The Comment Awards Are As Gay As Velma
“Great day for all of us whose first foray into cosplay was wearing an atrocious tangerine turtleneck for half of second grade and saying jinkies a lot!”
How Many Times Does Shay Mitchell Have to Say She’s Bisexual???
She said she’s not straight in Cosmo, she said it in Maxim, she said it on YouTube, now she’s said it on TikTok. Wouldn’t it be cool if we just… believed her?
Into the A+ Advice Box #69: What If You Have a Stalker?
Supporting a partner with an HIV diagnosis, dating anxiety, dressing while pregnant, and more!
Clare Gets a Wee Lesbian Love Story in Derry Girls’ Final Season
“Just me. Just the one lesbian. The rest of them are straight.”
Also.Also.Also: Cherelle Griner Pleads for Brittney, “I Don’t Know if She Has Anything Left in Her Tank”
A visual history of WNBA kicks, the history of Black mermaids, and let’s look at some of the details of Biden’s marijuana pardon.
Michaela Coel Joined “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Specifically to Play a Lesbian
For so many of us, queerness is not about who we lay with at night — it’s about who we are when we wake up in the morning.
Confessions of a Ghost
Instead of disappearing from my emotional responsibility, I’ve decided to embrace the full transparency of a ghost.
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy
Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.
Slow Takes: The Year of Queer Indie Musicians Creating in Solitude and Losing Their Minds
Horror has always been the most democratized genre.
Anonymous Job Confession: My Boss Was an Egotistical, Predatory Dictator
“Cee showed me an audio recording she secretly took when she was alone with him.”
The Gay B C’s of Sex: T Is for Tribbing
Rubbing your bits against another hot bod is both physically and visually pleasurable, no matter what you call it.
Rainbow Reading: We Fell in Love (With Some Rad New Books) in October
When someone declared on Twitter “october is an inherently gay month” — they were right.
Diane Guerrero Is Exploring Her Sexuality, Possibility of Queer Communal Living
It’s more than a soft launch coming out in a magazine profile. Any day that another queer polyam Latina is walking around among us is a bit brighter than the day before.
Lizzo’s Yitty Set Changed My Life, It’s Worth an Internet Fight to the Death
Yitty has helped me spend less time looking in the mirror and more time doing what I actually want to do, which is be hot and gay in public.
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Pop Culture Fix: Hayley Kiyoko Made Velma Gay With the Power of Her Own Lesbianism
Lesbians on Andor, how Derry Girls managed a happy ending, Emma Corrin in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, and more!
No Filter: Queen Latifah Profiling Keke Palmer for the Time 100 List? Uh, Yes Please!
Plus, these Megan Fox IG captions whip.
Cecilia Gentili’s “Faltas” Is One of the Best Memoirs I’ve Ever Read
Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist is an exciting and, at times, breathtaking addition to the canon of works about “messy trans lives.”
Also.Also.Also: New Investigative Report Details Sexual Misconduct, Verbal Abuse, By Coaches in the National Women’s Soccer League
Taking our time breaking down Sally Yates’ report on abuse in the NWSL, Brittney Griner has an appeal date in Russia, and abled-bodied leftists cannot abandon disabled solidarity to “move on” from Covid.
I’m Qualified To Make You a Love Songs Playlist Because I Was Mildly Famous on 8tracks
I’m not saying every playlist I make is everyone’s favorite, but I have been enjoying doing it since my days of repressed feelings, plaid skirts, and passive-aggressive after-school text posts.