FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What Are Your Back To School Impulse Buys?
When back to school season comes around, what can you not resist buying? What school supplies make your heart go aflutter? Come hang out in the Friday Open Thread and tell me everything!
Serial Box’s “Orphan Black: The Next Chapter” Continues Cosima and Delphine’s Story
Orphan Black’s story continues in a new medium, jumping in right away with updates about Cosima and Delphine.
The Comment Awards Are Asking: Are You The One?
“I went out last night with another Rachel…it wasn’t super awkward until she told me her ex’s name is Rachel.”
What We Love and Hate About Dating Capricorns
The best tops. Sorry not sorry.
Perfect Dates For Every Stage Of Your Gay Relationship
A lot has been written about first dates — but what about the second date? The third? Beyond?
8 Great Trans Fantasy Novels
Eight excellent fantasy novels with trans main characters coming your way!
No Filter: Megan Rapinoe Dresses Up and Also Undresses To Make Her Cover Girl Dreams Come True
Let’s celebrate Evan Rachel Wood’s birthday, AZMarie’s brunch, Amber Heard’s U-Haul, Keke Palmer’s Playboy shoot, King Princess’s glove lunch and Megan Rapinoe’s Marie Claire cover story!
Foolish Child #54: Meet Cute
“Gay panic!”
Cracked Apart
In the middle of a winter night in 1973, while the residents of a small island fishing town in Iceland slept peacefully in their beds, a crack opened up in a flat patch of farmland and began spewing fire.
Pop Culture Fix: Shane McCutcheon Made Kate Moennig Gay, Too
Also: Gillian Anderson falls in love with her characters, more on Brandi Carlile and The Highwomen, Kristen Stewart blesses Robert Pattinson’s Batman, Evan Rachel Wood meets a basically human robot IRL, the joy of ’90s erotic thrillers, and more!
Vote Now in Autostraddle’s Second Annual Queer TV Awards!
Queer women’s television has grown significantly in recent years. Still, we’ve watched our best continue to be sidelined by a straight white male majority that won’t pay attention to queer stories, women’s stories, stories about people of color. Well, no more my friends!
“Are You The One?” Finale Sees Queer Community Triumphing Over Odds, Going Skinny-Dipping, Winning Money
The “Are You The One?” finale was a fitting end to the best season of reality TV in the history of civilization, and everybody came out to party about it.
Insta Crush: Jamie Thrower, the Fat Femme Behind Studio XIII Photography, Creates Visual Love Letters to Our Community
“I believe that stepping in front of a camera is one of the most vulnerable things you can do, and so I want everyone who allows me the honor of photographing them to feel celebrated and seen and loved.”
Are You The One?’s Paige Cole on Coming Out, Finding Love and Breaking Bisexual Reality TV Barriers
In which Paige’s perfect match is trying to get her to watch The L Word for the first time.
What Kind of Houseplant You Should Get Depending On Your Flavor of Lesbianism
Do you vacillate between extreme distance, and then merging/clinginess/overdoing it? Then watch out. Succulents like consistent LACK of attention.
Tag Yourself: A Quiz to Find Out Which Grease Bats Character You Are Once and for All
Whether or not you’ve read Grease Bats, or PURCHASED THE GREASE BATS BOOK that just came out, you’ll probably find one of the crew who’s your comic character alter ego. Want to find out which one? Take this quiz!
OneTable and A-Camp Team Up to Create a Meaningful Shabbat Experience for Queer Jewish Adults
If you want to build community with Jewish queers by hosting a regular Shabbat dinner practice, OneTable is a non-profit organization that can help you achieve your dreams!
Please Don’t Touch: A Trans Lesbian Does India
In the span of a few hours, in two different Indian airports I experienced a spectrum of responses to my gay trans self that would serve as a microcosm of not only my trip, but of my entire queer experience. There are no guarantees, so I’m learning to be my own safe space.
“To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 207: Luminous
How will Dana and Alice tell their friends that they are riding the hobby horse together? Why is Helena so obsessed with taking her children to Sea World and also Tina? What’s Shane gonna do with all the pills she took from Veronica Bloom? Let’s find out on this week’s thrilling episode of “To L and Back.”
“Sister Aimee” Is a Subtly Queer Ode to Storytelling
There’s no evidence that Aimee Semple McPherson was queer. But there’s no evidence that a lot of historical figures did a lot of the things they do on screen.