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First Person

My Hysterectomy and Early Menopause Reshaped My Sexuality — So My Queerness Found New Spaces to Inhabit

Where once my sexuality flourished in the spaces of the unknown, it is now content to be still.

Juniper Fitzgerald March 6, 2023 5 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: There’s Only Queer Women on Miley Cyrus’ New Album, Thank You Very Much

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Heather Hogan March 6, 2023 2 Comments
Javicia Leslie as Batwoman in The Flash
TV Show Recaps

Javicia Leslie’s Ryan Wilder Is Full of Surprises on “The Flash”

I have missed Ryan so so much and the range that Javicia is giving here is exactly why. It looks like we’ve got one more episode with her next week, and I cannot wait!

Nic March 6, 2023 1 Comment
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First Person Food and Drink

My Seltzer, My Self

Do you remember the first time you stumbled upon a satisfaction you tried to make entirely your own?

Caroline Darya Framke March 6, 2023 16 Comments
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Food and Drink

Crack Open Something Fizzy — It’s Time for Bubble Trouble

Bubble Trouble is a new Autostraddle series about the nostalgia, effervescence, and never-ending appeal of carbonated beverages.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 6, 2023 29 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Also Identifies as a F*cking Libra

I don’t know why some people hate lazy people.

Rachel March 6, 2023 7 Comments
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LGBT History Quizzes

Quiz: Which Actress From Early Hollywood’s Sapphic “Sewing Circle” Are You?

It’s the 1920s – 1950s and you’re a queer actor (or writer) — which of these letter-writing pool-owning trouser-wearing secret-keepers are you?

Riese March 5, 2023 28 Comments
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Jewish Holidays

How To Create Purim Rituals That Celebrate Being Queer

Purim is one of the queerest Jewish holidays. Let’s celebrate accordingly.

Abby Stein March 5, 2023 13 Comments
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TV News & Trailers

Bravo Dyke Weighs In on the Ariana, Sandoval, and Raquel “Vanderpump Rules” Scandal

Bisexual Icon Ariana is reportedly now single following some of the messiest reality television drama of my LIFETIME.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 5, 2023 25 Comments
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Movie News & Trailers

Tessa Thompson Is Not the Only Gay Reason to See Creed III

With Tessa Thompson’s face and Michal B. Jordan’s face, the Creed franchise has always felt incredibly bisexual to me. This special guest just seals the deal.

Carmen Phillips March 4, 2023 9 Comments
Drag Race 1510 recap: Ts Madison in a tight gold dress with orange hair sits backstage at Drag Race smiling at the queens.
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1510 Recap: Séa-yoncé, Brie-yoncé, Grey-oncé

It’s Night of a Thousand Beyoncés! Or, as Anetra jokes, Night of Eight Beyoncés.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 4, 2023 4 Comments
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First Person

An Incomplete List of Things I Wish My Mother Would Do

46. Look at the menu beforehand.

Laneia March 4, 2023 51 Comments
Book Lists

12 Queer Road Trip Books To Adventure With

A dozen books — from YA to romance to literary fiction to memoir — that center queer road trips all over the U.S. and abroad.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 4, 2023 13 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

A+ Crossword Is Going Back to Windows 95

What do you call someone who witnesses a robbery at the Apple store?

brooke March 4, 2023 9 Comments
NCIS Hawai'i: With their hands intertwined, Lucy looks up at Kate with her eyes filled with love. Kate is on the right wearing a blue v-neck t-shirt and Lucy is on the right wearing an olive green button up.
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Lucy and Kate, Together Again on “NCIS: Hawai’i”

Plus updates on How I Met Your Father, The Watchful Eye, grown-ish, Truth Be Told, Station 19, and A Million Little Things.

Valerie Anne and Natalie
March 3, 2023 2 Comments
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AF+

A+ Roundtable: The Team Secretly Told Each Other Which 3 Characters Describe Them

“Christina is, energetically, equal parts over-the-top gay man and elder straight woman.”

the team March 3, 2023 48 Comments
Movie Features

Annette Haywood-Carter on “Foxfire,” Filmmaking, and Being a Queer Woman in Hollywood

After “Foxfire,” Annette was pushed aside and ignored. But she kept working — detours and frustrations included — and now she’s back with a new film and ready to move beyond for-hire jobs to direct the personal, artful work she should have been making for decades.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 3, 2023 14 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

“Matchmaking in the Archive” Connects Today’s Artists and Queer Ancestors

This book contains, notably, an essay by Michelle Tea that is still ringing in my ears.

Nico March 3, 2023 4 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are All Lit Up Inside

“I came for the lights and left wanting to know more about your Disney villain mom!”

Darcy March 3, 2023 6 Comments
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Culture

Moon Lesbian Flag, Explained

There is a Pride flag called the Moon Lesbian Flag, meant as a contrast to the Sun Lesbian Flag, which is different entirely from the standard Lesbian Pride Flag. Let’s investigayte.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 3, 2023 43 Comments
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