Tami Lane, Academy Award Nominee: The Autostraddle Interview
Tami Lane is your favorite out makeup artist and she’s nominated for an Academy Award for her work on The Hobbit. Someone gay to root for on Sunday night!
The Chelsea Clinton Gay Marriage Ad NBC Tried To Take Away From You Now Available to Keep In Your Heart
Carmen’s Team Pick: If you love marriage equality or Chelsea Clinton’s face, you’ll probably love this video and hate NBC for taking it away from you.
Queer Your Tech With Fun: Google Glass Means You Wear A Computer on Your Eyes
Google Glass is just that – a pair of glasses. But instead of having sunglass lenses or prescription lenses, they’ve got a computer instead
The Comment Awards Will Eat You Up
Girl Scout cookies, cookie butter and a serious commitment to grilled cheese. We’re chewing our way through the comment awards this week!
Butch Please: Where Do We Go From Here
The most important question I can ask is what do you want from Butch Please? What do you want to see in this space?
You Need Help: The Quest For Awesome Queer Feminist Porn
“I’d like to see if porn does anything for me, would you have any (ethical, lesbian) recommendations for the first try of a young adult with an eye for the femmier?”
You Can Take It With You: Chickpea Pesto Salad and Strawberries
We’re tackling the essential kitchen skill of pesto-making for this savory/sweet mix.
Get Baked: Spectacular Speculoos Cookie Butter Bars
If you haven’t tried Trader Joe’s cookie butter yet, your whole world is about to change.
Things I Read That I Love #64: Giddy, Girlish and Deeply Shallow
Topics include sorority rush, circus sideshow acts, murder, Jeopardy, college in China, Utopian musical communities, the post office, the mall, the pope, the post office and more!
Hey NYC LGBTQ Artists, Submit Your Stuff To “Love Out Loud” Group Show
Vanessa’s Team Pick: An open call for LGBT artists, photographers, and sculptors in the New York City metropolitan area.
A Prairie Homo Companion: Prairie Homo Racisms
Since I easily dismissed the strange looks people gave my white mom and her three brown-skinned little kids and the questions about where I was from as just ignorant things people said, I grew up not very aware of racism and micro-aggressions. I didn’t think of myself as black or as white.
Brittani’s Video Party: Three Love Stories and an Otter
A model and basketball player find love, a pianist searches for his violinist wife, THE couple meets their match, and a sea otter is athletically adorable.
Lez Liberty Lit #14: I Love The Smell Of Novellas In The Morning
Batwoman’s lesbian wedding, queer fiction for Black History Month, Jeanette Winterson on Virginia Woolf and confessions from an analogue-obsessed book sniffer, book cakes and so much more!
College Lesbianage Class of 2016: Winter Wunderkinds
This month’s update finds our Lesbianagelings finishing up their finals and heading back to their homelands. What have they learned about the world and themselves during this first semester of college?
Get Your 2013 Autostraddle Calendar For $8! 48-Hour Sale!
We’re clearing out the 2013 Calendars — time to get yours!
Get Baked: Vegan Hamantaschen for Purim
“I hadn’t eaten hamantaschen since going vegan almost nine years ago, which makes no sense because there’s no excuse not to veganize all baked goods all the time.”
New Gallup Poll Answers the Question “How Gay Is Your State?”
Gallup found out for you! Hint: not very.
Don’t Let London Rain on Your Pride Parade or Potential Lack Thereof
The prospects for London Pride 2013 look bleak, but hopefully communities can change that.
Bridal Magazine Rejects, Then Accepts, Ad Featuring Lesbian Couple After Internet Feelingsfest
“We are so sorry that we acted out of fear and uncertainty. We had never been faced with such a decision and we should have acted with our hearts.”
More Than Words: AP Style Guide Is Once Again No Partner (or Husband, or Wife) To Gays
The AP Style Guide’s newest language decision is making everyone cry into their cake.