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Music

65 Gay Pop Icons and Rising Stars

3 weeks ago 21 Comments

a collage of 11 autostraddle staff and writers in gray and green with text that reads The Autostraddle Insider #109

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AS Insider #109 April ’24: All the ‘Rejected’ April Fool’s Day Headlines

1 year ago 5 Comments

Autostraddle Writers and Editors — Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Drew, Ashni, Valerie, Carmen, Riese, Valerie, Sai, and Nico

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The AS Insider #108: Our Big Gay 15th Birthday

1 year ago 4 Comments

a collage of kayla, carmen, nic, drew, riese, and stef all making hearts with their hands

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The Autostraddle Insider #107: January 2024

1 year ago 9 Comments

the for them fulltime staff appear as oranaments

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The Autostraddle Insider #106: December 2023

2 years ago 2 Comments

a bride cries in a dark car against a steering wheel. text reads "into the A+ advice inbox"

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Into the A+ Advice Box #92: Healthy Relationships and Boundaries

2 years ago 2 Comments

A collage of images from Twenties, Anais in Love, Vida, Saving Face, Cruel Intentions, and A League of Their Own

Movie Features
TV Feature

What Makes a Sexy Lesbian Screenshot

2 years ago 3 Comments

an image of two black women embracing. text reads friends forever. and then also "into the A+ advice inbox"

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Into the A+ Advice Box #91: Why Do Your Dates Always Turn Into “Just Friends”?

2 years ago 5 Comments

a collage of three images from tiktok, one is one of those button using dogs now saying "help," another is the weird animated pizza possum, and a third is a white gay in a bathrobe. over top, text reads: The Group Chat

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The Group Chat: Our Embarrassing TikTok Fascinations

2 years ago 1 Comment

A recent photo of a sunset over Gaza.

Politics + Activism

Where To Give Money and Take Action To Support Palestinians Right Now

2 years ago 29 Comments

A collage of Heather Hogan taped on top of a blue and orange sky, next to an image of the Autostraddle TV Team (left to right: Drew, Kayla, Riese, Carmen, Valerie) at A Camp with Heather in front of us.

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Autostraddle Insider Issue #104: Goodbye Heather Edition

2 years ago 8 Comments

Kylo, a Black trans masc person, appears holding their dog in triplicate against a purple A+ background

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Member Meet and Greet With Our New CEO Kylo Freeman: Transcript and Recording

2 years ago 18 Comments

an image of two women rushing through an airport hallway. one is holding the other's hand and dragging her forward. the one in front, dragging, seems concerned and the one being led does not seem concerned. text reads: into the A+ advice box

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Into the A+ Advice Box #89: Your Date’s Always Late, Should You Break Up?

2 years ago 13 Comments

for them x autostraddle feature image

Straddleverse

For Them Acquires Autostraddle: An Explainer

2 years ago 53 Comments

two queer women kiss in just bras against a wall. one is Black with long brown hair and one is white with a blonde queer bowl cut.

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Into the A+ Advice Box #88: THE HOTBOX

2 years ago 21 Comments

a still from Fire Island showing Margaret Cho's character with all of her gay boyfriends. Over the still, text reads "The Group Chat"

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The Group Chat: Our Gay Boyfriends

2 years ago 7 Comments

a young arab woman fantasizing against a pink cloud background holds her finger to her mouth and bites her lip. two women kissing can be seen in a thought bubble above her head. text reads: into the A+ advice inbox

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Into the A+ Advice Box #87: How Can You Get Comfortable Fantasizing About Other People?

2 years ago 18 Comments

a chaotic collage of a screenshot from the podcast, barbies getting intimate, queers kissing, and bees

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The A+ Podcast That Is A Video, Episode 1: If You Kiss It, Then You Have To Eat It

2 years ago 13 Comments

a lesbian couple looks at a pregnancy test and smiles

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Into the A+ Advice Box #86: Your Fertility Journey and Complicated Feelings About Straight Friends

2 years ago 17 Comments

a pile of broken barbie dolls, over which the text "The Group Chat" is superimposed in bold, black letters

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The Group Chat: How We Played With Barbies

2 years ago 16 Comments

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: #48

2 years ago 31 Comments

a collage of eight team members, all in black and white

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 103: April 2023

2 years ago 13 Comments

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: #47

2 years ago 33 Comments

Left to Right, Top to Bottom: Nico, Kayla, Heather, Carmen, Drew, Riese, Shelli, and Viv. They are all toasting thank you to our A+ members.

