Juliana Valdés of “Amar a Muerte” Is the National Champion of Coming Out Stories!
“This isn’t wrong. Love is not a perversion, okay? And you know what? This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever felt in my whole life.”
Queer Journalist and LGBT Rights Activist Lyra McKee Killed in a Terrorist Incident in Northern Ireland
“Lyra was a ball of energy, passion and wit. To know her even a little was an inspiration.”
Boobs on Your Tube: Game of Thrones’ Lone Lesbian Lives!
Yara returns to the Iron Islands, Sara Lance and her biceps return to Star City, and The Chi returns to Showtime.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Happy Almost 4/20, What’s Your Favorite Vice?
BLAZE ITTTTT!!! Happy Friday let’s talk about our vices!
The Comment Awards Are Celebrating You, and Also These Butches
“Relationship Milestone: Buying a two-pack of coconut oil to make vegan gingerbread for her, then never hanging out again.”
Vegetarian Chopped Liver and Pynk Pickled Eggs for Passover: A Two-Part Recipe
This vegetarian, kitniyot-free vegetarian chopped liver feels really homey and comfortable and hearty and celebratory. Chag Pesach sameach!
“The Magicians” Makes Magic Out of Pain in a Finale Full of Big Queer Feelings
The Magicians finale was all about making magic out of pain and choosing your family.
“Riverdale” Episode 318 Recap: The Power of Grief
Oh great, now Toni’s in the farm, too.
Also.Also.Also: Tegan and Sara are Ready to Take You Back to High School
Plus: Stevie Nicks, the TIME 100, the 20th anniversary of Columbine, and an entire section dedicated Beyoncé’s “Homecoming” just because we can!
What to Do About Every Gay Crush You’ve Ever Had, Have Now, and Will Have in the Future
Crushes are wild and often irrational, but I’m a Capricorn so I’d like to make them slightly more logical. Here’s how you can do that, too.
Queer Women Truly Are More Likely to Be Tree-Hugging Hippies
“Although not all of us are saving our shower water to nourish the eggplants growing next to our chicken coop, our study and several others show that we are indeed more environmentally aware than our heterosexual counterparts.”
15 LGBT Documentaries on Kanopy, Free Streaming Film Goldmine
Not all libraries have Kanopy access, but if yours does, you are hot to trot, my friend. Much like the subjects of the documentary about same-sex ballroom dancing, Hot to Trot, discussed within! Just a little LGBT documentary humor for you.
Look At These Butch Heroes
It’s time to celebrate the butches that make this world better.
How I Let Queer Literature Come Out to my Middle School Students for Me
Middle school is weird. It was awkward as hell when I was a hormonal, monstrous, uncertain twelve-year-old, and only slightly less so when I went back to teach English. So when I found myself, a 23-year-old rookie teacher, standing in a cafeteria fielding a question about how lesbian sex works from a seventh grader, I can’t say I had any right to be surprised.
No Filter: Maybe Rachel Maddow Will Go Fishing With Melissa Etheridge!
Also, find out what Kristen Stewart got into at Coachella and help me decide what Samira Wiley ordered from Red Lobster for her birthday?!?!?
Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart’s Charlie’s Angels Are Here, Surely One Is Queer
Plus: a new Kate McKinnon Hulu series, more from Lena Waithe, lesbians in Netflix’s Wine Country, more Derry Girls, and a reasonably confident future for ODAAT.
Legends of Tomorrow Episode 411 Recap: Something to Sing About
If you thought Legends couldn’t get Jane Austen, a ghost, and a Bollywood musical in the same episode, you haven’t been paying attention.
Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out Final
You have 48 hours to vote for the WINNER!
5 Unofficial Lesbian Relationship Milestones
Whereas we are conditioned to expect a First Date, followed by landmarks like Carefully Crafted First Instagram Post as a Couple and Attending Family Event in Neutral-Toned Sweater, a gay relationship may look more like Be Codependent Best Friends for Three Years Before Realizing You’re In Love Without Ever Going on a Date, followed by Emotionally Turbulent Road Trip to Visit Your Ex’s Rural Co-Op Together.
For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup
For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.