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a group of the first people to create autostraddle, including riese, smiling at the camera from way back in 2009

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Back To The Queer Future #10: Crack The Queer Code!

Can you crack the passcode so Autostraddle can come into existence?

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Dec 26, 2021

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Back To The Queer Future #9: Find The Fire Filcher

Can you help root out the mole and ensure the Lesbian Avengers have a successful fire-eating protest in front of the Whitehouse!?

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Dec 24, 2021

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Sally Ride, America's first woman astronaut, communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during the Challenger mission, June 21, 1983.

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Back To The Queer Future #8: One Giant Leap For Queerkind

Can you fix the circuit so Sally Ride can make it into space?

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Dec 22, 2021

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Back To The Queer Future #7: STAR Search

Can you help Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera find the right building to set up the STAR house to create a safe home for vulnerable trans and gay youth?

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Dec 21, 2021

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Image from Getty images Audre Lorde stands at a blackboard and lectures while an artist in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts

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Back To The Queer Future #6: Stuck In The Stacks

Can you help Audre Lorde shelve all the books so she can work on completing her first book of poetry?

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Dec 20, 2021

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Back To The Queer Future #5: Duck The Police

Can you help Rose avoid the police so she can go on to found the Daughters of Bilitis?

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Dec 19, 2021

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a feature image with a decorative triange in which is a vintage black and white photo of Edyth Eyde AKA Lisa Ben

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Back To The Queer Future #4: Pamphlet Panic

Can you help Edyth make sense of what she’s written so she can finish the first ever edition of Vice Versa?

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Dec 18, 2021

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A feature image with a triangle and Frida Kahlo holding one of her dogs and gazing wistfully out the window

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Back To The Queer Future #3: Xolo Shenanigans

Can you help Frida round up the dogs so she can get back to finishing her classic queer painting Two Nudes in a Forest?

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Dec 16, 2021

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This is a designed feature image with a triangle motif. In the center of the triange is a historical photo. The photo is of blues singer and pianist Gladys Bentley in New York City in the 1930's

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Back To The Queer Future #2: Dapper Style Dilemma

Can you help Gladys pick the right outfit to galvanise her butch style before she makes her stage debut?

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Dec 15, 2021

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there is a vintage photo of Natalie Clifford Barney and her saphhic salon dance in a circle in her yard, within a triangle and decorative lines radiating from the triangle against a lavender background

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It’s Time To Go Back To The Queer Future!

You’ve somehow been thrust back to the year 2009, and something is playing havoc with the space-time continuum.

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Dec 14, 2021