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the best queer books of 2024
Book Lists

The Best Queer Books of 2024

This year especially I’ve striven to put the spotlight on books that haven’t gotten a lot of mainstream attention.

Casey December 18, 2024 16 Comments
Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker
AF+ Queer Pregnancy

Baby Steps #3: Allegedly Essential Baby Products, Looking for Gays On The Baby App and Surveillance Anxiety

Of the many allegedly essential items we must procure for our baby — how many are actually essential and why do I feel so weird about surveillance products? Also: trying to figure out who all’s gay here on the Baby App boards.

Riese December 17, 2024 29 Comments
A group of trans kids wearing masks stand in an archway behind a sign that says KIDS with the i a chess piece surrounded by a trans flag.
Politics + Activism

Shroud Waving: On Trans Death, Callousness, Ancestors

Through all of the media and political bluster surrounding trans children, no one ever bothers to ask those of us who were trans children and are now adults what we think.

Morgan M Page December 17, 2024 2 Comments
"I would very much like to 'travel downtown' without it ruining my whole face."
Sex

‘Every Time I Go Down on My Partner, I Get the Nastiest Acne of My Entire Life’

I haven’t struggled with acne almost at all in my lifetime, but after eating my partner out, I break out with a “beard” of zits that lasts all week.

Summer Tao December 17, 2024 14 Comments
gifts for a casually elegant life
Holigays Shopping

Laneia’s Favorite Things: Gifts for a Casually Elegant Gay Lifestyle

From a vintage nutcracker to the perfect lip mask to REALLY GOOD BEANS.

Laneia December 17, 2024 11 Comments
Glinda and Elphaba in Wicked part one
Movie News & Trailers

Wicked Part Two Will Be Named After the Gayest Song From the Musical

Here’s everything we know so far about Wicked Part Two which has officially been given the title Wicked: For Good.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 16, 2024
Jane signing about Sabrina Carpenter on Saturday Night Live
Pop Culture Fix

On SNL, Jane Wickline Suggests We Start Queer Rumors About Sabrina Carpenter As a Treat

Jane Wickline does a bit on SNL about Sabrina Carpenter’s undeserved lack of queer rumors, Angelina Jolie and Cynthia Erivo do Actors on Actors, Margaret Cho’s got a new single, and more!

Valerie Anne December 16, 2024
gifts for your chaotic friend
Holigays Shopping

“Gifts” for the Chaos Friend Who’s Always Getting Into Predicaments Big and Small

Embrace chaos, embrace inevitability, embrace the fact that being able to locate one’s own keys quickly and easily will be life-changing for someone continuously misplacing them.

Nico December 16, 2024 2 Comments
TRAИ​Ƨ​A album cover art
Music

The TRAИƧA Compilation Album Is Queer and Trans Artistic Collaboration at Its Finest

TRAИ​Ƨ​A features the work of over 100 artists and musicians across many genres, disciplines, and levels of experience.

Stef Rubino December 16, 2024
The Best Queer TV scenes of the year: a collage of queer tv scenes
TV Feature

Autostraddle’s Favorite Queer TV Scenes of 2024

From meet cutes to sex, the best queer TV scenes of the year were almost all about romance. Almost.

The TV Team December 16, 2024 4 Comments
Linda Cardellini and Kate Moennig making out in No Good Deed
TV Reviews

Lesbian Showrunner and Queen of Grief Comedy Liz Feldman Is in Her Bag With ‘No Good Deed’

It’s a great series for many reasons, but if you only need one: Kate Moennig and Linda Cardellini in bed together.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 15, 2024 8 Comments
Which Conclave character are you? A collage of the characters from Conclave against a tan background.
Movie Features Quizzes

Quiz: Which ‘Conclave’ Character Are You?

The movie that puts catty in Catholic has become the sleeper queer hit of the year. But where would you fit into the conclave?

Drew Burnett Gregory December 15, 2024 10 Comments
Sabrina Carpenter shaking a cocktail shaker
Christmas

How To Throw a Last Minute Extremely Gay Christmas Party

Christmas with your family? Boring. Christmas with the gays? A jolly good time!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 14, 2024 6 Comments
Qween Jean
Webcomics

Why I Started Making an Annual Queer Yearbook

Remembering and honoring iconic and revolutionary queer people is so important, and this webcomic celebrates that.

Olivia Davis December 14, 2024
One image shows a girl hugging an apparent boy, while the other image shows a group of girls together at a party
AF+

My Straight Friend Wants Gay Attention

She’s straight but acts pretty gay at the parties! Is it allyship, or something else? Also, a reader requests some tittyfucking specifics please.

the team December 13, 2024
Yapoena Silva lays her head on Roser Tapias's shoulder as Tapias looks concerned in You Are Not Me
Movie Reviews

Christmas Horror Movie ‘You Are Not Me’ Puts a Queer Spin on Meeting the Parents

The greatest terror is not meeting a partner’s parents, but through your partner meeting your own parents anew.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 13, 2024 8 Comments
Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans TV Characters of 2024 - a collage of characters with a gold 2024 in the middle
TV Feature

Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans TV Characters of 2024

From complex portraits of everyday queers to Marvel witches to a collection of soap opera gays, here are some of our favorite queer TV characters of the year.

The TV Team December 13, 2024 5 Comments
Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey sit on the beach with one yellow towel wrapped around them both wearing dark sunglasses.
Movie Reviews

In ‘Queer’ Bicurious Boys Are Another Addiction

This isn’t just a film about queer characters with a queer form — it’s also a film with very specifically queer motivations and conflicts.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 13, 2024 9 Comments
two girls in christmas movie 'last exmas'
Movie Features

We Got High and Watched New Indie Queer Christmas Movie “Last Exmas”

This movie has everything: a girl in a beanie who makes pizza pockets for a diner, a meddling friend who wears loud sweaters and makes scissoring gestures, a famous actress from a car commercial getting a key to the city, and so much more

Drew Burnett Gregory, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese
December 12, 2024 6 Comments
the best queer albums of 2024
Music

The 12 Best Queer Albums of 2024

Time capsules will show that the year 2024 was the beginning of a historic sapphic audio boom.

Tima December 12, 2024 1 Comment
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