A new study says sexual orientation and “gender conformity” in women are genetic traits. Could this be the anti- anti-gay evidence we need? And at what cost?

We have a guest-poster today who wants you to have the greenest orgasm ever. (Also, other things!)

So, casual dating is dead, and I’m on a mission to bring it back with this handy guide to classifying what the hell is going on with you and that girl.

“If you are a student and this is part of your story, your sexual identity is not a tragic sign of the sinful nature of the world. You are not tragic. “

Second verse, same as the first, but a little bit louder and a much less worse.

“It’s supremely bloody homophobic, extremely discriminatory and potentially dangerous for thousands of patients in need of transfusions. The inequality has just got worse, not better.”

In a world fraught with civil unions and bigoted t-shirt merchants, one ragtag team of queers will find out what it’s like when people stop being polite, and start playing Scattegories.

“In Dubai, alcohol is only permitted in tourist areas such as hotel restaurants and bars, and therefore we we were motivated to do a significant amount of hotel-hopping.”

Jon Kyl was lying. He was lying a lot. Jon Kyl’s feelings about Planned Parenthood are invalid.

If you’ve listened to Pink’s Missundazstood album approx 20 times, cried at X-Tina’s “Beautiful” video care about the future of pop music, you need to read this interview.

Read the Dinah Shore Liveblog so you can find out what Autostraddle is doing at GirlBar’s parties.

Hello today there is good news re: scholarships for gay kids and also gay marriage and also EUROVISION which is obvs most important. May or may not contain an otter, I can’t make any promises.

This post is NSFW and a giant SPOILER ALERT, and also it’s about Season Two of “The Real L Word,” which is about two girls, one gay and a pizza place. Something like that.

He’s “a different kind of gay activist.” He’s “a little wilder.” And he’s been working for 3 years to expose the Mormon involvement in the Prop 8 campaign. This may be a Republican even my gay mom could love.

When vacationing in the desert with 14,000 lesbians, you’re going to need wisps.

Here we are in limbo with DOMA, and it’s kinda confusing.

Maryland is turning out to be a bad place to try to get married or to be at risk for homelessness – which, surprise, many trans people are!

So, The “Trapeze Disrobing Act” is basically exactly what it sounds like.

Republicans in various states stepping up the war on women and this matters to you, too. Behold my extensive effort to break it all down for you.

PROM IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN TO YOU IN ALL OF LIFE. This week, we join the Glee students as they experience their junior prom and hit each other in the face.