Back To The Queer Future #8: One Giant Leap For Queerkind
Can you fix the circuit so Sally Ride can make it into space?
No Filter: Kate Moennig and Her Dog Is Just Top Tier Content to Me
Plus, Stacy London has been hot as long as I have been a person who understands what “hot” is and for that I am so so thankful.
Also.Also.Also: If You’re Online Reading This, You’re a Part of the Gossip Mill and Can’t Escape It
Navigating what’s the “right” level of panic for Omicron, Kristen Stewart fluff for your holigay break, and… has anyone else noticed that Biden rarely ever uses the word abortion?
“No Filter and Other Lies” Asks How Far Will You Go for Validation?
Life is hard enough already, why turn Instagram into a bully that can taunt you every time you open it?
Queer Your Ears: Ten of the Best Albums Released by Queer and Trans Artists in 2021
Mental health was a major theme this year lyrically, as were some of the topics that can never be approached too many times — being gay, being in love, breaking up, struggling with identity, struggling with adulthood, struggling with self-sabotage.
Back To The Queer Future #7: STAR Search
Can you help Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera find the right building to set up the STAR house to create a safe home for vulnerable trans and gay youth?
“The Matrix Resurrections” Takes the Franchise Past the Tipping Point
As the film reflects on the progress and lack thereof for trans people, it’s also a reminder of what we have to lose without inventive, intelligent big budget movies.
You Need Help: How Can I Make Penetration Less Painful?
You shouldn’t have pain during sex. If you want to explore penetration, that has to be a choice you’re making for your own pleasure.
Love Letter to a Terrible Year
I mourn the losses. I celebrate the wins. I offer the future a chance, even if I don’t entirely believe in it.
Lifetime’s “Under the Christmas Tree” Is the Holigay Rom-Com You’ve Been Waiting For
Elise Bauman and Tattiawna Jones are charming as heck in this very sweet, very low stakes romantic comedy that takes place in a town that might as well be the North Pole.
“Yellowjackets” Episode 106 Recap: Hauntings From the Past and the Future
Lottie is officially the show’s Cassandra, Shauna’s dreaming of giving birth to a rotisserie chicken, and Taissa and Van go skinnydipping in the lake!
Pop Culture Fix: Marisa Tomei Wanted Spider-Man’s Aunt May to Be Gay
Hunter Schaefer is “bi or pan or something,” Niecy Nash is just getting started, Tien Tran is playing queer in How I Met Your Father, and more!
Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian and Bisexual TV Episodes of 2021
The artistic masterpieces, the heartbreakers, and the fan fiction.
Back To The Queer Future #6: Stuck In The Stacks
Can you help Audre Lorde shelve all the books so she can work on completing her first book of poetry?
Love Letters to Trans People: Part 2
Consider this a reminder to check your virtual mailbox. You have some love letters addressed to you!
The Stories We Tell
One of my earliest memories, perhaps my earliest one, is watching the snow fall from the sliding glass doors to the balcony of the small apartment my family rented in a Boston suburb.
Back To The Queer Future #5: Duck The Police
Can you help Rose avoid the police so she can go on to found the Daughters of Bilitis?
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Not Call Their Body A Temple
The body doesn’t have to be a temple, don’t hook up with your ex over the holidays, no really don’t do it, and more.
“The L Word” Breakups as Adele Songs
WE KNOW, BETTE. WE KNOW!
Back To The Queer Future #4: Pamphlet Panic
Can you help Edyth make sense of what she’s written so she can finish the first ever edition of Vice Versa?