Jinkx Monsoon on Queer Adolescence, Being a Lifelong MILF, and Working Out Demons Through Drag
“I call it paying it forward. Because that’s what drag queens did for me at a young age. That’s what drag queens have done for me all throughout my life.”
Quiz: Which Makeup Trend Are You?
I’m pretty caught up on the recent beauty trends, and maybe you are too. Which one suits you the most?
“Middlesex” Has a Complicated Legacy — 20 Years Ago, It Changed My Life
When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.
AM/PM: A Skincare Routine For the Lazy Yet Vain
I love a great compliment and I refuse to put in too much effort to get them.
Reine #38: Takes a Village
In the next life, may I be a lesbian couple’s cat.
Boobs on Your Tube: “grown-ish” Tackles the Queer Urge to Merge, Just in Time for Cuffing Season
Plus updates on The Chi and Roswell, New Mexico.
Investigating the Bionicle-to-Trans Pipeline
More than a few fans I spoke with did say that if it weren’t for Bionicle they may not have come to understand their gender when they did.
Get in Your Back-to-School Feelings With These 10 Queer YA Books
Back-to-school time is my favorite time of the year now that I’m an adult.
“Good Trouble” Episode 418 Recap: One Epiphany Away
Good Trouble magically solves Alice’s orgasm woes, Malika and Angelica take on the LAPD, and a billion other things — this is a Good Trouble season finale, after all.
The Comment Awards Are Caroling for Labor Day
“Cate Blanchett literally only wants one thing, and it’s to play gay in movies directed by a guy named Todd.”
Style Thief: How To Dress Like League Of Their Own’s Resident Femme Jock Greta
We love a mean femme top who can flirt as good as she can play ball.
Aubrey Plaza Makes Me Wanna Break Bottles & Eat Lesbian Pasta in “Spin Me Round”
This is unfortunately not a movie about two babes banging and eating their way through Italy — but there is a dash of sapphic salt between Allison Brie and Aubrey Plaza!
Also.Also.Also: Jamie Clayton Unlocks the Puzzle Box of Our Hearts With First-Look Photo as Hellraiser’s Pinhead
The Jackson Water Crisis is rooted environmental racism (and how to help), lesbian luminaries of the South, the Latina legacy of gold hoop earrings, and yes — Jamie Clayton’s “Hellraiser.” Horror gays rise, your time is now.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for September 2022
It’s Virgo season! Time to get out a fresh sheet of paper and your favorite pens and brainstorm a dozen or more future possibilities that bring you sheer pleasure.
Will “Star Trek: Lower Decks” Pay Off The Gay in Season 3?
Beckett and Jen WILL be dating in season three!
Slow Takes: “Stone Fruit” and Choosing Given Family
I learned about the concept of chosen family from a heterosexual uncle I don’t talk to anymore.
What’s New and Gay To Stream in September 2022
We’ve got the return of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a super-queer Australian teen series, Netflix’s campy dark comedy flick “Do Revenge,” Beth Ditto in country music drama “Monarch,” Rachel Bloom starring as a lesbian TV writer in Hulu’s “Reboot” and so much more!
The Gay B C’s of Sex: P Is for Power Bottom
Perhaps the power bottom is in the eye of the be(hole)der.
The Autostraddle Insider Issue 95: August 2022
(Bear training is also secretly for people who want to get wifed.)
Juniper Fitzgerald’s Queer Memoir-in-Fragments Examines Her Identities as a Sex Worker and Mother
Enjoy Me Among My Ruins bypasses the expectation to tell one’s story in a neatly contained narrative.