Sew Yourself a Cosy Neck-Nest This Fall
And thus we begin our journey to making scarves with minimal effort or knowledge of sewing skills.
The Femme Show Effectively Showed, Told About Femme Visibility
“This slightly labelphobic queer went into The Femme Show full of unaddressed preconceived notions about the word, and left with a brand new appreciation for it.”
On Gender, Girlhood, and Norman Rockwell
A decade before Rosie, Rockwell was painting the girls who were destined to become riveters.
Playlist: The Queen’s Hour
The first ladies of jazz, the original divas, the empresses of song. One hour of queenly music.
Michelle Kosilek’s Surgery Raises Questions About Trans* Prisoners’ Rights
Michelle Kosilek is a trans woman who needs gender reassignment surgery. She’s also an inmate serving a life sentence since 1990 for the murder of her wife, Cheryl.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants You To Come A Little Closer
This week on NSFW Sunday: edgeplay, seasonal sex, lesbian romance, and clits of steel.
Things Are Gonna Get Easier This Sunday Funday
This week football gets sassy, the US gets a whole lot gayer, and Canada remains amazing.
Let’s Be Frank: Mitt Gets Worse and Worser on Gay Rights
Barney Frank is the latest and greatest oral historian for the Mitt Gets Worse project.
The Comment Awards Are for Pioneers, Pop Stars, and Princesses
This week was crazy! And you all were hilarious.
Check Out the “Werk Those Pecs!” Fundraiser Featuring Clinical Trials and Tiny Tusks
Gabrielle’s Team Pick: This party looks awesome.
Do Butches Drink Busch? Answers To Your Burning Beer Demographic Questions
Ali’s Team Pick: Democrats who vote like Sierra Nevada and Microbrews, and apparently my love of Blue Moon makes me a Republican.
Hong Kong Business Tycoon Offers $65 Million to Make His Gay-Married Daughter Straight
Get ready to face-palm.
Marriage Equality Ads And The Strange Case of the Missing Gay Person
Maybe you’ve seen one of the pro-gay marriage ads. Maybe you’ve noticed something… missing… from them.
Canadian Government Figured Out You’re Gay, and All It Had To Do Was Secretly Track Your Internet Use
“As a regular recipient of Gmail and Facebook ads for dog food and gay cruises, I’m well aware that companies are trying to make money off my personal information. While it’s a little creepy but expected that Target will try to use my private information to market to me, I hold the Canadian government to much higher standards.”
Things I Read That I Love #43: High Times
Topics include hipster-bashing, Anna Nicole Smith, stolen bikes, writing non-fiction, teaching kids to write, the Gloucester pregnancy “pact” and so much more!
UNICORN PLAN-IT’s Sherri Sutton and Amir Levi: The Autostraddle Interview
Amir Levi and Sherri Sutton sat down with us to talk characters, favorite moments, and what to expect in the new season!
France Removes “Mère” and “Père” From French Forms For Gay Families, Which Is Magnifique
While the change in language may seem like a small thing, it’s indicative of something quite a bit larger brewing en France.
You Will Enjoy This, Because Dana Fairbanks and Julie Goldman
Carlytron’s Team Pick: “2:11 PM WATCH THE TRAILER BECAUSE DANA FAIRBANKS IS IN IT OMG”
It’s Officially Okay To Preach Against the Gays on Bourbon Street Again
Eight NOLA preachers were apprehended in conjunction with New Orleans’ “aggressive solicitation” ordinance, which instructs people to not “loiter or congregate on Bourbon Street for the purpose of disseminating any social, political or religious message between the hours of sunset and sunrise,” and now the ordinance is gone.
Your VAG Abroad: How to Vote if You Don’t Reside in the U.S.
Did you know that you can vote in US elections from abroad? Our constitutional rights to vote don’t go away when we wave goodbye to the U.S. border for an extended period of time.