• About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
  • Shop
  • Sign In
  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Anonymous Job Confessions
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • Things I’ve Never Asked
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diaries
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Lesbian Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles

Life

  • LGBT History
  • Health
  • Travel
  • Money + Work
  • Geekery
  • Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft
  • Holigays
  • Parenting & Family
  • Pregnancy

Etc.

  • Special Issues
  • Webcomics
  • Lists/Top Tens
  • Greatest Hits
  • Ranked by Lesbianism
  • Epic Lists
  • Shopping
  • Podcasts

  • Support Us
    • Give to Autostraddle
    • Become an AF+ Member
    • AF+ Gift Membership
    • Buy Our Merch
  • Sign In
  • Home
  • AF+
    • All AF+ Posts
    • AF+ Discount Marketplace
    • Into the AF+ Advice Box
    • AF+ Roundtables
    • Personal Essays
    • Anonymous Job Confessions
    • Interview with My Significant Other
    • Things I’ve Never Asked
    • The Autostraddle Insider
    • Some Answers to Some Questions
    • Sex Diaries
    • S L I C K Erotica
    • Interview With My Ex
    • Excerpts From My Secret Diary
    • Annual Report
  • Television
    • All Television Posts
    • LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now
    • TV Show Recaps
    • TV Reviews
    • TV Lists
    • TV News & Trailers
    • TV Features
    • The L Word: Generation Q
    • Autostraddle TV Awards
    • To L and Back Podcast
    • Boobs On Your Tube
  • Film
    • All Film Posts
    • The 100 Best Lesbian Movies Of All Time
    • The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema
    • Movie Lists
    • Movie Reviews
    • Movie Features
    • Movie News & Trailers
  • Entertainment
    • Literature
    • Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)
    • Style
    • Music
    • Theater
    • Visual Art
    • Comedy
    • Sports
  • Love + Sex
    • All Love + Sex Posts
    • Dating
    • Lesbian Sex
    • Sex Toys
    • Lesbian Dating Apps
    • Friendship
    • Breakups
    • Relationships
    • Lesbian Weddings
    • Shibari 101
    • Tops & Bottoms
  • News
    • Politics + Activism
    • Society + Culture
    • Pop Culture Fix
  • Community
    • Culture
    • Straddleverse
    • The Autostraddle Yearbook
    • LGBTQ+ Businesses
    • LGBT Pride
    • Autostraddle Reader Data
  • Identity
    • First Person
    • Coming Out
    • Gender
    • The QTPOC Speakeasy
    • Disability
    • Bisexuality
  • Home
    • Crafts & DIY Projects
    • Food and Drink
    • House & Garden
    • Pets & Animals
  • Games
    • Quizzes
    • Puzzles
  • Shop
  • About
    • About Autostraddle
    • Meet The Team
    • Jobs
    • Advertise
    • Press
    • Events
    • Contact
    • Comment Policy
Riley in the locker room in Backspot
Movie Reviews

Queerleading Drama ‘Backspot’ Captures Girlhood in All Its Extremes

Cheerleading is a sport full of contradictions and paradoxes, and Backspot explores that well.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 3, 2024 2 Comments
Autostraddle and Bookshop collab with two lesbians reading together
Book Lists

75 Books for Every Pride Vibe

Browse our curated list of books by LGBTQ authors and receive a discount on books purchased through Bookshop all Pride month long!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 3, 2024 3 Comments
The musician Zolita
Music

Zolita Transforms Heteronormative Spaces Into Queer Ones

“I love taking spaces and worlds that seem so heteronormative and set in the male gaze on the surface, then making them queer.”

Gen June 3, 2024 3 Comments
3 down / 5 letters / Leans, like how the softball community leans lesbian
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Also Leans Lesbian

And you know what they say: if you’re leaning, you could be solving crossword puzzles.

Darby Ratliff June 3, 2024 2 Comments
a person on a laptop starting an onlyfans
Money + Work

So You Want To Start an OnlyFans

Ultimately, online sex work is more akin to starting a small business than making easy money.

Summer Tao June 2, 2024 1 Comment
Do Revenge, Schitt's Creek, The L Word, Janelle Monae, Jennifer's Body
LGBT Pride Quizzes

Quiz: Which of the Seven Deadly Sins Should You Indulge in This Pride Month?

Why stop at pride when all seven deadly sins are fun tbh.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya June 2, 2024 6 Comments
Queer horoscopes for June 2024: a collage of Troye Sivan, Laverne Cox, and Angelina Jolie with Gemini and Satellite of Love written
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Queer Horoscopes for June 2024

Pride 2024: May we hold in our hearts this month who we’re fighting for and who’s fought for us to be here at all.

Corina Dross June 1, 2024
collage odf queer shows coming to streaming networks in June 2024
Movie Lists TV Lists

June 2024: What’s New, Gay and Streaming

We’ve got Orphan Black: Echoes, a massive doc about queer comedy and another about the WNBA, Eva Longoria on the lam in Spain with her lesbian daughter, Hannah Einbinder’s stand-up special, the Dakota Johnson rom-com and more!

