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house & garden

What’s Your Favorite + Least Favorite Household Chore?

Turns out a lot of us hate folding laundry.

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Nov 22, 2024

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lesbian dating apps

14 Queer People Share Their Favorite Dating Apps and Sites of All Time

For pretty much as long as the internet has existed, queers have used it to find each other. We were online dating before it was the norm.

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Nov 13, 2024

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community

The Recurring Dreams and Nightmares That Haunt Us

Gay people talking about their dreams? How groundbreaking.

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Nov 2, 2024

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dating

11 Queer People Share How They Flirt

“Did Shakespeare teach me how to flirt? MAYBE SO.”

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Oct 21, 2024

divorce

Divorce Week

Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights, Athena Grant from 911, and Iris West from the Flash, all in dark sunset overlayed colors

tv feature

These Fictional Straight Women Should Divorce Their Husbands (And Marry Me)

“Tami Taylor put on those aviator sunglasses and I was like, girl you need me. She flipped her hair to the side and I was like, girl you need me.…

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Feb 13, 2024

lesbian visibility day

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In a collage against a pink background, left to right in the back row: Cheryl Dunye playing with her hat, Vanessa Friedman hugging friends, Audre Lorde in black and white, and Natalie Diaz smirking at the camera. Front row, left to right: Shelli Nicole as a little girl on picture day, Heather Hogan smiling in a tie, Malinda Lo looking directly into camera with an intense gaze, and Kayla Kumari taking a selfie with her phone. All of these photos are highlighted with background shadows in the color of the lesbian pride flag.

community

Lesbian Visibility Week 2022: Where We Look For Lesbianspiration

This for Lesbian Visibility Day, we are talking about the people we look to for LESBIANSPIRATION. Did you thank a lesbian for changing your life today?

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Apr 26, 2022

and just like that

hbo max

tv reviews

“And Just Like That” TV Team Roundtable: On Che’s Comedy Concert, Miranda’s Queer Awakening, LTW’s Jumpsuit and More!

The TV Team weighs in on all our feelings about Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That’s first season: the good, the bad and the Che Diaz.

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Feb 4, 2022

#affiliatemarketing

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Christine Baranski from the live action version of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas stands in a low-cut, sleeveless top in a crowd of Whoville characters. Pink and green polka dots create a border around the image.

holigays

Roundtable: Is There Anything Hot About the Holidays?

Many of us associate the holiday season with Very Unsexy Things. Is there anything we can do to make the holidays hot? Here’s what Autostraddle writers and editors have to…

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Dec 7, 2021

family

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identity

Do You Know Where Your Straight People Are?: Interviews With Allies (Including Two Cats)

In honor of our biannual Straight People Day, we interviewed two heterosexual friends, two cishet cats, and one past self.

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Oct 12, 2021

autostraddle fundraising

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culture

What’s The First Gay Thing You Saw on the Internet?

Also my username was topangaisdabomb6 out of reverence for, yes, Topanga Lawrence from Boy Meets World, so my overall Neopets presence screamed closeted angst.

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Oct 9, 2021

baby-sitter's club

read a f-cking book

literature

‘We Are the Baby-Sitters Club’ Succeeds in Both Praising and Critiquing the Books of Our Childhoods

No topic is off limits in this guide about the young adult book series that shaped the way so many of us interacted with our worlds as children, and the…

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Jul 6, 2021

kink

pride 2021

Photo by Bromberger Hoover Photography/Getty Images. The photo is vintage, in black and white, and is of a person, o-ring around their neck, in front of the US capitol building, and pulling back their shirt to reveal an exposed breast. Autostraddle had to cover up the nipple to abide by social media guidelines, so we used a lavender star.

af+

Love (and Leather) Wins: A Kink at Pride Roundtable

“THAT! That is the kind of queer love I want!”

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Jun 30, 2021

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