Vida’s queer showrunner Tanya Saracho talks to Autostraddle one-on-one about the politics of building a Latinx LGBT writers room, Beyoncé, and why Vida is going to be your new spring obsession!
“Identify the following gay looking birds.”
Reading “When Katie Met Cassidy” felt like closing a wound left open by other queer/same-sex romances that came before it.
May Day is also known as International Workers’ Day. Yesterday, Los Angeles marched with a spotlight on the attacks on immigrant workers and with a push for the upcoming election.
Plus: Hannah Hart joined Ellen DeGeneres’ digital network, renewals for three lesbian TV shows, Tessa Thompson loves that Tessa As Goats Twitter account, a new Whitney documentary, and more!
“Of all the awful ways to be insulted in this body I gotta say: I’m most frequently bummed out by folks who think they’re being nice.”
Also, someone threw Kehlani a surprise party and Hayley Kiyoko is kiiinda NSFW.
As always: is anyone okay?
It’s gonna be cool for the summer with all these TV shows featuring lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters.
Alex and Kara rush to find a cure for Pestilence’s… well, pestilence without falling victim to it themselves while Lena tries to separate Reign from Sam.
There’s something about your first kiss with a girl, something different. It can bring out truths you’re not ready for, it can open doors that can never be closed, it can change your life forever.
Uranus moves into Taurus this month—Uranus likes to stir things up and Taurus hates change. What will this mean for our sweet, queer love lives?
These are full of scribbled notes, neon “make me next” tabs, oil drips, crinkled pages and most of all, recipes that I adore. They’ve brought immense amounts of joy into my life by way of conversations over dinner and memories made while cooking with people I love, and they all contribute to making me a better, happier cook day by day.
How old is the oldest dildo? Where did sex toy colors come from? What sex shop originally just sold waterbeds and moodlights? Test your sex toy history knowledge right here!
Maddy Court, the creator behind Instagram lesbian meme sensation @xenaworrierprincess, teaches us how to make a meme and shares her own meme origin story.
Vida’s out non-binary actor Ser Anzoategui gave Autostraddle an one-on-one interview about the show, the importance of queer Latinx representation in front of and behind the camera, and even sang a little Selena for the heck of it. You want this!
“I don’t know why I watched it, I guess maybe I wanted to get destroyed again and Netflix didn’t exist yet. I feel like my entire generation will never recover from this film.”
Beltane is the old Gaelic festival that heralds the beginning of Spring, a “thank fuck the ice is going to stop!” all-night party.
What to do when you can’t come, how sex changes for trans women after transition; sex party stories, naked women in contemporary art, dental play and somatic writing and more.
Even more news about Janelle Monáe, Michelle Wolf came for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Disney is celebrating Pride with rainbow ears, Jen Richards is headed to HBO and more!