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Food and Drink

Let’s Get Really Into Leeks

Leeks are a wildly underrated allium if you ask me.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 8, 2024 5 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword is Going Downhill Fast

What do you call a factory that produces generally decent goods?

Darby Ratliff January 8, 2024 3 Comments
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First Person

Queering Time: The Offering of ‘Kairos’

We all know how a certain kind of kiss can eclipse time.

Julia Smith-Eppsteiner January 7, 2024 5 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Lesbian Coat Are You?

Are you a classic denim jacket or an extremely cool black leather motorcycle jacket or are you a statement-grabbing fur coat? Find out now!

Riese January 7, 2024 16 Comments
Drag Race 1601 recap: Morphine admires herself in the mirror as Amanda and Q look on
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1601 Recap: Get Immunized

Ru promises a whole new approach which could either mean complex psychological torture or opening chocolate bars.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 6, 2024 8 Comments
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Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “Multiple Maniacs” Has the Best Lesbian Sex Scene Ever

Queerness should always include a cavalcade of perversions.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 6, 2024 7 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword is an Amorphous Thing

What’s big, gray and doesn’t matter?

Rebecca Goldstein January 6, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Raising Kanan Is Setting up a Peak 90s Black Girl Love Story

Coming out as a Black queer teen in the 90s can be messy business, but the connection between Iesha and Juke was genuine. And I think we have a Black love story in the making on our hands.

Carmen Phillips January 5, 2024 2 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Monica Gave the Gays Everything They Want in the “Salt Lake City” Finale

A thrilling secret villain reveal proves Real Housewives of Salt Lake City is just like a daytime soap.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2024
Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto
LGBT Book Reviews

The U.S. Occupation of Hawaiʻi Haunts the Pages of This Extraordinary Short Fiction Collection

It’s beautifully constructed from start to finish, and while the stories will get under your skin, it’s a welcome invasion.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2024 2 Comments
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Breakups

We Asked a Bunch of Queer People To Share Their Go-To Breakup Coping Mechanisms

“Applying to jobs in Antarctica. Not joking.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 5, 2024 6 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword *Is* an Internet Subculture

What does a clock do when it’s hungry?

Emet Ozar January 5, 2024 2 Comments
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Lesbian Sex

Things I Do To Feel Submissive Even Though My Partner Isn’t Super Dominant

There’s room for ‘incompatibilities’ if we find mutually supportive ways to manage them.

Summer Tao January 4, 2024 5 Comments
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Book Features

“Here Are All My Favorite Delusions, I Hope You Like Them”: Talking to Gabrielle Korn About Queer Dystopian Novel “Yours For The Taking”

“I feel like so much of the theme of ‘straight women idealizing women’ just came from my dark times in women’s media. This idea that if you have a space that’s just women that it’s somehow superior — that just became so funny to me!”

Riese January 4, 2024 8 Comments
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Movie Lists

Actresses Born Before My Grandma Ranked by How Badly I Want Them to Top Me

I am a sucker for a mid-atlantic accent and a beauty in black and white.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 4, 2024 22 Comments
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Food Lists

25 Dishes for Hosting a Fancy Gay Dinner Party That Are Low Effort and Cost

Apps, soups/salads, mains, sides, and desserts that won’t break the bank or your back.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 4, 2024 8 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 511 Recap: Imagining the Past, Looking to the Future

Good Trouble thrives when it focuses on its chosen family and invests its energy in building the relationships between those characters.

Natalie January 4, 2024 1 Comment
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp and Coco Jones New Year’s Performance Is Living in My Head Rent Free

In case you missed it, queer artists like Reneé Rapp, Janelle Monáe, and Cardi B really gayed up New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Also, Jodie Foster on True Detective, noted bisexual Kate Siegel on recasting Roderick in The Fall of the House of Usher and more!

Valerie Anne January 3, 2024 3 Comments
TV Feature

Vote Now in the 6th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!

Welcome to the 2023 Autostraddle TV Awards! These awards celebrate the best in LGBTQ+ television and beyond.

The TV Team January 3, 2024 23 Comments
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Gender

A Trans Guy’s Guide to the Men’s Bathroom

2) Men do not lock the door.

Gabe Dunn January 3, 2024 21 Comments
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