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!
Body Language — a new anthology from Catapult — is one of the best essay collections I’ve read in a long time.
For many of us, Standee’s was one of the first public spaces where we could openly and comfortably share our most authentic gender expression.
The short book by Naseem Jamnia is an extremely fast-paced, engaging read.
Let’s take a look at these Good Trouble couples and try to answer the eternal question: Is love a lie??
You can’t be gay in 1999. But I’m not, so that’s just fine.
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!
Queer parenting insists that parenting is a verb, an action and identity available to any and all adults who take on a shared responsibility.
Abbi Jacobson and FIANCÉE Jodi Balfour made their red carpet debut together at the Los Angeles premiere of A League of Their Own.
I never got used to the cold, North Country weather.
It’s Diner Week, and we’re asking an important question: What famous cinematic diner are you?
This is what it means to be from New Jersey. The roughness around the edges isn’t hidden away or sugar-coated.
Welcome to Diner Week, a 12-part series of essays by Autostraddle writers and editors set in diners.
It’s been a rough week; have some Lesbian Pokémovies.
There’s more to life than work. Fight for the four day work week, paid vacation, flexible hours! Get out there!
Plus updates on The Chi, For All Mankind, Only Murders in the Building, Roswell, and American Horror Stories.
![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.](https://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Untitled-design-2022-08-05T113837.727.png?fit=640%2C320)
For a movie that bills itself as a queer empowerment film, there is neither enough fighting back nor enough in-your-face queerness.
Queer dating sim “Raptor Boyfriend” lets you pursue the cryptid of your dreams.
(Jeff Goldblum voice) “Lesbians… uh, find a way.”
I’ve grown to see sampling, when done well, as a love language, a way to remain connected to our history and communicate with the musical innovators who shaped, and continue to breathe life into, our culture.