Results for: queer parenting
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Meet the New Girls: Allow Me to Introduce Autostraddle’s Recent Recruits
They’re smart, they’re sweet, their hair smells great, but what else?
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Mary Gray Knows What it Feels Like For Gay Kids in Rural America
“I’m not less gay when I take the rainbow sticker off my car. I just know that if I have that in my car, I’m going to piss off people who are already angry at me.”
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Focus on the Family Knows They’ve “Lost” Gay Marriage, Keeps Fighting For the Thrill of the Fight
“We’re losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage.. we’ve probably lost that.”
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100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Graduation: LGBTs Winning Hearts and Minds
This weekend, one third of Michigan Law’s 2011 class walked out of their own graduation ceremony to protest an anti-gay graduation speaker. Lucky for us, Sarah was there for the whole thing.
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California Textbooks Might Include Gay Role Models, History
What if you had found out about gay historical figures and role models from your teacher, and not frantic late-night googling?
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Annika and Sebastian Answer Your Trans* Questions (Part Deux)
“In this second installment, we discuss topics like “undoing” the effects of puberty, intimacy with a trans* person, and how to address gender ambiguous people.”
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Tennessee’s Republican Senators’ Delusional Plan To Pretend Gay People Don’t Exist
You know how no one ever told you anything about gay people even existing? What if that was the law?
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Postcards from Uganda: An American Lesbian Abroad
The incredibly true story of my first two months in Kampala, Uganda, where I really can’t tell anyone that I’m gay.
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I Really Loved “Who Took The Bomp?: Le Tigre On Tour”
“Nothing I’ve seen since “The Runaways” has made me want to run home and pick up a guitar more, and this feeling was cemented when my friend and I got up to leave and ran smack into Joan Jett.”
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DADT Repeal Could Happen By Mid-Summer, KStew Doesn’t Want To Smile For You
This took forever because Dinah Shore but hey look, progress is being made with DADT and also the rest of the world seems pretty ok right now!
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We Love Documentaries: 5 Documentaries Relevant to Your Interests
The incredibly true story of a girl in love with Netflix instant who watched 4 GLBTQ-related documentaries and one about politics and hip-hop and would like to share her experience with you.
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When I Knew I Was a Boy
“Until I hit puberty, I basically looked like a boy 65% of the time and got kicks out of shocked looks in the girls’ bathroom.”
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NPR Appreciation Post: Top 10 Gayest This American Life Episodes
“NPR is like a blanket; my parents didn’t believe in listening to music in the car and I did not really know there were other radio stations until my older sister drove me home from ice skating one day and my 6 year old brain exploded.”
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Sunday Funday Is From The Future: Good News For Gaylight Savings Time
Hello today there is good news re: scholarships for gay kids and also gay marriage and also EUROVISION which is obvs most important. May or may not contain an otter, I can’t make any promises.
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People Have Feelings About Gay Marriage
It turns out everyone has feelings, not just you!
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The “Lesbian Until Graduation:” Now A New York Times Most Emailed Article!
In today’s news, we find that the popular myth of college as a “hive of same-sex experimentation” could be wrong. In related news, some people are very confused by this and I have ~156 feelings about this whole THANG.
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Vatican Stands Up to Catholics & Obama by Maintaining Its Anti-Gay Position
“There’s a complete lack of distinction here between ending violence against an oppressed minority and somehow forcing people to support that minority.”
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Gay Marriage: Today, Hawaii And Maryland; Tomorrow, The World
Your options for being married and/or civilly united have increased significantly this week! Here’s the rundown on Maryland and Hawaii, and what it means for you.
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NSFW Sunday: Everyone Wants to Take a Lesbian Purity Test
You know those crass addictive online purity tests you take every now and then to see what kind of badass you’ve become? Here’s one for your inner and outer lesbian.
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The Winter of Our Lesbian Content: This is a Glee, Skins & Pretty Little Liars Megapost
Now is the winter of our lesbian content made glorious summer by this wrap-up of the season’s gay parts.