Autostraddle.com

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

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

BOOK LISTS

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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

POP CULTURE FIX

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

Valerie Anne

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

BOOK FEATURES

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

Riese

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

book lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

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’

Life

Aug 5, 2025

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

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

all-american

boobs on your tube

tv show recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Nomi and Shane, Sitting in a Car, K-i-s-s-i-n—WHY???

Plus: What is HTGAWM doing? Is Rosewell gay or what? And updates on All American, Legacies, Siren, Boomerang, Grey’s Anatomy, and more!

The TV Team —

Mar 1, 2019

longform journalism

Things I Read That I Love

literature

Things I Read That I Love #284: The Sharpest Pain I Have Ever Felt and a High I’ve Never Matched Since

Topics include lesbian doppelgängers, the lives of facebook moderators, YouTube’s young ASMR stars, Homicide: Death on the Screen, student loans, Elizabeth Holmes and so much more!

Riese —

Mar 1, 2019

hey did you see that comment friday

straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Bringing This Meeting of the Baby-Sitters Club to Order

“Hello, Baby-Sitters Club.”

Darcy —

Mar 1, 2019

friday open thread

open thread

straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: How Do You Feel About Literally All The Reboots On TV Right Now?

Let’s talk about reboots, remakes, and re-imaginings! And speculate wildly about the new L Word!

Valerie Anne —

Mar 1, 2019

the birthday issue

issues

38 and Closer to My Mother’s Suicide

We all sat in a big circle. We were asked to share. I told them that I’d recently moved back to Seattle, only a month ago, after having been gone…

Anastasia Selby —

Mar 1, 2019

broad city

tv reviews

“Broad City” Is Getting Even Gayer in Its Final Season

It also feels worth mentioning that Abbi dates a woman ONCE and is already wearing a denim dress with pockets? I guess we’re just diving right on in to the…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Mar 1, 2019

advice

getting in bed with kristin

health

Getting in Bed With Kristin: Sitting With Grief and Depression

Now with 100% more Sam in a basket!

Kristin —

Mar 1, 2019

Queer Horoscopes from Autostraddle

Satellite of Love

astrology, tarot & witchcraft

Queer Horoscopes for March 2019: Considering Wild New Possibilities

This month Uranus, patron planet of queers and revolutionaries, moves into the sign of the lesbian Earth goddess. How will our relationship to security and sensuality need to transform?

Corina Dross —

Mar 1, 2019

AF+

View more af+ members only

health

Health

masturbation

‘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

Book Lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Aug 5, 2025

Pop Culture Fix

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

Valerie Anne

Aug 4, 2025

Enjoy our content in print form – delivered quarterly to All-Access Members!

*on quarterly + annual subscriptions

LEARN MORE

View more af+ members only

Don’t want to see ads? Join AF+

Film

View More Film

tv show recaps

‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ Finale Confirms Our Gaydars With Main Character Coming Out Bisexual

Natalie

Jan 28, 2025

View More Film

From the Archive

into the af+ advice box

kink

sex advice

sex work

How to Find Local Kink Community and Also How to Hire a Sex Worker

"There’re contingencies of queer freaks everywhere, sometimes it just takes a little more effort."

Vanessa

four abstractly illustrated figures engage in a celebratory kinky dance. from left to right we have someone with top surgery scars wearing assless chaps, connected bvia a pair of cuffs to a person who is blindfolded and wearing cut out underwear, who is dancing next to someone in a mask and what appears to abe a full body rope bind, and followed by a person in a fishnet, corset and ballgag waving a flogger above their head. The figures are featureless and hairless and purple and the kink elements are red

af+

Into the AF+ Advice Box

How Do I Talk To My Family About Harry Potter?

How do you talk to your family about JK Rowling’s transphobia? And what to do about your poly kinky friend who seems bored by your monogamous life?

Af+

af+

Should I Cut My Maternity Leave Short To Help My Coworkers?

Your wife thinks your maternity leave plan is “crazy.” Also, how to navigate potential imbalances in a slightly open relationship.

Af+

af+

My Roommate’s Nudity Habit Is Weirding Me Out

Can you build healthy boundaries without body-shaming an unclothed roommate? Also can you teach a bad kisser to be a good kisser?

Af+

af+

Will Everyone Always Seem Second-Best to My Ex?

They checked every box, but now it’s over and nothing else seems to come close. Will it always be this way? Also, we help a reader decide if she should shave her bush just because someone asked her to.

Love + Sex

dating

Need Advice? Talk Queer to Us

Have a dream you want interpreted or a question for the tarot?

Quizzes & Puzzles

Become a Member

Become a Member to support queer journalism

What You Get:

EXCLUSIVE AF+ CONTENT

AD-FREE READING EXPERIENCE

PRINT MAGAZINE DELIVERED QUARTERLY

30% OFF PRODUCTS

LEARN MORE

Become a Member

Become a Member to support queer journalism

EXCLUSIVE AF+ CONTENT

AD-FREE READING EXPERIENCE

PRINT MAGAZINE DELIVERED QUARTERLY

30% OFF PRODUCTS

LEARN MORE

Hero Posts

health

‘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

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

BOOK LISTS

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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

POP CULTURE FIX

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

Valerie Anne

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

BOOK FEATURES

78 Years Of Lesbian Magazines Keeping Our Queer Legacy Alive

Riese