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Health LGBT Pride

10 Ways to Keep Your Disabled / Chronically Ill Friends Safer This Pride

We clown on the commodification of Pride, but what good is that if we continue to perpetuate all the ableism intrinsic in capitalism in our own spaces?

By Heather Hogan | June 2, 2022 | 15 Comments
A screenshot from The Foundation for AIDS Research's "Scenes from Angels in America" fundraiser. Vella Lovell as Harper is superimposed above Andrew Rannells as Prior. The backdrop is a mix of a starry sky over a building and a staircase with candles leading from the bottom of the frame to the top. Lovell wears a black nightie and Rannells wears a turquoise robe and makeup.
First Person Theater

Slow Takes: A Tribute to Zoom Theatre

The story of how I joined theatre is like if the Disney Channel was dark and gay.

By Drew Burnett Gregory | June 2, 2022 | 8 Comments
A Black woman with braids wears a brown leather jacket and holds a book in front of her face.
Literature

Rainbow Reading: What Are You Reading This Pride Month?

Welcome back to Rainbow Reading, your biweekly roundup of LGBTQ+ lit news you can use.

By Yashwina | June 2, 2022 | 22 Comments
A stylized graphic featuring a grid of the 12 astrological signs in a light lavender against a swirled muted navy blue background.
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for June 2022

We’re experiencing more grief and rage than our systems can metabolize. Venus, planet of pleasure, reminds us that connecting to joy is a sacred responsibility. It is how we process and transmute the toxins of despair.

By Corina Dross | June 1, 2022 | 2 Comments
Aunjanue Ellis walks the red carpet for Essence's Black Women in Hollywood. Her hair is braided into bantu knots and her red suit coat is custom bedazzled with the word "Queer" spelled in crystals. Underneath the red suit coat is also a red button down.
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Aunjanue Ellis Confirmed Her Queerness, Today Is For Black Bisexual Oscar Nominees ONLY

A Black queer woman over 50, Oscar nominee, who’s proudly from the Bible Belt, confirming she’s bisexual? On June 1st? Babyyy — we throwing a whole damn Pride parade. Put her name in lights.

By Carmen Phillips | June 1, 2022 | 12 Comments
Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Meet Gotham Knights’ Harper Row, Your New CW Bisexual

Also! I seriously cannot believe this Sara Ramirez Variety cover, Brittney Griner’s supporters have a new strategy to free her, Matthew Morrison Mr. Schue’s his way to getting fired from So You Think You Can Dance, and more!

By Heather Hogan | June 1, 2022 | 11 Comments
a collage of characters from lgbt-inclusive shows debuting in June 2022 on streaming networks
Movie Lists TV Lists

June 2022: What’s New and Gay on HBO Max, Netflix, Hulu, Peacock and More!

We’ve got a series about lesbian vampires and a series about a queer actress angling to be in “Les Vampires,” a delightfully inclusive Queer as Folk reboot, Selena Gomez getting the girl in Season 2 of The Only Murders in the Building, a new 80s-set movie about a young Black queer singer and (truly) so much more!

By Riese | June 1, 2022 | 16 Comments
Four cut outs of Tommy Dorfman in a navy blue long t-shirt dress and clean white Nike's with a black swoosh. She has a blonde bob and oversized glasses. She's walking in each of the four cut outs, against a light blue background.
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: We’re All Thinking It, Right? Tommy Dorfman Is Giving Princess Diana!!!

Plus, the casual gay Auntie swag of Queen Latifah playing pool with Gabrielle Union’s tiny daughter, Kaavia James.

By Christina Tucker | June 1, 2022 | 2 Comments
Two Bratz dolls are in rainbow colored long fur coats while holding protest signs and are photoshopped in front of a pink background with gold and yellow sparkles. The dolls look millennial chic, despite being corporate pride.
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: I Wanna Be Mad About Bratz Commodifying Pride, but That Coat

Welcome to Corporate Pride season! Also, Will’s sexuality on “Stranger Things,” you can escape summer’s heat if you’re rich, and your personality, as explained by your annoying household habits.

