• About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
  • Shop
  • Sign In
  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles

Life

  • LGBT History
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Money + Work
  • Geekery
  • Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft
  • Holigays
  • Parenting & Family
  • Pregnancy

Etc.

  • Special Issues
  • Webcomics
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked by Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Shopping
  • Podcasts

  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Sign In
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles
  • Shop
  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
Society + Culture

California Decriminalizes Marijuana, Glee’s Got Lady-Queer Icons, Happiness Still Exists

KITTENS WEED LADY GAGA DADT REPEAL WONDER WOMAN SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK TV SHOW BRITTANA GLEE MAGIC LOVE SEX VISIBILITY UNICORNS WEED

Rachel October 3, 2010 37 Comments
Society + Culture

If Perez Hilton Wants to Save Gay Teens from Gay Bullies, He Should Quit Being a Misogynistic Gay Bully

Be the change you want to see in the world, Perez Hilton.

Riese October 1, 2010 62 Comments
Politics + Activism

19-Year-Old Gay College Student Raymond Chase Commits Suicide

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed.

Riese October 1, 2010 65 Comments
Politics + Activism

Asst AG Fights U-Mich Student President’s “Gay Extremism” With Homophobic Extremism

If there’s any more bad news today, we’re just going to shut down for the day and start over again tomorrow, because this is fucking ridiculous. The Assistant Attorney General of Michigan is stalking and harassing a college student, because he’s insane and the student is gay. We hate everything.

Rachel September 30, 2010 45 Comments
Politics + Activism

We’ll Always Have Prop 8 I Mean Paris: Goodbye, Judge Walker

Judge Walker, our collective judicial heartthrob, has announced that he’ll be leaving the bench at the end of this year in a decision he says has nothing to do with Proposition 8.

Rachel September 30, 2010 9 Comments
Society + Culture

Gay Teens Continue Getting Bullied, Committing Suicide: Seth Walsh, 13 and Tyler Clementi, 18, September’s Latest Victims

Two more gay teens commit suicide this week: an 18-year-old college freshman jumps off a bridge after finding his roommate secretly recording and transmitting his sexual encounters over the internet and 13-year-old gay-bullying victim Seth Walsh is taken off life support 9 days after he hanged himself.

Riese September 30, 2010 69 Comments
Politics + Activism

Lesbian Martial Artist Rescues Girlfriend From Ex-Gay Camp: OMFG

Is this real. What is happening. I don’t even

Rachel September 29, 2010 33 Comments
Society + Culture

Gone Too Soon: 13-Year Old Gay Texas Boy Driven to Suicide by Bullying

13-year-old Asher Brown was bullied for being gay. Last week he decided he just couldn’t take it anymore.

Riese September 28, 2010 102 Comments
Politics + Activism

Ann Coulter As Headliner For Gay Homocon 2010: Well, That Happened

The conclusion to our brief and largely ironic community romance with Ann Coulter. “Blacks must be looking at the gays saying, ‘Why can’t we be oppressed like that?’”

Rachel September 27, 2010 31 Comments
Society + Culture

Victory, Howl, Bisexuality, Death, Glee, Labor, Freedom

Today there was some good news related to DADT just in time for Sunday Funday! Lucky you. Also, Stephen Colbert did something funny, Celebrate Bisexuality Day happened, many people have many feelings w/r/t Glee and one of those feelings is BRITNEY, and we have insights from Franzen and A REVIEW OF HOWL OMFG.

Rachel September 26, 2010 23 Comments
Society + Culture

How Many People Are Gay? New UK Survey Says 1%. They’re TOTALLY Wrong.

Sometimes people say things like, “”Now we have a clearer view of the real figures, we need to start asking some serious questions about the vast sums of taxpayers’ money being spent on such a small minority” and we want to smack them down.

Riese September 25, 2010 59 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

GLEE Sneak-Peek Video: Brittany & Santana Get Their Britney Spears On

Are you ready for Tuesday’s Britney Spears episode of GLEE? I don’t think you’re ready. Well here’s a full one minute and 12 seconds of the amazingness you have to look forward to.

