Results for: representation
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Holigay Gift Guide: For Grown-Up Kids in Their Thirties and Forties
I’m 43 years old and I love to play!
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Making it Work: A Queer Author Screams into the Wind
I was a couple of months into transition, and re-examining my relationship with seemingly everything I’d taken for granted until then.
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Pop Culture Fix: Cate Blanchett Is a Lesbian Mommi With Control Issues in “Tár” Trailer
Candace Parker and Sue Bird set more WNBA records in the playoffs, Janelle Monáe in Knives Out, Blackpink star Jennie’s new potentially bisexual HBO character, and more!
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25 Incredible Nonbinary Actors To Watch
There are so many nonbinary actors popping up on our screens and stages. Here’s just 25 of the many you definitely need to know.
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Francesca Farago Only Stayed On “Perfect Match” ‘Cause They Let Her Date a Woman
“I knew who was there, men-wise, and I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can waste anyone’s time by continuing to match with these men that I know I’m not going to get along with.'”
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Mike Flanagan Shows, Ranked by Queerness
I came out the same year as The Haunting of Hill House, and it was as if Mike Flanagan handed me a gift for realizing I love women.
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7 Brilliant Books About Chaotic Queers
When I think about “good” queer representation, I think about bad. I think about bad behavior, bad relationships, bad choices, bad words.
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Nickelodeon’s “Monster High” Welcomes Trans Kids to Magic School
Trans actor Ceci Balagot plays nonbinary monster Frankie Stein in Nickelodeon’s new silly-adorable live-action musical-fantasy.
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Lesbian and Non-Binary TV Characters Are All The Rage, Relatively
For the first time in the history of the “Where We Are On TV” Report, lesbian characters occupy a bigger slice of the LGBTQ+ TV character pie than gay men.
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46 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out In June 2024
Hot fresh reads for a hot bookish Pride month!
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Long Live (Heather’s Version)
This is my last week at Autostraddle. I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.
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Untethered: A Great Lady
I’ve been eulogizing, just to myself, in the moments between other moments that are claimed by tasks or thoughts of the present or literally anything else.
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Trans Teen Pauly Likens’ Murder Haunts Her Rural Pennsylvania Community
Pauly Likens was a 14-year-old trans girl. She had a core group of close friends, and she was seen by them, and loved by them and by her family.
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The Sounds of Gen-Z: Five Queer R&B Artists That Blend Sultry with Sweet
“These queer artists honor the genre’s roots while breathing new identities and stories into it.”
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Boobs on Your Tube: Special Ops: Lioness Breaks Hearts, Busts Heads in the Season 1 Finale
Plus updates at Only Murders in the Building and 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days.
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The Comment Awards Are Still Chasing Amy After All These Years
“I am absolutely shocked that the main character’s name is Alyssa…who is Amy???”
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Also.Also.Also: Lili Reinhart’s Entering Her Queer Period Piece Era, Get Ready For Corsets
Lili Reinhart’s first-Riverdale project will be a queer period movie, Biden is set to forgive up to $10k per person in student loan debt, the history of the women who brew beer, and how early 2000s pop culture changed sex.
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“Your Place or Mine” Fails To Explicitly Acknowledge Bit Butch Lesbian Character
As much as I’d love for Tig Notaro to be in all romantic comedies, I don’t want “butch best friend” to become the latest watered down LGBT character trope.
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Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Rules of Desire in ‘Y Tu Mamá También’
Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.
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40 Female Horror Protagonists, Ranked by Lesbianism
The women featured on this list include Final Girls, monsters, and everything in between.