Femme Brûlée: Strawberries and Cream
I wanna eat this on a lake at sunset or literally every hot summer morning for breakfast.
Baopu #62: Is My Freedom An Illusion?
I live an independent life at the cost of ignoring the baggage that comes with it.
Boobs on Your Tube: “grown-ish” Says Goodbye to Shane
Plus updates on Claws, Siren, Grand Hotel, and Ambitions!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What’s on Your Big Gay Roadtrip Playlist?
How hard do you go on the Hayley Kiyoko when making your summer road trip playlist?
Things I Read That I Love #293: Names That Sound Dreamed Up For a Goop Collaboration with Lemony Snicket
Topics include the uncanny valley of online dating, the explosion of streaming TV, white privilege, weddings, the influencers of Byron Bay, Buffalo Wild Wings as a secret gay bar, BDSM and so much more!
The Comment Awards Are Donating To Autostraddle
“Hello, is this a safe space where we can discuss the complete emotional dismantling perpetrated by Heather Hogan’s letter accompanying the fundraiser?”
“Wynonna Earp” Star Kat Barrell Is Attracted to Both Men and Women, #20BiTeen Strikes Again!
“I am attracted to both men and women and the person I fell in love with is a man. I wish it could just be about the human I am in love with, not their gender. This is why I am so passionate about advocating for equal acceptance across the spectrum of sexuality. Let’s just love who we love and leave each other alone. The world has bigger problems.”
VIDEO! Hayley Kiyoko Casts a Spell On Our Summer Crush Blues With “I Wish”
Ah summer. When the melancholy heartbreak of the cooler seasons is replaced with frantic lust and desperation. But you can stop crying over whoever it is you’re crying over. Because only one person matters now. Lesbian Jesus herself. Hayley Kiyoko.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Evaluating Everything
YA trans literature, a new national Canadian literature by women, how to evaluate what you see and hear and more.
We Need Help: Autostraddle Is Raising Money!
We’ve spent years — our whole lives, sometimes, it seems like — talking about what our community could look like if we weren’t spending all our time and energy on just staying alive, a feeling that queer and trans people know all too well. With your help, we’re excited to find out what thriving looks like.
Marching at the End of a Very Long Parade: On Being A Queer Alcoholic
I got sober alone, in a village about an hour north of Kampala, Uganda. I had moved there for a job opportunity, naively confident I, as an openly queer person with a mental illness, could flit across the globe like a moth. By the time I quit my job and scheduled an emergency move back to the United States, my drinking was threatening my life.
“Pose” Episode 205 Recap: What Would Candy Do?
The mainstream popularity of Madonna’s “Vogue” opens up new opportunities for Damon and Ricky.
Here Is Your “Are You The One?” Bisexual Dating Show Drinking Game
Get sexually fluid with your fluids with this “Are You The One?” drinking game!
“Good Trouble” Episode 205 Recap: Happy Heckling
It’s very distressing watching Rhea Butcher be mean to someone!
Pop Culture Fix: Watching Lizzo, Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez in the “Hustlers” Trailer Will Make Your Day
Plus: The trailer for Vita and Virgina, Hilarie Burton wants to play Megan Rapinoe’s girlfriend, Emmy noms, Jane Lynch on Ellen, the end of HTGAWM, and more!
Foolish Child #50: Crush Drought
“Can I even feel feelings anymore?!”
No Filter: Ashley Benson is a Grown Adult Who Ordered PBJ at a Restaurant
Also the latest in Kristen Stewart’s romantic misadventures, plus a truly winning smile from Hayley Kiyoko.
A Cursory Explainer of This Summer’s Verified UFO News, Somehow a Real Phenomenon
As I watched “Area 51” become a trending topic and meme format over the weekend, I found myself wishing for some sort of brief explainer on the UFO-related events of the past few months, just so one could have some semblance of a fuck of an idea what was going on.
Insta Crush: Femme Birds Are a Diverse Flock With Big Magic
What is a femme bird’s favorite activity? Pecking the white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchy to death and then ripping it to shreds.
21 Boxed Wines, Ranked by Value By Day-Drunk Queers At Gay Summer Camp
I’ve combined the data from multiple Box Wine tastings over the past few years including new info from this year’s tasting and come up with a very definitive ranking to where you should invest your Box Wine Budget.