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Straight People Watch: Quarantine Edition
Nature is healing.
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Country Queers Documents the Myriad Experiences of Rural LGBTQIA Americans
“Community is a very complicated and roomy word. Rural queer people also have other layers of identity that inform their realities.”
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The Communist Pleasure Activism That’s Helping Erase Medical Debt in Appalachia
A queer company that makes a “fistin’ lube for lovers and others” is partnering with sexual advocacy and harm reduction groups while helping to erase tens of thousands of dollars of medical debt in West Virginia.
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TruckSlutsMag Is Making Trucks Gay and Reclaiming Rural Queer Culture
“There are gay rednecks, there have always been gay rednecks, and there always will be too.”
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Insta Crush: Gender Reveal Podcast Centers Nonbinary and Trans Voices, Is Living the Queer Dream
“I believe that creating affirming and diverse trans community is literally life-saving work, and I want everyone to stay alive and maybe even flourish.”
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At Home in Ourselves: Bi+ Women on How They’re Staying Connected to Queer Identity while Dating Men
We talked to bi+ women about how they express and stay connected with their queerness while dating cis heterosexual men.
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Lesbian Visibility Day Roundtable: The Art In Your Lesbian Canon
What is in your lesbian canon? What books, movies and music do you consider essential lesbian material and/or lesbian art that is essential to your own understanding of your identity?
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23 Black Queer and Trans Femmes to Follow on Instagram This Black History Month
Honey, these glorious embodiments of black femme magic are about to sweep you off your feet.
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Straight People Watch: Holiday Edition
“To everyone’s credit, something they never tell you about as a child is the metaphorical cowboy snowman ready to do the devil’s bidding in a marriage, so who, really, is to blame here?”
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Meet Me at Cuties: The Queer-Owned LA Coffee Bar that Puts Community First
I sat down with Cuties founders Iris and Virginia to talk about finding community, running a commercial space, and how to hold community members accountable.
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Straight People Watch: Summer 2018
It’s dark in here and I’m scared!
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Straight People Watch: Spring 2K18
As always: is anyone okay?
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Monday Roundtable: The First Gay and Trans People We Knew
“Sipping coffee in their sunny drenched kitchen was the first time I really saw myself. I could imagine it. I could see how I could be gay and still… be me.”
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Monday Roundtable: Our First Online Communities
“I also spent some time writing an intentionally awful Snape/Dobby/Giant Squid love triangle short story because sometimes you have to make your own fun.”
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Monday Roundtable: Look At Our Stuff (We Collect), Isn’t It Neat?
From the ostensibly refined collections like coins and stamps to the esoteric like taxidermy, there’s a wide world of stuff to gather out there! That said, most of us just own very specific types of books, but we thought you’d be into that too.
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Monday Roundtable: Our Most Incorrect Childhood Beliefs
“I thought the Alicia Keys poster on my wall could see me, which I think had something to do with internalized homophobia.”
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Autostraddle Bi+ Week Roundtable: Choosing Visibility
How do we want to be seen in our daily lives? How much control do we really have over it? How do we make ourselves visible in a world that often chooses not to see us clearly, and what risks and complications come with it? There’s no one answer, which is why we had all these Autostraddle staffers who identify somewhere under the bisexual umbrella talk about it for you!
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Here Are 22 of Autostraddle’s Best Articles on Bisexuals and Bisexuality
Most of this is written by bisexual people, some is written by allies of ours on topics related to bisexual representation or experience, some is written by super amazing famous people like Roxane Gay or our interview with Mara Wilson; all of it is great.
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“I Want to Be Visible”: A Queer #DisabledAndCute Photo Gallery
When I saw the hashtag #DisabledAndCute gaining steam on Twitter last weekend, I felt an immediate tug of recognition. Disabled folks were here, owning our bodies and looks rather than trying to cover up, slink away, or downplay.
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50+ LGBTQ Black Women You Need To Know Because We Are Awesome
Black queer women are magical. We’re innovators of style, technology, science, art, music, and all other sorts of badassery. This year for Black History Month, we’ve included another 50 Black trans and queer women that you absolutely must know about.