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VivziePop interview: VivziePop at the Streamy Awards holding up her award with one hand and putting the other over her mouth in surprise
TV Feature

Vivienne Medrano (aka VivziePop) on “Hazbin Hotel,” Her Favorite Musicals, and Giving People Second Chances

“I really love writing romance. Romance and angst and tragedy.”

Rendy Jones January 22, 2024 5 Comments
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TV Feature

Presenting the Winners of the 6th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!

A League of Their Own, Sort Of, The Last of Us, and more! Here are the winners of the 6th annual Autostraddle TV Awards.

The TV Team January 12, 2024 6 Comments
Our Flag Means Death canceled: a group of pirates including Jim scrub the ship and look off in worry
TV Feature

Max Abandons Ship and Cancels “Our Flag Means Death,” Wrecks Passionate Queer Fandom

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m so tired of watching our shows get canceled even when they’re wildly successful.

Nic January 10, 2024 11 Comments
Elise Bauman One More Time: Elise as Jen Hauser glares at a cardboard cutout of herself holding a javelin
TV Feature

Elise Bauman on Being Queer and Competitive in New Canadian Sitcom “One More Time”

“Add in that the character was extremely driven and sporty and not femme. It was very exciting to me. So I said: I MUST HAVE THIS ONE.”

Drew Burnett Gregory January 9, 2024 14 Comments
TV Feature

Vote Now in the 6th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!

Welcome to the 2023 Autostraddle TV Awards! These awards celebrate the best in LGBTQ+ television and beyond.

The TV Team January 3, 2024 23 Comments
Best TV Scenes of 2023 collage with images from Gen Q, Yellowjackets, Sex Education, Doom, and more. There is a plastic film over the image with a duct tape AS logo and 2023 written with sharpie.
TV Feature

The Best Queer TV Scenes of 2023

What makes a great TV scene? The payoff of seasons-long romantic tension? The perfect needle drop in a climactic moment?

The TV Team December 11, 2023 3 Comments
A blank CD with sharpie writing Autostraddle End of Year List 2023 Favorite TV Couples
TV Feature

Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer TV Couples of 2023

Yellowjackets, Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, Station 19, and more! Check out our favorite queer TV couples of 2023.

The TV Team December 7, 2023 8 Comments
Favorite queer characters collage: images from The Last of Us, Everything Now, Minx, The Other Black Girl, Kitty XO, and The Afterparty with a piece of duct tape that says 2023 across the center.
TV Feature

Autostraddle’s Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual, and Trans TV Characters of 2023

Queer teens, a zombie killer, and one very disturbed set of twins. Check out our favorite queer TV characters of 2023!

The TV Team December 5, 2023 7 Comments
A collage with images from The Five Devils, The Fall of the House of Usher, Rotting in the Sun, and Bottoms.
Movie Features TV Feature

“Total Eclipse of the Heart” Is the Queer Film and TV Song of the Year

For some reason, four different works of queer media have used “Total Eclipse of the Heart” this year.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 4, 2023 3 Comments
Holigays TV Feature

Holigay Gift Guide: What Each Adult Yellowjacket Probably Wants

Taissa obviously wants a trench to add to her extensive collection.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 2, 2023 4 Comments
TV Feature

How Chrishell Stause Queered Selling Sunset

Discovering my queerness blew my world wide open, upended my expectations and left me with a clean slate to fill in as I pleased, holding on to the parts I wanted to keep, and discarding the ones I didn’t. And somehow, against all odds, I think that’s exactly what’s happened with Selling Sunset.

Anya Richkind November 20, 2023 2 Comments
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Movie Features TV Feature

Beyond Gender Identity: A History of Trans Actors in Cis Roles

I’m talking about stories where the trans character’s transness isn’t the focus — where they’re allowed to be the worst behaved one or simply hot and getting laid or just really fucking good at their job.

Motti November 19, 2023 5 Comments
The Syd + TP Show: WNBA Stars Theresa Plaisance, a tall white brunette with curly hair, and Sydney Colson, a Black woman with hair in a ponytail, are both in bathrobes lounging on blue pool chairs.
Sports TV Feature

Syd Colson and TP Are Laughing All the Way To Becoming the Faces of the WNBA

Sydney Colson and Theresa Plaisance started their sketch comedy “The Syd + TP Show” to become the faces of the league. We got together to talk about how that’s… worked out better than expected.

Carmen Phillips November 18, 2023 6 Comments
TV Feature

Top 15 Gayest Moments in Selling Sunset Season Seven

1. Chrishell and G kissing, followed by G screaming, “THIS IS MY WIFE!”

Anya Richkind November 10, 2023 6 Comments
A collage of images from Twenties, Anais in Love, Vida, Saving Face, Cruel Intentions, and A League of Their Own
Movie Features TV Feature

What Makes a Sexy Lesbian Screenshot

“I want to amend my answer and say I prefer the kiss itself if it’s open mouth and the almost kiss if it’s just going to be two chaste actors smashing faces.”

The Editors November 10, 2023 3 Comments
Frederich Usher mixing drugs in The Fall of the House of Usher
Book Features TV Feature

Edgar Allan Poe’s Wildest Story Inspired Fall of the House of Usher’s Scariest Moment

There’s something so intimate and terrifying about mouth horror.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya November 7, 2023 4 Comments
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TV Feature

Work and Class in “The Haunting of Bly Manor”

Woven throughout the series are thoughts on care and caretaking and who does that care and caretaking as well as domestic work.

Nico October 31, 2023 9 Comments
Our Lady J poses at the Critics Choice Awards in an emerald green dress with a gold belt and earrings.
Theater TV Feature

Our Lady J on “Transparent,” “Pose,” and Returning To Live Performance

“I want to remind anyone who is reading this that it is possible to survive. There is a richness in our history that we can call upon to learn how to survive.”

Drew Burnett Gregory October 24, 2023 6 Comments
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Movie Features TV Feature

Were We Ever So Young: Couples We Used To Ship and Were Extremely Wrong About

Now we are older and wiser! We can look back on our favorite toxic ships with compassion or horror or both.

The TV Team October 19, 2023 42 Comments
a staticky television with a bloody handprint on it and a stack of VHSs next to it with a blue AS logo
Movie Features TV Feature

Welcome to Horror Is So Gay 2: A Queer Sequel

It took me a while to arrive at my love of horror, but once I did, it felt as much a part of me as my queerness.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya October 8, 2023 6 Comments
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