The Comment Awards And Their Cat Have Matching Rainbow Tanktops

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Good morning, buttercups! Did you hear the big news? This is so very exciting! Huge congrats to Carmen, who is Autostraddle’s new (no longer interim) Editor In Chief! Three cheers for Carmen, who will always be known affectionately to the Comment Awards as, simply, CP!

Important: You Are Queer Enough.

Autostraddle’s resurrecting the Queer IRL Gallery for Pride Month, and they need you!

The next Queer Sex 101 is for A+ members only and you don’t wanna miss it – Ro will be teaching you everything you ever needed to know about strap-on sex!

Abeni would you like to consider fucking off to the forest for Pride!

For this week’s You Need Help, Kayla answers a dear sweet soul who would like to break up the “right” way.

From Dickens: Corporate Pride merch is bad. Except maybe when it’s LEGO.

Paris Jackson and Willow Smith agree: everyone is queer!

And then there were your comments!

On Which Queer Woman Filmmaker Are You?

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The So Hot Right Now Award to Riese, alchemille, and Drew Gregory:

Same! I’m like wow, I’m hot, I want to make out with me

And the Above and Beyond Award to Ann and Deli Twotone:

I have avoided learning anything about astrology thus far, but I Googled what the signs are like just so I could take this quiz

On NSFW Lexbosexy Sunday Welcomes You to Hot Divorcée Summer:

The Heating Up Award to Noodlesforever:

Last summer was Lukewarm Separated Person Summer, so I am looking forward to bringing some chaotic-good energy to this Hot Divorcee Summer.

On Why I Always F*ck Off to the Forest for Pride™ (And You Can, Too):

The Dear Trees, I’m Gay Award to Katie:

I love this! The first time I ever said the words “I’m gay

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On No Filter: I Guess Just Welcome to Gay Bikini Corner? God Bless Summer!

The AO3 All-Star Award to msanon:

$oh no! did the major supports for the gym suffer critical damage in the freak earthquake that will later be linked to fracking in the counties’ unincorporated area? the very same gym where the 1ST dance Melissa was ever going to have SHOULD have been with Padma, but Padma had to rush to her grandmother’s out-of-state bedside to care for her through a STROKE that the family keeps hush-hush because grandma, a self-made woman when grit and rep were all a woman could count on, has her pride and thus no explanations were coming to mend poor Melissa’s bruised tender heart? does Padma’s experience from the PR company she FOUNDED but was then OUSTED by – who handled and still does the fracker’s public image – let use her knowledge to get the resources for the town needs to shore up the gym – saving the school district from crippling DEBT? does Melissa’s construction company JUST barely get the space done in time for the EOY dance? do they finally get to have the dance that seals the loveisnotalie fate their lives were destined for? did it? does it!? will it?!$

On Pull Back the Curtain At Our Autostraddle Town Hall!

The E!I!C! Award to Linnea:

Can’t wait to hear from the new EDITOR IN FREAKING CHIEF DR. CARMEN PHILLIPS!!!! 🤩

And on Foolish Child #98: Corporate Pride:

The Double Rainbow Award to Caitlyn:

yes rainbow capitalism is bad and companies treating us as a source of profit is not actually better than being ignored BUT my cat and i can get matching rainbow tank tops so