54 Portraits of Lesbians in the ‘80s
We’ve always been here.
Five Cheap Ideas for Your Container Garden This Summer
If you’re looking for ideas for container gardening, no matter how small your space, this is for you!
I Thought About Leaving Florida — Learning About Our Queer History Convinced Me To Stay
The truth is, as hard as I ride for it now, there was a time when I couldn’t imagine living here anymore, too.
27 Big Brands Selling LGBTQ+ Pride Apparel in 2022, Loosely Ranked By Subjective Criteria
Another year, another chance for big brands to give money to big non-profits and remind us that love is love, love is for everyone, love unites, etc.
How To Host a Restorative Dinner Party for Your Chosen Queer Fam
Over the past few years, I’ve learned a lot about how to curate and host a sacred queer space. It feels important to share some of the practical things I’ve learned so you can curate those spaces, too.
Quiz: Which Trans YA Book Should You Read This Pride Month?
Check out an anti-censorship toolkit to help get trans YA books in the hands of youth who need them, and then take this quiz to find out which one you should read next.
Put This on Your Face: Pride 2022 Edition
If there is one thing you take away from this article, let it be this: if you plan on kissing this Pride, please test out your lipstick to see how transfer-proof it is before you commit to it!
Our A+ Pride Pop-Up Discord Server Is Happening Now!!!
Meet your fellow members! Do it!
Playlist: Proudly Trans, Proudly Horny
Pride means owning our horniness!
Grab Your Backpack (No the Other One): Here’s a Pride Survival Pack!
Here are eight books, seven poems, six people to follow, five ways to support black trans people, four places to donate, three shows, two albums, two games, and one tool to get you ready for Pride 2022!
I Have To Choose Between Being Disabled and Queer
In queer spaces, I cannot be disabled. In disability spaces, people ask if my spouse is my sister. I hope that someday I don’t have to choose.
Playlist: Summer Songs To Dance to During Pride When You Have an Unbearable Crush
“Girls Make Me Wanna Die,” a new single by The Aces, dropped today. So we made a playlist all about queer crushes.
In Our Own Time: Queer Temporality, Pride, and Diana Goetsch’s “This Body I Wore”
Lately I’ve been thinking about the concept of “straight time” — the way a life unfolds, or is expected to unfold, within heteronormative frameworks.
Get Your Autostraddle-Exclusive Jenifer Prince Print This Pride!
A+ members get a whopping $7 off.
Nine Things to Wear to Pride That Aren’t Clothes, Because F*ck It
This all started because I have been shopping for nipple pasties.
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?
Get 25% Off Everything In Autostraddle’s Pre-Pride Sale!
Pride is around the corner, and you want to look as gay as possible.
Queer IRL: Autostraddle’s 2021 Pride Gallery!
“I am SO THANKFUL to be vaccinated and alive and gay as fuck.”
Reparations Payments at Black Pride Events Should Be Embraced, Not Condemned
Taking B(l)ack Pride Seattle is an event that centers Black and Brown trans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer people (TLGBQ+). For the second year in a row, event organizers have asked white attendees to honor the Black-centered space by paying reparations via an attendance fee.
In the absence of reparations for African descendants of slaves and other survivors of white-supremacist and colonial violence — Taking B(l)ack Pride is giving us another model for grassroots reparations that should be embraced — not condemned.
I Was Better Connected to the Queer Community During Lockdown
As a disabled person, I knew participating in LGBTQ Zoom events wouldn’t magically cure me of my loneliness. Even so, it was amazing to be a part of something larger than myself. I don’t want to lose this access.