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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft Issues Movie Lists

Horrorscopes: What Queer Horror Film Should You Watch This Month, Based on Your Sign

Horoscopes can be a useful way of understanding ourselves and working toward personal growth; HORRORscopes can let us avoid that personal growth by reveling in our own mess and allowing our “evil” sides in. And doesn’t that sound more fun?!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 7, 2025 3 Comments
Issues Movie Lists

60 Queer Horror Movies and Shows To Stream This Month

Gather round stream queens, it’s time to watch queer horror all month long.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
October 3, 2025 15 Comments
lesbian movie make out list
Issues Movie Lists

The Best Lesbian Movie Make Outs of All Time

Happy International Kissing Day! Celebrate by revisiting the best lesbian movie make outs of all time!

Drew Burnett Gregory July 6, 2025 16 Comments
Issues Movie Lists

Two Lesbian Critics Rank Every Stephen King Film Adaptation

Autostraddle’s King Dykes are back to tell you where The Monkey ranks among 49 other Stephen King adaptations.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
February 21, 2025 9 Comments
characters on The L Word Generation Q making out
First Person Issues

A Queer Coming of Age in Five Makeouts

Partying as a teenager is hard in New York City, where very few people have houses and almost everyone has nosy neighbors.

Pallas Gutierrez January 30, 2025
Cruel Intentions kiss between Cecile and Kathryn
First Person Issues

My First Makeout Was Reenacting the Kissing Scene From ‘Cruel Intentions’

At 17, my lack of kissing was a sensitive subject for me. It wasn’t for lack of trying.

Sa'iyda Shabazz January 16, 2025 5 Comments
Make Out Month kiss-in protest
Issues LGBT History

Making Out, Making Change: The History of Queer Kiss-Ins

For nearly 50 years, queer activists kissed each other as a form of protest.

Stef Rubino January 13, 2025
make out month
Issues

The Worst Places To Make Out

I believe parking garages are some of the most cursed liminal spaces of the modern era — DO NOT MAKE OUT IN THEM.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 10, 2025 7 Comments
bette and tina making out in an elevator
Issues

The Best Places To Make Out

The best makeouts are like an ocean — wet, open, endless.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 9, 2025 3 Comments
First Person Issues

The Music I’ve Made Out To: An Ode to Queer Kissing in Public

I believe in making out at the club, at the dance party, in the backseat of your car, in the corridor to the stairwell of your building, in the movie theater, at concerts, on the beach, at sports events, and at the brewery where making out isn’t really the vibe but you’re so hot for it you do it anyways.

Stef Rubino January 8, 2025 6 Comments
two giels on the floor with the words "make out month" in the lower left
First Person Issues

What If The Girl You Made Out With On New Year’s Eve Becomes Your Wife?

“You tell everyone you see that night, including but not limited to all the friends you came with, another friend you run into, a stranger on the street, your dog and your Uber driver, that you are not going to have sex because you don’t want to ruin the friendship.”

Riese January 1, 2025 29 Comments
Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate
Issues Movie Features

Evil Mothers Everywhere

Our latest horror movies depict mothers spiraling when left alone.

Nico October 29, 2024 4 Comments
Saw movie
Issues Movie Features

I Can’t Watch the ‘Saw’ Films

What I’m saying, I think, is that there are threats worse than death, and Saw reminds me of them.

Vera Blossom October 28, 2024 2 Comments
First Person Issues

An Essay About Poltergeist but Actually It’s About My Dead Mom

Compared to my parents’ volatile relationship, their divorce, and the financial instability that came after it, being scared of ghosts seemed like a waste of time.

Stef Rubino October 26, 2024 8 Comments
the lesbian wives in The Fall of the House of Usher
Issues TV Lists

Mike Flanagan Shows, Ranked by Queerness

I came out the same year as The Haunting of Hill House, and it was as if Mike Flanagan handed me a gift for realizing I love women.

Motti October 25, 2024 3 Comments
HORROR IS SO GAY: HAPPY DEATH DAY
Issues Movie Features

Happy / Death / Day

Breaking the fourth wall does not count as dismantling anything.

Gyasi Hall October 24, 2024
Drew Burnett Gregory in a sex scene in the short Chloe and Jame
Issues Movie Features

Want To See a Movie Where Buffalo Bill and Norman Bates Are in a T4T Situationship? Well, Do We Have Some News for You!

Drew Burnett Gregory writes, directs, and stars in a new horror short, and it’s available for you to stream!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 24, 2024 6 Comments
AUTOSTRADDLE'S SCARIEST QUEER MOVIE MOMENTS
Issues Movie Lists

Autostraddle’s 34 Scariest Queer Horror Movie Moments

Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya present the most skin-crawling, chilling, disquieting, grotesque, macabre queer and trans horror movie scenes of all time.

Drew Burnett Gregory and Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
October 23, 2024 11 Comments
HORROR IS SO GAY: Cronenberg and organ transplants
Issues Movie Features

Transplants, Transition, and David Cronenberg’s Body Horrors

How many organs do I have to replace before I can be classified as “biologically female”?

Emily-Alice Wolf October 22, 2024 5 Comments
HORROR IS SO GAY: Nancy's mom drinking in Nightmare on Elm Street
First Person Issues

My Body as Haunted House Metaphor

Horror movies, like many genres of entertainment, are deliciously, or not so deliciously, depending on where one sits, populated by tropes.

Autumn Fourkiller October 18, 2024 3 Comments
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