The Comment Awards Are Swinging for the Fences
“‘A complete homosexual extravaganza?’ Sounds like I finally got an answer to what I want to be when I grow up!”
A+ Platinum Has a New Lineup of Queer Books
Platinum is kind of the opposite of that — an option for those of you who want to give more than our current levels allow and really level up the number of times in any 24 hour period you’re reminded that they’re an A+ member!
The Comment Awards Are Saving A Booth For You
“You’re serving up excellent writing with the same generous hand a good diner serves up hash browns!”
The Return of Sister Spit: A Love Letter to Queer Spaces of Belonging
The traveling show Sister Spit is back on the road, and it’s making a lot of old queers nostalgic about our weird and holy gay spaces.
The Comment Awards Know: Lesbians Find a Way
(Jeff Goldblum voice) “Lesbians… uh, find a way.”
Our Buttholes, Ourselves: An Anal August Roundtable
I asked our writers to share tales about their tail-ends, and — WOW — they really went for it.
The Comment Awards Are Playing Softball in Stardew Valley
“We’re going to just ignore the fact that ABIGAIL STRAIGHT UP EATS ROCKS?!”
Disability Pride Month 2022 Roundtable: Care, Celebrate, Collective, Fight
“I’ve never been part of something that compares to the acceptance, the empowerment, the collective care and the collective fight, the space to be wholly yourself that is the disability community.”
A+ Read a Fucking Book Club Q&A With Chris Belcher, Happening Now!
Now’s your chance to ask Chris your questions and chat with fellow A+ members about “Pretty Baby: A Memoir”!
17 Handyqueers To Follow on Instagram
Goddess bless the queers who know how to paint, build, fix, and all around help in ways that many of us never could.
The Comment Awards Are Watching Wishbone
“You are home here!”
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.
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.”
The Comment Awards Are Racing Rainbow Road
“MAKE TRANS ICON BIRDO A MAIN PLAYABLE CHARACTER IN MARIO CART, YOU COWARDS!”
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.
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!”
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 Comment Awards Are Making Music
“She dazzled me with her solo audition and now we have jam/smooch sessions.”
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.
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.