11 Places to Buy Merch Supporting Queer and Trans BIPOC People Instead of Corporate Greed
Here are 11 collections directly supporting LGBTQ BIPOC creators and organizations!
Nudity, Kink, and Safe Spaces for Kids Can All Coexist at Pride
As a gay parent, I have a lot of grievances about Pride — not one of them is about bare body parts or leather dykes and daddies.
Foolish Child #98: Corporate Pride
It’s amazing how the very second that corporations found value in queerness, they finally invested but in the safest way they possibly could: Rainbows.
Why I Always F*ck Off to the Forest for Pride™ (And You Can, Too)
I had just come back from Yosemite days earlier, and realized that the only time I’m able to truly be myself, to be comfortable and authentic, is when I’m in the forest, or on a mountain, or somewhere else completely alone.
Be Part of Autostraddle’s Pride 2021 Gallery!
We’re bringing back our Queer IRL reader photo gallery for Pride 2021 and we’d like to feature your face in it!
You Are Queer Enough
Are there certain stereotypes and expectations in the queer community that keep you from feeling valid? Babe this is for you.
Foolish Child #97: Kink at Pride
“Pride in June in central California means it’s guaranteed to be 105+ degrees Fahrenheit. I, too, would show my bare ass if I felt like being outside in that kind of heat.”
My First Pride Was About Building My Queer Future and Mourning a Past I’ll Always Long For
A young black queer girl goes to her first pride parade, tackles her fears of her own queerness rooted in acceptance, and becomes friends with other black queer people after the death of her parents.
Principles of Pride: We Owe Our Lives to Trans Elders Like Ceyenne Doroshow
As trans people who are so accustomed to losing our chosen family before they become elders, Ceyenne Doroshow is setting a blueprint for what it means to live fiercely and claim a stake on your life.
We Find Freedom in Black Trans Joy
We place joy at the center of our spaces, because spaces created for us are often only interested in our trauma and pain.
Principles of Pride: The Riot Black and Indigenous Trans People Deserve
I want the world to no longer assume ownership of our bodies, but we cannot do that without land. Decolonizing the land itself is not only crucial but necessary for a liberated future in which everyone’s body belongs to themselves.
Principles of Pride: Sex Work Is Real Work, Sex Workers Are Fucking Revolutionary
A free world for sex workers would be a free world for people’s bodies, desires, and pleasures — that is to say, a world worth fighting for.
10 Ways You’ve Told Us You’re Celebrating Pride This Year
Between canceling corporate parades and parties because of coronavirus and showing up for Black Lives Matter marches, demonstrations, and direct actions, June feels a little different this year – in a really good way. Here’s how y’all are celebrating Pride Month in 2020.
15,000 Stand Up For Black Trans Lives in Brooklyn, Show Us What Pride Month Should Always Look Like
Over 15,000 people turned up for the Brooklyn Liberation Action for Black Trans Lives this past weekend and these are the best photographs I have ever seen.
Lambda Literary Pride 2020 Brings Your Fave All-Star LGBTQ Authors to Your Living Room
See authors like Kristen Arnett, Nicole Byers, T Kira Madden, Chani Nicholas and Sam Irby LIVE and simultaneously contribute to an LGBT cultural institution!
Tell Us Your Best Pride Stories So We Can Celebrate Together Virtually!
Embarrassing stories, sexy stories, funny stories, wholesome stories – we want ’em all!
6 Takeaways from the HRC Power of Our Pride LGBT Presidential Town Hall
From the crucial necessity of giving Black trans women a platform to speak to the legacy of the fight for marriage equality to the urgency of addressing FOSTA/SESTA, six takeaways from last night’s Presidential Town Hall.
PHOTOESSAY: NYC’s Dyke March, Queer Liberation March, All-Ages Party, and More (Not Corporate) World Pride
World Pride took over New York last week in what was possibly the largest LGBTQIA+ event in history.
Emily M. Danforth, Laura Zak, Jasika Nicole and More of Your Faves on Their First Pride
“I have only been to a couple other Pride parades since then, partly because I still get skittish around big crowds, and partly because I just want to be in the air conditioning, but truth be told, I’ve probably got enough room inside me now to throw fifty pride parades.”
QUEER IRL PHOTO GALLERY: PRIDE!
It’s Pride month; have you heard? Have you danced in the streets, wearing a rainbow flag, surrounded by topless women, shouting your queerness and here-ness, maybe honking a horn or ringing a bell? Here’s hoping!