Results for: the real l word
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Roundtable: Our Long and Winding Career Paths
“When I was 10, I wrote a letter to Disney asking them what I should do to become an imagineer.”
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Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities
Accepting ambiguity feels like being welcomed home.
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What’s Your “Root?” Autostraddle Editors Remember What Brought Them to This Website for the First Time
For a myriad of reasons, we all somehow ended up clicking over to this very special place called Autostraddle Dot Com at some pivotal point in our queermo lives, and now we’re all still here making it happen! In this roundtable, our editors and writers share their “root” — the posts that brought them here for the first time.
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Out of Our Parents’ Closets
Whether we’re trying to send a “f*ck you” to a homophobic dad or an “I love you” to a mom who can’t hear the words any more, it means something to share threads with a person who spawned you.
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It’s Not What You’re Like, It’s What You Like: A Valentine’s Day Roundtable
This Valentine’s Day, we’re discussing the things that our loved ones must learn to appreciate in order to appreciate us.
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The Gay Bar: Where Hopes and Dreams (and Bathroom Hook-Ups) Come True
Cubbyhole, where everyone knows your name. (Featuring our “first gay bar ever” stories)
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What Does a Lesbian Look Like?: The Autostraddle Roundtable
What does a lesbian look like? Until a few years ago, mainstream culture was pretty sure they knew the answer to that question, even though they didn’t. The Autostraddle Roundtable tackles passing, why people can’t understand that lesbians can have long hair, and the relationship between gender, style, and sexuality.
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“When I Knew I Was Gay” #1: What Would Happen If One Woman Told The Truth About Her Life
Riese tells one of many versions of her story, Laneia tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The latter is the most important thing we’ve ever published on Autostraddle.
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When You Knew You Were a Lesbian: Your True Stories & Tweets
Your real stories and tweets about when you knew you wanted to kiss other girls.