February 7th was our 14th dating anniversary and our 8th marriage anniversary. The truth is, I didn’t see myself married, in a house we own, with a child I carried, in a place in my life where I don’t want to move away or run off to the next tempting thing. I never thought I’d want stability, but here we are.
Mariana has to explain boundaries to Raj again and Jazmin finally gets Gael to understand the bigotry she’s up against.
“Have you forgotten what the A in LGBTQIA stands for?”
Plus: A trailer for The Bold Type’s third season, someone finally said “I’m gay” on the Disney Channel, Sandra Oh has some thoughts on Villanelle and Eve’s post-stabbing relationship, Lady Gaga and Janelle Monáe have a mutual love, and more!
Also, a behind-the-scenes look at Stephanie Beatriz’s One Day At A Time cameo and a Lena Waithe selfie that will stare into your very soul.
In 1974 it felt like every American was watching President Nixon’s impeachment hearings. With a single speech, a black lesbian changed the opinion of a nation. She was only getting started.
Grace Choi finally gets the backstory we’ve been waiting on for TWO YEARS. Trust me, you’re going to want a box of tissues for this one.
On internal colonization, South Asian shame and representation of happy brown queers on film.
If I could have willed a book into existence, that book would be Stray City — so I talked to Chelsey Johnson about her debut novel and what it’s like to render queer community so intimately for the public.
The problem with birthdays, and graduations, is that endings and beginnings are so often the same thing. What we’re really celebrating is the motion, the opposite of stagnating, the skill of turning your head and blinking your eyes to see things in a new light, even if your feet and heart feel heavy and the landscape hasn’t changed.
Fuck. While fat. Don’t wait.
This entire season is so gay its nearly unquantifiable.
You’ve seen the show but do you really KNOW the show?
Nothing stays the same forever, and that includes our bods; here’s the Autostraddle team talking about how they’ve noticed their bodies aging and what that’s like.
Plus a moving tribute to Dolly Parton performed, of course, by Dolly Parton.
I claimed to be a kid who “just loved birthdays,” when what I really loved was a socially sanctioned reason to shower my crushes with affection.
What to do if you want to orgasm less quickly, open your relationship, talk about and address vaginal pain and more.
Plus: Janelle Monae opens up about being a black queer woman, Lena Waithe pens an op-ed in Time about Hollywood’s black renaissance, Sara Ramirez is going to bat for #20BiTeen on Twitter, Kristen Gillebrand is fighting for trans service members, Carol and Therese art for Valentine’s Day, and so much more!
Birthdays are the perfect time to ask people to take action. Why? People like you! They want to celebrate you! And on your birthday, they feel slightly more-obligated-than-usual to do what you ask of them!
Sometimes it’s hard to tell.