• About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
  • Shop
  • Sign In
  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles

Life

  • LGBT History
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Money + Work
  • Geekery
  • Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft
  • Holigays
  • Parenting & Family
  • Pregnancy

Etc.

  • Special Issues
  • Webcomics
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked by Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Shopping
  • Podcasts

  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Sign In
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles
  • Shop
  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
Podcasts The L Word: Generation Q

To L and Back: Generation Q Special Pre-Season 2 Podcast Episode Is Here

“Analyssa, no, that’s National Treasure, that’s not The L Word: Generation Q. I know they’re very similar.”

Riese August 2, 2021
image shows three screenshots from three differernt music videos where each lead singer is posing with a thin romantic love interest.
Music

The Drop: When Will Black Queer Artists Realize That Fat Black Girls Need Love Too?

These music videos just perpetuate the idea that you have to look a certain way to be worthy of love.

danijanae August 2, 2021 11 Comments
A dark-skinned transgender woman looking in the bathroom mirror at school.
First Person Gender

When Thin is a Trans Requirement

Body fat is central to how we perceive gender. So what does that mean if you’re a trans person?

Eli Cugini August 2, 2021 16 Comments
Melissa King and Lena Waithe chat at a dinner party in Malibu
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Melissa King and Lena Waithe Are Gaying Up Dinner Parties Together

Rosie has joined the new A League of Their Own TV series, Dolly honors Whitney, Clea DuVall will play Eleanor Roosevelt’s BFF in First Lady, and more gayness from the Batcave.

Heather Hogan August 2, 2021 1 Comment
A collage of three shows mentioned in this list
TV Lists

August 2021: What’s New and Gay To Stream

We’ve got some girl-on-girl in Modern Love’s second season, a dramedy about Indigenous teens in Oklahoma, a documentary exposing the ex-gay movement, Season 2 of Control-Z and a little bit more!

Riese August 1, 2021 8 Comments
Valentine Boudreaux, Lain Arbor, River Gray
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is All About Sexual Self-Discovery

Pandemic sexual self-discovery, how vanilla sexual narratives can be harmful, how to tell your friend their partner sucks and more.

Ryan Yates August 1, 2021 3 Comments
A stylized graphic featuring a grid of the 12 astrological signs in a light lavender against a swirled muted navy blue background.
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Horoscopes for August 2021: Where Does Your Sign Find Peace in the Chaos?

During these intense times, we need to find places to rest and restore ourselves. What helps get you unstuck from patterns of tension?

Corina Dross August 1, 2021 3 Comments
feature image collage showing team members enjoying the summer across the country
AF+

The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 82, July 2021

one time someone said they hoped i got absolutely railed before a date and it meant a lot to me, wanted to just share that love and support.

Carmen Phillips July 31, 2021 7 Comments
Image shows two women talking to each other. one has text that says "Me explaining why I want to see some Real Housewives fall in love with each other" the other one has text that says "Dykes who love drama who didn't think they'd care intensely listening"
Television

I Would Like To See It: I Think Two Real Housewives Should Fall In Love

It sounds so dysfunctional and absurd that yes — I would indeed like to see it. I don’t come to the Housewives for tales of true love, I come to see the unexpected.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 31, 2021 6 Comments
Motherland Fort Salem: Tally sits very close to Raelle
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: It’s Fall Break on Motherland: Fort Salem and That’s Where the Shipping Fun Begins

Plus updates on the latest installment of American Horror Stories, some 90s Black teen lesbian romance on Raising Kanan, and the season three finale of Charmed!

The TV Team July 30, 2021 8 Comments
A small, brown and white dog peeking over their laptop screen, with a caption that says "Hey did you see that comment?!"
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Waking Up In Villanelle’s Lair

“I got Jenny Schechter AGAIN!”

