Results for: be the change
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Speculative Short Fiction Collection “Sweetlust” Disturbs and Delights
This is a deeply feminist work, but it’s not sanitized, commodified feminism. The feminism here is raw, living, harsh and at times, violent.
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16 Gay M/M Romance Novels To Read After “Red, White and Royal Blue”
If you loved “Red, White & Royal Blue,” here’s 15 more gay romance novels, aka m/m romance, featuring two men doing cute and also erotic things together!
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Remembering Deborah Sundahl, Lesbian Porn Pioneer
Two months ago, we lost Deborah Sundahl — a fierce, compassionate, and prolific queer elder.
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“The Power” Gives the Upper Hand to the Girls, Gives Us the Gays
I’m delighted to report that there is not one, but two different storylines that involve LGBTQ+ characters in the TV adaptation of Naomi Alderman’s best-selling book.
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Interview With My Wife: Mia
“I know, now the thought of sleeping in is just as exciting as a full blown affair to me.”
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The Group Chat: Our Gay Boyfriends
I was a theatre kid for sure, but even by theatre kid standards… if your “dates” involve going to see Rocky Horror Picture Show together? That is homosexual activity, my love.
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The Essays in “Wanting” Show the Power of Vulnerability
Although I have many of them at any given time, I don’t usually speak my desires out loud.
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The Comment Awards Are Back on the Apps
“Can someone make an app for that, please? We can call it SPIT!”
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“Silver Haze” Finds Devastation and Beauty in a New Kind of Lesbian Romance
There are plenty of movies with characters who have scars, but very few that don’t use them for either horror or inspiration.
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How to Care For Your Friend Having Gender Affirming Surgery
Providing meaningful care means not only caring for your friend (completing tasks, making meals) but it is also caring about your friend.
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WNBA Week 2: The Unbeatable Aces, BG’s Resilience, Fit of the Week
“Hell, I’d suit up for the Mercury if BG asked.”
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You Need Help: What To Do With This Meaningless, Single Life?
I want to try to hold space here for both: for your (and my, really) pain and for the possibility that you may not feel this way forever.
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Pop Culture Fix: Lunden Stallings and Olivia Bennett Marry in “The Royal Wedding of Lesbian TikTok”
The internet is delighted by Lesbian TikTok darlings Lunden Stallings and Olivia Bennett’s photos from their wedding this weekend! Also: mixed Hearstopper feelings, the impact of Saving Face, gay plants and more!
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On *NSYNC and Being a Lesbian Who Loves Boy Bands
If you had to make me into a pie chart, being queer and loving *NSYNC are basically the same size.
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Danny Lavery on What It’s Like To Be an Advice Columnist
“I would imagine a lot of the same things draw to advice columns that draw everyone, which is just that same impulse to run outside if somebody says there’s a fight.”
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Why Do Lesbian Bars Keep Disappearing?
There are so many myths about why lesbian bars close and/or don’t survive.
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Lost Lesbian Lit: A Lesbian Novel From the 1950s and the Continued Importance of Maude’s Abortion Episode
Our perception of history is shaped by who writes the stories and who publishes them.
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Editor’s Notes: Trans Awareness Week
What can a publication do that tries to center trans people all-year-round?
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In Lesbian YA Debut, Teen Girls Find Love in the Midst of an Asteroid Barreling Toward Earth
The biggest theme in Jen St. Jude’s If Tomorrow Doesn’t Come is mental health.
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Roundtable: The Haircut That Changed It All
In tribute to Lena Waithe, a few Autostraddle staffers got together to share the moment when they decided to cut their hair short.