Slow Takes: “Pen15” and Embracing Alternate Girlhoods
Watching the first season during what I considered my second puberty was miserable. I could acknowledge its effectiveness, but I felt alienated.
The Gay B C’s of Sex: D Is for Daddy
The queer community played a special role in shaping how the word is used today. Are you ready to learn more? Say, “Yes, Daddy.”
Rainbow Reading: It’s a Good Time To Be a Sports Gay
Let’s make like glow sticks and get cracking — it’s time to catch up on LGBTQ+ book news!
Word Search: Dana Fairbanks Memorial Tavern
Chilling wayyy out with a Gen Q-themed word search today!
In Drop Dead Gorgeous News, Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Argentina Are Married
¡Felicidades! and also…I’m 😭
Should We Have an A+ Meetup in Providence, RI Next Week? Discuss!
On Monday???
Cate Blanchett Is Bewitching But Her Lesbian Symphony Movie Is Tár-ible
Look, if you want Cate Blanchett to punch you in the face and run over you with her bicycle, that’s absolutely fine — but revisiting Carol or even Ocean’s 8 is a better way to live out that fantasy.
Kit Connor Was Forced To Come Out Because Everybody Is Using “Queerbaiting” Wrong
As the discourse around queer actors playing queer parts heats up, there is increasing pressure on actors with queer parts to come out.
Pop Culture Fix: Tig Notaro and Emma Watson to Play Pickleball Together on TV
Keke Palmer and Javicia Leslie in X-Men cosplay, Glee is going to haunt us until the day we die, and Apex Legends is adding a trans woman character.
Mini Crossword for Irked Androids
An absolutely PACKED mini crossword for your Wednesday!
No Filter: Gaze Upon These Gay Celeb Halloween Costumes
The thing is, celebrity costumes often feel like….”okay and?” Like, we know you are rich and can have a photoshoot, but I need to see this at a party?
WHAT In the Queer Media Happened You All!?!??
No, this is UNHEARD OF.
November 2022: What’s New and Gay on Netflix, HBO Max, Showtime, Peacock, Hulu, Disney+ and Prime Video?
We’ve got The L Word: Generation Q, new seasons of The Sex Lives of College Girls and Dead To Me and Elite, a very gay brunch-focused cooking competition, Cara Delevingne’s sexual journey and more!
Guessing Game: Practically Flagging
It’s Wordle’s gay cousin!
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for November 2022
Halloween may be over, but astrologically we are still deep in Scorpio season.
You Need Help: How To Date While Dealing With Mental Illness
Dating has often felt like a game I don’t know how to play. “An elaborate puzzle,” as you say. One where the pieces are sharp as knives that cut to the core of my deepest insecurities.
Fatimah Asghar’s New Novel Is a Salve for My Reality of Grief
Nothing lasts, though — not our parents, not our homes, not our relationships, not us.
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 97: October 2022
“Extremely weird that there are two queer media subjects named TAR right now.”
Janelle Monáe Gave Megan Thee Stallion a ‘Lil Kiss, Plus Other Hot Queers in Costumes
Happy Gay Christmas!
When Survival Isn’t Just About Yourself
Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.