Playlist: You Have a Deadline
Sometimes you are busy, and sometimes you have an insane impossible deadline that’s been building for weeks and then still manages to hit you in the face.
What Do You Think?: Racism in the Queerest, Most Feminist of Places
“Why on earth would any white girl want to hold up a sign with the n-word on it? …Did she just wake up and lose her damn mind?”
You Need A Messenger Bag: A Bag for Everything and Everything in a Bag
Messenger bags are the ultimate queer carrying-things accessory. Let’s use our undying love for them to solve some common bag problems.
You Need Help: A Lesson Before Dying
What to do when your best friend’s parent dies
Televisionary: New Girl, Happy Endings, Up All Night & Modern Family
“Uugh. Gross. Women on this show. Look at them with their confidence and personality quirks.”
Rachel Maddow Talks Gay Marriage, Conflicted Feelings
Rachel Maddow is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter, and on the inside she’s talking about her feelings.
Equality California Won’t Try to Put Prop 8 on the Ballot for 2012, But Other Activists Will
“If EQCA abdicates their responsibility to fight for equality for the LGBT Community in California and to honor their prior commitments, Love Honor Cherish will fill the void.”
You Have A Lot of Feelings: The Wonderful World of D&Ms
If there is one thing lesbians love more than cats and beanies, it’s talking about their feelings.
Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Took to the Streets and I Was There
“Now that the movement is gaining some mainstream members beyond the ragtag band of activists who began the occupation three weeks ago, will the Occupy Wall Street movement galvanize real change impacting the economic disparities in the country they are protesting?”
Glee 303 Recap: You’re Knockin’ Off That Piece
Who Run The World? (Brittany!)
Playlist: Lez the Fuck Out (The B-Sides)
All of the musicians on this list have kissed a girl and liked it.
A Tribute to Zack Morris’s Oversize Cell Phone (and Lesbian Girlfriend)
Jess’s Team Pick: Featuring Tori, Zack’s edgy, leather jacket wearing, totally gay girlfriend!
Steve Jobs Is Dead at 56
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs died earlier this evening. He was 56. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Controversial New Study on Gay Conversion Therapy Claims It May Actually Work
“Jones and Yarhouse found that “23% of the remaining people in the study were successful in changing their sexual orientation toward heterosexuality.”
Marcel the Shell Has Shoes On, Also New Children’s Book
“Well, you know what they say: Lint is a shell’s best friend.”
Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2012: Lily & Jessica Are Super Hot for September & October
Continuing our 2012 Calendar series with our video for September and October — meet Lily and Jessica!
“The Rainbow Struggle” Brings Gay International News Home
Incredible things are happening in this world, gay things are happening in this world…
In Which We Remember Legendary Guitarist Bert Jansch
Lindsay’s Team Pick: Having feelings? Still on the search for a fall soundtrack to listen to while sipping tea and pondering lost loves? Look no further than this late, great Glaswegian legend.
Transgender People, Transitioning and Those Darn Standards of Care
“A disorder is a description of something with which a person might struggle, not a description of the person or the person’s identity.”
Be Still My Heart: Eileen Myles Tackles the Female Life; Black Lesbian Poets Hit the Road
I am convinced that something Eileen Myles loves is something I will love. That is, if I don’t love it already.