I love a fucking weirdo narrator — a strange girl who’s always on the outside of things, always looking too closely at everything around her, drawing conclusions nobody wants to hear, perpetually unsure of how to be a human.

This week truly seems blessed by the queer music gods.

Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.

Alison Bechdel talks fame, privilege, and returning to old characters for her new work of autofiction.

“Oh yeah not popular in like a toxic way where everyone is obsessed with them being evil or something haha. They’re *good* popular!”

Wanna spend your Pride cash on original t-shirts from lesbian and queer-owned businesses and LGBTQ+ stores? We’ve got a great list!

What would things have looked like if we got openly queer Kristen Stewart from the beginning of the Twilight franchise?

Shayna Maci Warner talks about their new book The Rainbow Age of Television and hot TV topics from representation to the Killing Eve finale.

“In my twenties as I was coming into my queerness, it felt like there were very heteronormative ways to be queer.”

Their romance also encapsulates the protagonist figuring out she’s a top, a journey I always love to see!

If you’re a horror movie fan who wants to see more stories by queer writers, or featuring good queer representation, head to the bookstore instead of the movie theater.

“Straight Couples Who Aren’t Fucking Are Appropriating Lesbian Bed Death Culture”

Rather than focus on individual, exceptional figures of toxic masculinity, Hammer wanted to explore masculinity as a cultural form that people of all genders can embody.

“How many scenes have had people work something out at a diner? Can’t that happen at an Olive Garden?”

Overlapping topics we’re going to discuss include the history of glitter, queer meanings of femme and femme theory, Barbie Capitalism, why gays love Magic Earring Ken, pink vs pynk, and so much more!

Tegan Quin chats with Autostraddle about the latest Tegan and Sara projects.

Check out the first chapter of On Her Terms, a sapphic rom-com with a fake relationship plot.

It’s a book about a scammer, but The Fake isn’t trying to hoodwink the reader.

The stories of trans youth go largely ignored by the American public in our cultural conversations about their lives, but Nico Lang is giving everyone a chance to change that with their new book, American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era.

How do you build chosen family? Should you consider pursuing romantic connection when your friends have become more distant? And do we have ideas for your anniversary celebration? (We do!)