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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Watching Wishbone

“You are home here!”

Darcy July 22, 2022 6 Comments
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Community

The Five Drinks You Taste in Heaven: How a Coffee Shop Became Home

These are the moments that I can still taste, still feel on my hardest days.

shea wesley martin July 21, 2022 18 Comments
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Community

They Created the World They Wanted to See: The Radical Possibility of FaT GiRL Zine

“This was a noninstitutionalized reaction. This was political, intentional, we’re gonna be fat and queer and creative and sexy and empowering and a collective action.”

Lindsay Eanet July 18, 2022 7 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Racing Rainbow Road

“MAKE TRANS ICON BIRDO A MAIN PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN MARIO CART, YOU COWARDS!”

Darcy July 15, 2022 4 Comments
four butch queers — the rent-a-butch team — gather on a front porch to offer up red roses while posing with some tools and supplies. they all look very handsome.
Community LGBTQ+ Businesses

These Queer Handyworkers Want to Make Your Life Easier

Rent-A-Butch and The Handy Dyke provide queer customers a safe and friendly option in a space dominated by straight cis men.

Kate Antoniades July 14, 2022 26 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Sitting in a Lesbian Sports Bar

“I was at the first Sacramento Monarchs game, so technically I remember the WNBA before Sue Bird. I still have my souvenir ticket!”

Darcy July 8, 2022 4 Comments
A collage featuring the books Bitter and Gender Queer, a mixtape of summer jams, an ESPN Fantasy Women's Basketball logo, shea wearing sunglasses, a black top, board shorts, and a blue button down that is open, The Chicks, a drill, a pair of hills with Mabel the dog on top, a name badge that says HELLO My Name is shea martin pronouns: they/them, the words BRUNCH BRUNCH BRUNCH, an egg, a lime slice, and a waffle.
Culture

Here Are Our They/Them Summer Mood Boards

Fox News apparently did not actually publish a story about “they/them summer” undermining American democracy, but we’re reclaiming the term anyway!!!!!!!! Happy they/them summer to all who celebrate.

the team July 4, 2022 27 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Making Music

“She dazzled me with her solo audition and now we have jam/smooch sessions.”

Darcy July 1, 2022 7 Comments
A tweet from @KaylaKumari that reads: watching all these mainstream publications do their 2-3 token pride pieces that are mostly just seo grabs and meanwhile we're out here at @autostraddle with a dynamic pride package with TWENTY FIVE pieces planned even tho we're queer all fucking year and not corporate-backed. The tweet is against a floral backdrop.
AF+ LGBT Pride

Editor’s Notes: On Pride 2022

As Pride increasingly becomes co-opted, soured by capitalism, and diluted from its original organizing and protest roots, it’s easy to become exhausted every June.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 29, 2022 12 Comments
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Straddleverse

Welcome Our New Art Director, Viv Le!

Hi there it’s me, Viv Le, aka the first Art Director of Autostraddle and your resident grinch.

viv June 28, 2022 11 Comments
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First Person LGBT Pride

A Letter to My Ex-Best Friend This Pride

I will always love you, and I know you will always love me. Sometimes love isn’t enough.

Em Win June 28, 2022 11 Comments
A collage styled to look like Polaroid pictures in front of a black background, inside each “Polaroid” is a new Autostraddle writer, left to right and top to bottom: Ashni is a South Asian person with shoulder length hair in black sunglasses and black shirt sitting outside on the grass; Yash is a mixed race South Asian person in a grey baseball cap and a grey shirt over a white one, they are smiling; Amari is a Black person with long braids that have gold details outside in New York City at night; Julie is an East Asian person in glasses and blue shirt underneath a black coat drinking a large fruity drink; Niko is a white trans woman with long blond hair covering her face and a red hoodie sweatshirt; Analyssa is a Latina with ombre blonde highlights in her hair, she’s giving a confident look sitting in her car; Darcy is a white person with a brunette bob in a grey and black henley shirt, standing in front of a dart board that is lit in rainbows; Em is a mixed race Southeast Asian person with round dark sunglasses, their hair swept to the side, in front of water; shea is a Black person with a Caesar cut and glasses in a denim coat with the collar up around their neck over a. Yellow shirt; Lily is a Latine person laying on the ground with their hair flared around them like a halo; Stef is a white person in black jeans and a black t-shirt with a graphic on it, standing outside; Katie is a white woman with blonde hair and ombre pink highlights, she has pink lipstick and is in front of a green bush wall; a drawing of A. Tony shows a Black person with a Caesar cut and glasses and a pink and black jersey in front of a teal background; and finally Sai’yda is a Black person with a high top fade and glasses, a grey sweater, smiling in front of a brick wall.
Straddleverse

Welcome Autostraddle’s Newest Writers!

Say hello to the 14 (yes, you heard that right!) new writers who are helping to make Autostraddle brighter and sharper.

Carmen Phillips June 27, 2022 29 Comments
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LGBT Pride TV Feature

This Episode of “Real Housewives of New York” Was Performative Pride Allyship at Its Finest

“March Madness”, as completely unhinged and dated as it is, also reveals something far more depressing and contemporary: Nothing has really changed.

Juan Barquin June 27, 2022 1 Comment
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Barely Balancing on this Skateboard

“The DIY, ‘we’re making and taking our space’ vibe was intensely creative. I see Autostraddle as right in line with that history.”

Darcy June 25, 2022 9 Comments
In front of a collage in a wavy background in colors of orange, green, purples, and blues there are cut outs of famous straight movies from the last ten years. L to R: Viola Davis in Widows, Beyonce in Lemonade, Channing Tatum in Magic Mike XXL, Saoirse Ronan and Beanie Feldstein in Lady Bird, and Sasha Lane in American Honey.
LGBT Pride Movie Lists

The Best Straight Movies of the Past 10 Years

A dazzling portrait of a white heterosexual girl’s coming-of-age, Lady Bird gave us a straight character anyone can root for.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 25, 2022 39 Comments
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First Person LGBT Pride

This Pride, I Want To Be Left Alone

A too rarely understood or acknowledged privilege, especially when so much LGBTQ+ discourse is about the power and importance of visibility, is the pleasure of invisibility.

Abbie Jones June 24, 2022 12 Comments
Flowers are collaged in the background behind a Tweet from AS writer Stef Rubino: "As a gay teenager, I never felt like I had the support I needed, especially given the fact that my home life was fractured & very off balance. That's why, for this pride month, I've partnered with Dr. Scholl's Custom Fit Orthotics,"
Culture LGBT Pride

I Simply Cannot Get Enough of the “That’s Why I’m Partnering with ___” Tweets

As a late-blooming queer, I know how good it feels to be recognized. That’s why this month I’m partnering with AI Facial Recognition Services,

Anya Richkind June 23, 2022 3 Comments
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Book Lists LGBT Pride

In Verse: Poetry Collections for Pride Month

In a field that was once dominated by the cis straight white male voice, LGBTQ poets and poets of color are finally starting to get their due.

danijanae June 23, 2022 2 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews LGBT Pride

Revisiting “The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions,” 45 Years Later

I didn’t know this book at all until a few months ago. I borrowed it thinking it’d be hilarious to read in public spaces and have people give me questionable stares. That mentality was replaced by the desire to build bridges.

Lily Alvarado June 22, 2022 4 Comments
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Book Features LGBT Pride

That Was the Era: Photographer Phyllis Christopher on Her Book “Dark Room”

“It was a political statement to portray sex, to portray queer sex, as it was to demand civil rights in the daytime.”

Ro White June 21, 2022 8 Comments
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