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 102: March 2023

2 years ago 18 Comments

a collage of eight team members holding things (pets, plants, a book) that are dear to them

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 101: February 2023

2 years ago 27 Comments

the autostraddle team is collaged in front of a terrifying looking vintage valentine with a clown child on it sticking out its tongue

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #46

2 years ago 23 Comments

A rectangular collage graphic of the current Autostraddle team with the text “100” on top. The background is a grid of 100 grainy photos in black and white of the faces of the staff and writers. There are small squares in lime green, bright orange, fuchsia, and cyan colors overlayed on top of the photos as if to color the photo. On top of the photo grid is the text “100" in large wide chunky font with a thin white outline. The text is filled with a white and blue gradient that appears to be glowing. The letters radiate a lavender gradient noise shadow that fades into transparency so the photos behind can be seen. Team members shown in the collage are: Riese Bernard, Carmen Phillips, Anya Richkind, Nico Hall, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Heather Hogan, Viv Le, Laneia Jones, Tracy Levesque, Ro White, Shelli Nicole, Vanessa Friedman, A.Tony Jerome, Abeni Jones, Amari Gaiter, Analyssa Lopez, Ashni Mehta, Casey Stepaniuk, Christina Tucker, Dani Janae, Darcy Cooper, Drew Gregory, Em Win, Himani, Julie Gentile, KaeLyn Rich, Katie Reilly, Lily Alvarado, Meg Jones Wall, Niko Stratis, Sa’iyda Shabazz, Sally Neate, shea martin, Stef Rubino, Valerie Anne, Yash Canter.

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 100: January 2023

2 years ago 43 Comments

a collage of kayla, viv, carmen, meg and heather's morning routine photos

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 99: December 2022

3 years ago 17 Comments

A collage of Autostraddle images from 2022: a young Black trans kid with make up, a surreal piece of art from Diner Week, Syd's Broken Hearts Club album cover, and an image of Brittney Griner smiling.

Straddleverse

Autostraddle Editors Select Their Favorite 2022 Posts — That They Had Nothing to Do With

3 years ago 4 Comments

the entire Autostraddle senior team is photoshopped in front of The Grinch (Jim Carrey's version). Everyone looks deeply concerned. In the photo are Nico a white genderqueer human with bleached hair and glasses, Laneia a white woman with short blonde hair, Kayla a south asian woman with long brown hair and glasses, Anya a white woman with glasses and long brown hair, Carmen a Black woman with glasses and short curly hair, Heather a white soft butch woman with glasses and short gray hair, Riese a white woman with medium length blonde hair, and Viv an east asian nonbinary human with short green hair.

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #45

3 years ago 24 Comments

a collage of all the recipes the team has shared from a whiskey neat to christmas cookies to mushroom gracy, pasta cabonara, a 7 layer cake, sausage balls, and a grasshopper drink

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Recipes

A Very Special Senior Team Holigay Recipe Roundup

3 years ago 8 Comments

a collage of six of the autostraddle team member photos - vanessa, shelli, carmen, nico, kayla and drew

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 98: November 2022

3 years ago 28 Comments

a collage of drew, carmen, heather and kayla's insider images

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 97: October 2022

3 years ago 26 Comments

black and white photos of the autostraddle team are set against a lime green backdrop and behind negroni spagliattos. riese is a white woman with blonde hair and is holding a water bottle and smiling. Carmen is a Black woman with her hair up in a wrap drinking from a water bottle and smiling. Viv is an Asian human with short hair drinking from a glass water bottle and looking serious. Anya is a white woman with long brown hair and glasses drinking from a mug with a cat on it. Laneia is a white woman with short dark hair in this photo drinking from a giant jar of something which is maybe tea. She also has glasses. Nico is a white genderqueer human drinking from a coffee thermos and wearing glasses. Their hair is bleached and short and shaved on the sides. Kayla is a South Asian woman with long brown hair and glasses who is smiling over a cute little cocktail and heather is a soft butch white woman with short hair and glasses holding up one of our PRAY THE GAY TO STAY fundraiser mugs

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #44

3 years ago 9 Comments

a collage oc casey's, sa'iyda's, laneia's tracy's, drew's, kayla's, carmen's, and em's insider photos

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 96: September 2022

3 years ago 17 Comments

a collage of the insider photos of nico, tracy, laneia, carmen and valerie

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 95: August 2022

3 years ago 31 Comments

Everyone on the Autostraddle senior team (Kayla, Carmen, Riese, Viv, Anya, Heather, Laneia and Nico are seen backgrounded by A League of Their Own style stars against an oldey timey film-y looking backdrop of a bright blue sky with clouds. Each person's name appears in a ribbon below their smiling photograph.

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #43

3 years ago 19 Comments

Across, left to right: Carmen, a Black woman, sits against a concrete block graffitied with the word, "chula." She is wearing coral pants, birkenstocks and a black tee. Her hair is parted and curly and she is wearing hoop earrings and sunglasses. Viv, an Asian person, frowns at the camera with the sun behind them. They have green, buzzed hair and are wearing a black tank top. Drew, a white woman, takes a bathroom mirror selfie. She is wearing a short crop top revealing her stomach and is looking at the camera in a devastatingly mean manner. Her hair is long and curly. Shelli Nicole, a Black woman, poses for the camera, looking hot. She is wearing an orange tank and gold neckaces and hoop earrings and nose ring. She has a bag slung over her shoulder.

