Results for: queer parenting
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Queer Your Ears: The 50 Best Albums Of The 2010s By Queer & Trans Musicians
The 2010s was an incredibly gay decade in music. Queer and trans musicians gained more visibility and success than ever before over the last 10 years! Here are the best 50 albums of the decade, according to me.
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VIDEO PREMIERE: Alex G’s New Music Video, ‘Pray It Away,’ Creates Her Own Salvation
“Honestly, it’s for younger me who really needed to know that you could be queer and loved by God at the same time.”
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Were We Ever So Young: A Retro High School Deep Dive with Tegan and Sara
Inspired by their vulnerability and the powerful throwback energy of high-school-age Sara and Tegan, we’ve cracked open our own high school diaries to show you our deepest, darkest, gayest secrets and send a little love and perspective back through time on who we’ve been.
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Songs to Make You Cry in the Grocery Store, as Ranked Compared to “Fast Car”
A selection of emotionally devastating songs I live in fear of having to emotionally process in public without warning at CVS.
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Queer Your Ears: New Music by Queer & Trans Artists from January 2019
This month, there are some wintry tracks for relaxing and looking out the window at a rainy day, as well as some upbeat stuff for breaking out of the doldrums. And a bunch of stuff in between.
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For Your Consideration: Repeat One
Listening to the same song on a ceaseless loop is intensely satisfying.
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Lesbian Jesus Hayley Kiyoko is Nylon’s Pride Issue Cover Girl and I Wrote The Story
Lesbian icon pop star Hayley Kiyoko is the cover girl for Nylon’s first-ever LGBT Pride issue, and also the love of your life.
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Ani DiFranco Has a Song From 20 Years Ago That Works For This Moment
With her 20th studio album out and a tour with Andrea Gibson on the horizon, the li’l folksinger talks politics, activism, and why she’s still getting happier as she gets older. She also called me babe.
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QTPOC Roundtable: Queer Anthem Playlist
There’s just some songs that make you want to shout and dance and that make you feel proud to be queer.
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Thank you, Chester Bennington: The Queer Strength I Found in Linkin Park
“Chester Bennington’s anger was so present and so empathic. It told me it was okay that I had it too— that I wasn’t alone, that my feelings were normal. It replaced my fear, and it helped me survive.”
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Are You Ten Years Ago: We Remember Tegan & Sara’s “The Con,” Which Changed Our Lives
“I was nineteen when The Con came out, and boy did I ever feel her in my heart.”
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Hello, Goodbye: From Faking My Taste for Crushes to Falling in Love with Music for Real
Then I met Summer, a junior counselor at the Christian summer camp I went to between sixth and seventh grade. Summer wore a different band shirt almost every day: Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, Pink Floyd, The Doors, Led Zeppelin. She told me she loved classic rock, and without hesitating, I said “me too.”
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Playlist: Queer Summer Suburban Ennui
This playlist accompanies all of the feelings I have being queer in suburbia: gay, lonely, bored, and confused by my neighbors’ dedications to their lawns.
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Béatrice Martin Of Coeur de Pirate Is Queer
“I can’t be scared that someone will stop listening to my music, or that parents might not want their kids listening to me because of the fact that I want to love whoever I want to love.”
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My Virtual Brunch With Dolly Parton
“Dear Editor: You are cordially invited to have brunch with country music icon Dolly Parton this Sunday, August 7th.”
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Michelle Chamuel Is More Than That Queer Girl With Glasses From “The Voice”: The Autostraddle Interview
How is it possible that a queer woman who came in second place on NBC’s mega-smash-hit The Voice could, three years later, still be unknown? The short answer is that before Michelle Chamuel could fully tell the world who she is, she had to figure it out herself.
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Girl, It’s Your Time: Trans Artist Vivek Shraya On Finding Freedom and Wholeness
“Gender self-determination is vital and I can feel great about who I am when I am at home. But I live a life where I engage with other people and doing what feels good for me is a lot more challenging when I step outside the door. With pronouns specifically, it’s hard not to feel like you are dependent on others to ‘validate’ your gender, or rather, it’s hard not to feel like your gender is not valid when people use the wrong pronoun.”
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Record Store Day Roundtable: The Best Albums on Vinyl
It’s almost time for Autostraddle’s International Meet Me At The Record Store Day. Let’s talk about our favorite albums on vinyl to get ready!
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Give My Regards to Broadway: The Mixtape
“There is nothing I love more than sharing a deafeningly silent, poignant moment with 300 other audience members; grinning wide through a rousing musical number that makes me want to stand and cheer; or tearing up at a matinee with the gray-haired woman seated beside me.”
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Allison Weiss and Mal Blum’s New Albums Help Us Look At Our Guts: The Autostraddle Interview
Two of our favorite queer rock stars chat with each other about their new albums, their mental health, and Mariah Carey.