This annual gigantic gift guide features all our wants, needs and desires. Or some of them, at least.

“I’m kind of scared and I don’t know what’s going on and I don’t want to tell anyone in case something is wrong.”

Take off your ipod, you just got sat.

In which I share the true story of my week-long jaunt to Manchester, UK for Pride, wherein I drink my face off, amongst other adventures.

In which I go off on a tangent about gay male spaces claiming to be lesbian spaces when they totally are not.

“It’s supremely bloody homophobic, extremely discriminatory and potentially dangerous for thousands of patients in need of transfusions. The inequality has just got worse, not better.”

Queer girls from 40 different schools give you the uncensored scoop on what it feels like for a gay lady on their campus — from hookup culture to dyke parties to activism and academics.

Time for the second edition of Brooke Means Business, in which Autostraddle COO Brooke Levin finds ladies who will talk to her about business. Today we bring you Franco Stevens, who was 22 years old when she decided to stop looking for a National lesbian glossy magazine and start her own — and thus CURVE was born.