Despite the fact that LGBT youth comprise a disproportionate amount of the youth homeless population, the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act currently does not contain language or requirements to specifically protect this vulnerable population.
1.5 hours of extended pleasure courtesy of songs from and in the spirit of “Orange Is The New Black.”
This shit is bogus and fucked up.
As if college couldn’t get any better, now it’s GAYER THAN EVER.
Camp is just two months away and we’re offering another opportunity for you to go for free, thanks to Kreuzbach10!
A hugely talented indie musician from Boston who’s making her biggest, baddest record yet.
It’s been a big summer for South and Southeast Asia when it comes to LGBT/queer news. The most important aspect of this news, however, is that it was reported at all.
It has become increasingly difficult to defend my home state with our governor saying dumb things left and right, like his brief on marriage equality. Are you ready for a headdesk the size of a Jersey hairdo?
“Will I have to leave my boxer briefs at home in lieu of high-waisted, thin, cotton lady panties under my kick ass uniform during Basic Training?”
“Red’s husband is like, whoa, free-thinking woman, are you on your period or something? Who let you out of the kitchen?”
For all of those queer Autostraddle picnics you should be attending.
Even though we’re dealing with robots, dragons and multiple dimensions, Decrypting Rita is fundamentally about queer nerds.
Some have criticized Tarttelin’s protagonist as being unbelievably undisturbed and mainstream, but as someone who actually is intersex, I found his character so believable that I thought for a minute she might have modeled him after me!
“Burka Avenger,” Pakistan’s first original animated TV series, features a female superhero who’s sparked a debate about whether her burqa disguise is “cool or conformist.” Why is this still the issue about Muslim women?
Or as he says, “…for the individual labeled a “babe” to become a sex object requires that person’s participation.”
Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed Uzo Aduba, Kate Mulgrew, Laverne Cox and Piper Kerman on her show and Laverne Cox name-dropped Autostraddle and it was awesome.
If you’re as food info hungry as I am, sometimes your eyes and ears are called on to truly satisfy your cravings.
“I’d skipped a really basic question: why do some languages, including English, have gender woven into them in the first place?”
Aimée talks about her femme identity, what it’s like to have lupus, and the cultural differences between the United States and Ireland.
A look at the stories behind the stories and the humans behind the characters and the numbers behind those stories in everybody’s favorite lezalicious prison dramedy.