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Quizzes

Quiz: Which Lesbian Bag Are You?

Are you wearing your fanny pack as a cross-body bag or wearing your Public Library tote bag until it falls apart in your hands? Time to find out what kind of lesbian bag you are!

Riese September 15, 2024 20 Comments
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Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Music Ruins the Lesbian Sex in ‘Chloe’

On the surface, it’s actually a pretty great sex scene! There’s lively fingering!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 14, 2024 3 Comments
Webcomics

Baopu #127: I’ll Sink or Float

It may seem counterintuitive at first, but letting your feet off the ground can lead to more freedom.

Yao Xiao September 14, 2024 1 Comment
A queer person with flamboyant makeup and a red leather jacket looks at her partner in a car.
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2024: The Melodrama of ‘Daughter’s Daughter’ Fails Its Dead Lesbians

The lesbian character feels like a prop, a character meant to show up in flamboyant eye makeup, go through IVF, and then die.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 14, 2024
Nykiya Adams floats in the water in Bird.
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2024: ‘Bird’ Might Just Be Andrea Arnold’s Masterpiece

It’s thrilling to watch an artist as accomplished as Arnold reach a sort of apex of her talents while still pushing for reinvention. The result is a film that is impossible to predict from narrative to form to emotional experience.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 14, 2024 2 Comments
1 across / 3 letters / Lil ___ X
AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Is Into Homo-Phones

See what we did there?

Emet Ozar September 14, 2024
Pamela Voorhees wears her iconic blue sweater and stares with her mouth open in Friday the 13th
Movie Features

The 13 Gayest Things About the Supposedly Straight Horror Movie “Friday the 13th”

HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13TH, FREAKS!!!!! MRS. VOORHEES IS MOMMI!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 13, 2024 9 Comments
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TV Feature

Presenting The Winners Of The 7th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards

The votes have been counted and it’s time to tell you who’s bringing home imaginary trophies for this Emmy Season’s very best LGBTQ+ television.

Riese and The TV Team
September 13, 2024 4 Comments
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AF+

I Don’t Wanna Promote My Friend’s Bad Art

Your friend’s art is not great, but they keep asking you to share it on social. Also, a reader is feeling a little too embodied after having a baby.

the team September 13, 2024 5 Comments
The cast of The Perfect Couple doing the opening dance.
TV Lists

10 Queer TV Shows That Should Have Opened With a Group Dance Like ‘The Perfect Couple’

For example, picture the cast of The Haunting of Hill House dancing to “Monster” by Lady Gaga.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 13, 2024 9 Comments
Two men — one with a cast — embrace in Sad Jokes
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2024: ‘Sad Jokes’ Is a Queer Story That Defies Genre

This is a very human film, but it’s also a very gay film with jokes that are sure to land even harder for queer audiences.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 13, 2024 1 Comment
Chappell Roan
Music Queer Fashion

Power Ranking Chappell Roan’s Most Iconic Queer Looks

Chappell’s 2024 VMAs looks have unseated the number one spot.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 13, 2024 2 Comments
4 down / 5 letters / In the style of "But I'm A Cheerleader"
AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Mini Crossword Is Checking if Mercury Is in Retrograde

Surely it must be, right?!

Emet Ozar September 13, 2024
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Music

Chappell Roan Dedicates Her VMA Win to Drag Artists

Here are all the gay highlights from the 2024 VMAs!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya September 12, 2024 13 Comments
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First Person Issues

Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality

Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.

Abbie September 11, 2024 8 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Enjoy a Little Kristen Stewart by the Sea

Stewart’s adaptation of “The Chronology of Water” is IN PRODUCTION. Plus, more queer celeb updates from IG.

Christina Tucker September 11, 2024 1 Comment
China Suárez caresses Julieta Cardinali in Linda.
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2024: ‘Linda’ Uses Taboo Eroticism in Its Class Critique

The wrongness of the servant/matriarch relationship does not preclude these encounters from being very, very sexy.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 11, 2024
Michaela Kurimsky lies down outside in Sweet Angel Baby
Movie Reviews

TIFF 2024: ‘Sweet Angel Baby’ Is an Old School Drama about Small Town Homophobia

I’m glad we have lesbian cinema that goes beyond this narrative of homophobia and shame. But as long as homophobia and shame are present in our world, there will be a place for movies like Sweet Angel Baby.

Drew Burnett Gregory September 11, 2024
10 across / 4 letters / K ___ (affectionate nickname for the star of "Love Lies Bleeding")
AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Mini Crossword Has Brunch Plans

Settle a debate for us: Is it still brunch if it happens before 10am, or is that just breakfast?

Kate Hawkins September 11, 2024
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Lesbian Sex

I Asked the Women Who Follow Me on Instagram if They’d Like To Receive Nudes. Here’s What Happened

This started as an exercise in self-love and turned into an exercise in personal connection.

Summer Tao September 10, 2024 4 Comments
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