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Queer NYC Cyclists Deliver Care Amid the COVID-19 Crisis

Welcome to COMMUNITY CHECK, a series about mutual aid and taking care of each other in the time of coronavirus.

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Syd May 12, 2020 26 Comments
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18 Reasons Why You Might Be Breaking Up In Quarantine

11. For some alone time with the sex bench.

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Politics + Activism

Extra! Extra!: How the Pandemic Is Disproportionately Harming the LGBTQ Community and More

In this week’s Extra! Extra! COVID-19 we see how the pandemic taps into existing discrimination and continues to deepen divisions the world over.

himani May 11, 2020 3 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Supergirl” Episode 518 Recap: Bridge Over Troubled Water

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Pop Culture Fix: “The Baby-Sitters Club” Trailer Is All Friendship and ’90s Nostalgia

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Tell Us All About Your Weird Pandemic Sex Dreams!

We’re entering month 567 of a global pandemic, and you may be having some weird sex dreams! Here at autostraddle dot com, we’d love to hear about them in a respectful manner, for journalism.

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Sex

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“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 407: Lesson Number One With Lianna Carrera!

Get your ass into The Ask and Tell Helicopter, it’s time to get schooled about lezzing out!

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Society + Culture

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Hey babes, it’s Sunday, we’ve got so much music from Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Ariana Grande, and a queer tribute to Little Richard that you’ve gotta read! Also, queer southern archives, some Brooklyn Nine-Nine humor to get you through, Lebanese LGBTQ rights, and so much more! Let’s get into it!!

Ari May 10, 2020 2 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Orgasming Like a Glint of Light

Orgasming with chronic pelvic pain, breaking up in quarantine when you have to stay there together, masturbation as part of mental health and more.

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Culture

Country Queers Documents the Myriad Experiences of Rural LGBTQIA Americans

“Community is a very complicated and roomy word. Rural queer people also have other layers of identity that inform their realities.”

Lauren Parker May 9, 2020 6 Comments
Recipes

The Dyke Kitchen: Spicy South Asian-ish Biscuits

There are a lot of different ways to go out on a limb and make a biscuit really pop: does it need toasted pumpkin seeds, does it need fish sauce, does it need bbq sauce, does it need weed? Today, I made a spicy South Asian-ish biscuit, meant to upstage and compliment an egg.

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Webcomics

The Lakeview Crew #4: Taurus Surprise!

Maya and Max prepare a social distance surprise that will make you cry, in the good way.

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TV Show Recaps

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The TV Team May 8, 2020 15 Comments
Politics + Activism

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Natalie May 8, 2020 22 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #310: Eight Minutes Of Scream-Talking The Coolest Things You Can Think Of

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