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first person No Matter How Much Changes, These Diners Stay The Same If Staten Island has anything, it’s an abundance of delicious diners, and so many have left their mark on my heart. Sa'iyda Shabazz — Aug 9, 2022
first person Take Me Back to Standee’s For many of us, Standee’s was one of the first public spaces where we could openly and comfortably share our most authentic gender expression. Ro White — Aug 9, 2022
first person High School and Everything After You can’t be gay in 1999. But I’m not, so that’s just fine. Darcy — Aug 8, 2022
first person Scenes From a Jersey Diner This is what it means to be from New Jersey. The roughness around the edges isn’t hidden away or sugar-coated. Katie — Aug 7, 2022
first person Welcome to Diner Week — What Are You Having? Welcome to Diner Week, a 12-part series of essays by Autostraddle writers and editors set in diners. Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya — Aug 7, 2022
first person Here’s How Our Lives Have Improved Since Quitting Drinking: A Candid Conversation Between Sober Queers “I love that sober sex is so much better for me. Even masturbating is better.” danijanae, Analyssa, and Tracy Levesque — Aug 5, 2022
