Carmen has led the editorial team with compassion, pragmatism and heart. She brings to the table bright hopes for our future and a deep love for the roots of this strange little website.

Plus! Valerie Anne is trash for Motherland: Fort Salem, Drew loves a queer Valentine’s Day Dance, and Natalie is so hype on Leverage getting queer this year! And! Betty, In the Dark, the return of grown-ish, and All American’s backdoor pilot with a non-binary character.

“the sex bench is like all the flatware in beauty and the beast collecting dust waiting for somebody to come along and use it to feel purpose / meaning again”

Whether you’re in the market for furniture, art, candles, planters, kitchenware, organizers, textiles, or little tchotchkes, these queer-owned shops have got you covered.

I am (was?) dating the Tenderqueer from “Dykes and Their Emotional Support Albums” who listens to Phoebe Bridgers and they haven’t texted me back since right before Christmas. Did I have it coming?

Plus updates on Nancy Drew and Legacies!

“Sepideh Moafi’s tongue is acting. Her tongue has more compelling storylines this season than many of the core characters, I would argue.”

I asked her if I could have a human-sized cat cone, the one that makes it looks like your head is poking through a piece of toast. Sadly, I cannot — but I can get the brace I need in Tennessee Lady Vols orange, so at least I can support my favorite team while also making sure the top half of my body is the color of a construction cone so I don’t get hit by any cars.

“When I was diagnosed, and realizing how it affected me outside of the way that I eat, it’s these processes throughout my day or the way that my personality functions. It isn’t that disruptive, but having the framework helped. Finding kink, having the words for it, helped contextualize the sex that I like to have, the friendships that I like to have, the dynamics that I like to have and the relationships in general.”

This week in Episode 203 of The L Word Generation Q, Bette Porter looks at art and yells at Gigi, Dani gets a penthouse, Angie meets her half-sister, Micah gets a new job and Sophie and Finley are faced with the very real possibility that they’ll need to invest in a new kitchen table.

You all are just so cool!

Ava and Sara are off looking for wedding venues so we have to spend the whole episode watching Constantine be… well, Constantine. They can’t all be Thong Songs and Beebo Battles, I guess.

The one where Dreamer levels up.

“Challenge. Sext in strictly second person.”

“I fully understand they have to paint a picture of the times, and deep racial trauma and pain were a part of those times, but I found myself wondering why we need another gut-wrenching Black story on film.”

This should be chill.

The Gossip Girl reboot, new seasons of Atypical, This Way Up and Never Have I Ever, a three-part horror trilogy full of ’90s nostalgia with a lesbian couple at its center and more!

The Autostraddle store is full of some of the best gay merch you’ll ever lay your little gay eyes on.

We got superhero movies! Teen comedies! Christmas movies! Oscar bait! Musicals!!!!

Being gay in public can be daunting, and it is not only because PDA discourse is fraught with questions of respectability and modesty. No, for us in the LGBTQ+ community, it can be a matter of life and death, so I completely understand your confusion and possible hesitance around showing PDA to your partner.