Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #43
“I wanna know about the image for Laneia’s hate fuck list — these are some very choice collage images…”
Rather Than a Coming Out Story, “Body Grammar” Is About Queer Characters Coming Into Themselves
Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.
Also.Also.Also: “Mermaiding” Is the Next Terrain of Queer Subculture
The documented history of queer culture and mermaids, de-gentrifying pole dancing, queer YA books are selling in record numbers despite bans targeting them, and learning the limits of nonviolence.
In Verse: Poetry Collections for a Big Life Change
I have never lived anywhere that wasn’t in Pennsylvania. This state is my home, but I’m ready to move on from it.
Oh No, “House of the Dragon” Is Hinting at Queer Love
They’re the only two young women in the Red Keep, which I don’t have any experience with, but I do know what it’s like to be best friends with the only other lesbian on your Little League team, so probably it’s similar.
Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin Betrays Viewers in the Series Finale
The series one finale introduces a plot twist that’s a slap in the face, and undermines the show’s messages of empowerment for survivors of sexual assault.
Rainbow Reading: Even the Crows Are Queer in This Upcoming Speculative Novella
Catch up on the latest LGBTQ+ literature news in Rainbow Reading.
Jena Malone Comes Out as Pansexual By Doing An Interpretive Dance on Instagram
“My sexual identity has more to teach and to tell me,” Malone wrote on Instagram. “Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling. Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory.”
“Motherland: Fort Salem” Series Finale Recap: The Last Song
It’s a fight against time as Raelle’s witch bomb ticks closer to going off in the series finale of Motherland: Fort Salem.
Keah Brown on Her New Picture Book and the Importance of Disability Representation for Children
“I was excited to talk about rest for children, to talk about how even rest can be an adventure.”
How to Watch “A League Of Their Own” Deleted Scenes
Craving five additional minutes of A League of Their Own? Well, Prime Video has a handful of deleted scenes for you!
Pop Culture Fix: Julianna Margulies Will Keep “The Morning Show” Gay in Season 3
Some footage from The Last of Us TV series, Demi Lovato’s rock side, and raise your hand if you f-cked the devil.
“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 208: When Your Friends Don’t Like Your Partner
Bringing someone home to meet your parents is such a trope it’s become an entire genre of movie. But for many queer people there are two families to introduce to a partner: given and chosen. And sometimes the chosen family is scarier.
Vote Now in the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards!
Welcome to the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards (previously known as the Gay Emmys)! These awards are meant to celebrate the best of television — through a lens of LGBTQ+ representation.
No Filter: This Is Really, Like, the Dog Issue, I Guess??
Also, top among homosexual activities one can partake in: going to see Harry Styles with your GF.
Also.Also.Also: Lili Reinhart’s Entering Her Queer Period Piece Era, Get Ready For Corsets
Lili Reinhart’s first-Riverdale project will be a queer period movie, Biden is set to forgive up to $10k per person in student loan debt, the history of the women who brew beer, and how early 2000s pop culture changed sex.
A Queer Read on Tatiana Maslany’s “She-Hulk: Attorney At Law”
The She-Hulk pilot tackles queer-adjacent topics like wrestling with a side of your identity you’re not ready to face.
“All This Could Be Different” Review: A Novel So Good I Dreaded Finishing It
Whether she’s writing about Gantt charts or economic turmoil or oysters or blue and green or sex or hunger, Sarah Thankam Mathews’ sentences seduce and swathe.
A+ Roundtable: Our Celebrity Crushes
“All I’m learning from this is that I need to keep going to therapy.”
You Need Help: Do I Owe a Girl From My Past an Apology in the Present?
Treat people better than you did in your early twenties, and eventually you’ll realize that you have nothing to feel guilty about anymore.