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Okoye from Black Panther and Valkyrie from Thor
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: The MCU’s Kicking Up Gay Gossip for the New Year

Also! Niecy Nash on playing a “strip mall superhero,” another day another gay on Freeform, and Gentleman Jack is on its way back.

Heather Hogan January 3, 2022 10 Comments
Yellowjackets 108 screencap: Adult Taissa and Adult Shauna sitting on a bed, holding hands
TV Show Recaps

“Yellowjackets” Episode 108 Recap: Emotional Time Travel

Shauna and Taissa connect in the past and present, Ben comes out to Nat, and the girlies do some casual surgery in the woods. It’s time for another “Yellowjackets” rollercoaster!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 3, 2022 115 Comments
A collage of books featured in the winter 2022 books preview list
Book Lists

80 Queer and Feminist Books Coming Out Winter 2022

If you thought 2021 was a banner year for LGBTQ+ books, wait until you see what the first three months of 2022 have in store for queer book lovers.

Casey January 3, 2022 15 Comments
A collage of Bath And Body Works scents
Quizzes

Quiz: Which Classic Bath and Body Works Scent Are You?

Are you a cucumber melon gay or a warm vanilla sugar gay?

danijanae January 2, 2022 28 Comments
Queer Fashion TV Feature

10 Yellow Jackets I Want to Wear While Convincing People To Watch “Yellowjackets”

Consider this your reminder to get caught up on “Yellowjackets” but also your reminder that coats are a fun fashion staple.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 2, 2022 7 Comments
LGBT Streaming Guide collage: Chosen, Euphoria, How I Met Your Father and Rebelde
Movie Lists TV Lists

January 2022: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got Season 2 of Euphoria, very talented (gay!) teens in the Mexican telenovela reboot REBƎLDE, a Freeform recovery dramedy teeming with queers, a lesbian in “How I Met Your Father” and more!

Riese January 1, 2022 18 Comments
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 January 2022

We’ve made it to 2022 somehow. Through inertia and exhaustion and sheer hanging on, we’ve arrived in a new year.

Corina Dross January 1, 2022 15 Comments
Feature image of Sarah Sarwar at Autostraddle
AF+

The Autostraddle Insider Issue 87, December 2021: Sarah Sarwar Tribute Edition

“i don’t care about this at all except i would like to request hot pictures of the lesbians involved for a feature”

Riese December 31, 2021 45 Comments
A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Running Into the New Year

“Thinking about the stud who hit on me in Penn Station. They were so smooth that I’m still thinking about it three years later.”

Darcy December 31, 2021 3 Comments
Desna Sims steps out of her red convertible, just outside the Nail Artisans salon.
TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: Niecy Nash Is The Boss of Me and You and Also “Claws”

Plus an update on Hightown and a happy New Year!

Natalie December 31, 2021 7 Comments
Three cats sitting in front of a computer
Pets & Animals

35 Cats to Follow on Twitter in 2022

Social media is bad. Cats are good!

Heather Hogan December 31, 2021 16 Comments
a gorgeous sunrise over the ocean
First Person Holigays

Seeing the First Sunrise Makes Each Year Feel Special

Waking up early and standing out in the cold may not seem like self-care, but to me, it is.

Jessica Hurtault December 31, 2021 3 Comments
Celesbian Relationship Stories graphic featuring top stories included in the article
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

All The LGBT+ Celebrities Who Got Married, Engaged, Had Babies or Otherwise Were Cute in 2021

Just look at all these queer celebrities announcing their love, getting engaged, getting married, having babies and kissing at the Olympics!

Riese December 30, 2021 5 Comments
Candace Parker talks to a reporter with her hand over her mouth.
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Candace Parker Voted Woman Athlete of Year, Says Stock Her Jersey for Once

The wild story of eggnog, Sarah Jessica Parker nostalgia and a million other reads for your New Year.

Carmen Phillips December 30, 2021 1 Comment
Che caresses Miranda's chin and shotguns weed smoke into her open mouth
TV Show Recaps

“And Just Like That” Sex Is Back in The City (And it’s GAAAAY)

Carrie gets a new hip, Charlotte’s kid gets a new name, and Miranda gets some gay sex.

Heather Hogan December 30, 2021 38 Comments
A collage of editors' favorite cover features of 2021. in the middle is the text: End of Year Lists 2021.
Straddleverse

Autostraddle Editors Choose (Some of) Their Favorite Posts They Had Nothing To Do With

We asked our editors to pick one thing published on Autostraddle in 2021 that they had absolutely zero things to do with. Something that they loved purely as a reader.

The Editors December 30, 2021 8 Comments
a collage of "bands" wearing autostraddle merch — a singer/guitarist duo wearing DYKE DRAMA, a older masc dyke holding up her arms wearing the DYKES tee, a woman seated with drums wearing the Lavender Menace shirt, and a person standing with a guitar wearing the lesberado tee.
Straddleverse

My Top Nine Best Band Tees That Are Technically Just Autostraddle Merch

“Eddy and Becky, best friends who boned on OnlyFans to earn cash to fund Gay Chaos’ first album, started out with bathtub ukelele covers and careening, desperate ballads that made rock bottom sound like the world’s only emotional truth.”

Riese December 30, 2021 10 Comments
three images of nicole drinking various beverages. nicole is a white human who has their natural dark brown hair in one photo and their bleach blond hair in the other two. they always wear glasses. the photos show them drinking tea from a cauldron mug, drinking coffee from a small mug, and drinking a can of diet dr. pepper. the photos shift from winter to summer to spring from left to right
First Person

15 Things I Drank in My Year of Not Drinking

Tasting notes: This one is real, like a hallucination. You can feel it, see it, and it leaves very little evidence of its passing through your body. Lingers barely on the tip of the tongue, with high notes of bright genders named like quarks.

Nico December 30, 2021 39 Comments
Dickinson Season 3: Emily and Sue exchanging loving glances
TV Reviews

“Dickinson” Gives Emily and Sue the Happily Ever After They’ve Always Deserved

Dickinson’s third and final season was funny and fun and deep and wild and so, so gay. Emisue, forevermore.

Valerie Anne December 30, 2021 11 Comments
Sarah, Riese, Kayla, Carmen, Nicole, Heather and Laneia each appear as floating heads behind laptops. The background is grainy and white. Everyone except Heather is smiling hugely.
AF+

Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us #39

Does Kayla work for-hire to investigate food mysteries/memories? Because I have a caramel apple cookie mystery I’d love some help solving!

The Editors December 30, 2021 11 Comments
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