A collage of 8 images. From L-R: A small white dog wearing a dark-blue button up printed with oranges. Below him: A smiling model wearing a button-up in the same print. Next, a grey hoodie printed with the words “Welcome Everyone” in the Progress Pride colors. Below that: A crop top made for dogs and cats in the same print. Next, A small orange dog with ears that look like pigtails wearing a button-up printed with black toucans with red beaks, and green palm fronds. Below him: An adult button-up in the same print. Last: A Black model with loose, shoulder-length curls posing in a triangle bralette and high-waisted undies. Below her: A white dog with one brown ear wearing a hoodie. The undies and hoodie are both printed with eggs and bacon on a light blue background. The collage is framed in light blue.

Six Outfits You Can Buy to Match Your Dog

Because what’s cuter than a dog in a vacation shirt? A dog AND their queer person in vacation shirts, that’s what!

a young lesbian woman stands pensively in front of a bunch of trees. She has her arms folded and is wearing a jean jacket. Text on the image reads "Into the A+ Advice Box"

AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #61: When Should a Person Cut Off Given Family?

Being in your 30’s with no queer dating experience, packing a carry-on for a long-distance date, dealing with astrology if you don’t believe in it, and more!

The cover of The J Girls by Rochelle Hurt features a split pair of jeans exposing a black thong

LGBT Book Reviews

“The J Girls” Review: Sex, Fire Sauce, and Growing Up in the 90s

The poetry collection is quite a refreshing portrayal of Midwestern teenage girlhood — more focused on exploring the messiness of truth than pleasantries.

A collage of the American Girl Doll Molly in: pajamas, her original navy blue outfit and red sweater vest, and her softball uniform. She's photoshopped in front of rainbow confetti and a white hand making a peace sign with PRID painted on its wrist.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: American Girl Denies Molly Came Out For Pride Month, But We Know The Truth

How to wear boxers in public, Lynda Carter is tearing down homophobes like she’s Wonder Woman, and if you’re still thinking about Amber Heard — donate to orgs that support domestic violence survivors.

an original watercolor by Wallace May featuring Gabrielle, a blond woman, sleeping with her small white dog Kimberly on top of her

First Person Pets & Animals

What To Know Before You Get a Dog

When you first meet her, scared and sick and alone, you’ll know that if you don’t take her with you she’ll probably die. Of course, she’s going to die either way. Better to have a life with you first, you’ll decide. You’ll make it nice for her. You’ll try your best, at least.

Two queer-looking people in masks celebrating with confetti, a flower frame wraps around them

Health LGBT Pride

10 Ways to Keep Your Disabled / Chronically Ill Friends Safer This Pride

We clown on the commodification of Pride, but what good is that if we continue to perpetuate all the ableism intrinsic in capitalism in our own spaces?

A screenshot from The Foundation for AIDS Research's "Scenes from Angels in America" fundraiser. Vella Lovell as Harper is superimposed above Andrew Rannells as Prior. The backdrop is a mix of a starry sky over a building and a staircase with candles leading from the bottom of the frame to the top. Lovell wears a black nightie and Rannells wears a turquoise robe and makeup.

First Person Theater

Slow Takes: A Tribute to Zoom Theatre

The story of how I joined theatre is like if the Disney Channel was dark and gay.

A Black woman with braids wears a brown leather jacket and holds a book in front of her face.

Literature

Rainbow Reading: What Are You Reading This Pride Month?

Welcome back to Rainbow Reading, your biweekly roundup of LGBTQ+ lit news you can use.

A stylized graphic featuring a grid of the 12 astrological signs in a light lavender against a swirled muted navy blue background.

Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for June 2022

We’re experiencing more grief and rage than our systems can metabolize. Venus, planet of pleasure, reminds us that connecting to joy is a sacred responsibility. It is how we process and transmute the toxins of despair.

