Mental health was a major theme this year lyrically, as were some of the topics that can never be approached too many times — being gay, being in love, breaking up, struggling with identity, struggling with adulthood, struggling with self-sabotage.

This was a great year for LGBTQ music and my gay little heart.

Y’all ever heard of Ryan Wilder?

Our TV Team has voted and these are our picks for the Best TV Shows of 2021 with lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans characters.

Love? Not a lie!

There are 35 films on this attempted list of every lesbian+ movie released in 2021. While the list includes some lesser known fare, there’s also the 2021 Palme d’or winner, several Netflix movies, and a few Oscar contenders.

Autostraddle’s TV Team shares our picks for the best TV shows of 2020 featuring girls, gays and theys.

“Even once the surprise of it has been lost, I find myself returning to it time and again in my memory. A truly perfect moment of acting, of cinematography, of television. Easily the best of the year.”

2020 was terrible in every way except for queer books. There were so many amazing queer books published this year! Here are 67 of the best of them.

Valentine’s Day is coming up in only two months! This is my holiday gift to those of you who struggle with gifts: make her a Spotify playlist! And guess what, I’ve already done most of the work for you.

Here’s what we loved this year and what we didn’t like very much at all. We’d love to hear your opinions too, obviously!

Our TV critics smashed their heads together to deliver our picks for the years’ 25 best shows with queer, lesbian, bisexual and trans women characters as well as each of our individual top 15s. So much TV you’ve gotta see in here!

It’s been a wild year for gay pop culture, and a great year for some very well dressed queers — enjoy it with this very subjective but deeply felt top 11 of 2018, as based on an internal Autostraddle staff survey. 

We published so much good work this year, and here is a fraction of it we think you will particularly enjoy reading back through!

“Is this how cis white dudes feel all the time?”

Did you read these 28 posts in 2017? Because if not, you should really fix that right away!

Here’s 16 women or groups of women who gave me and you and everyone we know some life in this, the darkest of years.

2016 was the best of times and the worst of times. JK, it was the absolute worst of times. A lot of queer women died on TV. But a lot of them kissed and made googly eyes at each other too.

You might be saying, “Brittani! Why is that fun?” And to that I say, I am a gender non-conforming black lesbian. If I couldn’t find fun in being the underdog, I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed in the morning.

We’ve finally arrived at a place where we have enough queer characters on TV to fight about them. What a time to be alive!