Results for: representation
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The L Word’s Lisa The Lesbian-Identified Man: A Trans Symposium
“What do we in want from and for Lisa in 2019? Justice for him, or peace of mind for us? The desire to reach back in time and pull him into our present is natural because we – especially trans people – want to see her character restored in dignity, thus preserving our own dignity.”
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25 Kickass Cosplays to Get You Hyped for “Batwoman”
Whether we do it to explore gender and gender presentation, to embrace our flamboyance, to show off and show out, or to just feel powerful, no con is complete these days without a horde of queer cosplayers or queer characters making their way up and down the aisles and across the stages
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How to Get Away with Murder’s Final Parallel for Annalise and Tegan Is Truly Groundbreaking
How to Get Away With Murder is showcasing two black queer women — both at the height of their careers — grapple with power and their queerness. It’s rare to see a queer woman of color wrestle with either theme on TV but two… at the same time? Completely unheard of.
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What’s on Your Big Gay Roadtrip Playlist?
How hard do you go on the Hayley Kiyoko when making your summer road trip playlist?
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Juliana Valdés of “Amar a Muerte” Is the National Champion of Coming Out Stories!
“This isn’t wrong. Love is not a perversion, okay? And you know what? This is the most beautiful thing I’ve ever felt in my whole life.”
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Vote Now in Autostraddle’s Second Annual Queer TV Awards!
Queer women’s television has grown significantly in recent years. Still, we’ve watched our best continue to be sidelined by a straight white male majority that won’t pay attention to queer stories, women’s stories, stories about people of color. Well, no more my friends!
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Pop Culture Fix: “GLOW” Season 3 Confirms Its Gayness
New trailers for GLOW and The Handmaid’s Tale, lots of queer actors and writers and directors talking to straight media for Pride, an amazing new musical fantasy project from Dee Rees, renewals for Pose and Queer Eye, and truly enough takes about Taylor Swift already.
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 69, May/June 2020
“the sex bench is like all the flatware in beauty and the beast collecting dust waiting for somebody to come along and use it to feel purpose / meaning again”
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Film Historian Jenni Olson on “Mädchen in Uniform,” The First Ever Lesbian Film
“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”
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Democratic Debate #5 Recap: It’s Kamala Harris and Cory Booker’s Time to Shine
In most primary campaigns, staffers and consultants tell candidates not to do what Kamala Harris did last night — but I think she edged out Cory Booker for winner of the debate.
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The 50 Best Queer Sex Toys
Autostraddle’s definitive list of the 50 best sex toys for queer sex.
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8 Books to Read if You Loved the Queer Community of “Stray City”
Have you read Stray City by Chelsey Johnson? It’s got great authentic representation of supportive queer community. Here are eight more books featuring queers who show up for each other!
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Into the A+ Box #32: What If You Choose Not To Have Kids Because of Climate Change?
The team offers advice to A+ members who asked whether a relationship can make it if you don’t feel you’re sexually compatible, what to do when falling hard for a queer coworker, and more!
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Gay Agenda Recap and Transcript: Autostraddle’s Leaders Talk About the Vision!
We’re very serious gay professionals.
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“Killjoys” Gave Its Queer Characters the Happily Ever (and Ever) After We Deserve
A lookback on Killjoys’ queer journey of found family and feelings
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Pop Culture Fix: Nahnatchka Khan’s “Always Be My Maybe” Has a Great Lesbian Character, Of Course
Plus more from Ruby Rose on Batwoman, the first woman director to win a Queer Palm at Cannes, fact-checking Booksmart’s lesbian sex, TLW: Gen Q is coming to Pride, and more!
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The Queer Legacy of “Legacies”
Before we had queer witches, we had queer werewolves and Heretics, too.
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Are You The One?’s Paige Cole on Coming Out, Finding Love and Breaking Bisexual Reality TV Barriers
In which Paige’s perfect match is trying to get her to watch The L Word for the first time.
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“To L and Back” Generation Q Podcast Episode 205: Lobsters, Too
“Why is she being like, ‘Oh, I can’t kiss you. I’m in a relationship.’ Like, no, you’re not. You met an older woman at a party last weekend. Who among us hasn’t? Take it easy.”
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Drawn to Comics: Marguerite Bennett Talks Batwoman, Representation and the Importance of Fallible Queer Heroes
I talked with Bennett about what it’s like being the first woman and the first openly queer woman to write a Batwoman solo title, what she hopes to bring to it, and what she hopes queer readers will get from the series.