Plus, an All-American episode that gives Bre-Z some of the best work of her career, biphobia rears its ugly head once again on grown-ish, and a hilarious and spooky episode of Nancy Drew!

It was a banner year for queer horror! Plus, fantasy, historical fiction, memoir, nonfiction, YA, middle grade, poetry picks — and so much more!

Advice on studying with ADHD, envying they/them pronouns, finding the best outfits to match glamorous heels, masturbation, and more!

Extra! Extra! is on a bit of a holiday schedule, so we’re here today to round out 2020 with the news from the last couple of weeks. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we cover judicial actions on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.K. and the U.S., the latest in Trump corruption scandals and pardons, updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently passed stimulus package and more.

The wedding was a bust but we sure do have a lot to talk about! Come on in and join our dear friends for the most fight-packed episode in L Word history!

Spiritually, we’re all making candles with Queen Latifah.

We bring you for the first time the first time the A+ Community Bookshelf: a crowdsourced project where A+ members can share the LGBTQ book recs that they want the rest of the A+ community to know about.

Is it a date or are we just friends? Why not both! This week we’re talking about fucking your friends with Autostraddle Community Editor and fucking your friends expert Vanessa Friedman.

“i’m going to take a shower and see if it [amy lee voice] wakes me up inside”

“She soon gave me the golden lock – threw herself on the chair by me. We wept (& kissed).”

2020 was terrible in every way except for queer books. There were so many amazing queer books published this year! Here are 67 of the best of them.

The finale of Wynonna Earp’s fourth (and likely final) season is a love letter to the fans by way of a big gay wedding.

Star Trek is finally officially trans! Plus virtual concerts by Brandi Carlile, women truckers for suffrage, Fawzia Mirza got married, “The Glorias” trailer is here, and more! Happy Sunday!

It’s Ellen’s iconic coming out episode from 1997. Except the opposite of that.

In 1990, Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb released Pride At Work, a booklet on organizing for gay and lesbian rights in the workplace. They spoke with Autostraddle about their lives, this “naughty little pamphlet,” and the future of queer labor organizing. Plus, for the first time ever, the full 100-page pamphlet is being released online – right in this post!

The Bay Area Reporter is reporting that Phyllis Lyon, lesbian activist and half of first legally married same-sex couple in California along with her wife Del Martin, has died in her home at age 95.

In upstate New York, a nursing home eviction due to a debt has indefinitely separated two women’s enduring love by 80 miles.

i would also watch an incredible ryan murphy show about this with sarah paulson and jessica lange as the wronged lesbian penguin parents.

This week on The L Word: Generation Q, MIcah attempts to navigate Porter-Kennard family therapy, Gigi and Dani get boozy, Finley explores her opportunities, Alice and Tom save shellfish lives and A BLAST FROM THE PAST returns to cause trouble for Shane.

Ava and the Legends follow an alien lead back to the 50s while Sara finds herself on a strange planet with Gary and…Amelia Earhart.