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Willow Rosenberg is the champion of 2024 Autostraddle March Madness
TV Feature

Willow Rosenberg Is Your Autostraddle March Madness 2024 ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Champion!

Willow’s win is a testament to the way representation, and our first encounters with it, imprints upon a person. There’s something unshakeable about our connections to the first time we see ourselves. It’s deeper than just nostalgia.

Natalie April 11, 2024 11 Comments
Riverdale, Cheryl looks at Betty. Betty: Fun girl talk.
TV Feature

F*ck It, I’m Starting Riverdale: A Year-Long Live Tweet

I’m giving myself until the end of 2024 to watch all of Riverdale — and you’re going to watch it with me.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 10, 2024 25 Comments
Autostraddle March Madness Finals: Willow Rosenberg vs. Santana Lopez
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Championship

We’re down to just two contenders for the TV icon crown! Willow Rosenberg of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Santana Lopez of Glee. In the last round, Willow and Santana’s finished with nearly identical vote totals. This truly is anyone’s game.

Natalie April 8, 2024 5 Comments
queer Bachelor contestants through the years
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) TV Feature

16 ‘Bachelor Nation’ Alums Who Have Come Out as Queer

From Becca Tilley to the Bachelor contestants who fell in love with each other, Bachelor Nation is full of queer, bi, and gay women.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 6, 2024 2 Comments
Autostraddle Final Four (from top left, CW): Willow Rosenberg, Ellie Williams, Santana Lopez and Vanessa "Van" Palmer
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Final Four

Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Ellie Williams from The Last of Us! Van Palmer from Yellowjackets! Santana Lopez from Glee! One queer teen will rule the school, and it’s up to you to decide. Vote! Vote! Vote!

Natalie April 4, 2024 3 Comments
Graphic for the 8 characters still remaining in Autostraddle March Madness 2024. Rows are each of the 2 characters across the 4 regions (Brainiacs, Jocks, Rebels and Thesbians)
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Elite 8

It’s come down to this. We have Brittany *verses* Santana in a battle royale you don’t want to miss. Plus, Elena Alvarez vs. Willow Rosenberg, Emily Fields vs. Vanessa “Van” Palmer, and The Last of Us’ Ellie Williams vs. First Kill’s Calliope Burns. YOU HAVE 48 HOURS TO VOTE.

Natalie April 2, 2024 5 Comments
Graphic for the 16 characters still remaining in Autostraddle March Madness 2024. Rows are each of the 8 characters across the 4 regions (Brainiacs, Jocks, Rebels and Thesbians)
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: “The Kids Are Alright” Sweet 16

Van survived a plane crash and being mauled by wolves on Yellowjackets… can she survive and advance in a match-up with Atypical’s Casey Gardner? Also we have two famous ships facing EACH OTHER, Glee’s Santana and Brittany vs. Everything Suck’s Kate and Emaline. It’s time to Vote!

Natalie March 31, 2024 1 Comment
Graphic for the 32 characters till remaining in Autostraddle March Madness 2024. Rows are each of the 8 characters across the 4 regions (Brainiacs, Jocks, Rebels and Thesbians)
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Round of 32!

We have actual *couples* going against *each other* this round! Including Yellowjacket’s Van and Tai and First Kill’s Calliope and Juliette! Plus Buffy’s Willow, SLOCG’s Leighton, and 26 other queer teens on TV who are clawing for your votes this March Madness!

Natalie March 29, 2024 2 Comments
A collage of 16 players in the Autostraddle March Madness tournament, these are all theater/art/music students (known collectively as "the thesbians")
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: “The Kids Are Alright” Round One — Thesbians

Santana Lopez and Brittany S. Pierce, Everything Sucks’ Kate and Emaline, All American’s Coop, and Heartstopper’s Elle to name a few. This round features some of the most celebrated queer characters on television, and they need your vote!

