Pop Culture Fix: Like You, Kate McKinnon Makes Jokes to Deal With Her Own Anxiety
Boys are coming to The Wilds (BORING!), Hannah John-Kamen will play Joey Soloway’s Red Sonja, Tig Notaro’s next comedy special will be fully animated, and more!
Foolish Child #85: Muscle Memory Lapse
My PTSD brain has been evicting memories left and right, I just never thought that would include my muscle memory.
“Supergirl” Episode 606 Recap: Raining (Meteors) On Prom Night
In Chyler Leigh’s directorial debut, we have a queer woman directing her own lesbian character when she was just a baby gay. You love to see it.
LIVE QUEER SEX 101 WORKSHOP: Register for How to Have Gay Sex for the First Time with Luna Matatas
This month we have pleasure coach and experienced workshop leader Luna Matatas to teach you everything you need to know about how to have great gay sex for the first time.
No Filter: Janelle Monáe Posts for “Flysexuals Who Love Tubs Only”
Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris are literally dedicated to ruining my life, the powerful lesbian energy radiating from a midday L Word reunion, and stars are just like us! They also take increasingly silly photos with their cats on their couches!
FYP: Using the Comment Section to Get Some {Redacted}
No more dating apps — time to start getting witty in the comment section and see if it ends with you throwing it back on a Thursday afternoon.
Also.Also.Also: No Thoughts, Head Empty, Basking in All This QTPOC Beauty
Entertainment Weekly’s Pride Issue is a stunning masterclass of QTPOC being our fly ass selves, Alison Bechdel on turning her life into art, the 1996 Olympic Women’s Basketball Team finally getting their due, and getting to know the girl in red.
Tegan and Sara’s “High School” Series from Clea DuVall Is a Go! Scream Loudly If You Must
“No one is more shocked than us, that after a VERY difficult couple of years in high school, doing copious amount of drugs, skipping school, lying and being all around degenerates that we made it this far in our musical journey.”
“Pose” Episodes 301 & 302 Recaps: Coming Home One More Time
Pose has always felt like home; family. So I started this episode in my bedroom, with my roommates who, in true queer tradition, are my family. I thought it was going to feel like it did, two years ago, but it didn’t. I don’t know if it’s the show or me that’s changed, probably both.
“The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend” Is a Goddamn Delight
“The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is My Girlfriend: Advice on Queer Dating, Love, and Friendship” is helpful, funny, aesthetically pleasing, and very very queer. In short? This book is a goddamn delight!
You Need Help: How Do I Feel More Connected to the Lesbian Community?
This community would be so boring if we all had the same stories. And there’s no such thing as the “right” queer story.
“Hysterical” Focuses Almost Exclusively on Cis White Women in Comedy, and Misses the Mark
Hysterical operates under the assumption that the experiences of women in comedy are universal. But in a documentary that overwhelmingly features white cis women, there’s little room left to explore what comedy is like for women who hold multiple marginalized identities.
Pop Culture Fix: Gal Gadot’s Gonna Star in a Queer Sci-Fi Movie Adaptation of “Meet Me in Another Life”
Ginny & Georgia’s Humberly Gonzalez is queer, will Supergirl spin-off?, Janet Mock’s Pose premiere speech, Days of Our Lives has a gay week ahead, and more!
“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 601 Recap: Close Encounters of the Gay Kind
The Legends are back and gayer than ever with a lesbian clone on a mission to save her bisexual assassin girlfriend who was kidnapped by a queer alien.
“Batwoman” Episode 212 Recap: It’s the Batsignal, Not a Pager
At Crow headquarters, Sophie is doing that thing you do when you have a crush on someone and you can’t stop thinking about them so you stare at their photo and compare it with a masked vigilante’s and wonder how you never realized they had a secret identity and somehow that makes you love them more.
#PolyamoryProblems: How Can I Make My Primary Partner Have More Fun?
Stop trying to make your vanilla partner more kinky!
Quiz: Which L Word Side Character Are You?
Not everybody can be a Bette or a Tina or a Jenny. Some people need to look in the mirror and accept their inner Dawn Denbo.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Sunbathing Naked
Nude beaches around the world, how to have good sex in small spaces, BDSM’s liberatory potential and more.
May 2021: Here’s What’s New and Gay on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO Max and Peacock
Lena Waithe’s season of “Master of None,” a grown-up girl band with a lesbian singer, Shrill’s third season, a big drop of lesbian films onto Hulu and so much more!
Queer Horoscopes for May 2021: What Assumptions Should Your Sign Question This Month?
May offers us a chance for deepening into rest and joy, while challenging us to stay curious about our assumptions.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 79, April 2021
How Well Do You Really Know Your Sex Bench? Take This Quiz to Find Out.