“I’ve been fighting for more than 24 years and as I continue my ascendant career, I want to be true to myself . . . I have and will always be a proud Puerto Rican. I have always been and always will be a proud gay man.”
Kristen’s Team Pick: Here’s your daily Aww.
The only place where you can win awards for talking about bad Glee fashion and getting arrested by Sarah Croce.
Have you always wanted to grace the pages of an Autostraddle Calendar? Now’s your chance to apply!
But is this really all that big of a shift?
Topics include Harriet the Spy, bipolar disorder, Jerry Sandusky, promiscuous reading, rock criticism, right-wing podcasts and online dating!
Words cannot describe how easy this soup is, because it actually takes more effort to describe than to make.
This week in lit: banned books, Vagina, and lots of lesbian storylines.
“I’m going to live my whole life and die right here in front of my laptop while Romney talks.”
Banned Books Week is like Christmas for me: it allows me to queer my reading like I queer my gender. Party hard with some inappropriate reading!
We want to hang out. Like, a lot.
Vanessa’s Team Pick: More than 25,000 transgender American citizens may face stiff barriers to voting in the November 2012 election; the National Center for Transgender Equality wants to change that.
Take everything you know — or don’t know — about gardening and put it in a bunch of neat containers all over the place!
The Department of Homeland Security has now drafted up written guidelines for binational and immigrant same-sex couples and families to now be considered “low-priority” in deportation cases.
Did we really need a study to tell us that looking at pictures of cute animals improves our lives?
I promised you a revival. And now it’s here.
Ali’s Team Pick: This November, four states have marriage equality on the ballot: Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. Here’s an ad straight from Maine, the first of a four-part series.
Unicorn Plan-It grows up and gets big: it’s Season Two and a whole new ballgame.
Leslie’s stories speak to my top interests in life: gay women, the environment, and Canada.
I’ve grown to love sweaters. I’ve grown to love the juxtaposition of a hot drink in your hand and the brisk air at your cheeks. This is a playlist for all of that. Hello Fall. Welcome.