You Need Help: When You’re Ace and You Want to Be More Than Friends
What to do when you have a crush on your roommate and you’re both asexual and are definitely more than just friends and definitely don’t know what to do about it.
38 Inspirational Ways You Weirdos Described Your “Types”
Tag yourself!
The Day My Students Found My HER Profile
“I was terrified that I was going to receive a bunch of angry phone calls from parents or a visit from the overly religious principal as a result of word getting out that I didn’t fit the heteronormative cookie cutter mold that all of the other teachers at the school did.”
Y’All Need Help #12: The Straight Girl Is Back
The Straight Girl is back, this friendship after the relationship is bleak, and a complicated wedding situation that you may or may not should go to. Get in here!
What You’re Flagging With Your La Croix Flavor
First it was for Midwestern moms, then it was for social influencers, then it was for everyone, and now it’s ours. La Croix is gay culture. (While we’re on the topic: Staying hydrated? Gay culture. Water? Gay culture in that it is life, which is something we are constantly giving other people. The ocean? Gay.)
Y’All Need Help #11: Being Ghosted Says More About the Ghoster and Less About the Ghostee, So
Staying friends with an ex, sick of all this fucking ghosting, and binding your boobs!! It’s a very special YNH today, told only through Instagram stories. Mmmhm.
Y’All Need Help #10: Your Crushes Are Killing
Today is all about crushes and what you should do about them: something, or nothing? Three questions, three answers. Only the strong survive. It takes two to tango. Love is a battlefield. Loose lips sink ships!
Everybody Publicly and Shamelessly Flirt With Each Other Right Now
Literally why not.
This Lesbian Made Her Own Dating Website and It Will Blow You Away
Heather says: “I am a good communicator, I have a lot to offer a potential partner/wife and I would love to share my amazing life with someone equally amazing, kind and compassionate.”
8 Chill Tips For When You Get Turned Down By A Straight Girl
Knowing better and doing better is a U-turn opening, and then there’s us smiling in our car, driving directly and proudly into the median.
Poly Pocket: Polyamory As All Possibility
Here’s how a 23 year old polyam queer femme living in Long Beach, CA, in a long-term relationship does poly.
Poly Pocket: Figuring Out Where To Start
How a single 31-year old pansexual non-monogamous Black woman living in Los Angeles is starting to explore poly.
Poly Pocket: Wholeness Doesn’t Mean One Thing
Here’s how a 23-year-old mixed race Asian genderqueer polyamorous bisexual femme who just moved to Brooklyn does poly.
55 Gayest Ways You Met Your Significant Other(s), According to the Autostraddle Reader Survey
“Smashing the patriarchy and organizing for a rape crisis center on our college campus while also taking a gender studies class. Also I was a data point in her thesis. It was about gender neutral housing.”
If You Show Me Yours I’ll Show You Mine: Autostraddle Staffers’ Tinder Profiles
In my opinion, a good Tinder profile is more important than good hygiene.
Public Personals: A Peek Inside the Queer Instagram Dating Experiment
An homage to all the unique ways queer women have marked themselves and dog-whistled each other throughout the decades, the witch bitch switches and the techno hippie hyperdykes from the queer classifieds of the 80s, only this time it’ll be instant and without the anonymity.
Poly Pocket: Question Everything
Here’s how a single 20-year-old Latina queer polyamorous femme who works as a nonprofit employee and fetish model does poly.
Poly Pocket: Gray Ace, Bi & Poly
“Being queer, Asian-American, femme, and gray ace — this is my identity and I get to choose what that means to me.”
Every Way To Find A Date, Ranked By A Shane
“First comes Twitter, then comes Snapchat, then comes texting nudes to a complete and total stranger.” Patty-cake to that one, kiddos.
You Need Help: How Do I Break Up With a Casual Someone?
So you want to break up? Don’t be mean. Be honest.