“It is not often that governors directly lobby the people of their state to get a bill passed.”

“I’ve dedicated my entire life to documenting queer lives. I wanted to make sure I document (LGBTI) lives. All my major projects are gone.”

Cara’s Team Pick: Here’s hoping that by tomorrow this website will be unnecessary.

After a four-year stint in Autostraddle’s top American lesbianish city, I thought I had developed impossibly high expectations for every future place I’d inhabit. Then I found Sydney.

In high school Mitt Romney and his friends jumped some kid and forcibly cut off all his hair while he screamed and cried. Romney thinks this is mostly NBD.

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!

Ali’s Team Pick: This November, four states have marriage equality on the ballot: Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Here’s an ad straight from Maine, the first of a four-part series.

Greetings Queers, and Happy Election Day! Welcome to our Feelings Thread / Election Day Party Live Blog. Are you excited? I’m excited.

Not everyone’s sick of politics just because the election’s over. Here’s what to get those people who aren’t to hold them over until 2014.

Barney Frank is the latest and greatest oral historian for the Mitt Gets Worse project.

Resources to help your friends help you.

“We’re losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage.. we’ve probably lost that.”

This isn’t the kind of gay marriage we’ve been fighting for.

Salon digs in to the life story of Gay Marriage’s Enemy Number One, Maggie Gallagher and reveals new insights into exactly how she got this way.

Ever wonder what that teacher was thinking? How they handled being out at work? Or did you wish they were more out and outspoken? Here are three real-life queer teachers to give you a peek inside their teacher-brains!

Team Closet vs Team Cure, battling to come up with the best (read: worst) way to force heterosexuality on queers.

You guys, what if Republican donors made gay marriage happen in New York. Like really, what if.

The Department of Homeland Security has now drafted up written guidelines for binational and immigrant same-sex couples and families to now be considered “low-priority” in deportation cases.

Don’t spend more on a costume than you’d spend on a forty, and only wear what you’re willing to get stained.

71% of college freshman think it’s okay for us to get married, some lady marries a building, Newt Gingrich is a douchebag, these two Annas have a cute wedding video and so much more!