuff so they can safely get outdoors and away from everyone else, this gift guide has you covered.

“Where do we stand on my confetti canon? Should I bring it to camp?”

“Little A+ box, I just wanted you to know that today I did my part in helping to burn the patriarchy to the ground.”

“always happy for the opportunity to turn our community’s collective missteps into content”

“wait there are nipples on shutterstock??”

NOT TWEE NORDIC LESBIANS

Can you capture some of the magic of A-Camp’s Diarist Hike where you live? Based on my experiences, I’d say yes.

“I can’t focus enough to read the cool indigneous women article but I want to read it but I cam’t I had too much drug candy”

Minerva describes herself as a “soon-to-be post-university queer lady and professional trans feminist” and spoiler alert, she’s awesome.

It’s the very first Monday of 2013, and we have a brand new Straddler to kick off the new year. Meet Caro, a Miami native who talks to us about creating a queer girl meet-up group in her city, working for a non-profit that provides education on gender and orientation, and crushing on Chely Wright.

Thank you for being members!

In JoJo Siwa’s first queer role, she basically plays herself. And it’s lovely.

111. I wrote hundreds of love letters to Janet Jackson. I never sent them, but was convinced that we would end up married some day.

“I’m eating a candy cane and drinking wine and am like WOW I GUESS I NEVER LEAVE NOW”

Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.