Results for: gay marriage
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Meet The Owners of Herz, a Lesbian-Owned Bar in Alabama
Herz might just be the queer miracle of Mobile.
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This Episode of “Real Housewives of New York” Was Performative Pride Allyship at Its Finest
“March Madness”, as completely unhinged and dated as it is, also reveals something far more depressing and contemporary: Nothing has really changed.
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The Little Things Matter
It’s complicated (or at least, it’s by design) that underneath structures of capitalism, queer independent media is never intended to survive.
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Queerness Is Messy, I Am Messy and That’s a Very Good Thing
It would have been impossible for me to write the novels and stories that I’ve created without the help of Autostraddle.
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The Comment Awards Are Drinking Evergreens — Make Mine A Double
“And here we thought the spruce syrup was just a tasty treat!”
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Gay at Work: Queer People and the Labor Movement
All these movements, whether for Black liberation, queer liberation, abortion rights, affordable housing, or labor, are intimately connected, and the struggle of queer labor organizers makes that abundantly clear.
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Queer Athens Is the First Greek LGBTQ Oral History Project
Our community needed a way to share queer history, so we made it happen.
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I Thought About Leaving Florida — Learning About Our Queer History Convinced Me To Stay
The truth is, as hard as I ride for it now, there was a time when I couldn’t imagine living here anymore, too.
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My Top Nine Best Band Tees That Are Technically Just Autostraddle Merch
“Eddy and Becky, best friends who boned on OnlyFans to earn cash to fund Gay Chaos’ first album, started out with bathtub ukelele covers and careening, desperate ballads that made rock bottom sound like the world’s only emotional truth.”
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A Letter to My Ex-Best Friend This Pride
I will always love you, and I know you will always love me. Sometimes love isn’t enough.
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The Best Straight Movies of the Past 10 Years
A dazzling portrait of a white heterosexual girl’s coming-of-age, Lady Bird gave us a straight character anyone can root for.
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Straight People Watch: Quarantine Edition
Nature is healing.
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In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
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The Comment Awards Are Having the Nicest Gay
“Say you were on a panel and the question came up. How would you explain it to Brie?”
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6 Takeaways from the HRC Power of Our Pride LGBT Presidential Town Hall
From the crucial necessity of giving Black trans women a platform to speak to the legacy of the fight for marriage equality to the urgency of addressing FOSTA/SESTA, six takeaways from last night’s Presidential Town Hall.
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The Gayest Things You Did at 13
111. I wrote hundreds of love letters to Janet Jackson. I never sent them, but was convinced that we would end up married some day.
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If Your Dream Only Includes You, It’s Too Small
Heather Hogan noticed that I had taken up permanent residence in the comments of “Boobs on Your Tube” every Friday, basically writing recaps of my own (I felt lost, Autostraddle was my port in the storm). Heather asked if I had ever considered writing about television as a career. She said, “We can pay you. Not as much as we’d like to, but we’ll find the money. Is that something you’d be into?”
I wrote back, “That is something that I would VERY MUCH be into! In fact, I hope it’s not too unprofessional to say that I would love it with all of my heart.”
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Don’t Look Down: It’s Like Wile E. Coyote Running Off a Cliff
Not to be one of those divorced people who makes everything about their divorce!, but getting divorced will really teach you that nothing about making something “real” or deciding you’re all in makes it any more secure.
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How Do You Scale a Personality Cult?
We do lose something when dedicated queer spaces like Into, Girlfriends and SheWired shutter or AfterEllen goes full TERF, but we also lose something when The Awl, The Hairpin and The Toast do. These were places where writers were free to experiment, to be weird, to make writer-first content that isn’t easily monetizable.
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QUEER IRL PHOTO GALLERY: PRIDE!
It’s Pride month; have you heard? Have you danced in the streets, wearing a rainbow flag, surrounded by topless women, shouting your queerness and here-ness, maybe honking a horn or ringing a bell? Here’s hoping!