Aunjanue Ellis walks the red carpet for Essence's Black Women in Hollywood. Her hair is braided into bantu knots and her red suit coat is custom bedazzled with the word "Queer" spelled in crystals. Underneath the red suit coat is also a red button down.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Aunjanue Ellis Confirmed Her Queerness, Today Is For Black Bisexual Oscar Nominees ONLY

A Black queer woman over 50, Oscar nominee, who’s proudly from the Bible Belt, confirming she’s bisexual? On June 1st? Babyyy — we throwing a whole damn Pride parade. Put her name in lights.

Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Meet Gotham Knights’ Harper Row, Your New CW Bisexual

Also! I seriously cannot believe this Sara Ramirez Variety cover, Brittney Griner’s supporters have a new strategy to free her, Matthew Morrison Mr. Schue’s his way to getting fired from So You Think You Can Dance, and more!

a collage of characters from lgbt-inclusive shows debuting in June 2022 on streaming networks

Movie Lists TV Lists

What’s New and Gay To Stream in June 2022

We’ve got a series about lesbian vampires and a series about a queer actress angling to be in “Les Vampires,” a delightfully inclusive Queer as Folk reboot, Selena Gomez getting the girl in Season 2 of The Only Murders in the Building, a new 80s-set movie about a young Black queer singer and (truly) so much more!

Four cut outs of Tommy Dorfman in a navy blue long t-shirt dress and clean white Nike's with a black swoosh. She has a blonde bob and oversized glasses. She's walking in each of the four cut outs, against a light blue background.

Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: We’re All Thinking It, Right? Tommy Dorfman Is Giving Princess Diana!!!

Plus, the casual gay Auntie swag of Queen Latifah playing pool with Gabrielle Union’s tiny daughter, Kaavia James.

Two Bratz dolls are in rainbow colored long fur coats while holding protest signs and are photoshopped in front of a pink background with gold and yellow sparkles. The dolls look millennial chic, despite being corporate pride.

Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: I Wanna Be Mad About Bratz Commodifying Pride, but That Coat

Welcome to Corporate Pride season! Also, Will’s sexuality on “Stranger Things,” you can escape summer’s heat if you’re rich, and your personality, as explained by your annoying household habits.

12 images of Autostraddle team members are collaged together. Kayla stands in a bathing suit on the beach, Riese poses with Carol and a friend on a hike, Drew eats ice cream sitting at the beach, Nicole climbs over a field of boulders, Ro deals with the wind on a roof, Viv poses by a giant rock Georgia O'Keefe sculpture, Darcy lounges in a pool among trees, Carmen smiles outdoors at a rainbow flag painted intersection, Tracy sits in the Philadelphia magic gardens, Anya poses in front of blooming trees, Abeni lies in a hammock outdoors, and Vanessa poses with Zucchini the dog outdoors by a stream

AF+

The Autostraddle Insider Issue 92: May 2022

“ANYWAY YEAH come get a scorpion!”

Ann Walker in a braid stands in the snow looking at Anne

TV Show Recaps

“Gentleman Jack” Is Not Keeping The Bed Warm For Some Man!

Anne Lister employs the ultimate lesbian tactic of wearing a low power ponytail so that men will cower before her. Ann Walker has had it up to here with her greedy family.

In a room with white walls, a woman with olive skin, long, brown hair and floral tattoos on her lower arm sits in a white bed with her chin in her hand. To her left, a woman with pale skin and short brown hair who is wearing a grey T-shirt sits with her arms crossed.

Dating

Competitive Queerness Gives Me the Ick

This residual harm, this chip on the shoulder, this something to prove — they’re proving it to the wrong person. They’re gay-tekeeping.

A person with long hair sitting on her bed, silhouetted by the window, facing the filmy transparent curtains. Outside, there is the hint of a sunrise.

Relationships

You Need Help: Should My Relationship Really Be This Hard?

Moving through your relationship as carefully as you currently are is going to be unsustainable in the long-term. Your partner is enacting a sustained pattern of behavior that needs to stop.