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AF+ Meet-Ups / Events

Right The Heck Now: You, Us, the A+ Pop-Up Discord?

Join us! Plus there’s a hang with the senior team on Friday!

Nico November 3, 2022 2 Comments
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First Person TV Feature

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 3, 2022 6 Comments
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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.”

Ro White November 3, 2022 9 Comments
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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!

Yashwina November 3, 2022 3 Comments
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Word Search: Dana Fairbanks Memorial Tavern

Chilling wayyy out with a Gen Q-themed word search today!

Laneia November 3, 2022 42 Comments
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In Drop Dead Gorgeous News, Miss Puerto Rico and Miss Argentina Are Married

¡Felicidades! and also…I’m 😭

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 2, 2022 5 Comments
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Should We Have an A+ Meetup in Providence, RI Next Week? Discuss!

On Monday???

Nico November 2, 2022 30 Comments
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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. 

Heather Hogan November 2, 2022 35 Comments
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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.

Riese November 2, 2022 13 Comments
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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.

Heather Hogan November 2, 2022 13 Comments
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Mini Crossword for Irked Androids

An absolutely PACKED mini crossword for your Wednesday!

brooke November 2, 2022 37 Comments
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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?

Christina Tucker November 2, 2022 3 Comments
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Straddleverse

WHAT In the Queer Media Happened You All!?!??

No, this is UNHEARD OF.

Nico November 2, 2022 28 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

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!

Riese November 1, 2022 12 Comments
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Guessing Game: Practically Flagging

It’s Wordle’s gay cousin!

Laneia November 1, 2022 89 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for November 2022

Halloween may be over, but astrologically we are still deep in Scorpio season.

Corina Dross November 1, 2022 8 Comments
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Dating

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.

himani November 1, 2022 22 Comments
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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.

shea wesley martin November 1, 2022 5 Comments
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 97: October 2022

“Extremely weird that there are two queer media subjects named TAR right now.”

The Editors October 31, 2022 26 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Halloween

Janelle Monáe Gave Megan Thee Stallion a ‘Lil Kiss, Plus Other Hot Queers in Costumes

Happy Gay Christmas!

Carmen Phillips October 31, 2022
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