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Autostraddle Before the Tipping Point: A Trip Through the Archive

This year for Trans Awareness Week, I wanted us to focus on recent trans history. Autostraddle itself is part of that history.

Drew Burnett Gregory November 13, 2023 12 Comments
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Straddleverse

Welcome Our New Senior Editor, Drew Burnett Gregory!

Goodbye exclusively gay moments — hello exclusively gay lifetime.

Drew Burnett Gregory October 3, 2023 32 Comments
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Straddleverse

Long Live (Heather’s Version)

This is my last week at Autostraddle. I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you.

Heather Hogan September 27, 2023 91 Comments
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Straddleverse

For Them Acquires Autostraddle: An Explainer

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The Editors August 23, 2023 53 Comments
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Straddleverse

Get In Here and Meet Kylo Freeman: For Them’s Founder and Autostraddle’s New CEO

“I’m used to working with an all-queer team that has amazing creative ideas that are a little bit out of the box, so it feels like a perfect fit from my end.”

Riese August 22, 2023 176 Comments
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LGBT Pride

50 Pictures of Queer Joy at 2023 LGBTQ+ Pride Celebrations All Over the World

Let a lot of smiling queers and beloved celebrities in rainbow decor into your heart today!

Riese June 29, 2023 6 Comments
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AF+ Meet-Ups / Events

RIGHT NOW! Log Onto Discord to Chat With Samantha Allen

Ask the author of “Patricia Wants to Cuddle” all about her book!

Nico June 21, 2023 2 Comments
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Meet-Ups / Events

TOMORROW! A+ Book Club Chats “Patricia Wants to Cuddle” with Samantha Allen

Queers! Reality TV dating! Sasquatch!

Nico June 20, 2023
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LGBT Pride Quizzes

Quiz: What’s Your Pride Vibe?

What’s your Pride MO? Answer some questions, and I’ll take a stab.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 18, 2023 11 Comments
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LGBT Pride Movie Lists

LGBTQ+ Documentaries To Watch This Pride Month That Aren’t the Most Obvious Ones

Featuring a lot of underground and underrated films, check out this list of three decades of documentaries about queer and trans lives.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 14, 2023 9 Comments
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LGBT Pride Politics + Activism

Gay at Work: Queer People and the Labor Movement

All these movements, whether for Black liberation, queer liberation, abortion rights, affordable housing, or labor, are intimately connected, and the struggle of queer labor organizers makes that abundantly clear.

Daven McQueen June 13, 2023 6 Comments
LGBT Pride Politics + Activism

‘Be the Change’ Creates Network of Care in Tennessee Prisons

Be the Change offers programs inside like support groups for trans women, addiction and recovery support, and those facing lengthy or lifetime sentences.

Adrian June 13, 2023 4 Comments
Book Features LGBT Pride

Kemi Adeyemi’s Feels Right Explores the Politics of Black Queer Nightlife

Adeyemi told me when we talked in May that she has long been “frustrated with writing about queer nightlife that really presents it as this utopian escape from everyday life.” “That’s a story, it’s not reality,” she argues. 

Lauren Herold June 10, 2023 1 Comment
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How Is Your Zodiac Sign Celebrating Pride This Year?

How’s your zodiac sign celebrating Pride this year? This gay horoscope writer has the answers for horny Capricorns and watery Pisces alike.

Nico June 9, 2023 3 Comments
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First Person LGBT Pride

Making An Independent Documentary About Queer Women Is Like Jumping Without A Net

I will never stop trying to tell our stories.

Sa'iyda Shabazz June 8, 2023 6 Comments
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Book Features LGBT Pride

Clare Forstie Wants To Change the Way You Think About the Queer Midwest

“I am a queer person who grew up in and has lived in small communities, small towns, and small cities for my entire life.”

Lauren Herold June 7, 2023 9 Comments
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LGBT Pride Parenting & Family

Queer Mom Chronicles: Happy Pride Y’all!

I was able to teach my son the un-whitewashed version of the Stonewall riots, giving power to the black and brown folks that put their bodies on the line so that his mom could be free to love freely.

Sa'iyda Shabazz June 5, 2023 15 Comments
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LGBT Pride Music

Eight LGBTQ+ Country Music Singers on Pride and Queering Country

Harlan Howard said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the truth” — I’m pretty sure queer folks have a lot of truth to tell.

Em Win June 5, 2023 19 Comments
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Food Lists LGBT Pride

Countdown to Pride: Mocktails in Every Color of the Rainbow

It’s eight days to Pride! Get some inspiration for colorful, tasty nonalcoholic drink concoctions to serve yourself or loved ones!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 30, 2023 8 Comments
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