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Friendship

How to Be Gay When All Your Friends Are Strai But Probably Love You Anyway

Tips for introducing that girl you’ve been dating to your uber-hetero friends. Plus how to throw a gin bucket party! So much relevancy to so many of your interests.

By Guest | February 22, 2011 | 66 Comments
Movie Features

Riese’s Team Pick: Waiting for Superman & The Lottery

These documentaries will teach you more about the American Public Education System than the American Public Education System will teach you about calculus, or something.

By Riese | February 22, 2011 | 37 Comments
Society + Culture

When Will Anti-Gay Conservative Christians Need Us More Than We Fear Them?

“Who will they demonize if not the gays?”

By guest | February 21, 2011 | 14 Comments
Herstory

Happy Presidents Day! Here’s the Women Who Did All The Work.

The Top Ten bestest first ladies of all time, including the semi-lezzer and a Michelle Obama appreciation collage.

By Riese | February 21, 2011 | 61 Comments
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Crystal’s Team Pick: Thom Yorke Gets His Groove On

Don’t be fancy just get dancey.

By Crystal | February 20, 2011 | 15 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Sunday Keeps Your Sex Toys a Secret

“Why, yes, my new belt is fabulous! You should feel it whipping across your back.”

By Queerie Bradshaw | February 20, 2011 | 17 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Lindsay/Sam “Lesbian Affair” Thing Will Outlast The Heat Death Of The Universe

Here’s to hoping we never reach a day when we can’t headline a post with Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson. In other news, this is probably one of the best Sunday Fundays of all time.

By Rachel | February 20, 2011 | 50 Comments
Movie Features

Hey Oscar Why Wasn’t “For Colored Girls” Enuf?

“Her man throws her kids out of the f-cking window. Shouldn’t that get a chick an OSCAR NOM???? “

By gabby | February 19, 2011 | 124 Comments
Politics + Activism

House Votes to Pull Federal Funding from Planned Parenthood, Does Not Know How to Treat a Woman

The bill will never pass the Senate, but the message to women is hard to mistake: your government doesn’t care about you or your right to reproductive health services.

By Sarah | February 18, 2011 | 32 Comments
Politics + Activism

Congresswomen Try to Save Planned Parenthood With Honesty, True Stories, Facts

“But for you to stand on this floor and to suggest, as you have, that somehow this is a procedure that is either welcomed or done cavalierly or done without any thought is preposterous.”

By Jezebel | February 18, 2011 | 12 Comments
Queer Fashion

Riese’s Team Pick: “Runway Revolution” & Some Fat-Positive Fashion Tumblrs

Plus-sized clothing model Pippa J wants to showcase “wealth of beautiful imagery, videos and other marketing ephemera created showing models over a size 10.” Also, our own list of fat-positive fashion tumblrs AND a sexy video! Happy Friday!

By Riese | February 18, 2011 | 37 Comments
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Facebook Adds ‘Civil Union’ Relationship Status (and Don’t Kill Me But I Don’t Like It)

When I hear the words “Civil Union” or “Domestic Partnership,” I think “inequality” and “separate but equal.”

By Alex | February 18, 2011 | 55 Comments
Straddleverse

Step Out of Your Egg & Receive Your Comment Award!

So many awards, so little time.

By Emily | February 18, 2011 | 18 Comments
Geekery

Jess’s Team Pick: Facebook vs Twitter

Which gives you less social anxiety?

By Jess | February 17, 2011 | 67 Comments
Politics + Activism

Hawaii Gets Gay Civil Unions While Wyoming Lawmakers Aim for Inequality State Status

We’d recommend you honeymoon in Honolulu and not Jackson Hole, because if you go to Jackson Hole you might magically lose all of your rights as a homo if this bill passes and we hope it doesn’t!

By Riese | February 17, 2011 | 13 Comments
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Intern Emily and the Case of the Hairstyle-Induced Identity Crisis

In which we discuss our haircut, how it affects our daily lives, and the benefits of rooftop hairstylists. ALSO HELLO I HAVE A PONYTAIL.

By Emily | February 17, 2011 | 180 Comments

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International Know Your Straddler Week

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By Laneia | February 17, 2011 | 407 Comments
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Autostraddle Isn’t Working in Google Chrome and It Won’t Be Fixed ‘Til Sunday I AM REALLY SORRY

i know

By Riese | February 17, 2011 | 100 Comments
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California Supreme Court Makes Decision Regarding Prop 8: Wait Some More

The California Supreme Court has not made a ruling on the issue of standing in the Prop 8 appeal, but they have announced that they’re going to.

By Rachel | February 16, 2011 | 12 Comments
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