Darcy July 30, 2021 9 Comments
House & Garden

Queer Design 104: Putting It All Together

Sometimes even when it feels like everything in a space should work, something still feels off. And if that’s the case, there are a few things that you can try to get your reality to align with your vision.

meg July 30, 2021 4 Comments
Image shows A Black Person wearing a mask giving themselves a tattoo
Culture

Black Tattoo Artists Are Finding Joy By Creating Their Own Spaces To Thrive In

“I want to lead my tattoo practice with care, prioritizing Black skin and the liberation of Black bodies through this practice.”

Sema Dayoub July 30, 2021 4 Comments
Community Sponsored

SOQIR Is Here, Queer, And Wants to Shake Up How Our Communities Get Surveyed

There’s extraordinarily little legitimate research on queer communities — our health, our needs, our experiences — and what little there is tends to focus on cis gay men. That’s where the SOQIR survey comes in. And you can participate right now!

Rachel July 30, 2021 10 Comments
A silver haired Jamie Lee Curtis looks intensely into the camera with a black dress on.
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: Jamie Lee Curtis, Forever a Hot Mom, Now Also Proud Mom of Trans Daughter

Congratulations to Sunisa Lee, we are so excited! Also, a helpful and not-overwhelming customized map to help you follow the new CDC guidelines on mask wearing, because we want everyone to be safe!

Carmen Phillips July 29, 2021 2 Comments
Callie and Mariana work together to get answers in the Tommy Sung case, this week on Good Trouble.
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 313 Recap: The Sleuthing Sisters

Callie and Mariana agree to leave their wacky sister stories at home and work together to try to crack a case at their law firm.

Natalie July 29, 2021
Community House & Garden

Spaces & Places Community Gallery

As part of our three-week Spaces & Places series, we asked you if we could see your favorite spaces — and wow, did you deliver!

meg July 29, 2021 19 Comments
Black woman exploring what is the gayest zodiac sign while writing on a whiteboard.
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

What’s The Gayest Zodiac Sign?

“The prize is probably just more self-loathing and imposter syndrome, what a day.”

the team July 29, 2021 64 Comments
The cast of Family Karma which follows several desi families in Miami;
TV Reviews

Bravo’s “Family Karma”: When Queerness and Cultural Expectations Clash

So often, Family Karma cracks me up. This storyline cracks me open. Believe me when I say this show has the range.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 29, 2021 3 Comments
sleepy, reading
Literature

Lez Liberty Lit Has Simply Had Enough of Drowning

How to live in a burning world without losing your mind, read these books in the second half of 2021, why to reconsider air conditioning, uncategorized creative work, a love poem and more.

Ryan Yates July 29, 2021 4 Comments
← Previous Page 1 … 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 … 1,438 Next Page →

From the Archives

  • Rainbow Reading: Book Recommendations From Hot People Just Hit Different
  • Coming Out As An Amorphous Weirdo
  • Shakina Nayfack and “Quantum Leap” Put the Audience Inside a Trans Experience

Latest Comments

  • Tolu T. PHOTOESSAY: Heavenly Bodies "I love, love, LOVE THIS 🥰🥰🥰"

  • Drew Burnett Gregory Movies I Watched in Key West When I Was Supposed To Write a New Novel "Throwing it out there that you watched Con Air because you were thinking of Air Force One and also that…"

  • Kristen Arnett Movies I Watched in Key West When I Was Supposed To Write a New Novel "truly half of them even i don’t remember and it was only a year ago that i watched them!! also…"

  • Kristen Arnett Movies I Watched in Key West When I Was Supposed To Write a New Novel "honestly glad to hear that!! sometimes i’m like “is this funny or am i just completely losing it” lol"

Latest Posts

  • In Defense of the Queer ‘Emotional Support Ex’
  • ‘I’ve Been Out of the Sex/Dating Scene and I Feel Fine About It? I Think?’
  • Movies I Watched in Key West When I Was Supposed To Write a New Novel
  • Tessa Thompson Plays Gay (Again) in Upcoming Nia DaCosta Film
  • Vote Now in the 8th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!

Our Network

  • Store
  • For Them

About Us

  • What is AS?
  • Meet The Team
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Copyright 2009 - 2025 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

Read ad-free: join AF MEDIA