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‘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

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

BOOK LISTS

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

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

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

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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…

Valerie Anne

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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…

Riese

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Aug 4, 2025

book lists

Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for August 2025

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

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

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Black Lightning

Black Lightning Recaps: Seasons 1-2

tv show recaps

“Black Lightning” Episode 207 Recap: Strange Fruit

As much as I love Black Lightning, and in particular as much as I love their willingness to ground the supernatural within the – admittedly sometimes ugly – realities of black life…

Carmen Phillips —

Nov 29, 2018

riverdale

Riverdale Recaps: Season 1-5

tv show recaps

“Riverdale” Episode 306 Recap: Betty vs. Parents

Parents love to lie, but Detective Betty is ON IT.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Nov 29, 2018

holiday gift guide

masculine-of-center fashion

queer fashion

Holigay Gift Guide: Seasonal Butch Accessories For Staying Warm, Looking Hot

Some of you might be here because the weather changed and you need warm things, some of you are like me and can’t wait to buy shit for every season,…

M —

Nov 29, 2018

2018 end of year list

Black Lightning

tv lists

Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2018

“Is this how cis white dudes feel all the time?”

The TV Team —

Nov 29, 2018

hanukkah

holiday gift guide

christmas

Be a Holigay Potion Master with These Three DIY Bottled Gifts

This series may not be Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger, but it’s the closest things we muggles can get. All you need is a stove, a few fancy…

Laura —

Nov 29, 2018

but make it fashion

the midwest

issues

Is She a Lesbian or Just From the Midwest?

Midwestern lesbian fashion — flannel, Birkenstocks, baseball caps — is ignored at best and looked down upon at worst compared to urban, Shane-esque queer style. What happens when it’s given…

Molly Priddy —

Nov 29, 2018

hanukkah

holiday gift guide

christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: Let’s Scissor Under the Mistletoe

Scissoring: the greatest sex act in the world? Who would be foolish enough to make that claim? Me, and this gift guide!

Archie —

Nov 29, 2018

link roundup

pop culture fix

Pop Culture Fix: Three “Delicious” Women Get It On in “The Favourite” and Other Stories

Stories include The Favourite, the oral history of “San Junipero,” Mel B’s tell-all memoir, bi actress Monica Raymund’s new lesbian role in Hightown, and a little lesbian Magic Mike just…

Riese —

Nov 28, 2018