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sports

For Cammie Woodman, Tennis and Transition Go Hand-in-Hand

A year after transition, Cammie Woodman watched Serena Williams play tennis. It changed everything.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Jul 24, 2025

FIRST PERSON

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well,…

Autumn Fourkiller

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Jul 23, 2025

SPORTS

13 Lesbian Basketball Couples Pulling the Ultimate Power Play

We love it when a current or former WNBA player dates another women’s basketball player!…

Riese

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Jul 20, 2025

FIRST PERSON

Andrea Gibson Kept Sincerity Alive

The loss of Andrea Gibson is not just one that rocks the poetry world, but…

Gabrielle Grace Hogan

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Jul 18, 2025

first person

On Being a Masc Top From Rural Oklahoma

You’ve fucked every lesbian sorority girl in Oklahoma, someone tells me on an app. Well, I said. Probably not all of them, right?

Autumn Fourkiller —

Jul 23, 2025

sports

13 Lesbian Basketball Couples Pulling the Ultimate Power Play

We love it when a current or former WNBA player dates another women’s basketball player! Here are eleven couples still going strong and being tall.

Riese —

Jul 20, 2025

first person

Andrea Gibson Kept Sincerity Alive

The loss of Andrea Gibson is not just one that rocks the poetry world, but the world at large.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan —

Jul 18, 2025

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puzzles

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Dec 13, 2023

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trans book

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…

Lauren Herold —

Dec 12, 2023

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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 —

Dec 12, 2023

periods

you need help

health

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

“Is there any sanitary reason NOT to?”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Dec 12, 2023

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end-of-year-list

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 —

Dec 12, 2023

craft project

stand-up comedy

Shitty Craft Club: Sam Reece smiles with her eyes closed, sparkly streamers behind her, and home made awards in her hands.

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 —

Dec 12, 2023

golden globes

link roundup

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…

Carmen Phillips —

Dec 11, 2023

trans

A feminine elf-like creature holds a staff in one hand and lefts their other arm up.

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…

Rowan Zeoli —

Dec 11, 2023