Natalie March 27, 2024 6 Comments
Marsha Warfield collaged as Roz in Night Court, both from the 1980s and in 2024 for the show's reboot.
TV Feature

Marsha Warfield Takes Her Place in the Parthenon of Black Queer Women on Television

“When you’re standing on the mountain, and been climbing it as long as I have, you can look back and say, ‘no baby, we’ve come a long way.'” I had the pleasure of talking to Ms. Warfield ahead of her triumphant return as Roz in tonight’s Night Court season finale.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 26, 2024 1 Comment
Gloria from Girls5eva
TV Feature

26 of the 178 Types of Women According to Girls5eva’s Resident Lesbian Gloria

Highlights include Susan Saran-dom, Corn-Fed Xena, and simply: Tár.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 25, 2024 9 Comments
A collage of 16 images from the Autostraddle' Rebels March Madness region
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: “The Kids Are Alright” Round One — Rebels

Ellie from The Last of Us, Juliette and Calliope from First Kill, Rue and Jules from Euphoria, Buffy The Vampire Slayer’s Tara, Pretty Little Liar’s Maya St. Germain, and more teen rebels who need your vote!

Natalie March 25, 2024 1 Comment
16 contestants in the Jocks region
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: “The Kids Are Alright” Round One — Jocks

We have Van and Tai from Yellowjackets, Emily and Paige from Pretty Little Liars (you read that right, two different infamous queer couples, both competitors!) — along with Riverdale’s Cheryl Blossom, Atypical’s Izzy Taylor, and so many more queer jocks jockeying for your vote!

Natalie March 22, 2024 3 Comments
16 contests in the Brainiacs region
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: “The Kids Are Alright” Round One — Brainiacs

One Day at a Time’s Elena Alvarez, The L Word: Generation Q’s Angelica Porter-Kennard, Skins’ Naomi Campbell, Buffy’s Willow Rosenberg, Derry Girls’ wee lesbian, and so many other gay nerds are looking for your vote!!

Natalie March 20, 2024 6 Comments
Elena Alvarez from One Day at a Time, Rue Bennett from Euphoria, Santana Lopez from Glee, and Casey Gardner
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: Fill Out Your Brackets Now!

Our theme for this year’s contest is “The Kids are All Right” and it was chosen for a reason. Over the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of right-wing attacks on LGBT kids.

Natalie March 18, 2024 8 Comments
The Swans of Truman Capote's Swans against a red background
TV Feature

Truman Capote’s Swans Ranked by How Much I Want To Be Insulted by Them

These Swans can terrorize me any day.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 12, 2024 1 Comment
Couple to Throuple Ash Maximo: a leafy tropical background with a tinted pink photo of Ash, Maximo, and writer Gabe Dunn.
TV Feature

The Polyamorous Devils of “Couple to Throuple” Are Ready to Blow Up Gender Norms

Peacock’s polyamorous dating show Couple to Throuple got two things right: Ash and Maximo.

Gabe Dunn March 7, 2024 2 Comments
Hunter Schafer with drawn on blue eyes is photoshopped over Timothee Chalamet in an image from Dune Part Two with Zendaya
Movie Features TV Feature

“Euphoria” Characters Ranked By How Likely They’d Survive “Dune”

Get ready for the Zendaya crossover nobody wanted!

Drew Burnett Gregory March 7, 2024 2 Comments
Tami Taylor from Friday Night Lights, Athena Grant from 911, and Iris West from the Flash, all in dark sunset overlayed colors
TV Feature

These Fictional Straight Women Should Divorce Their Husbands (And Marry Me)

“Tami Taylor put on those aviator sunglasses and I was like, girl you need me. She flipped her hair to the side and I was like, girl you need me. Her y’all drawl? Girl. You. Need. Me.”

The TV Team February 13, 2024 8 Comments
Carol & The End of the World: an animated image of a sad woman watching TV on her couch.
TV Feature

“Carol & The End of the World” Teaches Us How to Survive the Apocalypse

While many apocalyptic shows offer the idea that love is salvation, they often focus on romantic love. Carol & The End of the World rejects that idea.

Rowan Zeoli February 1, 2024 4 Comments
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