It’s been a wild year for gay pop culture, and a great year for some very well dressed queers — enjoy it with this very subjective but deeply felt top 11 of 2018, as based on an internal Autostraddle staff survey.
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You’ve crafted some longterm goals and set some realistic expectations. Now you’re ready to tackle the most important part of doing the thing: actually doing the thing.
From memoirs to how-to’s to love stories to sports to space, 2018 was another brilliant year for graphic novels written by queer people about queer people.
Here’s a secret: The best parties actually have no occasion attached (sometimes the occasion is that you feel dead inside).
Topics include a sneak peek at Killing Eve Season 2, Sabrina’s Lachlan Watson journey “from lesbian to trans to non-binary,” “thank u next” co-writer Victoria Monet on coming out as a queer black woman, a lot of things about The Favourite, Christmas movies ranked by queerness and so much more!
This toy is a reasonably priced, absolutely fine version of a clit vibrator.
No false promises of “girl power” or happiness. Just a reassurance that being alone together is better than being apart.
It’s sometimes funny, the things we find ourselves feeling attached to…
Come for Teddy Geiger’s thirst traps, stay for Ellen Page’s Christmas soup.
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I will bring the peppermint bark!
This was gonna be a review of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but instead it’s just an entire thing about how Susie Myerson is a butch lesbian who works at a club surrounded by lesbian bars frequented by other butches and yet somehow she is not, officially, a lesbian, and neither is anybody else on this usually delightful show!!!
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I absolutely adore all parts of this comic because all elements of it perfectly straddle two tones. The first, a serious critique of actual modern issues of socially applied technology and the second, something we’re all in serious need of these days: a good gay romp.
Demonic witch queens are always queer. Fact.
Plus: a teenage girl is battling homophobia with cake batter, women carpenters are building homes for the houseless, lesbian football, and all the gay clubs in Utah that are open on Christmas, and more!
The holidays make people horny, apparently (?). Plus when vulvas taste like vulvas, why exes are a plague this time of year, a cis-trans lesbian couple who found each other in the closet and more.
It’s simple, delicious, festive, and so easy to make!