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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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Gigi Gorgeous and Nats Getty dressed as Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Meg Stalter dressed as an astronaut, and Hayley Kiyoko and Becca Tilley dressed as Glinda and Elphaba from Wicked

celebrities (vapid fluff)

No Filter: Let’s See How the Queer Celebs Dressed for Halloween!

As usual, Janelle Monáe and Megan thee Stallion win Halloween.

Christina Tucker —

Nov 1, 2023

Queer Horoscopes from Autostraddle

Satellite of Love

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astrology, tarot & witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for November 2023

Scorpio season is showing us what we don’t want to see. Feel your feelings and find your courage.

Corina Dross —

Nov 1, 2023

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apple tv

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tv lists

November 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got Lena Hedley topping women in space, Josie Totah playing queer in a delightful period piece, the “Black Cake” adaptation, the lesbian pregnancy thriller on Lifetime, new seasons of…

Riese —

Nov 1, 2023

crossword

puzzles

Mini Crossword Immediately Touched Its Forehead Too

Why do hummingbirds hum?

Emet Ozar —

Nov 1, 2023

editor's notes

Horror Is So Gay

af+

Editor’s Notes: Horror Is So Gay 2

“I want the vibe to be 1980s slashercore mixed with nostalgic late-night sleepover vibes.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Oct 31, 2023

Horror Is So Gay

A still from the movie Atlantics shows a Black woman with glazed over zombie eyes, sitting on the steps (it is repeated three times), in front of this image is the famed Scream mask, overlayed into a collage.

movie features

Can Black People Be Zombies?

This part essay, part research project started out as a joke. I wanted to know if one of the unexpected benefits of Black people always dying first in horror movies…

Carmen Phillips —

Oct 31, 2023

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society + culture

Also.Also.Also: An Estimated 105,000 Trans Youth Live in States That Have Banned Gender-Affirming Care

Plus, queer punks descend on Florida and more LGBTQ+ news and culture.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Oct 31, 2023

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identity

You Need Help: Am I Erasing Bisexuality?

There are many people who will try to be strict about the definition of “bisexual” and “lesbian.” At times, I have been that person. I have also been a person…

Analyssa —

Oct 31, 2023