Welcome to the 13 Days of A+ of 2023!
For the FOURTH year in a row, we are bringing you 13 consecutive days of A+ content!
No Filter: I Like Checking In on Queer Ultimatum’s Mal To Make Sure They’re Thriving
And they usually appear to be! Plus, more queer celeb IG posts from the week.
We Got High and Watched Hallmark Hanukkah Movie “Round and Round,” and Yes of Course the Sister Is a Lesbian
“Do you think we think everyone is gay because they are or because we are or because we are high or because of Jewish?”
Mini Crossword is Just a Bit Open
Where do spiders go for health advice?
Avery Dame-Griff Is Archiving the Trans Internet
“The history of trans life online is one of sedimentation, with each subsequent change leaving its remains behind to settle and eventually solidify into a mass of images, text, and memory on which new communities are built.”
How To Romanticize Being Solo for the Holidays
Going it solo for Christmas is turning out to be annoyingly emotional. However, what’s helped immensely has been romanticizing the whole affair.
You Need Help: Can My Spouse and I Boil Our Menstrual Cups Together?
“Is there any sanitary reason NOT to?”
65 of the Best Queer Books of 2023
Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.
Sam Reece on Shitty Craft Club, Coming Out, and What She Shares With Jenny Schecter
“I haven’t even seen some of the absolute queer canon of movies. What’s the one with Cate Blanchett?”
Pop Culture Fix: Your Guide to the 2024 Golden Globe Nominations (But Just the Gay Parts)
The 2024 Golden Globe nominations are here and I have the deep urge to tell you who is even remotely gay. Luckily, I share that same obsession with many Autostraddle editors. There was a color coded google doc and everything.
Queer Dungeons & Transgender Dragons: Exploring Gender Through Imagined Worlds
In D&D, your character’s gender is entirely yours to invent. When you’re already embodying the experience of a half-elf or a cat person, playing a person of another gender isn’t all that strange. From there, anything is possible.
The Best Queer TV Scenes of 2023
What makes a great TV scene? The payoff of seasons-long romantic tension? The perfect needle drop in a climactic moment?
The Limits and Possibilities of an Anti-Zionist Hanukkah
For me, and so many Jewish people, the lack of certainty, the encouragement of complex discussion, is what connects us to our faith.
Sex Scenes Belong in Novels: An Interview with Author Ruth Madievsky
“I’ve been working on a new novel which is — you guessed it — about women behaving badly. Or, as my beloved Goodreads prudes will probably think of it: ‘disgusting women being disgusting.’ Put it on my tombstone, bitches.”
Mini Crossword is a Fingersmith
Why was the snowman perusing a bag of carrots?
Quiz: Which Gay Holiday Archetype Are You?
Are you a Hot Cocoa Mommi, a Fire Pit Butch, a Chaos Elf?
Holigay Gift Guide: Things Marketed To My Former Gender That I Actually Want
I was always bad at being a girl but now, with inflation, fast fashion, and heightened capitalism…I am so glad I figured out I was trans years ago.
Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: “The Handmaiden” Has More Sex Scenes Than You Realize
The horniest parts of The Handmaiden wouldn’t really be called sex scenes by the average viewer and certainly not by the vast majority of straight viewers. But to me, they are sex.
Survivor Season 45’s Queer Contestant Katurah Topps Has Won My Heart
After surviving a literal cult, Katurah reckoned with her complex, multi-faceted identity.
A+ Crossword Loves Fuzzy Fruits
What do you call an everyday potato?