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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) Sports

BREAKING: Jess Fishlock and Tziarra King Got Married in a Soccer-Star-Studded Wales Wedding

OL Reign teammates Jess Fishlock and Tziarra King got married this week and Megan Rapinoe, Sue Bird and Ali Krieger flew all the way to Wales to witness this epic soccer wedding!

Riese December 13, 2023 3 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian Look Hot In Bodybuilding Movie Described As “Pain & Gain For Indie Lesbians”

Get your first look and all the info we’ve got for Kristen Stewart’s “Love Lies Bleeding”! Also: what we learned from the new Netflix Data, Bella Ramsey’s spooky movie, Romy’s queer music video starring Maisie Williams and more!

Riese December 13, 2023 3 Comments
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Movie Features

The Best Queer Movie Scenes of 2023

Sex scenes, fight scenes, a fanfic-worthy cameo. The best queer movie scenes of 2023 are as varied as the films that contain them.

The TV Team December 13, 2023 6 Comments
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AF+

Anonymous Sex Diary: She Wants More

“My partner and I have an open relationship. While we used to be really honest about things, when I met someone I actually liked, E, they decided they didnt want to know about it.”

Guest December 13, 2023 1 Comment
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Dating Holigays

10 Budget Friendly Holigay Dates

We can’t all vacation to a ski chalet to drink hot cocoa and enter their gingerbread house contest for a weekend! Here are some cheaper alternatives to capture some romantic holiday magic.

Em Win December 13, 2023 3 Comments
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AF+

Welcome to the 13 Days of A+ of 2023!

For the FOURTH year in a row, we are bringing you 13 consecutive days of A+ content!

Nico December 13, 2023 4 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: I Like Checking In on Queer Ultimatum’s Mal To Make Sure They’re Thriving

And they usually appear to be! Plus, more queer celeb IG posts from the week.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 13, 2023 1 Comment
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Jewish Holidays Movie Reviews

We Got High and Watched Hallmark Hanukkah Movie “Round and Round,” and Yes of Course the Sister Is a Lesbian

“Do you think we think everyone is gay because they are or because we are or because we are high or because of Jewish?”

Drew Burnett Gregory and Riese
December 13, 2023 6 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword is Just a Bit Open

Where do spiders go for health advice?

Kate Hawkins December 13, 2023 4 Comments
The Two Revolutions: A History of the Transgender Internet by Avery Dame-Griff
Book Features

Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet

“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and memory on which new communities are built.”

Lauren Herold December 12, 2023 1 Comment
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Holigays

How To Romanticize Being Solo for the Holidays

Going it solo for Christmas is turning out to be annoyingly emotional. However, what’s helped immensely has been romanticizing the whole affair.

Nico December 12, 2023 6 Comments
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Health

You Need Help: Can My Spouse and I Boil Our Menstrual Cups Together?

“Is there any sanitary reason NOT to?”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 12, 2023
Eight of the 65 best queer books of 2023: Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky, The Battle Drum by Saara El-Arifi, Lucky Red by Claudia Cravens, Any Other City by Hazel Jane Plante, Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H, The Fake by Zoe Whittall, Freedom House by KB Brookins, and Sorry Bro by Taleen Voskuni
Book Lists

65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023

Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.

Casey December 12, 2023 26 Comments
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Comedy

Sam Reece on Shitty Craft Club, Coming Out, and What She Shares With Jenny Schecter

“I haven’t even seen some of the absolute queer canon of movies. What’s the one with Cate Blanchett?”

motti December 12, 2023
2023 Gay Golden Globe Nominations: Jodie Foster and Anette Benning in NYAD.
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Your Guide to the 2024 Golden Globe Nominations (But Just the Gay Parts)

The 2024 Golden Globe nominations are here and I have the deep urge to tell you who is even remotely gay. Luckily, I share that same obsession with many Autostraddle editors. There was a color coded google doc and everything.

Carmen Phillips December 11, 2023 5 Comments
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Geekery

Queer Dungeons & Transgender Dragons: Exploring Gender Through Imagined Worlds

In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.

Rowan Zeoli December 11, 2023 4 Comments
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TV Feature

The Best Queer TV Scenes of 2023

What makes a great TV scene? The payoff of seasons-long romantic tension? The perfect needle drop in a climactic moment?

The TV Team December 11, 2023 3 Comments
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Jewish Holidays

The Limits and Possibilities of an Anti-Zionist Hanukkah

For me, and so many Jewish people, the lack of certainty, the encouragement of complex discussion, is what connects us to our faith.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 11, 2023 20 Comments
All Night Pharmacy by Ruth Madievsky
Book Features

Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky

“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”

Gen December 11, 2023
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword is a Fingersmith

Why was the snowman perusing a bag of carrots?

Emet Ozar December 11, 2023 1 Comment
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