Obama responds to DADT protesters interrupting a recent speech, Dan Choi has chained himself to the White House fence again, and we don’t know how to feel. Plus, an Arkansas judge has overturned the law banning adoption by gay or unmarried people, two men are being held in the death of a gay professor, and gay divorce is the flipside of the gay marriage fight.
Ruby Rose & Catherine McNeil are engaged to get married! Scott Baio called Jezebel a bunch of lesbians! Is it wrong for a gay person to edit Glenn Beck’s books? Plus, pot can maybe help autism, it’s important to come out as married, parents fail at preventing bullying, and insurance companies are buying into fast food.
Nat Garcia hits the red carpet at the glaad awards in Los Angeles in a cute green dress, rubbing elbows with Adam Lambert, Wanda Sykes, Jane Lynch, Johnny Weir, Cat Cora & more! Also, she dances!
In the lead up to their performance at Go Magazine’s Readers’ Choice Nightlife Awards, New York Hip Hop duo Kin4Life speak with Audiostraddle’s newest music writer Glennisha about their love of nightlife, as well as their new record and the reasons you should go see their show.
A secret version of the unannounced next-gen iPhone 4G showed up in a bar in California and someone whisked it up and unloaded the goods to Gizmodo! Also, you have to watch this weirdly artful home movie an octopus took because it’s totally amazing. And that’s not all: a hipster shows up in a photograph from 1941, Steve Jobs gets called out and more!
Janelle Monae is next up to be the Next Best Thing. In related news, it’s tough to be Ke$ha in a Lady Gaga world. Plus, Kristen Stewart looks like Kate Moennig at Coachella, Lady Gaga on Idol, Hailey Wojick, Christina Hendricks & more!
Everyone still has many feelings about Elena Kagan & Elena Kagan’s potential sexuality and we’re here to tell you about them. Also Conservatives have A LOT of feelings about radical ‘Amerophobes’ taking over SCOTUS. Also, DADT stories get shared, bigots get invited to dinner, we’re not sure how to feel about the GOP in Massachusetts, and elderly couples are cruelly separated by the courts.
Jess sits down with Judy Gold to talk about finding her niche as a Jewish lesbian comedian, working on The Rosie O’Donnell Show, the R Family Cruises, meeting her girlfriend through a Time Out New York singles ad, making it in the notorious boys club of comedy, starring Off Broadway in Love, Loss & What I Wore and her brand new one-woman show.
Come join the good clean fun with our Autostraddle WoW guild! It doesn’t matter if you’re brand new to the game, a l33t raider who’s gonna pwn my face or you don’t even know what the f*ck I’m talking about! Everyone’s welcome!
The 21st Annual GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles, California featured Wanda Sykes, Constance McMillen, Adam Lambert, Drew Barrymore, the cast of GLEE and much more! We’ve got your gallery with captions & highlights of the night — including Wanda Sykes’ wife Alex and Constance McMillen’s guest who you might recognize from October ’09’s Brave Homo Headliners.
Wheeeeeeeee it’s Sunday Funday! Jillian Michaels follows up her Ladies Home Journal bisexual reveal by telling “Women’s Health” she’s dating men & women (we’ve got full scnas!). There’s a lesbian Muffia in NYC and gay superheroes, Bollywood might have a lesbian movie someday and Gaga will be on American Idol. Also, books! And Anyone But Me!
Sexy herstory from “On Our Backs” – the lesbian porn magazine that changed everything. Also; gay sex media addiction, the trans woman porn project, female viagra again, tandem boob press, sex writing & more!
Indie pop singer-songwriter Hailey Wojcik is playing a concert this Wednesday in support of her latest album, ‘Diorama.’ As a special treat for Autostraddle readers, she’s giving away two free tickets to the NYC show.
It’s Reading Rainbow time at Autostraddle! We talk about which of the Lambda Literary Awards nominees we’re most excited about reading. Spoiler alert: a lot of awesome out lesbians and bisexuals wrote fantastic looking books in 2009. Just FYI.
It’s Saturday, which usually means nothing, but today it means comment awards! You guys are so funny; we love you.
Obama is ordering the department of Health and Human Services to allow same-sex couples hospital visitation rights! Plus, the White House squashes Elena Kagan gay rumors, Constance McMillen will lead the NYC Pride parade, and today is the National Day of Silence.
Remember record stores? The ones built of bricks and mortar? They didn’t disappear the day you bought your MacBook. Your local record store continue to be a pivotal part of the music landscape and to celebrate, there’s Record Store Day – an international event happening on April 17. To celebrate, we’re reminiscing about the first record we ever bought, you should too –
Guest contributor John Moon of Achtung Baby! geeks out with an iPad for our entertainment. Hey, if you don’t have one- why not live vicariously?
“Exit Through The Gift Shop”, a street art documentary/film from Banksy that you should definitely check out.
Michelle Rodriguez will face the lesbian music at GO Magazine’s 4th Annual “Readers’ Choice Nightlife Awards” in NYC on Tuesday. We’re going and you should too! Dani Campbell and more. All the info is here.