TIFF 2024: A Queer and Trans Festival Recap
Thoughts and reviews on 41 movies from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — all the queer cinema and more!
Mini Crossword is Waiting With Bated Breath
We’re shivering in antici….
Quiz: Which Lesbian Bag Are You?
Are you wearing your fanny pack as a cross-body bag or wearing your Public Library tote bag until it falls apart in your hands? Time to find out what kind of lesbian bag you are!
Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Music Ruins the Lesbian Sex in ‘Chloe’
On the surface, it’s actually a pretty great sex scene! There’s lively fingering!
Baopu #127: I’ll Sink or Float
It may seem counterintuitive at first, but letting your feet off the ground can lead to more freedom.
TIFF 2024: The Melodrama of ‘Daughter’s Daughter’ Fails Its Dead Lesbians
The lesbian character feels like a prop, a character meant to show up in flamboyant eye makeup, go through IVF, and then die.
TIFF 2024: ‘Bird’ Might Just Be Andrea Arnold’s Masterpiece
It’s thrilling to watch an artist as accomplished as Arnold reach a sort of apex of her talents while still pushing for reinvention. The result is a film that is impossible to predict from narrative to form to emotional experience.
AF+ Crossword Is Into Homo-Phones
See what we did there?
Presenting The Winners Of The 7th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards
The votes have been counted and it’s time to tell you who’s bringing home imaginary trophies for this Emmy Season’s very best LGBTQ+ television.
I Don’t Wanna Promote My Friend’s Bad Art
Your friend’s art is not great, but they keep asking you to share it on social. Also, a reader is feeling a little too embodied after having a baby.
10 Queer TV Shows That Should Have Opened With a Group Dance Like ‘The Perfect Couple’
For example, picture the cast of The Haunting of Hill House dancing to “Monster” by Lady Gaga.
TIFF 2024: ‘Sad Jokes’ Is a Queer Story That Defies Genre
This is a very human film, but it’s also a very gay film with jokes that are sure to land even harder for queer audiences.
Power Ranking Chappell Roan’s Most Iconic Queer Looks
Chappell’s 2024 VMAs looks have unseated the number one spot.
AF+ Mini Crossword Is Checking if Mercury Is in Retrograde
Surely it must be, right?!
Chappell Roan Dedicates Her VMA Win to Drag Artists
Here are all the gay highlights from the 2024 VMAs!
Play Parties Let Me Explore My Asexuality
Maybe I didn’t always know I was ace, but I can’t say there weren’t signs.
No Filter: Enjoy a Little Kristen Stewart by the Sea
Stewart’s adaptation of “The Chronology of Water” is IN PRODUCTION. Plus, more queer celeb updates from IG.
TIFF 2024: ‘Linda’ Uses Taboo Eroticism in Its Class Critique
The wrongness of the servant/matriarch relationship does not preclude these encounters from being very, very sexy.
TIFF 2024: ‘Sweet Angel Baby’ Is an Old School Drama about Small Town Homophobia
I’m glad we have lesbian cinema that goes beyond this narrative of homophobia and shame. But as long as homophobia and shame are present in our world, there will be a place for movies like Sweet Angel Baby.
AF+ Mini Crossword Has Brunch Plans
Settle a debate for us: Is it still brunch if it happens before 10am, or is that just breakfast?