GIVEAWAY: Win Tickets To Mary Lambert’s Intimate Valentine’s Day Show In New York
No matter what your romantic situation, seeing Mary Lambert for free sounds like a pretty ideal way to spend one’s Friday night.
Dear Queer Diary: To Burn Or Not To Burn?
What say you, my dear queer diarists? Are your journals destined to go up in flames? Or are you already planning the exhibition on your journal-writing career?
Top 10 Special Weirdo Things I’ve Done Since My Very First Break Up
“Sat in my car listening to a police scanner app for an hour for no particular reason “
We Won A Thing: Scotland Legalises Same-Sex Marriage, Braces For Bad Weather
As per UKIP prophecy, torrential rains await Holyrood as Scottish gays might be able to get hitched as soon as this autumn.
Make A Thing: Valentine’s Day Crafts Roundup
Valentine’s Day is a perfect excuse to bust out the cutest and most adorable crafts ever.
Lost Girl 404: Everyone’s Full of Feels
Bo comes home, Tamsin grows up and Lauren and Betty McRae have the most awkward post-sex process ever.
Intense Lesbian Fanfiction, Part One: Blaze Is Here
“The night was deep and dark over Ellen DeGeneres’ Burbank mansion. Inside her mahogany themed living room, Ellen sat in a velvet high back chair and quietly sipped whisky out of a crystal glass.”
Jacqueline Nantumbwe Must Stay: Why the Current UK System For LGB Asylum Seekers is Broken
The UK Border Agency has detained Ugandan asylum seeker Jacqueline Nantumbwe, placing her at risk of abuse and deportation unless she can “prove” she’s gay.
We Need Help: Seeking New Fashion Writers
If you’ve ever felt like Autostraddle could be the perfect place to put your words about fashion, style & beauty for a smart queer lady audience, your time has come!
The Problem With The Reaction to the Reaction to Coke’s “America the Beautiful” Commercial
It’s easy to be enraged by these kind of tweets and statuses but it’s really just lazy journalism that obscures the real issues.
Five Things You Should Know About the New Report on Low Abortion Rates in the U.S.
I know you’re thinking it’s definitely because of the 205 draconian abortion laws enacted over the past few years, but this study actually suggests that abortion rates are going down because of birth control and family planning. And the economy.
Latin Lovers and Spicy Bombshells: What “The L Word” Got Wrong About Latinas
The truth is that Carmen and Papi are Latina characters who perpetuated sweeping generalizations about Latin@ Folks and ultimately made matters worse.
Top 15 Things I Wrote In My Journal Without Context: January Edition
“I guess if I freak the fuck out so much at the prospect of someone reading my journal then I should probably stop doing the things I end up writing about but that seems unattainable at this point in my life.”
Playlist: Let’s Get These Teen Hearts Beating Faster
A collection of mostly pop punk songs designed to send you down a rabbit hole of spirited angst.
Star Trek N00b, Episode 9: Miri (Why Kids Are Great In Horror Movies)
Spock and Bones use their fancy future tech and floppy disks to answer a pressing questions: How does the human race continue for 300 years on a planet without adults?
Top 10 Gayest Rihanna Music Videos of All Time
The new Shakira and Rihanna video got me thinking and I realized something. Rihanna does some gay shit. So I ranked her gayest videos.
Sunday Top Ten: My Favorite “Friday Night Lights” Characters
To be honest the only football teams I’ve ever cared about were in Dillon, Texas.
2014 Super Bowl Liveblog: Seahawks vs. Broncos vs. Seven-Layer Dip
The Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos are playing a very important football game today and I’m liveblogging it. America is so fun.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Likes The Way You Taste
Vintage porn, really vintage porn, fixing lesbian bed death/sex drive differences, sex and books as the cure for insomnia and more.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dead: Brilliant Actor, “Capote” Star, Legendarily Uncool
“I didn’t go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That’s what interests me.”