Pop Culture Fix: Harley Quinn is Confirmed Gay in “Birds of Prey”
Kate McKinnon’s Elsa is also gay, Roxane Gay on Janelle Monáe’s Afrofuture, women characters dominate animated films, Sophie’s season finale move on Gen Q, and more!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Valentine’s Day Date Ideas I’ve Had Since My Wife Left Me Six Months Ago
Hear me out.
People Who Helped Me Come To My (Bi)sexual Awakening: A Short Thank You List
Being bisexual is lit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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!
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!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Among The Ashes
TikTok and porn aesthetics, the fisting emoji obvs, how to initiate sex without feeling awkward and more.
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.
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.
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.