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Get These Limited Edition Fundraiser Perks While You Can!

Look at all the cool things you could buy during our last fundraiser of 2020! Get your holigay shopping done early! Tell a friend!

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You Got Us 45% of the Way There in 6 Days, Will You Get Us to 50% Today?

Hi hello fellow gays and queers, lesbians and bisexuals; it is Monday and look where we are! $53,713 of the way to our goal. That’s 45% in six days, people.

Nico August 11, 2020 10 Comments
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The Comment Awards Are Loyal and True

“James is a great man who let Bette Porter yell at him all the time and never complained. He was Bette’s most loyal bottom.”

Darcy August 7, 2020 3 Comments
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What’s On Our Gay Agenda? Ask Questions, Get Answers at Our Live Town Hall

Autostraddle leadership will your questions live (virtually) with our voices and faces! Ask about the vision, the fundraiser, what we’re planning, our favorite cookies — we want to hear from you and then talk to you through a screen!

Nico August 5, 2020 23 Comments
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New Vision for Us, New Perks for You: Autostraddle’s August 2020 Fundraiser is Here

If you’re asking “why fundraise now?” the answer is twofold.

Nico August 4, 2020 7 Comments
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Letter From the Editor: Fresh Vision for Autostraddle

The heart of my new vision for Autostraddle is pretty simple: make more space for lesbians and queer people — especially people of color — to be our entire selves and to be known for the multi-dimensional ways we move in the world. We are the ultimate authority on our culture, who we are and how we live. This is a home for us.

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The Comment Awards Are Studying Folklore

“There’s no way a straight person could yearn like Taylor Swift does.”

Darcy July 31, 2020 9 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Sobbing Over Gay Cartoons

“I too am in ‘active negotiations’ to include LGBT content in my holidays – by setting up an OkCupid profile.”

Darcy July 24, 2020 7 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Nipple Confident

“I wish I were a Magnificent Melissa, but if we’re being honest, I’m at BEST a Smiling Rob.”

Darcy July 17, 2020 14 Comments
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This is Your Friday Open Thread for July 10, 2020

A place to hang, chat, reminisce, scheme, ponder, work together, dream, exist.

Vanessa July 10, 2020 67 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Powering Up

“How can I become a member of the Wubble? Just curious.”

Darcy July 10, 2020 15 Comments
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Take Autostraddle’s 2020 Reader Survey: We Want to Know All About YOU!

Tell us how you really feel!

The Editors July 7, 2020 20 Comments
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The Comment Awards Are Tender And Exploratory

“How many people are in bed with Janelle Monáe?!”

Darcy July 3, 2020 9 Comments
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This is Your Friday Open Thread for July 3, 2020

What’s up with you today? How’s your heart?

Vanessa July 3, 2020 33 Comments
Straddleverse

This is Your Friday Open Thread for June 26, 2020

It’s the last Friday in June! We’ve had a big exciting week here at Autostraddle! We’re hosting a virtual benefit on Sunday! Let’s talk about everything!

Vanessa June 26, 2020 39 Comments
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The Comment Awards Are Normalizing Weird

“Yesterday I thought to myself, ‘I wonder what GayStew is doing in quarantine?’ And this morning I find myself reading this.”

Darcy June 26, 2020 8 Comments
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One Last Letter From This Editor

I’ve had three full-time jobs for this company for 11 years and today I’m taking the triumphant step of knocking that down to two!

Riese June 24, 2020 82 Comments
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This is Your Friday Open Thread for June 19, 2020

Tell us how you are! Tell us what you’re up to! Tell us anything at all!

Vanessa June 19, 2020 41 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Celebrating Gay Wrath

“The entire concept of a warrior nun is queer – if there’s no rainbow content, I’m gonna fight someone.”

Darcy June 19, 2020 7 Comments
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Friday Open Thread: What’s Motivating You and Getting You Through?

This is your Friday open thread for June 12!

Vanessa June 12, 2020 31 Comments
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