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Image shows a background photo of a child in a rainbow striped sweater. There is a tweet over it that says "mom: why'd it take u so long to tell me ur gay? me: what r u talkin bout I tried to tell u every year on picture day"
First Person

My Pinned Tweet Is Solid Proof That Queer Time Travel Exists

There’s a reason it has been my pinned tweet since 2016 — It’s my origin story.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 20, 2021 6 Comments
First Person House & Garden

I’m Finally Taking Up Space In My Own Place

On putting the safe decorations in the closet and letting my home reach its full gay potential. On taking up space in my own space.

Valerie Anne July 19, 2021 26 Comments
Left: Kate Herron in a jean jacket / Right: Loki in a green suit
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Of Course Loki’s Bisexuality Was Confirmed Because of Bisexual Director Kate Herron!

Also in today’s Pop Culture Fix: Danielle Savre and Stefania Spampinato hanging in a hot tub, a DND homebrew campaign featuring an all fat + queer cast, TV’s colorism problem, Dominique Jackson discusses mentoring queer youth of color, and more!

Heather Hogan July 19, 2021
Astra looks windswept and furious
TV Show Recaps

“Legends of Tomorrow” Episode 610 Recap: ¿Por qué?

Ava and Sara are off looking for wedding venues so we have to spend the whole episode watching Constantine be… well, Constantine. They can’t all be Thong Songs and Beebo Battles, I guess.

Valerie Anne July 19, 2021 9 Comments
FEAR STREET PART 3: 1666 (L to R) KIANA MADEIRA as SARAH FIER and OLIVIA SCOTT WELCH as HANNAH MILLER. NETFLIX © 2021
Movie Reviews

“Fear Street: 1666” Brings The Trilogy to a Very Gay Close

Part origin story, part conclusion, the final film smashes together its timelines and serves up two distinct films at once that, despite their aesthetic and tonal differences, are inextricably bound.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 19, 2021 23 Comments
Sierra McCormick chokes Paris Jackson in a masturbation fantasy sequence
TV Reviews

“American Horror Stories” Is Ryan Murphy At His Worst

This is a brutal look into who Ryan Murphy deems worthy of a personality and who exists only to aid or bully a white gay before getting their throat slit.

Drew Burnett Gregory July 19, 2021 26 Comments
Feature image collage showing all the possible results of the quiz
Quizzes

Quiz: What Disney Channel Original Movie Made You Gay?

Bring on the late 90s/early 2000s nostalgia!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 18, 2021 44 Comments
Mistress Datura, Vanniall
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is A Nihilistic Slut

85% of queers met their partners by being friends first, how to slow date, how to hide nudes on your phone and more.

Ryan Yates July 18, 2021 4 Comments
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Webcomics

Baopu #88: The Poster Child of Anxiety

When words sometimes complicates things even further, only a surrealist picture can sum up the weirdness of social anxiety.

Yao Xiao July 17, 2021 1 Comment
Victoria talks to Honeybear and Ash who are next to each other on a yellow couch
TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: Betty’s Queers Keep Talking About Talking Without Actually Talking (GAY!)

Also in our weekly LGBTQ+ TV round-up, updates on The Chi, All American, iCarly, Motherland: Fort Salem, and The Republic of Sarah!

The TV Team July 16, 2021 5 Comments
Photo from a Texas protest against Texas SB 7, a bill that would place new restrictions on access to the polls, where a person in the foreground raises their fist with a sign strapped to their torso that reads LET US VOTE
Politics + Activism

Extra! Extra!: All Eyes on the Legislative Battle for Texas

This week we’re talking about the political strife in Haiti, the US’s messy exit from Afghanistan, the development of new COVID variants, your bimonthly legislatively institutionalized moral panic report — and the attacks on citizens’ rights plus the attempts to hold them at bay that are rocking Texas legislative chambers.

the team July 16, 2021 4 Comments
House & Garden

Be Part of Autostraddle’s Spaces & Places Gallery!

Show us your favorite corner or room of your space. How did you put it together? Where did the pieces come from? Why do you love it? Share photos of your space and we’ll post them in a big gallery post, so that you can find inspiration and also share what you love!

meg July 16, 2021 1 Comment
House & Garden

Queer Design 101: Figuring Out Your Personal Design Style

When I found myself facing the blank walls of my new room, I had a minor moment of panic. Has the same thing happened to you?

Christina Tucker July 16, 2021 6 Comments
Three repeating images of the cover of Mariame Kaba's We Do This Til We Free Us
Literature

“We Do This ‘Til We Free Us” Makes Abolition Accessible Without Claiming It’s Easy

Imagining what true justice would look like is difficult and strange and convoluted and there aren’t easy answers. Kaba, along with countless other writers, thinkers, and revolutionaries, has spent decades doing so anyway – and has given us this book as a gift as we attempt to do the same.

Abbie Jones July 16, 2021 4 Comments
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Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Doing Karaoke With Shane and Bette and Sophie and Finley

“This is so on point that in a weird Mandela Effect way I genuinely now believe that I have seen Alice sing ‘Bitch’ and will not be convinced otherwise.”

Darcy July 16, 2021 4 Comments
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AF+

Into the A+ Advice Box #39: FASHION

Jumpsuits at weddings, overalls, office wear, thrifting and tailoring and more! The Autostraddle team talks FASHION, specifically your fashion, in this special themed A+ Advice Box!

the team July 16, 2021 28 Comments
A stoned Alice and Malika ponder life on the roof of the Coterie, this week on "Good Trouble."
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Season 3B Premiere: Alice and Malika Share Edibles and Heartbreak

Natalie recaps the Good Trouble 3B premiere and chats with EP Joanna Johnson about what we can expect for Alice in the coming season.

Natalie July 15, 2021 1 Comment
Drag performers liven up the crowd at Petticoat Lane, an LGBT bar in Hong Kong.
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also.: Research Finds Being In Love with Your Best Friend Is Provably Gay Culture

Hong Kong’s drag scene, Free Britney, how to find an LGBT-friendly pediatrician, Candace Parker and more!

Natalie July 15, 2021 2 Comments
House & Garden LGBTQ+ Businesses

Spaces & Places: A Roundup of 30 Queer-Owned Houseware Shops

Whether you’re in the market for furniture, art, candles, planters, kitchenware, organizers, textiles, or little tchotchkes, these queer-owned shops have got you covered.

meg July 15, 2021 6 Comments
In this review for Gunpowder Milkshake, Angela Bassett has on a blue suit and holds a firearm, Michelle Yeoh and Carla Gugino are behind her.
Movie Reviews

Gunpowder Milkshake Wants Credit for Including Kickass Women, It Forgot You Have to Write Them First

If women bone cracking the skulls of men to a Janis Joplin soundtrack with pints upon pints of gory jello blood to spare is your idea of summer weekend fun, there are worse ways to spend your two hours.

Carmen Phillips July 15, 2021 6 Comments
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