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‘I Feel Incredibly Bad and Guilty After Masturbating’

Feeling bad about masturbation is a remarkably normal thing, especially for people who were immersed (drowned) in shame from the…

Summer Tao

Aug 5, 2025

Both/And, Extinction Capital of the World, and The Midnight Shift

BOOK LISTS

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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Aug 5, 2025

POP CULTURE FIX

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl…

Valerie Anne

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Aug 4, 2025

BOOK FEATURES

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of…

Riese

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Aug 4, 2025

book lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

There’s a lot of new hot queer horror headed your way this August. Plus, more LGBTQ+ lit across all genres!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Aug 5, 2025

pop culture fix

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

Cynthia Erivo was Jesus and Phillipa Soo sang her love songs at the Hollywood Bowl this weekend! Plus, more buried and unburied gays on TV, Doechii announces upcoming tour, Jinkx…

Valerie Anne —

Aug 4, 2025

book features

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

The desire to connect with other people like us has been the driving force of queer media since the first lesbian print magazine ever launched in 1947. Here are just…

Riese —

Aug 4, 2025

Latest Articles

‘I Feel Incredibly Bad and Guilty After Masturbating’

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Literature

Aug 5, 2025

Help I Can’t Stop Watching Clips of Cynthia Erivo as Black Lesbian Jesus

News

Aug 4, 2025

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

Literature

Aug 4, 2025

How To Choose Between Two Paths Using the Tarot

Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Aug 4, 2025

dating the signs

Roundtables

astrology, tarot & witchcraft

What We Love and Hate About Dating Capricorns

The best tops. Sorry not sorry.

the team —

Sep 12, 2019

dating

Perfect Dates For Every Stage Of Your Gay Relationship

A lot has been written about first dates — but what about the second date? The third? Beyond?

Abbie Jones —

Sep 12, 2019

Ask Your Friendly Neighbourhood Lesbrarian

sci-fi/fantasy

book lists

8 Great Trans Fantasy Novels

Eight excellent fantasy novels with trans main characters coming your way!

Casey —

Sep 12, 2019

megan rapinoe

no filter

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Megan Rapinoe Dresses Up and Also Undresses To Make Her Cover Girl Dreams Come True

Let’s celebrate Evan Rachel Wood’s birthday, AZMarie’s brunch, Amber Heard’s U-Haul, Keke Palmer’s Playboy shoot, King Princess’s glove lunch and Megan Rapinoe’s Marie Claire cover story!

Riese —

Sep 11, 2019

foolish child

Saturday Morning Cartoons

webcomics

Foolish Child #54: Meet Cute

“Gay panic!”

Dickens —

Sep 11, 2019

the travel issue

issues

Cracked Apart

In the middle of a winter night in 1973, while the residents of a small island fishing town in Iceland slept peacefully in their beds, a crack opened up in…

Chandra —

Sep 11, 2019

Kate Moennig

link roundup

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Shane McCutcheon Made Kate Moennig Gay, Too

Also: Gillian Anderson falls in love with her characters, more on Brandi Carlile and The Highwomen, Kristen Stewart blesses Robert Pattinson’s Batman, Evan Rachel Wood meets a basically human robot…

Heather Hogan —

Sep 11, 2019

Autostraddle TV Awards

tv feature

Vote Now in Autostraddle’s Second Annual Queer TV Awards!

Queer women’s television has grown significantly in recent years. Still, we’ve watched our best continue to be sidelined by a straight white male majority that won’t pay attention to queer…

The TV Team —

Sep 11, 2019