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Straddleverse

Call For Submissions: Fire In The Belly

Submit your stories and pitches about the emotions that drive you into the world, and what’s created and destroyed in their wake! Deadline March 1.

The Editors February 5, 2020 4 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Seriously, Indya Moore! What’s Your Secret to These Curls?

Also, Bella Thorne wants to be your Valentine, Quinn Wilson shares a vision of a future I can believe in, and Janet Mock wears the hell out of that dress!

Christina Tucker February 5, 2020 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

We Don’t Yet Know Who Won Last Night’s Iowa Caucus Clusterf*ck; Here’s What We Do Know

We’ll update this post, or create a new one, when we have an official winner; until then, here’s our explanation of what went down.

Natalie February 4, 2020 13 Comments
Geekery Movie Features

5 Things You Should Know About Latina Lesbian Superhero Renee Montoya Before “Birds of Prey”

Not only is Montoya the first Latina lead and lesbian lead in a DC film, she also has an iconic history, including being one of the first and most celebrated lesbian comic book characters of all time.

Heather Hogan February 4, 2020 1 Comment
Breakups

You Need Help: Why Do I Miss My Terrible Ex?


When relationships end, we might feel angry or wistful or hurt. Giving ourselves space for all of those feelings is how we bust through the pain and turn it into growth. 


Ro White February 4, 2020 7 Comments
TV News & Trailers

Early Season 4 Crown Photos Suggest Gillian Anderson Blessedly Unsexy as Margaret Thatcher, Thank God

How will Anderson portray such a polarizing figure, many wondered, and more pressingly, will I have to reckon with being attracted to her while she does it? As more photos from the set of Season 3 of The Crown emerge, the answer to that question appears to offer some relief.

Rachel February 4, 2020 8 Comments
Breakups

Valentine’s Day Date Ideas I’ve Had Since My Wife Left Me Six Months Ago

Hear me out.

Laneia February 4, 2020 60 Comments
First Person

People Who Helped Me Come To My (Bi)sexual Awakening: A Short Thank You List

Being bisexual is lit.

Keah Brown February 4, 2020 25 Comments
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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: The Stronic Surf

Fun Factory’s Surf, the latest in their line of pulsators, lets you ride the wave of deep massaging ridges as far as they’ll take you.

Guest February 3, 2020 1 Comment
Book Lists

8 Amazing Audiobooks About Queer Women

The following 8 books are mind-blowingly good fiction audiobooks about queer women. I’m talking incredible voice acting that takes the story to a whole other level.

Casey February 3, 2020 11 Comments
Money + Work

You Need Help: How Do I Come Out as Trans at Work?

Here are some tips to come out at work as safely as possible, and it requires a little bit of preparation in and out of the office.

Archie February 3, 2020 5 Comments
Music

Wear the Band Shirt, Make Your Own Rules

Band t-shirts are a way of both presenting and defining acceptable enthusiasms, and the baseline for what kind of enthusiasm is permitted is always socially established by straight men.

Lindsay King-Miller February 3, 2020 14 Comments
Society + Culture

Also.Also.Also: 49ers Lose Super Bowl, but Lesbian Coach Katie Sowers Is Still a Winner, Baby!

Demi Lovato on coming out to her parents, softbois, making queer history at historically black colleges, and it’s time to get ready for the Iowa Caucus.

Carmen Phillips February 3, 2020 11 Comments
Podcasts The L Word

“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 306: Lifesize with Jes Tom!

The “To L and Back” podcast is plunging RIGHT back in to the sloppy mud of Season Three! This week, comic Jes Tom joins us to discuss “straight” Dylan, strap-on dimensions, cheaters, birds and Sleater-Kinney!

Riese February 3, 2020 4 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Loves The Big Game with Ellen and Portia

Happy Sports Sunday! We’ve got gay Super Bowl commercials, queer books that won’t make you sad, parks being named after Marsha P. Johnson, stories about little known queer history, and more!

Ari February 2, 2020 9 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Among The Ashes

TikTok and porn aesthetics, the fisting emoji obvs, how to initiate sex without feeling awkward and more.

Ryan Yates February 2, 2020 4 Comments
LGBT History

Black Queer People Writing Ourselves Into History: An Autostraddle Master List

We want this year’s Black History Month to be serious. But also – sexy, fun, JOYful. We want to reflect the multiple ways that black people see ourselves and walk through our world. And so, we begin here. By writing ourselves back into our own history.

Carmen Phillips February 1, 2020 4 Comments
Recipes

The Dyke Kitchen: Dishes inspired by Chani Nicholas, Tracy Chapman & Bette Porter

The concept for today’s cooking adventures: making dishes inspired by three iconic lesbians who influenced us, and who we’d also want to invite to a dinner party to experience them experiencing our food — yes, very gay.

Kamala Puligandla February 1, 2020 10 Comments
Webcomics

Baopu #69: Coming of Age

I don’t want my life before America to become abstract, but the distance in space and time makes some loss inevitable.

Yao Xiao February 1, 2020 2 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Horoscopes for February 2020: Find What’s Real and Start Anew

In a year full of pressure, February brings some cosmic sweetness that can help heal or hearts—or encourage escapism.

Corina Dross February 1, 2020 6 Comments
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