‘Hummingbirds’ Is a Different Kind of Queer Teen Documentary
Struggle does not inherently hold more import than comfort and freedom and rebellion and escape.
No Filter: What’s Going On With Keke Palmer’s Girl Group?
Also Megan Thee Stallion is so beautiful it makes me physically ill.
Megan Thee Stallion’s New Album Is a Coronation
It is radical for a woman like Megan, who has had her sexuality be used against her, reclaim it in a way that recenters her pleasure.
In the End, There Will Always Be Love
“For nearly the last seven years, I’ve felt incredibly lucky to have known Autostraddle from the inside out, every corner and nook and cranny, because I loved it first as a reader.”
Which Queer Midwest Writer To Read Based on Your Favorite Chappell Roan Song
Growing up in a Missouri trailer park, Chappell has been outspoken about the Midwest as a center of cultural revolution.
‘I Resent My Best Friend for Moving Away and Having Kids’
“A few years back, my best friend got married, moved to the suburbs, and had kids.”
46 Most Anticipated Queer Books Coming Out This July and August
As usual, all genres are represented, but there’s a surprising amount of creepy reads in the thriller/horror realm coming out the rest of summer.
The BET Awards Were Extremely Hot and Gay: Victoria Monét, Megan Thee Stallion Amongst Those Who Made It So
In today’s pop culture fix — tons of queer performances at the BET Awards, Pride Barbies, a queer cast member of Real Housewives of New York City, Kehlani talks about being a lesbian and more!
What Dykes Care About (According to the NYC Dyke March)
The march has always had a variety of chants and slogans, and as I looked around I felt like I received a window into what dykes care about right now. Or, you know, what dykes in NYC who attended this march care about.
Exclusive Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Get a Sneak Peek of Amy Spalding’s Upcoming Sapphic Rom-Com ‘On Her Terms’
Check out the first chapter of On Her Terms, a sapphic rom-com with a fake relationship plot.
With ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ Yorgos Lanthimos Perfects the Language of Cruelty
In the Lanthimos universe, characters commit acts of violence, desperation, adoration, and ferocity inside of an absurdist haze.
July 2024: What’s New, Gay and Streaming
We’ve got a lesbian mixologist in an A24 series about grief and robots, Netflix’s “wine-soaked sex romp in the Italian countryside,” the streaming release of Love Lies Bleeding, a Melissa Etheridge documentary and more this Olympic July!
Queer Horoscopes for July 2024
July is here for you to catch your breath and release what’s stuck.
Amber Ruffin Delivers Triumphant Pride Month Finale By Coming Out as Queer
Writer, actor and comic Amber Ruffin took to instagram to announce: “In what will come as a shock to exactly zero people, I’m using the last day of PRIDE to come out.”
Quiz: Which Iconic Early Aughts Kids TV Character Are You?
Are you Jimmy Neutron? Lizzie McGuire? Mrs Frizzle? There are so many early aughts kids TV characters that you could possibly be and today you will find out which one you really are!
10 Challenges of a Long Distance Relationship That Have Nothing To Do With the Relationship
Here are the ten biggest challenges I’ve faced as someone who splits my time between two countries because an Instagram crush got out of hand and whoops I fell madly in love.
AF+ Crossword Is Looking For a Beach Read
If you are also looking for a beach read, we’ve got a few recs in this puzzle!
Boob(s On Your )Tube: ‘The Chi’s Thanksgiving Finale Underwhelms But Sticks The Landing
‘The Chi’s rainbow coalition gets the short shrift in its finale episode, Coop and Patience are making big moves in All-American, and Criminal Minds continues to be stressful.
Things I Read That I Love #336: The Brat Pack, Buying Sperm, Conversational AI and Streaming Wars
Annie Hamilton befriends Tavi Gevinson and gets unhinged about it, the future of streaming, literary it-girls, MTV’s “The Real World,” Colleen Hoover has writer’s block, Kindbody sucks, a really funny piece about a “Conversational AI” conference and so much more!
I Hate That I Want My Girlfriend To Stop Posting Sexy Pics Of Herself On Social Media
A girlfriend’s sex-positivity is crossing a line — but it’s a line you don’t even want to have. Also, a reader outed a cheater and now it’s just Drama City!