Queer Girl City Guide: San Diego, California
Brunch, beer and a three-day-long Pride? Yes please.
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: KP and Michelle are Double Miss October
Who needs fall foliage and pumpkin spice lattes when you’ve got KP and Michelle? Happy October!
Toronto Decides Whether It Needs Separate Gay High Schools, Or Just Gay Equality
Yes, it’s good for there to be a safe refuge where gay students can learn and thrive in safety, but the goal should be to create this kind of safe environment in mainstream schools.
UNICORN PLAN-IT’s Ashley Reed, Sarah Croce, and Haviland Stillwell: The Autostraddle Interview
Only 48 hours until the premiere of Season 2!
Glee 403 Recap: Makeover Takeover Apple Turnover
This week on Glee, everybody sang especially loud and Carrie Bradshaw did Lea Michele’s hair!
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!