Win A Special Edition Of Patti Smith’s New Album, Banga
Patti Smith is releasing a brand-new record and it could be yours!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday is Coming Early
This week on NSFW Sunday: films about sex, articles about sex, lube, orgasms, and a Lip Service sex scene.
Sunday Funday Wants to Be Your Gayfriend
Gay history is having a lucky streak, more companies and good-looking individuals are batting for and cheering for our team, and someone is making Kanye West embroidery.
Artist Spotlight: Heidi Barton Stink
Trans rapper Heidi Barton Stink keeps it real. Like, really, really real.
The Comment Awards Are Going To The Pool
Remember that post of girls in white tank tops? Wasn’t that the best thing ever?
Things I Read That I Love #27: What Have We Done
Topics include tattoos, an ultra-Orthodox anti-internet rally, memes, Noomi Rapace, food stamps, inequality, and travel photography!
Unicorn Plan-It Needs Your Music, Sweet Music
Unicorn Plan-It wants to see your name in the music credits for season two!
VIDEO: Michelle Obama Questioned About Same-Sex Marriage, Answers Correctly
“For Barack and me, it really comes down to the values of fairness and equality that we want to pass down to our girls.”
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2013: Mollie is Miss June
Mollie is a voice for Marriage Equality, she’s starting a nonprofit to promote positive visibility of the LGBT community and she has an interesting tattoo. Oh, yeah, and she’s pretty smokin’ too.
My Drunk Kitchen Likes Girls and Grills
“I shoulda bought this chicken a drink first.”
New Music: A New Single From Clinical Trials Is Free For You!
Two-piece rock-electro-grunge outfit, Clinical Trials, have a little gift for you.
The Invention of the Book, and Also Douglas Adams
Carolyn’s Team Pick: Books, Douglas Adams, and killer animation? Yes please.
The Last Thing I’m Ever Gonna Write About Dharun Ravi
Dharun Ravi has issued an apology in which he failed to actually apologize for anything, but maybe we need to look at the big picture and the scary numbers now, instead.
Hey, Men, I’m Funnier Than You
“Being funny is like any other artistic skill, but to wield it successfully requires outspokenness, unapologetic honesty, supreme self-assuredness, and an outright refusal to pander. And those aren’t exactly the traits we foster in our little girls.”
JCPenney Gets Even Gayer With Super-Gay Father’s Day Ad
One Million Moms got really pissed about Ellen DeGeneres — imagine how they’re gonna feel about These Two Dads!
We Won A Thing: Massachusetts Federal Appeals Court Rules DOMA Unconstitutional
Now the constitutionality of DOMA will almost definitely head to the Supreme Court next year.
Anti-Gay and Gay Rights Leaders Will Soon Break Bread
What happens when a lesbian couple invites a homophobe to dinner? We’ll find out soon.
Music Fix: Soko, Metric, Amanda Palmer, Brandi Carlile and More
There are so many new things to put in your ears!
The Real L Word’s Nikki & Jill Are Having a Baby: The Autostraddle Interview
Jess chats with the couple about camp, the reality TV experience, the upcoming election, finding an anonymous sperm donor, Smash, Oprah, their Real L Word comrades and — in an Autostraddle exclusive — the sex of their baby, due in October!
Get Baked: Ma’hammara
A dip that you can dip other foods into and then eat!