Riese September 24, 2010 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

Gay Adoption in Florida: You Lose Some/Often But You Win Some Too

This week has been disheartening for a lot of us queer activists, but cheer up a little bit because Legal Eagle Jessica is here to share some GOOD NEWS about gay adoptions in Florida.

Jessica September 24, 2010 8 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Portia de Rossi Officially Portia DeGeneres, Takes Ellen’s Last Name

Portia de Rossi reinvents herself once more as Portia DeGeneres, officially taking Ellen’s last name. Also Rosie O’Donnell really liked Portia’s book and we think you will too.

Jess September 24, 2010 16 Comments
Politics + Activism

Oh My F*cking God, Another DADT Roadblock, What Is Wrong With You People

When Judge Phillips ruled Don’t Ask Don’t Tell unconstitutional, she issued an injunction so that no more soldiers could be discharged until the case was resolved. It would have been relatively simple for Obama and the Department of Justice to let the injunction stand and let the issue rest. HEY, GUESS WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ISN’T DOING.

Rachel September 24, 2010 14 Comments
Society + Culture

Dan Savage Wants Baby Queers to Know: It Gets Better

Hi. Have you done something to take care of someone else today? Maybe you should, right now. It’s easy. You can do it on the internet. You love the internet. I love you.

Rachel September 23, 2010 30 Comments
Politics + Activism

Gays and Honor: Some Truths About Lying

There are jokes about how politicians lie so much. How do you know a politician is lying? His mouth is moving. Something like that.

Riese September 22, 2010 29 Comments
Politics + Activism

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Fail Hangover Day: Bill Clinton and Rachel Maddow Tell the Truth

Bill Clinton did not think DADT was gonna be like this, Rachel Maddow explains why DADT opponents are full of sh*t, and John McCain is either totally ignorant or lying. Either way, don’t ask anybody or tell anybody anything.

the team September 22, 2010 24 Comments
Politics + Activism

10 Ways of Looking at John McCain: DADT Filibuster Art Therapy Special

When you have a lot of feelings about Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the best way to express those feelings is through art. You should express your art on John McCain’s face, ideally.

the team September 22, 2010 41 Comments
Politics + Activism

OPEN THREAD: DADT Repeal Vote Moves Forward Today, At Least We Hope

It’s Don’t Ask Don’t Tell vote day! Finally! Come watch with us, and then we can laugh, cry, yell, drink, or all of the above together after the Senate votes.

Sarah September 21, 2010 38 Comments
← Previous Page 1 … 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 … 264 Next Page →

From the Archives

  • Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Ackley Bridge” Tackles Internalized Homophobia and Islamaphobia with its Lesbian Muslim Character
  • Y’All Need Help #23: Spring Cleaning Part 2
  • Holigay Gift Guide: Sex Toys for Trans Women

Latest Comments

  • Birgitta ‘I Finally Realized I’m a Biromantic Homosexual. Now What?!’ "Holy. Shit. I’m starting to realize that this may be how I’m wired too, and I cannot tell you how…"

  • Slice Master Only The Most Advanced Gay WNBA Fans Will Ace This WNBA Trivia Quiz "Slice Master is a modern arcade experience playable directly in your browser."

  • vanessa So This Is What Hope Feels Like (Zohran Mamdani Being the Next Mayor of New York City) "there are queer people all over the world. the fact that this person disagrees with you or is cautious about…"

  • Mo Good Golly Are Melissa King and Padma Lakshmi Dating or What "Wow ty for the hard-hitting reporting on matters we truly care about! Related, if you’re looking for a cute read,…"

Latest Posts

  • Good Golly Are Melissa King and Padma Lakshmi Dating or What
  • 25 Streaming Movies With Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes
  • New Pair of Evil Executive Orders Would End Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Across the Country
  • So This Is What Hope Feels Like (Zohran Mamdani Being the Next Mayor of New York City)
  • No Filter: You Heard Meg Stalter! American Girl Dolls Molly and Julie Are Endgame!

Our Network

  • Store
  • For Them

About Us

  • What is AS?
  • Meet The Team
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Copyright 2009 - 2025 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

Read ad-free: join AF MEDIA