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Food and Drink Quizzes

Quiz: What Fall Treat Should You Bake?

Take the quiz and get a recipe for a special fall treat!

Lucia October 9, 2022 13 Comments
The following books: Nothing but Blackened Teeth by Cassandra Khaw, Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi, and What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Book Lists

10 Queer Haunted House Books

Let’s get gay and scared!

Casey October 9, 2022 9 Comments
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Webcomics

Baopu #104: Diaspora Time

What is diaspora time? It is a third plane between here and there, where time and geographies meet when people say they don’t.

Yao Xiao October 8, 2022 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: These “NCIS: Hawai’i” Queers Are Too Adorable to Function

Plus updates on Raising Kanan and Station 19!

Natalie October 7, 2022 14 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

“The Family Outing” Is a Vivid Memoir of Neglect, Secrets, and the Power of Family

Over the course of five years, Jessi Hempel came out as a lesbian; her dad then came out as gay, her sister as bisexual, and her brother as trans.

Darcy October 7, 2022 4 Comments
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First Person

I Rediscovered Fanfiction This Year and It Reconnected Me to My Inner Teen

The best version of myself wasn’t achieved through reinvention. It was achieved through acceptance.

Lily Alvarado October 7, 2022 5 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are As Gay As Velma

“Great day for all of us whose first foray into cosplay was wearing an atrocious tangerine turtleneck for half of second grade and saying jinkies a lot!”

Darcy October 7, 2022 6 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

How Many Times Does Shay Mitchell Have to Say She’s Bisexual???

She said she’s not straight in Cosmo, she said it in Maxim, she said it on YouTube, now she’s said it on TikTok. Wouldn’t it be cool if we just… believed her?

Heather Hogan October 7, 2022 21 Comments
The feature for Into the A+ Advice Box shows a stock photo of a woman in the foreground on her cellphone with a blurry mysterious figure of a man stalking her from behind. They are both Asian humans.
AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #69: What If You Have a Stalker?

Supporting a partner with an HIV diagnosis, dating anxiety, dressing while pregnant, and more!

the team October 7, 2022 12 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

Clare Gets a Wee Lesbian Love Story in Derry Girls’ Final Season

“Just me. Just the one lesbian. The rest of them are straight.”

Heather Hogan October 7, 2022 9 Comments
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Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Cherelle Griner Pleads for Brittney, “I Don’t Know if She Has Anything Left in Her Tank”

A visual history of WNBA kicks, the history of Black mermaids, and let’s look at some of the details of Biden’s marijuana pardon.

Carmen Phillips October 6, 2022 4 Comments
Michaela Cole as Aneka in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, she looks to the right of camera and her hair is shaved bald. She is wearing big gold earrings and has detailed eye makeup.
Movie News & Trailers

Michaela Coel Joined “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” Specifically to Play a Lesbian

For so many of us, queerness is not about who we lay with at night — it’s about who we are when we wake up in the morning.

Carmen Phillips October 6, 2022 3 Comments
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First Person

Confessions of a Ghost

Instead of disappearing from my emotional responsibility, I’ve decided to embrace the full transparency of a ghost.

Em Win October 6, 2022 1 Comment
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Book Features

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya on Writing a Lesbian Horror Protagonist Who Has Been to Therapy

Autostraddle Managing Editor Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya’s debut book — Helen House, a queer horror novelette — comes out October 18.

Nico October 6, 2022 5 Comments
Lauren Beatty as Grey in Bloodthirsty and Teagan Johnston as Catherine in The Strings wear headphones. A skeleton hand holding a flower reaches between them.
Movie Features

Slow Takes: The Year of Queer Indie Musicians Creating in Solitude and Losing Their Minds

Horror has always been the most democratized genre.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 6, 2022 2 Comments
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AF+

Anonymous Job Confession: My Boss Was an Egotistical, Predatory Dictator

“Cee showed me an audio recording she secretly took when she was alone with him.”

Guest October 6, 2022 1 Comment
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Lesbian Sex

The Gay B C’s of Sex: T Is for Tribbing

Rubbing your bits against another hot bod is both physically and visually pleasurable, no matter what you call it.

Ro White October 6, 2022 8 Comments
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Literature

Rainbow Reading: We Fell in Love (With Some Rad New Books) in October

When someone declared on Twitter “october is an inherently gay month” — they were right.

Yashwina October 6, 2022 2 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Diane Guerrero Is Exploring Her Sexuality, Possibility of Queer Communal Living

It’s more than a soft launch coming out in a magazine profile. Any day that another queer polyam Latina is walking around among us is a bit brighter than the day before.

Carmen Phillips October 5, 2022 6 Comments
Two photos of Em Win, an Asian person with long hair and rust blonde ombre highlights in a ponytail and a bright blue spandex biker shorts and bralette set, side by side: on the left, they are wearing a brightly colored button down t-shirt that is open in the front, on the right they are posing on the beach.
Queer Fashion

Lizzo’s Yitty Set Changed My Life, It’s Worth an Internet Fight to the Death

Yitty has helped me spend less time looking in the mirror and more time doing what I actually want to do, which is be hot and gay in public.

Em Win October 5, 2022 4 Comments
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