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Parenting & Family

Queer Moms Discuss What It Means To Come Out to Our Kids

Tig Notaro recently discussed what it was like to come out to her eight-year-old sons. Hearing Tig’s words made me think about my own kid.

Sa'iyda Shabazz July 5, 2024 2 Comments
Noor Aldayeh
LGBT History Politics + Activism

The Revolution Will Be Archived

Through the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Noor Aldayeh is making space for queer Palestinians to tell their own stories.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 4, 2024 11 Comments
More Please by Emma Specter
Book Features

When It Comes to Fat Liberation, the Work Is Never Done

“I think the fewer examples there are of fat people or people writing about fatness, the more we expect from individuals, when fatphobia is a systemic problem. What I really want to see is just all of the stories.”

Stef Rubino July 3, 2024 3 Comments
Hummingbirds documentary: Silvia Del Carmen Castaños and Estefanía “Beba” Contreras sit next to each other and look out at the view
Movie Reviews

‘Hummingbirds’ Is a Different Kind of Queer Teen Documentary

Struggle does not inherently hold more import than comfort and freedom and rebellion and escape.

Drew Burnett Gregory July 3, 2024 4 Comments
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: What’s Going On With Keke Palmer’s Girl Group?

Also Megan Thee Stallion is so beautiful it makes me physically ill.

Christina Tucker July 3, 2024
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Music

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.

Taylor Crumpton July 3, 2024 4 Comments
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Straddleverse

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.”

Carmen Phillips July 2, 2024 41 Comments
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Book Lists Music

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.

Gabrielle Grace Hogan July 2, 2024
You Need Help: A House in the suburbs
Friendship

‘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.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz July 2, 2024 4 Comments
You're Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan. The Pairing by Casey McQuiston. A Map of My Want by Faylita Hicks
Book Lists

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Riese
July 2, 2024 6 Comments
Teyana Taylor and Victoria Monét perform onstage at the 2024 BET Awards at Peacock Theate (Photo by MICHAEL TRANAFP via Getty Images)
Pop Culture Fix

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!

Valerie Anne July 1, 2024
A group of queer people in black and lime green t-shirts and black masks hold up a big sign that says Dykes Against Genocide Annual NYC Dyke March
Politics + Activism

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory July 1, 2024 2 Comments
On Her Terms by Amy Spalding
Book Features

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.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya July 1, 2024 3 Comments
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Movie Reviews

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.

Stef Rubino July 1, 2024 4 Comments
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Movie Lists TV Lists

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!

Riese July 1, 2024 9 Comments
Queer horoscopes for July 2024: Satellite of Love, a collage of Alexandra Shipp, Wanda Sykes, Jane Lynch, and Lana Wachowski
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Horoscopes for July 2024

July is here for you to catch your breath and release what’s stuck.

Corina Dross July 1, 2024 16 Comments
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 27: Amber Ruffin attends the "Problemista" New York Screening at Village East Cinema on February 27, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Marleen Moise/WireImage)
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

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.”

Riese June 30, 2024
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Quizzes

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!

ashni June 30, 2024 3 Comments
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Relationships

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.

Drew Burnett Gregory June 29, 2024 10 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

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!

Emet Ozar June 29, 2024 2 Comments
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