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The Illusion Of Safety
I don’t want to be caught parading around in last generation’s false sense of security. I’m kicking off Autostraddle’s first Asian Pacific Islander American (APIA) Heritage month by exploring the values my own South Asian and Japanese American parents and grandparents imparted to me, to learn to carry them forward.
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If I’m Queer But I’m A Preacher, Maybe He’ll Love Me
“My father has very few admirable qualities when it comes to our relationship: he doesn’t follow through on his promises, he doesn’t compromise, and he has a God complex. “
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This Is a Love Letter With an Ending Just For You [UPDATED]
An Autostraddle first.
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If Joan Of Arc Can Do It, Why Can’t I?
Ever since I went to a Halloween party at my friend’s church youth group in 6th grade, I’ve been almost inseparable from my Christian identity. But on November 4th, 2012, my heart was all the way down in my toes as I got ready to go to church for the first time as a transgender lesbian.
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It’s A Boy*!
It’s a boy, until and unless he tells us otherwise, I thought. It’s a boy who will be raised without gender roles. It’s a boy who will be defined by their heart and mind, not by the organs that happen to be between their legs. It’s a boy who will be loved wholly, deeply, and completely by the two women who created him.
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On Loving My Republican Brother Who Loves Me
What can we reasonably expect from our relatives when it comes to voting?
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You Know You’re A Queer Catholic School Survivor If…
22. You can’t decide if you want to be or do your Confirmation saint.
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“You’re So… You!”
“Our commitment was never in question. I just hadn’t faced the possibility that I could be, not someone’s boyfriend, but their girlfriend. That was the part I had to think about.”
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How The South Made Me A Queer Feminist
In the rural South, the word “tomboy” is basically a euphemism for “She’s genderqueer, and she may or may not grow out of it. Hell if we know.”
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Estranged: How I Fell In Love With A Girl And Lost My Family
“When they see you happy, they’ll accept it,” someone told me once. When there are tears about something unchangeable, people can only be optimistic. It’s the only thing that is left.
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Texas Is Not the Only State: Confessions of a Lesbian Exile in New York
“I kept MapQuest directions to Albuquerque in the glove compartment of my car, just in case I needed to run away. When I graduated, I moved to upstate New York for college.”
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100 Michigan Law Students Walk Out Of Graduation: LGBTs Winning Hearts and Minds
This weekend, one third of Michigan Law’s 2011 class walked out of their own graduation ceremony to protest an anti-gay graduation speaker. Lucky for us, Sarah was there for the whole thing.
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How I Came Out to My Evangelical Christian Parents And You Can, Too
“Kirk Cameron does not star in this movie. No halo of God’s approval is going to appear behind your head when you tell your parents you’re gay. This is not Touched By An Angel.”
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About My Sexual Orientation And Were(n’t) Afraid To Ask
The eyes are all asking are you in, or are you out?
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Don’t Want To Be Part of the Problem: A Field Guide to Airborne Homophobia
Is it possible to be a radical queer feminist and still overhear conversations, maintain friendships and interact in public with unradical non-queers, without screaming at everyone or compromising your identity? A case study.
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College Lesbianage #1: I’m Looking for Girlfriends, Not Bridesmaids
Introducing “Lily’s College Lesbianage,” the first of many columns to come about lesbian college life all over the world . This week, Lily finds heteronormativity alive and well, even at Barnard, and copes with the anxiety of being a freshman lesbian weirdo surrounded by new people in a new city.
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In “Gay Friendly” Philippines, Lesbians Still Forced to Keep it in the Closet
The Philippines is widely regarded as Asia’s most gay-friendly country. So why are its lesbians forced to marry men, submerge desire and stay in the closet?