Results for: the real l word
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Autostraddle’s Guide to Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend 2013 in Palm Springs
You should go to Palm Springs April 3rd to the 7th for Dinah Shore Weekend (aka lesbian spring break) because our girls from Unicorn Plan-It and Words With Girls say so. Brittani is hilarious and she made this guide just for you.
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Autostraddle Before the Tipping Point: A Trip Through the Archive
This year for Trans Awareness Week, I wanted us to focus on recent trans history. Autostraddle itself is part of that history.
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A-Camp October 2013: It’s Campership Time!
Read the testimonials from A-Camp May 2013’s Campershippers and find out about how you can give the gift of a campership or apply to get one yourself!
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The Comment Awards Are Eating Cheese and Contemplating Existence
“Not my gay ass thinking that by caroling I thought you meant… watching Carol?”
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Instagram’s New Away Message Feature Got Me in My Middle-Aged Feels
Leave your funniest (or wittiest) “Note” (read: Instagram away message) in the comments — we all could use more joy these days!
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I Focused My Time on Proving Her Wrong
“I remember telling my girlfriend at the time, ‘I’m going to write for them some day,’ to which she replied, ‘You can try but it’s pretty competitive. I don’t think you’ll ever be good enough to write for them.'”
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Long Live (Heather’s Version)
This is my last week at Autostraddle. I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.
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It’s Lit: Queer Youth on an Online Book Club Club That Became Family
“Well the premise combined two of my favorite things: being gay and reading, so I was naturally intrigued.”
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Los Angeles 2019-12-08: The L Word Generation Q WATCH PARTY-Hosted by Whitney Mixter
Your Weekly L Word Watch Party…every Sunday starting Dec 8th Hosted by The Real L Word’s Whitney Mixter!
Look no further we’ve got all of you L Word: Generation Q Watch Party needs RIGHT HERE at Hi Tops in WeHo Starting Sunday Dec 8th we will be serving you up your favorite every week!
Whether you’re in love with Shane or are hoping to find a new character crush on the reboot…come watch it all unfold with Trivia, Giveaways, Music, Food and of course THE SHOW!
Free Entry
RSVP for chance to Win Raffle Prizes
Doors open at 8pm…Show starts at 10pm
Seating is first come first serve but standing room available as well.
$5 Tito’s Drink Specials 8pm-10pm 8933 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood -
Being or Becoming Real
“I felt disconnected from my art because I had part time and full time jobs that took up most of my time in the world. I wrote on scraps of paper during lunch breaks and tried, at the end of the day, to have an hour or so of “creative time” for myself.”
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A-Camp October 2013 Recamp #4: You Look Wonderful Tonight
It’s our very last recamp! In this heart-pounding tale of love and life, a bunch of weirdos go to prom, witness an epic proposal, and share all their feelings.
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Ten Things I’ve Learned In My Four Years at Autostraddle
“I would rather the limitations be financial than be limits on my work, my voice, my personhood.”
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The Comment Awards Are Resting Uneasily on the Bisexual Pride Sofa
Can you hold me like a baby spider?
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The Comment Awards Are Ranking Fanfic Tropes
I read the headline and whispered to myself: “there is only one bed!!!“
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The Comment Awards Are Going Back to High School
“Just surround yourself with dogs and keep chanting, ‘I was a lesbian in 1974.'”
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Get In Here and Meet Kylo Freeman: For Them’s Founder and Autostraddle’s New CEO
“I’m used to working with an all-queer team that has amazing creative ideas that are a little bit out of the box, so it feels like a perfect fit from my end.”
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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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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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“Go On a Real Date, With a Real Gay Woman” A Letter On Finding Queer Community from Heather Hogan
1. Come out to my family. 2. Buy a plane ticket anywhere.
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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.