Why Are We Still Expecting Rich Corporations to Like Gays More Than Money?
Old Navy is making gay t-shirts and Urban Outfitters is making gay people angry and pretty much we shouldn’t shop anywhere, ever, except maybe etsy.
Riese’s Team Pick: “There Are Some People Who Don’t Wait: The Future of Journalism”
“Here’s what my friends will never do, that you and your friends DID do: we will never trust a company that hires us, no matter how good, how proud it is at this moment, to stay loyal to us.”
Riese’s Team Pick: TGI Fridays Invented Restaurants or Something
“I painted the building blue and I put the waiters in red and white striped soccer shirts. If you think that I knew what I was doing, you are dead wrong.”
SHOCK: Large Company (GayCities) Buys “LGBT” Blog (Queerty), Says It’ll Be Different This Time?
In which I go off on a tangent about gay male spaces claiming to be lesbian spaces when they totally are not.
Wal-Mart Stands Up Against Anti-Gay Worker But Also Is Probably Still Evil Overall
Wal-Mart did a thing that is not entirely offensive to everything we believe in as humans and it involves firing a ‘team member’ for an anti-gay diatribe
The Real Reason Women Quit Engineering
“Women engineers who were treated in a condescending, patronizing manner, and were belittled and undermined by their supervisors and co-workers were most likely to want to leave their organizations.”
At Last, the Sex Discrimination Lawsuit Against Wal-Mart Has Come Along
It’s the biggest class action lawsuit of all time! It’s about gender discrimination! I read all 115 declarations!
Target Really Wants Gay People to Hate Them, Despite Solid Stock of Cute Boyshorts
Target is suing a gay rights group for petitioning outside its stores, further complicating its relationship to the gay community.
9 to 5 For Radicals: How to Survive Your Soul-Sucking Office Job
When you have one of those days when you look at the container of paper clips on your desk and think “Is this all that I am now?”, it’s time to take action.
Lesbian Says She Was Fired For Being a Lesbian, is Suing The State of Indiana, DEA, Others
What’s worse than (possibly) getting fired for being gay? Having it maybe not be illegal?
Professionally Queer: Good News/Bad News About Gays and Lesbians in the Workplace
Times are hard, but no one knows better than the gays that if you work for it, things can get immeasurably better. Here’s a snapshot of what the job market looks like for us right now, and why we feel better about it than straight people do.
Kelsey’s 5 Steps to Coping with Unemployment
It’s a really hard life being unemployed. Here are some of the ways that I cope.
Oh My God We Are All Unemployed: How Twentysomethings Live Now
Do you have a job? WELL THEN CLEARLY YOU AREN’T A TWENTYSOMETHING WITH A GRADUATE DEGREE. Are you hiring. Can I send you a resume.
Coming Out at Work: What a Way To Make a Living
Thinking about coming out to your boss and co-workers? Here’s a little advice from someone who’s done it a few times.
Top Ten Most Gayest Jobs: A Labor Day Special!
Happy Labor Day, betches! In honor of this esteemed holiday, we have assembled a list of the most gayest jobs of all time, according to an unscientific study of our stuffed animals.
BlogHer? But I Just Met Her! Internet Worlds Collide at the Blogher ’10 Conference
Our design director Alex spoke at the BlogHer ’10 Conference this year and it was fun! Wanna talk about it? Here’s kind of sort of what happened and why we should all go next year.
Flavors.me: An Insta-Resume or Portfolio Tool (Just Add Water!)
Check out Flavors.me for an amazing resume/portfolio creation resource– just add water! No seriously, it’s that easy; you don’t even have to add water or anything. Make a simple, elegant little website in about 10 minutes, start to finish. Yes, it’s cheating, but cheating never looked this good. Cheating usually looks likes punches and smeary mascara.
Lucky Dog Leather: Rockstar Style for Homos and Rebels
Jess sits down with Lucia Gerbino, owner of Lucky Dog Leather to find out the secret behind the unofficial wardrobe to the celesbians.
Be Queer, Buy Queer, Win $10,000: OUTmedia Wants Your Videos, College Kids!
Hey! Have you supported your community yet today? No? Don’t worry, it’s not too late! OUTmedia and Campus Pride are working to make you think about where your dollar is going, and we think you should help.
Brooke Means Business: Franco Stevens, Founder and Publisher of Curve Magazine
Time for the second edition of Brooke Means Business, in which Autostraddle COO Brooke Levin finds ladies who will talk to her about business. Today we bring you Franco Stevens, who was 22 years old when she decided to stop looking for a National lesbian glossy magazine and start her own — and thus CURVE was born.