Rent-A-Butch and The Handy Dyke provide queer customers a safe and friendly option in a space dominated by straight cis men.

Shelter In Our Place 2 launches on Monday and we can’t wait to see you there.

“I hadn’t yet come to terms with being a lesbian, so I also spent a lot of time making excuses not to have sex.”

We’re having an Advice-a-Thon/AMA on A+ on Monday to celebrate our sixth birthday with tons of Autostraddle editors and special guests like La Loba Loca, Mallory Ortberg, Dannielle Owens-Reid and more! We’re also giving away some free A+ memberships to ‘Straddlers-in-need and THIS is the post wherein you can get yourself in the running!

Once you figure out what feeling you were chasing, you can start working toward it – and getting a solid taste of it — every day. And that, my friend, seriously changes everything.

You! Yes, you! Get in here and let us love you!

This post includes an adorable photo of Dhati as a small child, along with some words of wisdom about coming out, not coming out, and crushing on Korean pop stars.

Amanda is becoming a librarian in Boston and she has things to say about successful long-term relationships, bisexuality, and escorting at Planned Parenthood.

Exciting new faces to meet and greet!