Charlotte Bunch Is Important: The Autostraddle Interview
“I mean, we would not have violence against women or any issues of women’s rights on the agenda if we had waited for the human rights boys to say it was time.”
Jamaica’s First Lesbian Wedding Ever In History Is Adorable, Deeply Moving
This is by far the best thing to happen this month. Maybe this lifetime.
Lesbians Win “Cutest Couple” In High School Yearbook, Are In Fact The Cutest Couple
Students in an allegedly ‘conservative’ rural county in California vote a lesbian couple as “cutest couple,” and it wasn’t a prank or anything.
The Comment Awards Are Bursting With Pride!
The Managerettes love you so much that they hijacked the Comment Awards this week.
The Unaccountable Life of Gender-Bending Rebel Charlie Brown
“This little book… is to my mind the progenitor of all funny queer blogs written in the first-person. Yes, this is the story of the first queer blogger.”
VIDEO: Texas Baptist Pastor Defends Obama’s Gay Marriage Position, Suggests Anti-Gays “Take A Chill Pill”
“He swore to protect and uphold the constitution, not the Bible, but the Constitution of the United States. He is not the pastor of the United States, he’s the President of the United States.”
Things I Read That I Love #28: Only Hellos
Today’s topics include plane crashes, cannibals, the army, Quiz Bowl, Gossip Girl, transgender children and so much more!
Get Baked: Peanut Noodles
Delicious summertime lunch hot or cold!
Caiden Cowger, 14-Year-Old Radio Host, Hates Gay People and Grammar
Caiden Cowger doesn’t have a good grasp on the differences between “your” and “you’re” but he does hate gay people on the radio.
Herstory Spotlight: Vita Sackville-West Wrote Words, Wooed Women, Wanted Woolf
On the lady who wrote this to Virginia Woolf – “You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.”
Kyrsten Sinema Wants To Be Arizona’s First Out Bisexual Congresswoman
Kyrsten Sinema is proof not everything in Arizona politics is bad. Now if we can just get the 9th District to make her the first out bisexual on Capitol Hill.
Edie Windsor Wins Lawsuit Against DOMA, Our Hearts
Edie Windsor successfully had DOMA declared unconstitutional by a federal court.
Portraits of Lesbian Writers, 1987-1989
Robert Giard took 500 photographs of queer writers in the 80’s and 90’s. They’re pretty f*cking awesome.
Eight Podcasts That Aren’t This American Life
If you’ve ever wanted to give podcasts a try but didn’t know where to start, here is where you should start. By listening to me. I have opinions.
It’s All Really Happening: Pride Month and Autostraddle Meetups!
Are you going to Pride? Want to make friends?
VIDEO: Julie & Brandy In Your Box Office #204: Hengher Gams
Julie Goldman and Brandy Howard survived The Hunger Games, just like Katniss did!
Gay Journalist Marc Ambinder Thanks “The Gay Mafia” For His Career Success
Marc Ambinder, political journalist, says being gay actually helped him get ahead.
Anxiety Causes Women’s Brains To Go Into Overdrive
A study linking anxiety to poor performance gives women one more reason to worry. Also though we have to stop worrying? It’s a lot to think about.
Alison Bechdel Talks In Speech Bubbles With The Rumpus
Rachel’s Team Pick: “You look a lot more friendly in person than you do in your comic.”
“A Girl And Her Room” In Four Parts
“This project is about teenage girls and young women at a transitional time of their lives, alone in the privacy of their own personal space and surroundings: their bedroom, a womb within the outside world.”