hot dogs on a grill top, sea creatures, lemon wedges, a fly, a spatula flipping a burger, and ice cream in a cone.

First Person

Burgers, Bodies, and Off-Menu Bisexual Swagger

This is about a high school job.

Images of Black people smiling and drinking milkshakes from straws as well as glass bottle Coca-Colas, with ice in the background.

First Person

The Place for Smiles

Back in those days, I thought drinking was the most interesting thing about me.

A table and Coca-Cola chairs sit on a floating chunk of ice in the ocean. The table is set with burgers, fries, napkins, and a flag.

First Person

No Matter How Much Changes, These Diners Stay The Same

If Staten Island has anything, it’s an abundance of delicious diners, and so many have left their mark on my heart.

Sliced bread, eggs, pancakes, and bacon, accompanied with photos of people hanging out in Standee's in Chicago around 2009.

First Person

Take Me Back to Standee’s

For many of us, Standee’s was one of the first public spaces where we could openly and comfortably share our most authentic gender expression.

Two bodies with cherries for heads embrace in a cup of Coke. Bacon soars behind them.

First Person

High School and Everything After

You can’t be gay in 1999. But I’m not, so that’s just fine.

A plate of french toast with strawberries, surrounded by a bunch of eyes.

First Person

Opening Up at a North Country Diner

I never got used to the cold, North Country weather.

a plate of red sauced ravioli. a pair of legs are emerging from one of the ravioli with a pair of crutches. there's also a mobility cane and a set of legs with a leg brace and crutches.

First Person

Scenes From a Jersey Diner

This is what it means to be from New Jersey. The roughness around the edges isn’t hidden away or sugar-coated.

An old television screen shows an image of eggs and bacon. Behind it are planets and rock formations. There is a meatball with red onion for its rings, looking like Saturn. A hand holds a remote.

First Person

Welcome to Diner Week — What Are You Having?

Welcome to Diner Week, a 12-part series of essays by Autostraddle writers and editors set in diners.

A figure is reclining on the ground against a purple, watery background

First Person

Here’s How Our Lives Have Improved Since Quitting Drinking: A Candid Conversation Between Sober Queers

“I love that sober sex is so much better for me. Even masturbating is better.”

Photo 1: A group of kids on a little league baseball team gather around their coaches. Photo 2: The writer, Drew, as a young child stands on a baseball field wearing a Mets uniform, a baseball hat, and a baseball glove. Photo 3: Drew holds a bat and wears a 2 jersey and baseball hat while smiling at the camera. Photo 4: Drew swings at a baseball (and is clearly going to miss). Photo 5: Drew wears a 22 jersey and baseball hat and is standing over the plate with a bat, ready to swing.

First Person Sports

An Interview With My Dad About Baseball

And about being the parent of a trans kid.

Abstract human figures in purple hues are clustered together

First Person

On Staying Sober and What TV Gets Right and Wrong About Alcohol

“I feel like being the only sober person in a group is so much pressure.”

A water coloring of two divers under the water

First Person

“When I Got Sober So Many Relationships Just Ended”: Sober Queers on Friendships and Community

“I came to realize I am a terrible parent when I’m drunk.”

a watercoloring in purple hues of a figure at the end of a tunnel of light

First Person

Three Sober Queers on Their First Drinks and Workplace Drinking Culture

“It’s funny, much like coming out, I always look back on these moments and think ‘Ah that’s when I should have known I had a problem’.”

a bidet with water shooting up out of it

First Person

My Girlfriend Installed My Bidet While I Cheered Her On: A Love Story

After the powerful stream of water was done ricocheting off my asshole, I turned the bidet off and gave my girlfriend a standing ovation.

Against a white tiled background, a white person's hand holds up a cardboard sign that reads, "MY BODY MY CHOICE."

First Person Queer Pregnancy

I’m Trans, I’m Trying to Get Pregnant and I’m More Pro-Choice Than Ever

Roe v. Wade has been overturned, today, as I lie here praying that I’m pregnant. And I have never been more pro-choice than I am in this moment.

Rachel, Hina, and Krissi sit in the 12 Dates of Christmas cabin surrounded by Christmas light-covered trees during the gift ceremony. Rachel is wearing a black dress. Krissi is wearing a red dress. Hina is sitting on a chair that's elevated and they're wearing a dark purple suit.

First Person TV Feature

Slow Takes: “12 Dates of Christmas” and When Transphobia Makes You a Chaos Demon

If you want to live in a reality show, go ahead and sow chaos, but if you’d rather have a romcom, you have to let go.

Kim and Lindsay from Freaks & Geeks stand with their mouths slightly open. Their eyes are covered by black bars. Behind them are a bunch of scissors and green toxic sludge.

First Person

That Time I Binged “Freaks and Geeks” While My Stalker Ex Held Me Captive

Kim and Lindsay’s friendship is the real love story of this series. I want them to end up as friends like everyone wants the leads to end up together in a romantic comedy. I shake with it.

Photo 1: a Black woman in a navy blue mask leaning into a little boy in a mask wearing a striped shirt holding a puppy with a white woman in a mask standing behind. Photo 2: a Black woman in glasses holding a small puppy, a white woman in glasses, a young boy in a black tee shirt. Photo 3: a Black woman in a navy blue mask leaning into a little boy in a mask wearing a striped shirt holding a puppy with a white woman in a mask standing behind.

First Person Parenting & Family

Are All the Queer Moms Hanging Out Without Me?

As we start to shift the narrative about raw honesty online about motherhood, I wish that queer moms opened up more about how hard it is to create their inner circle.

A broken heart with the words Best Friends inside it, surrounded by flowers.

First Person LGBT Pride

A Letter to My Ex-Best Friend This Pride

I will always love you, and I know you will always love me. Sometimes love isn’t enough.

A dashboard with flowers resting on it. Through the windshield, there's an open road lined with trees.

First Person LGBT Pride

This Pride, I Want To Be Left Alone

A too rarely understood or acknowledged privilege, especially when so much LGBTQ+ discourse is about the power and importance of visibility, is the pleasure of invisibility.

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