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From “Calamity Jane” to “The Prom”: A History of Queer Women in Movie Musicals
To celebrate the release of The Prom here is an exhaustive look at the representation of queer women in movie musicals.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Queer Right Here in Quarantine
“P.S. I’d hoped the picture I submitted would be with my neighborhood turkey that I’ve enjoyed searching for on my daily walk…”
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June Town Hall Transcript
The transcript for the June Autostraddle Town Hall is now available!
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“Ratched” Review: Part Murder Mommi Delight, Part Complicated Horror Show
Ratched stabs, cuts, bludgeons, and mutilates what was past. The show is brutal, but provides relief for its queer women. Unfortunately, its characters of color and disabled characters are not granted the same care.
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14 Knuckles: Always A Fistee, Never A Fister
My acceptance of my own pain allows me to have the kind of sex that is rooted in the specificity of my body. I don’t love the idea that I’ll never fist, but I do love the idea that every act of sex I engage with is collaborative. Queerness reminds me that there is no standard way to fuck or live.
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Into the A+ Advice Box #61: When Should a Person Cut Off Given Family?
Being in your 30’s with no queer dating experience, packing a carry-on for a long-distance date, dealing with astrology if you don’t believe in it, and more!
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The L Word Generation Q Episode 207 Recap: Light Me Up
Everybody is either having sex or embarrassing themselves or both!
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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #38
Olive Garden said gay rights
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This Business of Art
The reason we’ve made it this far is because of you, and if we’re going to stick around — that will also be because of you.
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65 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Your Way in Fall 2020
I can confirm that no matter what you’re looking for — YA, non-fiction, memoir, romance, literary fiction, comics, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, historical fiction, poetry — there are queer and feminist books on this list that you will love!
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“Riverdale” Episode 403 Recap: The First Rule of Riverdale Is Don’t Talk About Logic on Riverdale
The show has all the subtlety of a freak show. It’s horror-camp. It’s musical theater. And I absolutely mean all of those things as compliments.
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How and Why We Like to Be Scared by TV and Movies
Horror has always been my favorite genre. I’m a very anxious person and something about having that anxiety externalized in a way that’s fun or cathartic has always really appealed to me. I like roller coasters too. How often is our fear so wonderfully contained?
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My Top 10 Favorite Lesbian Films: Drew Gregory
If love is going to exist — which, ugh, I guess it does — then it’s going to exist within the messiness of our lives. It’s going to exist alongside our families and our cultures and our hopes and our fears. It’s going to be hard and it’s going to take risk.
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A+ MEMBER COMMUNITY POST: What Advice Would You Give Your Tween Self?
sometime this year you are going to steal your first pack of cigarettes from *redacted*’s mom: please don’t ? you will like them far too much and also will feel bad forever for stealing
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Also.Also.Also: Rest in Infinite Power Trans Latina Activist Lorena Borjas. We Will Continue Your Work.
LeVar Burton is bringing back Reading Rainbow when we need it most, remembering lesbian singer Lesley Gore and the anthem that powered “The First Wives Club,” and friends don’t let friends cross picket lines.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Long-Distance Orgy
Dating in quarantine, orgies in isolation, everyone is hornier in the spring. (Usually.)
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 80, May 2021
Remember Tila Tequila?
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My Top 10 Television Shows: Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
One thing that does unite every show on this list is that each of them came into my life at the exact right time and also all influence my own writing in some way.
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2019 By the Numbers: An A+ Member Exclusive
Who loves infographics??? WE DO!!
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Netflix’s “The Prom” Review: Broadway’s Favorite Teen Lesbians Warmed Our Unruly Hearts
Join Valerie, Drew, and Carmen as they geek out about Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom.