“If anything, The Edmonton Queen reads as a triumphant fuck you in the face of death and losing people you love before their time.”

“If you’re reading this and are currently in love with a tiny place that hasn’t loved you back yet, I want you to know that this is okay.”

“With all due respect that is a bunch of malarkey.”

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

The lesbianagettes are feathering their nests for winter with friends, activities and lady loves.

This massive six-page guide is full of holiday gift ideas and wishes from your friendly neighborhood Autostraddle staffer! We think you’ll find it very useful and inspiring, much like Autostraddle itself. What is modesty?

All the beautiful and new faces you might be seeing on your TV in the next month. Some of them are even gay! But none of them are lady gay.

My grandma shoved 30 dollars in my hand once and told me, “Always tell the truth about who you are and know we’ll love you anyway.”

This week on Glee, the cool kids came back and sang songs and everybody got ready to embarrass themselves at sectionals and Carrie Bradshaw had a kiki!

“The debate between Savage and Brown, at its core, was really just a fight over whether or not gay people can be deemed appropriate or special enough in the eyes of people like Brown to be permitted in the institution of marriage.”

Our least favorite conservative gay group should have made a dance video instead.

“Sure, my gay studies were fairly superficial and not very diverse at all. But until I left town, my world was the opposite of diverse, and what teenager isn’t at least a bit shallow?”

You voted and the results are in – the best 100 queer-lady fiction or memoir books of all time!

This week in lit: banned books, Vagina, and lots of lesbian storylines.

Holy shit what a good week.

I regret nothing.

In which all books mentioned herein were published after 1975 and almost everybody is both female and still alive.

Ever wonder what Pittsburgh has going for it besides Brian, Justin, Michael, Ted and Emmett?

This week I like Democrats more than Nicki Minaj. But not more than Kanye West.

I think I’m in love with Hillary Clinton and Gabby Douglass at the same time.