• 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
Book Lists

8 Awesome Queer Books for the Youth and Tweens in Your Life

LGBT fiction for the tween / young teen in your life, or for anyone who likes a good queer book (spoiler: that’s everyone).

Casey April 9, 2019 17 Comments
Queer Fashion

Spook for the Summer: Warm Weather Looks for Dark Hearts

Whether you’ve got a specific spooky style to maintain or are looking to mix-and-match, there’s something in here to set your dark heart aflutter.

Sam Wall April 8, 2019 18 Comments
Podcasts The L Word

The “To L and Back” Podcast Premiere Is Here: Episode 101 (L’Pilot Part One)

It’s time for the first episode of our new podcast “To L and Back”! Today we’re diving into The L Word’s very first memorable hour of quality lesbian television.

Riese April 8, 2019 38 Comments
TV Reviews

“Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina” Review: Sabrina Spellman’s Rage Lights Up Part Two

Like Riverdale, Sabrina is paradoxically at its most enjoyable at its most off-the-rails and also in its more intimate, grounded character moments, and both shows have difficulty entwining the two.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 8, 2019 2 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Monday Roundtable: The Celebrity Deaths That Hit Us Hardest

“I remember writing in my journal and feeling a little bit of childhood falling away.”

the team April 8, 2019 43 Comments
Society + Culture

Sunday Funday Is Celebrating Caitlin Kinnunen’s Lady Love!

Check out Nonames new song, watch The Prom’s Caitlin Kinnunen light up as she talks about a woman she’s dating, and lesbian cheesemongers!

Ari April 7, 2019 11 Comments
NSFW Sunday

NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Here To Make Friends

Staying friends with an ex, to keep a sluttish house, figuring out sex history, what your sex dreams mean and more.

Ryan Yates April 7, 2019 3 Comments
Politics + Activism

Be The Change: The Art of the Ultimate Letter to the Editor

A letter to the editor can be an effective tactic to get the word out about an issue, show support for a bill, speak up about something in your community, or to get free publicity for your activist work!

KaeLyn April 6, 2019 4 Comments
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out: Sweet 16

You have 48 hours to get your faves to the Elite 8!

Natalie April 5, 2019 19 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Boobs On Your Tube: “Charmed” Has More Fully Realized Queer Women of Color Than Any TV Show Ever

Plus updates on episodes of This Is Us and The Good Fight that you’re not going to want to miss.

The TV Team April 5, 2019 23 Comments
TV Reviews

Karen Erases Her Own Bisexuality, Comes Out as Straight in Will and Grace’s Reverse Puppy Episode

It’s Ellen’s iconic coming out episode from 1997. Except the opposite of that.

Heather Hogan April 5, 2019 45 Comments
Straddleverse

FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Happy National Poetry Month, Let’s Share Our Favorite Poems!

“That’s how I participate in other people’s work. I carry it. The most important poems for us are the ones we carry.” – Ocean Vuong

A. Tony Jerome April 5, 2019 90 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards are Carolstraddling Into the Sunset

“Don’t c@ me.”

Darcy April 5, 2019 31 Comments
TV Reviews

“Derry Girls” Celebrates Clare’s Lesbianism in One of the Best Prom Episodes Ever

Humor infused with hope is a real gift in 2019.

Heather Hogan April 4, 2019 19 Comments
TV Feature

“Sex Education” Taught Me How to Masturbate

“I wanted to be single so I could explore my sexuality. Instead I was exploring other people’s.”

Drew Burnett Gregory April 4, 2019 21 Comments
TV Reviews

Tara Chambler’s Death on “The Walking Dead” Is More Than Just Another Buried Gay

“Tara Chambler wasn’t just the first openly LGBTQ character on The Walking Dead; she was the first gay woman I had ever seen in any form of zombie horror in my life.”

Jessica Vazquez April 4, 2019 25 Comments
Dating

10 Queers on What’s Made Them Go for the Second Date

“It didn’t work out, even on that second time, but she was really fun and I thought the haiku was inspired.”

the team April 4, 2019 15 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: CBS All Access Wants “One Day At a Time” But Might Not Get It, So You Have That In Common

Topics include the fate of “One Day at a Time,” is Ariana Grande bisexual, finding queer rep on a telenovela, the queerness of Cersei Lannister’s aesthetic transformation, Lisa Simpson is maybe poly now I guess and other pressing stories!

Riese April 3, 2019 4 Comments
Sports

It’s 2019 Women’s Final Four Time — Who You Got?

If this year’s Final Four is half as exciting as last year’s, we’re in for a great weekend of women’s basketball.

Heather Hogan April 3, 2019 20 Comments
TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 113: Vitamin C

The end of Alice’s season one arc will make you cry, in such a good way, the way The Fosters always did. Plus, the return of The Men Are Trash (But Sometimes Not) Leaderboard!

Natalie April 3, 2019 4 Comments
← Previous Page 1 … 526 527 528 529 530 531 532 … 1,436 Next Page →

From the Archives

  • Rebel Girls: The Totally Badass Suffrage Exploits of Yore That Gave Us Today’s Voting Rights
  • “The Good Fight” Episode 106 Recap: Bad Troll Rising
  • “Skins” Gets Axed, Just Like Franky

Latest Comments

  • Benji What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It? "So glad to see your work on autostraddle! I love your books, and can’t wait for the new one. As…"

  • JCF What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It? "“California’s Proposition H” Um, it was Proposition 8. It was the proposition’s *opponents* who added the H, to make: Prop…"

  • JCF ‘I Feel Incredibly Bad and Guilty After Masturbating’ "I feel guilty when I DON’T masturbate! In my 40s, I whacked off almost everyday. Now I’m in my 60s,…"

  • Kam What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It? "Thank you for writing this :) it was that special feeling when you’re reading something that puts it into words…"

Latest Posts

  • The Married New Englanders Debating an Erotic Tattoo Gun Situation
  • What Is Queer Generational Trauma, and How Do We Tell Stories About It?
  • I Hope the Crows Will Miss Me
  • What Kind of Date To Wear Each WNBA Jersey To
  • No Filter: It’s Jinkx Monsoon Summer

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