Sally, Author at Autostraddle

reality tv

Corbin Bleu and Cat Cora in jean shorts and a tied-up button-up shirt dance in the new Fox series 'The Real Dirty Dancing'

tv reviews

Cat Cora Works Hard to Make 80s Nostalgia Gay on “The Real Dirty Dancing”

Cat somehow links this aggressively heterosexual film with her being able to express herself as an out and proud gay woman, and I am out and proud of her for…

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Feb 8, 2022

quizzes

Quiz: Which Winter Olympics Event Are You?

Come for the quiz; stay for the queer Olympics fun facts and history!

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Feb 6, 2022

culture

Play This Autostraddle-Themed Spinoff of Wordle for a Good, Gay Time

This version of the internet’s latest favorite word puzzle game features words associated with Autostraddle. And you can play right now!

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Jan 21, 2022

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

a group of the first people to create autostraddle, including riese, smiling at the camera from way back in 2009

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Back To The Queer Future #10: Crack The Queer Code!

Can you crack the passcode so Autostraddle can come into existence?

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Dec 26, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

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Back To The Queer Future #9: Find The Fire Filcher

Can you help root out the mole and ensure the Lesbian Avengers have a successful fire-eating protest in front of the Whitehouse!?

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Dec 24, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut, communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during the Challenger mission, June 21, 1983.

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Back To The Queer Future #8: One Giant Leap For Queerkind

Can you fix the circuit so Sally Ride can make it into space?

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Dec 22, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

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Back To The Queer Future #7: STAR Search

Can you help Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera find the right building to set up the STAR house to create a safe home for vulnerable trans and gay youth?

Sally —

Dec 21, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

Image from Getty images Audre Lorde stands at a blackboard and lectures while an artist in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts

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Back To The Queer Future #6: Stuck In The Stacks

Can you help Audre Lorde shelve all the books so she can work on completing her first book of poetry?

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Dec 20, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

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Back To The Queer Future #5: Duck The Police

Can you help Rose avoid the police so she can go on to found the Daughters of Bilitis?

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Dec 19, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

a feature image with a decorative triange in which is a vintage black and white photo of Edyth Eyde AKA Lisa Ben

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Back To The Queer Future #4: Pamphlet Panic

Can you help Edyth make sense of what she’s written so she can finish the first ever edition of Vice Versa?

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Dec 18, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

A feature image with a triangle and Frida Kahlo holding one of her dogs and gazing wistfully out the window

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Back To The Queer Future #3: Xolo Shenanigans

Can you help Frida round up the dogs so she can get back to finishing her classic queer painting Two Nudes in a Forest?

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Dec 16, 2021

13 Days of A+

back to the queer future

This is a designed feature image with a triangle motif. In the center of the triange is a historical photo. The photo is of blues singer and pianist Gladys Bentley in New York City in the 1930's

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Back To The Queer Future #2: Dapper Style Dilemma

Can you help Gladys pick the right outfit to galvanise her butch style before she makes her stage debut?

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Dec 15, 2021

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Cat Cora Works Hard to Make 80s Nostalgia Gay on “The Real Dirty Dancing”

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Back To The Queer Future #5: Duck The Police

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