Results for: queer parenting
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Post-Lip Service Ennui: BBC Looks To Improve LGB Representation
“The BBC may have axed Lip Service, and have run out of Sarah Waters books to dramatize, but they do seem to be making a commitment to representing LGB people and admitting that they could do better.”
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A-Camp May 2013 Recamp #1: Over The Mountain and Into The Woods We Go
Welcome to the first of four fantastic recamps of May 2013 A-Camp. In this fascinating installment, we’ll detail the very first moments of our time together on the mountain and also bears.
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Butch Please: Butch Does Chivalry
“I’ve seen some queer people who insist on holding doors, and other queers who use their stilettos to step on the feet of the men who do the same. I love them both, but I’m not sure if I can call sides in a concept of gentlemanly behavior that’s much older than any of us.”
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Choosing Jonah: A Family History of Abortion, Choice and Love
Sometimes the gulf between my own experience and “typical” parents is the same as that between parents and non-parents. And yet, on a fundamental level it’s also the same joy and the same challenge that we all face.
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I’m Not A Gender Zombie and Neither Are You: Rejecting Anti-Trans Bigotry From Rachel Ivey and Deep Green Resistance
Word has quickly spread on the web in the last week or so that Rachel Ivey, a member of the Deep Green Resistance environmentalist movement that holds openly transphobic views as “core” principles, is putting together a speaking tour consisting of a few relatively high profile events in June and July.
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Things I Read That I Love #65: Ellen Finds A Plumber
Topics include Ellen circa 1998, women in the KKK, the HMS Bounty, high cost medical care, long prison terms and poverty, Adalia Rose, studio photography, child beauty pageants & manufacturing in America.
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You Know You’re A Queer Catholic School Survivor If…
22. You can’t decide if you want to be or do your Confirmation saint.
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Things I Read That I Love #63: Like A Warm Danish From An Expensive Pastry Shop
Topics include ICU nurses, Orson Scott Card, Dr. Oz, working your way through college, prosecuting potential sex offenders, two-timing in New Orleans, google destroying San Francisco and more!
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Pretty Little Liars 406: Under the Gay Fiddle
It’s Open Mic Night in Rosewood and Emily’s about to learn just how good Shana is at fingering.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: 5 Prairie Homo Writers You Should Know
Welcome to the latest instalment of A Prairie Homo Companion, in which I proudly inform you that the prairie homo literary movement is indeed here, queer, and fantastic.
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Lez Liberty Lit #14: I Love The Smell Of Novellas In The Morning
Batwoman’s lesbian wedding, queer fiction for Black History Month, Jeanette Winterson on Virginia Woolf and confessions from an analogue-obsessed book sniffer, book cakes and so much more!
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Campership Opportunity: Apply To Be Kreuzbach10’s Dapper A-Camper!
Kreuzbach10 wants to make men’s shirts for women’s bodies AND ALSO wants to send you to camp in May! It’s your last chance to snag a campership.
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Things I Read That I Love #58: Remember Friendster
Topics include mass murder, online dating in 2003, 9/11, anorexia, how Wal-Mart kills people, death of a bad dad, life after a breakup and so much more!
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Questioning “Queer” Across Generations
“As a queer who spends a lot of time with other queers, rallying around our queerness, am I isolating those who have a more troubled history with the word?”
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Also.Also.Also: Let Lesbians Eat Cake and Other Stories We Missed This Week
The 49ers have been practicing their selective memory in preparation for this loss, and we’re gonna learn why they call it “Charm City.”
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Are Male Role Models Necessary?
A new study shows that boys raised by lesbians are properly gender socialized. Um, yay?
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Straddler On The Street: Ketzel
Ketzel wrote to us and said she’d like to see more teenage queers in the media, so we went ahead and accepted her offer to interview her, a real live teenage queer. We chatted about how she’s choosing a college, feminism, her love of horseback riding and the biggest misconceptions grownups have about teens.
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Famous Lesbians Open New Lesbian Nightlife Spot In Lesbian New York, We Think We’re Into It
There’s a lot going on at The Dalloway this week so Team Autostraddle NYC decided to finally tell you what we think about the fancy lesbian hotspot. Spoiler alert: We’re digging the new girl in town.
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Things I Read That I Love #66: Reading In Underpants
This week’s TIRTL includes a special Underwear Week section, as well as pieces on topics including Jehovah’s Witness, onscreen violence, sex abuse, robots, fan fiction, junk food and Alaska.
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Westward Homo! In Which We Pack It In, Load It Up, Party Down and Get Out Of Town
In the first of a series charting newlyweds Robin & Carly’s move from NYC to California, the ladies find a new place, pack and ponder leaving their world behind for a big bright temperate tomorrow!