• About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
  • Shop
  • Sign In
  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles

Life

  • LGBT History
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Money + Work
  • Geekery
  • Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft
  • Holigays
  • Parenting & Family
  • Pregnancy

Etc.

  • Special Issues
  • Webcomics
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked by Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Shopping
  • Podcasts

  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Sign In
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Baby Steps
    • Our Sex/Life
    • The Parlour
    • Go Long
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • S L I C K Erotica
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles
  • Shop
  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
Holigays

Everyone You Love Wants New Autostraddle Merch This Season and We’ve Got Lots

“Think of me as your friendly Autostraddle Store Elf, guiding you through the kickass new merch we’ve added to store so you can support your favorite website and find that bone deep gift giving satisfaction.”

Christina Tucker December 6, 2019 13 Comments
TV Lists

The Top 100 Queer and Trans Women of Color Television Characters in TV History

The television landscape is changing rapidly. Where does that leave lesbian, bisexual, and trans women of color on TV? Where have been, and more importantly — where are we going?

Carmen Phillips and Natalie
December 6, 2019 44 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: Surprises For Your Favorite Stranded Babe

Whatever has your loved one stranded at home this season, perhaps they could use a little holigay cheering up!

Adrian December 6, 2019 8 Comments
The L Word: Generation Q

Bette Porter 2020? The Final Vote!

The time has come to determine, once and for all, whether or not Bette Porter could win an election! This is it! The final round!

Heather Hogan December 5, 2019 13 Comments
TV Reviews

“Work in Progress” Is a Hilarious Triumph of Specificity

Allowing someone as funny and weird as McEnany to make a show that opens itself up to all the facets of herself is such a gift to us all.

Drew Burnett Gregory December 5, 2019 7 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: Secretly Queer Gifts For Your Openly Straight Friends And Family

If your best buddy is going to heterosexually date, she can at least be queer about it.

Ro White December 5, 2019 5 Comments
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

What We Love and Hate About Dating Pisces

The best Pisces I know are true empaths and sparks of light who I would trust with my deepest traumas, and the worst Pisces I know are chronic gaslighting sad bois.

the team December 5, 2019 24 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Riverdale” Recap 408: Therapy, Finally

Gina Torres arrives to fix everyone’s lives.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya December 5, 2019 3 Comments
TV Feature

Bette Porter 2020? Mommi vs. The Youths in Round 6!

Four contestants remain! This is the last round before the FINAL ELECTION.

Heather Hogan December 4, 2019 7 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: DC’s Gays Are Geared Up for Crisis on Infinite Earths

Lena Waithe’s Twenties trailer is here, more Generation Q news than you can honestly probably use, Laura Dern on The Puppy Episode, and Ryan Murphy’s Netflix adaptation of The Prom casts its lesbian lead.

Heather Hogan December 4, 2019 9 Comments
Movie Reviews

Lena Waithe’s “Queen & Slim” Left Me Still Hungry for Black Queer Freedom

“For a work touted as blackness for Black people, Queen & Slim ultimately offers not hope or a way forward, but more images of beautiful Black corpses added to the growing canon of Black death for consumption. And I’m simply not able to keep bearing witness.”

Jehan December 4, 2019 9 Comments
Book Lists

55 of the Best Queer Books of 2019

From gorgeous graphic memoirs to epic fantasy tales, twisty thrillers, swoony romances, exceptional essay collections, and more, there’s an amazing queer book from 2019 on this list for everyone!

Casey December 4, 2019 37 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff) The L Word: Generation Q

No Filter: King Princess and Dana Fairbanks Had The Best Time at The L Word: Generation Q Premiere

Janelle Monae’s birthday, King Princess and everybody else ever celebrates with the Generation Q cast and no, I still do not understand Amber Heard!

Christina Tucker December 4, 2019 6 Comments
Webcomics

Foolish Child: #60: Cousins

Which cousin? You have like 500?

Dickens December 4, 2019 3 Comments
Relationships

Always Be My Baby: Our Semi-Professional Opinions on What Keeps Queer Couples Together

“I think there’s an idea out there that love just HAPPENS to you and it’s magic and not something you have to nurture to ensure it grows and thrives. That’s… a lie.”

the team December 4, 2019 22 Comments
Christmas

Holigay Gift Guide: For the Aspiring Witch in Your Life

Simple and accessible tools for reclaiming power and making a little magic.

meg December 4, 2019 2 Comments
TV Lists

Autostraddle’s Favorite and Least Favorite Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans TV Characters of 2019

Here’s what we loved this year and what we didn’t like very much at all. We’d love to hear your opinions too, obviously!

The TV Team December 3, 2019 29 Comments
TV Feature

Bette Porter 2020? Five Fictional Los Angeles Gays Remain in Our Election!

Can Bette Porter pull this thing out? As I mentioned yesterday, she hasn’t won a single round of voting yet! She keeps getting edged out by the same person!

Heather Hogan December 3, 2019 16 Comments
Money + Work

Queered & Careered: How I Use Journaling to Resist at Work

Need a ride or die bestie at work who will listen, affirm you, and help you process that recent microaggression? Turn right to your journal!

Tiara Dee December 3, 2019 12 Comments
a femme in a corset and handcuffs. photo is mostly of the model's butt with hands cuffed over it.
Sex Toys

Seven Paddles We Love for Queer Kinky Sex

Want to reward bad behavior but don’t know where to start? These paddles are one possibility.

Ryan Yates December 3, 2019 37 Comments
← Previous Page 1 … 477 478 479 480 481 482 483 … 1,440 Next Page →

From the Archives

  • All 45 Gay Women’s Soccer Players Competing in the 2024 Paris Olympics
  • You Need Help: Attraction to Women and Feeling Like A “Bad Muslim”
  • What It’s Like To Host an L Word Generation Q Viewing Party — With Your Ex

Latest Comments

  • nitricboost You Need Help: As a Transmasc, Am I Welcome in Lesbian Spaces? "Thank you for sharing your thoughts on such an important topic! It’s crucial for everyone, regardless of identity, to feel…"

  • biliwin lottery 10 Gayest Joni Mitchell Songs Ranked by Lesbian Longing "Loved this list! Joni’s ability to capture longing and complexity in her songs is unmatched. “A Case of You” has…"

  • Casey “Surviving Isn’t Enough”: Tess Sharpe, Nicola Griffith, and Katrina Carrasco on Writing Expansive Queer Fiction "Aaahhhh I love this conversation!! That’s about all my brain can come up with at the moment ❤️"

  • Casey I Have Never Felt More Cherokee Than While Reading ‘To the Moon and Back’ "Love this review! I’ve got the audiobook for this one hold, hope it arrives soon!"

Latest Posts

  • Quiz: Which Lesbian Shark Are You?
  • Jordan Gonzalez Wants To Play Every Role
  • I’m a Cis Butch Woman, and Boy Do I Want Top Surgery!
  • Lesbians Are an Essential Part of Basketball History
  • A Gay Recap of the 2025 WNBA Season

Our Network

  • Store
  • For Them

About Us

  • What is AS?
  • Meet The Team
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Copyright 2009 - 2025 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

Read ad-free: join AF MEDIA