Results for: queer parenting
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Some of My Best Friends Aren’t Gay: Summer 2012 Ally Roundup
When straight people show us love, we show them love back!
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Things I Read That I Love #33: Girls, Sex, Money
Topics include lesbian enclaves, the worst child neglect story ever, school segregation, the Pulitzer, the “age of girlfriends,” sex in red states vs. blue states, stoned fortysomethings and more!
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People in Glass Closets: Anderson Cooper and Straight Responses to Coming Out
When heterosexuals ask, “why does Anderson Cooper have to come out as gay,” I reply: “because you do not have to come out as heterosexual.”
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True Confessions of a Queer Lisa Frank Enthusiast
“I’m all about Lisa Frank right now because of what she means to my understanding of gender, sexuality, and the fluid nature of both.”
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Episcopal Church Blesses Our Messes, Likes Gender Neutral Language Too
The Episcopal House of Bishops recently approved a blessing for same-sex couples in an overwhelming 111-41 vote.
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Read a F*cking Canadian Book, Eh: Shani Mootoo’s “Cereus Blooms at Night”
“We sat reading on the rooftop for hours, only stopping when the sound of a train drowned out our voices.”
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Before “The L Word,” There Was Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Unfortunate representation of queer communities may piss us off but it doesn’t mean it won’t help in some wacked out way. Just look at lesbian pulp fiction novels.
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The Comment Awards Are Welcoming Two New Co-Captains, Ahoy!
Things we wrote and the best of what you clever dolphins said.
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Big Companies Wanna Make Big Change For GLBT Youth, Ellen’s Mom Is Involved
Johnson & Johnson, Walgreens, and PFLAG are teaming up to help stop bullying against LGBT youth.
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Baby Lu: Queer Coming of Age Film Needs Your Support
“Growing up with my own mountain man father presented an array of experiences and challenges, which came to a head when I entered my teens and even more so when I realized I was gay.”
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Transgender Housing Network: The Autostraddle Interview
A temporary housing network exclusively for trans* people who need a safe place to stay, and YOU can help!
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Ladies of Note: A Brief History of Women Composers, Queer and Otherwise
You know about Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but what about the women who wrote classical music?
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The Comment Awards Are In Full Swing
The sun is out, Pride is happening, and summer is on it’s way!
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Once Upon A Time in Charlotte: The Democratic National Convention Recap
“But we also believe in something called citizenship citizenship, a word at the very heart of our founding, a word at the very essence of our democracy, the idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations.”
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Cowboy Hats, Peanuts, and Regret: The 2012 Republican National Convention Recap
Or, “The One Where Clint Eastwood Does That Thing With The Chair, Oh My God.”
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GOProud’s Gay Lunkheads Endorse Mitt Romney
GOProud has endorsed Mitt Romney and remain obnoxiously short-sighted about what a Romney presidency would mean for the LGBT community.
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Top 10 Lies You Told to Get to A-Camp
Long as I gets to the womens, who cares about the truth?
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Shit White Parents Have Said to Me
“Minority youths are really just more violent than white ones. Seriously, you can’t argue with the news.”
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Gays Fight To Enjoy Shitty Fast Food In Good Conscience, Which Is Impossible
The problematic aspect of the discourse around Chick-fil-A is that it isolates the anti-gay rhetoric and investments as its sole transgression against the queer community.
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T(OUR) Magazine Wants Your Experiences, Stories, Submissions
Rachel’s Team Pick: Look, a new queer literary magazine for you to submit to!