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Relationships

You Need Help: My Partner and I Disagree About Our COVID Risk Reduction Practices

Sometimes, after dealing with an active crisis as a team, it’s the period afterward that can start to pull us apart. There’s more time and space for your individual needs and feelings; it’s not surprising that this is when the resentment can really start to build!

By Darcy | March 14, 2023 | 3 Comments
Raving by McKenzie Wark
LGBT Book Reviews

Explore NYC’s Underground Queer and Trans Rave Scene in “Raving”

Readers are constantly reminded that so much of what makes white-dominated raves comes from Black culture.

By Lily Alvarado | March 14, 2023
Jasmin Savoy Brown kisses Lucy Dacus who is wearing a witch costume in the "Night Shift" music video.
Music

Lucy Dacus, Jane Schoenbrun Talk Making Joyful Queer Music Video for “Night Shift” Starring Jasmin Savoy Brown

The video also stars author Carmen Maria Machado and E.R. Fightmaster.

By danijanae | March 14, 2023 | 5 Comments
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Puzzles

Picdoku: Queer Symbolism

If you love sudoku and inverted bisexual triangles, I have great news for you!

By Sally | March 14, 2023 | 7 Comments
Sarah Paulson, Abby Wambach, Tig Notaro, all shrouded in green light on a lesbian party bus
Pop Culture

Pop Culture Fix: Sarah Paulson, Tig Notaro, Abby Wambach, etc. Sing Indigo Girls on Lesbian Party Bus

The queer cast of Scream, The Bird and Taurasi Show will be back for the Women’s Final Four, Megan Rapinoe dedicates TIME Woman of the Year award to the trans community, and more!

By Heather Hogan | March 13, 2023 | 5 Comments
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TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2023: Trope-y Wives – Forbidden Fruit

It’s time to vote, you gays!

By Natalie | March 13, 2023 | 3 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“The Last of Us” Episode 109 Recap: Promises, Promises

In the season finale, we look back to Ellie and Joel’s past while fighting for the future.

By Valerie Anne and Nic
March 13, 2023 | 10 Comments
top row: The King and I, West Side Story, The Year of Living Dangerously, The Blind Side. Second row: Monsters Ball, Traffic, Moonlight, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Movie Features

Race and Appropriation at the Academy Awards: A 95 Year History

We’ve got data and timelines and infographics and conversation on topics including: white actors getting Oscars for playing people of color, white savior narratives, actors of color who actually did get nominated or win Oscars for Acting and so much more. Just updated for 2023.

By Riese | March 13, 2023 | 109 Comments
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TV Reviews

Perry Mason’s Lesbian Lawyer-in-Training Is the Highlight of Season 2

Ring-a-ding-ding, sweetheart, Della Street is back and better than ever.

By Heather Hogan | March 13, 2023 | 3 Comments
photo 1: a pink lit christmas tree in the background. a small red and white puppy in a black shirt with white penguins looking up at the camera. photo 2: turquoise background. a black woman with short brown hair and glasses smiling. she is wearing a black tee shirt with Sanrio characters. a tan skinned boy smiling in a blue and black shirt with Stormtroopers. his arms are around her head. photo 3: a turquoise background. three people in matching black pajamas with white penguins on them. one white woman with short brown hair and glasses smiling, one black woman with short brown hair and glasses smiling, one fair skinned boy with short brown hair sticking his tongue. photo 4: two cats laying on a black blanket with purple, orange and white letters. the cat in the foreground is grey with black stripes and a white chest. the background cat is orange and grey with black stripes and a white chest and paws. they are looking away from the camera
Parenting & Family

Queer Mom Chronicles: This Is Not Your Typical Mommy Blog

When you’re a queer parent writing for a largely hetero audience, it feels like you’re pleading your case to exist.

By Sa'iyda Shabazz | March 13, 2023 | 60 Comments
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A+

Editor’s Notes: Bubble Trouble

The queerness found in a lot of these Bubble Trouble essays isn’t necessarily surface-level fizz but something deeper in the gut.

By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | March 13, 2023 | 6 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Joining an a Cappella Group

Why do melons have such extravagant weddings?

By brooke husic | March 13, 2023 | 5 Comments
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Movie News & Trailers

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Makes Lesbian History at the Oscars

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” is the first film with an explicitly gay female main character to win “Best Picture.”

By Riese | March 12, 2023 | 14 Comments
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Meet-Ups / Events

A+ Book Club for Finding the Fool: A Tarot Journey to Radical Transformation

With author and Autostraddle writer, Meg Jones Wall!

By Nico Hall | March 12, 2023 | 10 Comments
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Quizzes

Quiz: Escape This Bad Date and We’ll Tell You Which LaCroix Flavor You Are

For every good date, there are at least three bad dates. I made that ratio up, but it feels right.

By ashni | March 12, 2023 | 15 Comments
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Comedy

Ranking All the Lipsmackers Chapsticks in the Coca-Cola Party Pack

I also solve the urgent mystery of what happened to Lip Smacker Dr. Pepper.

By Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya | March 12, 2023 | 7 Comments
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Movie Reviews

Scream VI Review: Why Do Y’all Keep Picking Up The Phone?!

Scream VI is as queer as you were hoping it would be! Jump scares and gay smooching, let’s go!

By A. Tony Jerome | March 11, 2023 | 6 Comments
Movie Features

Oscars 2023: Two Queers Discuss the Pretty Gay 95th Academy Awards

“Does the Academy just love war? They want to GET INTO THE TRENCHES. Well not me. I prefer not to trench. Unless it is Lydia Tár’s trench coat.”

By Drew Burnett Gregory and Riese
March 11, 2023 | 15 Comments
Drag Race 1511 recap: Luxx Noir London holds a microphone with her arms crossed and looks shocked. She's in a tight burnt orange dress and a big blonde wig.
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1511 Recap: Bombs Away!

Oh standup comedy. A thing so many people do and so few people do well. Including 15 seasons worth of Drag Race queens.

By Drew Burnett Gregory | March 11, 2023 | 10 Comments
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Comedy

It “Happened” to Me: I Went to the World of Coca-Cola and Barely Made It Out Alive

Enter this strange and fizzy queer retelling of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory — if you dare.

By ashni | March 11, 2023 | 5 Comments
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