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 94: July 2022

3 years ago 13 Comments

a collage made up of as team members living their best lives this june. this features katie, anya and her mom, carmen, vanessa, tracy, drew, viv, and himani

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 93: June 2022

3 years ago 19 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

3 years ago 10 Comments

There are two rows of four AS team members in this collage. Top from left to right, Nicole a white genderqueer human with glasses holds up a glass bowl of wild violets, Heather a white soft butch woman with short gray hair and black glasses holds up three orange roses and raises an eyebrow winningly, Carmen a Black woman with curly hair glasses and hoop earrings who is also wearing a cute bandanna tied in a bow at the top of her head is holding up a bouquet of small pink flowers and smiling with her eyes over them, and Tracy and Mia who are our Yikes tech team hold up a bouquet of spring flowers - Tracy has short black hair and a nose piercing and is asian, Mia is wearing a beanie and has a gray bob. On the bottom left to right, Vanessa a white woman with long brown hair wearing sunglasses and a pink outfit is posing near a bounty of pink blossoms on a tree her head raised in a blissful expression, Dani a Black woman with curly Black hair and large vintage inspired glasses gazes at the viewer with lips slightly parted while holden a bouquet of flowers in various shades of yellow that also match her gold top, Casey a white woman holds her baby who is smiling softly while Casey smiles broadly in front of a single red tulip, and Shelli a Black woman with long black hair and a nose piercing smiles playfully over a single white rose.

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 91: April 2022

3 years ago 38 Comments

Anya, Riese, Carmen, Laneia, Kayla, Heather and Nicole are all floating heads behind laptops in this graphic

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #41

3 years ago 21 Comments

This is a collage of six photos. Shelli is wearing a "Break Up With Him" graphic tee, Carmen is wearing a Whitney Houston graphic tee, Drew is wearing a Lois Weber productions graphic tee, Kayla is wearing a Bubba Gump Shrimp House graphic tee, Nicole is pictured with their girlfriend both wearing matching "I'm a Citizen Detective" tees with Misty's face on them from Yellowjackets, and Laneia is wearing a tee that reads "World's Greatest Dad"

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 90, March 2022

3 years ago 16 Comments

The A+ Discord Senior Staff Hang - Monday March 21 from 4pm to 6pm PST. This image, on top of a background of notebook paper and doodles, depicts each of the senior team members in polaroid esque photo frames. They are Laneia, Anya, Nicole, Heather, Kayla, Carmen, and Riese

Straddleverse

Hang Out With Our Senior Team on Discord!

3 years ago No Comments

this is a collage of 6 team members reading books. Carmen reads from a Toni Morrison book. Heather peeks over a novel at the viewer. Drew reclines with a cute dog while reading an older looking book. Meg looks at the viewer while holding a book open. Dani peers over the top of a book. Nicole looks at the viewer while reading a Fran Lebowitz book.

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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 89, February 2022

3 years ago 18 Comments

An Asian person with short hair and pink lipstick is writing in a notebook next to a MacBook computer, at a wooden desk overlooking a window with greenery.

Straddleverse

Autostraddle Is Hiring New Writers for Our Team! Is That You?

3 years ago 33 Comments

a collage of Autostraddle team members Shelli, Carmen, Laneia, Meg, Sally, Kayla, Em and Drew are each drinking beverages in this themed collage! Shelli is drinking a cocktail, Carmen is drinking from a water bottle, Laneia has a green juice, Meg has tea in a tarot mug, Sally has a beverage in Autostraddle's fundraiser gay computer mug, Kayla has a cocktail that looks very fruity and orange, Em is drinking out of a mug shaped like a human torso in a sexy way, and Drew is drinking tea in front of a laptop.

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The Autostraddle Insider Issue 88, January 2022

3 years ago 26 Comments

A collage of editors' favorite cover features of 2021. in the middle is the text: End of Year Lists 2021.

Straddleverse

Autostraddle Editors Choose (Some of) Their Favorite Posts They Had Nothing To Do With

4 years ago 8 Comments

Sarah, Riese, Kayla, Carmen, Nicole, Heather and Laneia each appear as floating heads behind laptops. The background is grainy and white. Everyone except Heather is smiling hugely.

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #39

4 years ago 11 Comments

Sarah, Riese, Kayla, Carmen, Nicole, Heather and Laneia each appear as floating heads behind laptops. The background is grainy and white. Everyone except Heather is smiling hugely.

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Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #38

4 years ago 24 Comments

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