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An Autistic Reading of Stranger Things’ Robin Buckley

To have someone so similar to me portrayed as likable and capable in a major show, is thrilling.

Alex Masse August 9, 2022 10 Comments
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Gender

You Need Help: I’m 13 — How Do I Explore My Butch Identity?

Sometimes when you’re exploring a new aspect of your identity, you might feel like you have to emulate something specific. But there’s no one way to be butch. Go out there and live your best butch life!

Ro White August 9, 2022 12 Comments
Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves from Catapult Books features a bunch of colorful illustrated bodies
LGBT Book Reviews

“Body Language” Anthology Offers Invitation To Reckon With Our Messy Bits

Body Language — a new anthology from Catapult — is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in a long time.

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First Person

Take Me Back to Standee’s

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Ro White August 9, 2022 11 Comments
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“The Bruising of Qilwa” Review: A Trans and Queer Fantasy Novella That Packs a Punch

The short book by Naseem Jamnia is an extremely fast-paced, engaging read.

Abbie Jones August 8, 2022 2 Comments
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“Good Trouble” Episode 414 Recap: Love Is (Not?) A Lie

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First Person

High School and Everything After

You can’t be gay in 1999. But I’m not, so that’s just fine.

Darcy August 8, 2022 23 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Sue Bird Smooches Megan Rapinoe, Shouts Out Seattle Gay Bar in Final Home Game

A new queer era for Doctor Who, #SaveGentlemanJack flash mobs Shibden Hall, Paper Girls’ gayness succeeds where Stranger Things fails, HOCUS POCUS CEREAL, and more!

Heather Hogan August 8, 2022 8 Comments
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Queer Co-parenting Helped Me Unlearn Everything TV Taught Me About Family

Queer parenting insists that parenting is a verb, an action and identity available to any and all adults who take on a shared responsibility.

Kate August 8, 2022 5 Comments
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Abbi Jacobson Is Engaged! Happy “A League of Their Own” Week to All Who Celebrate

Abbi Jacobson and FIANCÉE Jodi Balfour made their red carpet debut together at the Los Angeles premiere of A League of Their Own.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 8, 2022 11 Comments
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First Person

Opening Up at a North Country Diner

I never got used to the cold, North Country weather.

Lily Alvarado August 8, 2022 9 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: What Diner From Pop Culture Are You?

It’s Diner Week, and we’re asking an important question: What famous cinematic diner are you?

Darcy August 7, 2022 22 Comments
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First Person

Scenes From a Jersey Diner

This is what it means to be from New Jersey. The roughness around the edges isn’t hidden away or sugar-coated.

Katie August 7, 2022 26 Comments
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First Person

Welcome to Diner Week — What Are You Having?

Welcome to Diner Week, a 12-part series of essays by Autostraddle writers and editors set in diners.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya August 7, 2022 15 Comments
Geekery

Pokémon as Lesbian Movies

It’s been a rough week; have some Lesbian Pokémovies. 

Heather Hogan August 6, 2022 7 Comments
Webcomics

Reine #37: Unrestrained Summer Fun

There’s more to life than work. Fight for the four day work week, paid vacation, flexible hours! Get out there!

Ren Strapp August 6, 2022 4 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

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Valerie Anne and Natalie
August 5, 2022 3 Comments
A still from They/Them in which Veronica [Monique Kim], a bisexual Asian woman with dyed red and black hair buzzed short on one side and Kim [Anna Lore] a white lesbian with long blonde hair, sit on a dock on a lake at a gay conversion camp. They have looks of deep concern and worry on their faces.
Movie Reviews

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For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.

Nico August 5, 2022 9 Comments
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Geekery

“Raptor Boyfriend” Video Game Review: You’re a Cryptid? That’s Cute

Queer dating sim “Raptor Boyfriend” lets you pursue the cryptid of your dreams.

Julie Gentile August 5, 2022 2 Comments
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(Jeff Goldblum voice) “Lesbians… uh, find a way.”

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