Crushing on your therapist, a partner controlling your time with friends, the long-term impacts of gaslighting, maybe getting married again, making adult friends via Facebook groups — the AS team gives A+ members advice on these topics, and more!
The Fun Factory Manta is a sex toy advertised “for men,” but what they really mean is “for people with penises.”
Being single is more expensive on purpose, Janelle Monáe is curating Afrofuturist short stories, and If your coping mechanism through hell has been avoiding paying attention to what’s going on with SCOTUS, we have your required catch up reading.
Is it still a lesbian love triangle if there are four players? You, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, and your ex girlfriend’s (maybe) ex girlfriend who just loves to stir trouble.
I love surprise lesbians, especially when they ruin Christmas for homophobes, so this little Hallmark movie was a hit for me!
Shops this list of toys and accessories that are under $20 and have yourself a hole-y night.
Especially one who probably wouldn’t let me top her.
Designs you helped us conceive! Your exclusive code is inside this post!
Why is privatizing libraries a thing! Plus, centering voices not just bodies, banned books, stoner novels, nonlinear narratives, and more.
Do you know how beneficial a book about inexplicably loving random pairings of older women would have been to me at like fourteen, when Agent Scully met Agent Reyes?
This December we’ve got the Sex and the City reboot and its non-binary Sara Ramirez character, a bisexual reindeer on Santa’s B-Team, a Black gay dating app inventor, the new Matrix movie, a queer character in a Christmas rom-com, a queer Real Housewife, a lesbian organic dairy farmer in an all-female dystopia and so much more!
Even more lesbian Christmas movies, the first trailer for the Sex and the City sequel, The best Harry Potter novel isn’t written by JK Rowling, and more!
Plus, Indya Moore for British Vogue? What else is there to say but “I’d like some more?” And hot moms (Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris) and cute baby? This is the future gays want!
Fresh, bright, zesty Autostraddle merch served up just in time for your holigay gifts list.
As we come to the close of another pandemic year, I can only describe the collective energy as exhausted. Aren’t we all just a little tired of character-building growth opportunities at this point?
Congratulations to Barbados on becoming a republic (and celebrating with Rihanna, as one should!), lesbian feta cheese, and announcing Oestrogeneration — a magazine for trans women writers.
What terrible advice would you give your 16-year-old self just to see what kind of hell you could unleash on the world?
The lyric “someday soon, we all will be together, if the fates allow” is very Sappho if you know what I mean. I’ll take any opportunity to find the dyke root in any piece of media, so why not rank some holiday classics by how much lesbian energy they exude?
Ho ho ho, homos!
The first thing I want to say is that I’m so sorry you had this experience with someone you loved, who you trusted. You deserve to be treated with respect and honor and grace. Remember that when you feel yourself doubting your heart and mind in the future.