Let Taurus Season be the breath of fresh air needed to feel what you need to feel. What rebellious pleasure, inspiration, and curiosity can we cultivate in moving with and despite fear, rather than away from it?
RuPaul has these finales down to a science — the real kind, not the RFK Jr. kind — which means a reliable structure in lieu of reality TV shocks.
From Our Flag Means Death to A League of Their Own to It’s a Sin, here are 15 LGBTQ+ shows set in the past with vibrant, interesting queer characters.
The sex you’re having now is fine, but the sex with her was incredible (unfortunately). Also we help a reader whose girlfriend won’t stop singing show tunes!
The Wheel of Time giveth queer characters, and The Wheel of Time taketh away.
By peering into a few queer and women-centered tattoo shops in New York City, a picture emerges of a newly developing scene uplifting femininity and queerness.
As a population, lesbians tend to be especially hopeful about the possibility of lesbian love blossoming on a reality show that’s supposed to be about straight love or baking cakes. Luckily so many novels have stepped in to make those dreams come true!
Miyazaki’s film about a young witch shows exactly what AI art and all that it represents threatens to take from us.
With the UK’s Supreme Court ruling unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women is it possible to escape?
May the sex be ever in your city. Plus, more queer culture news, like JoJo Siwa discussing gender identity, Kelly Marie Tran on how The Wedding Banquet helped her come out as queer, and more.
Did you SEE Victoria Monet and Megan Thee Stallion at Coachella?! AND QUEEN LATIFAH?!
A proposed rule would stop insurance plans sold on the ACA marketplace from including gender-affirming care for both trans minors and trans adults.
The Parlour is a new weekly newsletter and column for paid members that invites you into a space for unfiltered, of-the-moment queer slice-of-life writing. Think of it like a diary passed between your favorite queer writers!
Despite its commitment to the realities of queer Asian American experience, immigrant experience, and lesbian motherhood experience, The Wedding Banquet is less the indie dramedy of the original and more the rare gift of a big queer comedy.
Plus, dreams about a groundhog riding a bicycle, a house where everything is wrong, and more mystic musings.
The Center in NYC held its annual dinner to recognize leaders in the LGBTQ community and present an award to Kesha. Autostraddle hit the red carpet to chat with some of the attendees!
Last week, Shyanne Sellers got drafted to the WNBA’s Golden State Valkyries and also got engaged to her girlfriend, Seton Hall basketball player Faith Masonius and both of those things are very gay things to do, I think.
One of the most important pillars of girlhood is orbiting your entire personality around the likes of Sylvia Plath and writing your own poetry to deal with the woes of one’s burgeoning sexuality, toxic friendships, and other coming-of-age tragedies.
Don’t get me wrong — AJ and Natasha would still f*ck in a roomy SUV if absolutely necessary.
“Today, I was talking to a dear friend about the current state of my relationship. They told me that it sounds like I am trapped, and that I am being controlled. Worst of all, they said that my long-term partner ‘basically owns’ me.”