By Carmen Phillips | May 31, 2022 | 6 Comments
12 images of Autostraddle team members are collaged together. Kayla stands in a bathing suit on the beach, Riese poses with Carol and a friend on a hike, Drew eats ice cream sitting at the beach, Nicole climbs over a field of boulders, Ro deals with the wind on a roof, Viv poses by a giant rock Georgia O'Keefe sculpture, Darcy lounges in a pool among trees, Carmen smiles outdoors at a rainbow flag painted intersection, Tracy sits in the Philadelphia magic gardens, Anya poses in front of blooming trees, Abeni lies in a hammock outdoors, and Vanessa poses with Zucchini the dog outdoors by a stream
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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 92: May 2022

“ANYWAY YEAH come get a scorpion!”

By The Editors | May 31, 2022 | 10 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Gentleman Jack” Is Not Keeping The Bed Warm For Some Man!

Anne Lister employs the ultimate lesbian tactic of wearing a low power ponytail so that men will cower before her. Ann Walker has had it up to here with her greedy family.

By Heather Hogan | May 31, 2022 | 6 Comments
In a room with white walls, a woman with olive skin, long, brown hair and floral tattoos on her lower arm sits in a white bed with her chin in her hand. To her left, a woman with pale skin and short brown hair who is wearing a grey T-shirt sits with her arms crossed.
Dating

Competitive Queerness Gives Me the Ick

This residual harm, this chip on the shoulder, this something to prove — they’re proving it to the wrong person. They’re gay-tekeeping.

By Yashwina | May 31, 2022 | 16 Comments
A person with long hair sitting on her bed, silhouetted by the window, facing the filmy transparent curtains. Outside, there is the hint of a sunrise.
Relationships

You Need Help: Should My Relationship Really Be This Hard?

Moving through your relationship as carefully as you currently are is going to be unsustainable in the long-term. Your partner is enacting a sustained pattern of behavior that needs to stop.

By Darcy | May 31, 2022 | 20 Comments
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Beauty

Makeup for When Your Fingers Are the Only Tool You’ve Got

I’ve dumped my brushes and started using my perfect, gay hands to apply makeup. Here are some product recommendations and tips for going brush-less.

By ashni | May 31, 2022 | 7 Comments
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, a brown lesbian with brown hair and eyes, throughout her twenties
First Person

The Gayest Things I Did in My Twenties

I’m 23, and I’m not sure if I’m on a date (I’m not).

By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | May 30, 2022 | 22 Comments
CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 24: Actress Lea Seydoux (L) and actress Kristen Stewart attend the photocall for "Crimes Of The Future" during the 75th annual Cannes film festival at Palais des Festivals on May 24, 2022 in Cannes, France
Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Kristen Stewart Says She’ll Make This Bisexual Movie or DIE TRYING!!!

Wee-oooh! Wee-ooh! Gays in Disney+’s Willow series! Official Bratz Pride dolls??? And Jodie Foster’s taking over True Detective.

By Heather Hogan | May 30, 2022 | 14 Comments
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, when she was 22-years-old. Her hair is dark and down, and she's wearing a black backpack and a teal sleeveless buttondown. There's pink glitter on the lower left and upper right corners of the image.
Playlists

Playlist: I’m Turning 30 Tomorrow — Here Are 20 Songs From My Twenties

Every gay person has told me your thirties rule, and I BELIEVE it!!!!!

By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | May 29, 2022 | 6 Comments
Amity kisses Luz
TV Show Recaps

Luz and Amity Make Queer Kissing History on Disney’s “The Owl House”

Move over, Flynn Rider — there’s a new Prince Charming in town!

By Heather Hogan | May 28, 2022 | 13 Comments
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A+

Interview With My Ex: Courtney

“Isn’t it funny how much Facebook used to play a role in flirting?”

By Analyssa | May 28, 2022 | 6 Comments
In a two panel purple and blue comic, Dickens talks with their friend Sarai. Sarai wants to know why the neighbor's front yard "looks like the Capitol Building on January 6th" and Dickens responds, "that woman is lost to the dark side."
Webcomics

Foolish Child #120: The Neighbors

In a special SATURDAY edition of Foolish Child, “Literally all I heard you say is that we live next-door to TWO white supremacists and now we have to move.”

By Dickens | May 28, 2022 | 1 Comment
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