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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.”