Riese June 1, 2024 14 Comments
43 across, three letters. ___ Culturistas (Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang podcast)
AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Wishes Everyone a Happy June

AF+ Crossword also recommends packing lots of sunscreen and staying hydrated.

Rebecca Goldstein June 1, 2024 1 Comment
carina and maya kissing a baby on station 19
TV Show Recaps

Boob(s On Your) Tube: Suited-Up Carina DeLuca Delivering a Baby in the Middle of a Forest Fire Is So Hot??

We’re saying goodbye to Maya and Carina on Station 19, Jules and Yasuda build up sexual tension in the Grey’s Anatomy season finale and recaps of All-American, Pretty Little Liars: Summer School, 9-1-1 and Beacon 23.

Natalie, Valerie Anne and Carmen Phillips
May 31, 2024 3 Comments
Kehlani in front of a Palestinian flag
Music Politics + Activism

Kehlani’s ‘Next 2 U’ Music Video Is Queer and Pro-Palestine From Start to Finish

Kehlani uses images of Palestinian resistance throughout the music video.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 31, 2024 15 Comments
We Are Lady Parts season two: the core five members of Lady Parts in suits and sunglasses walk down the street with instruments
TV Reviews

‘We Are Lady Parts’ Is Back When We Need It Most

We Are Lady Parts is back and even better with overt politics, a sharp self-awareness, and more great songs.

Natalie May 31, 2024 1 Comment
a person shouting that she's gay
LGBT Pride

Pride Month Starts Tomorrow So if You Think You Might Be Gay, Now’s the Time To Say It!

Straight people have to be quiet starting tomorrow.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 31, 2024 2 Comments
AF+

My Girlfriend Has Been Lying to Me for Months About The Weirdest Thing

You don’t care if she graduated college or not, but either way she’s been lying about it to everyone! Plus advice on dealing with a couple’s fight when they’re also your roommates.

the team May 31, 2024 11 Comments
"i want you more" by swan huntley
Book Features

‘I Want You More’ Traps a Lesbian Ghostwriter in a Manor With a Devious Food Network Star

Talking to Swan Huntley about her new queer thriller “I Want You More,” building a writing career, whether she takes her own advice, the endless internal void, loving food shows despite not being a cook.

Riese May 31, 2024 1 Comment
1 across / 5 letters / "Challengers" role for Zendaya
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is Just Making Things Up Now

Please don’t quote us on any supposed “botanical” facts in this puzzle.

Rebecca Goldstein May 31, 2024 1 Comment
TV Show Recaps

In ‘Under the Bridge’ Finale, Cam and Rebecca Both Finally Go Home

Like most episodes, the events of “Mercy Alone” are faithful to an emotional truth if not the specific facts of what really happened.

Riese May 30, 2024 5 Comments
Chappell Roan
Queer Fashion

The Queer Legacy Behind Chappell Roan’s Fashion Choices

Known for her queer pop anthems as much as for her drag-inspired looks, this past year has seen Chappell Roan evolve her style with a decidedly 80s twang.

Freya Robinson May 30, 2024 3 Comments
untethered collage
First Person

Untethered: Between the Mobile Dungeon and the Infamous Adult Store, Longing for a Safe Third Space

“The way someone takes responsibility for or shares a space can say a lot about them.”

Nico May 30, 2024 2 Comments
The 7-10 Split and A Little Kissing Between Friends
LGBT Book Reviews

This Month, We Get Two Sapphic Romances Featuring Black Main Characters

I hope this means there will be more trad pubs looking to publish Black sapphic stories, because my bookshelf is ready.

Sa'iyda Shabazz May 30, 2024
← Previous Page 1 … 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 … 1,423 Next Page →

From the Archives

  • “To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 405: Lez Girls
  • Queer Horoscopes for Aries Season 2025
  • January 2023: What’s New and Gay To Stream

Latest Comments

  • Drew Burnett Gregory ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Special Recap: Basketball and Bosco?? Lesbians Are Winning "Into girls or just from the Pacific Northwest… the age old question."

  • Drew Burnett Gregory ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Special Recap: Basketball and Bosco?? Lesbians Are Winning "She really is uniquely crushable !"

  • Drew Burnett Gregory ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Special Recap: Basketball and Bosco?? Lesbians Are Winning "That’s so nice! Thank you!!"

  • Jordan The Horrors Persist, but So Does Queer Community "Hard agree. I just joined Muay Thai and it is very queer coded. Only been there for a few weeks…"

Latest Posts

  • ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars’ Special Recap: Basketball and Bosco?? Lesbians Are Winning
  • AF+ Crossword Gets Snarky
  • Hold Up, Can My Friend Date My Ex?
  • ‘Hacks’ Loves Bad Moms (Same)
  • Amanda Tori Meating Invites You to the Dollapalooza

Our Network

  • Store
  • For Them

About Us

  • What is AS?
  • Meet The Team
  • Press
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
  • Write for Us
  • Cookie Policy
  • Privacy Policy

Follow Us

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Instagram
  • RSS

Copyright 2009 - 2025 The Excitant Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Comment Policy

Read ad-free: join AF MEDIA