• Autostraddle Calendar Girls 2012: Luna & Michelle are March’s Girls

    We’re getting fancy this year with our Calendar Girls, where we bring you monthly behind-the-scenes videos and photos. This month it’s all about Luna and Michelle! See what March is all about. Cause it’s fuckin’ hot.

  • Pure Poetry Week Starts Now! With Pure Poetry Post #1: Def Jam

    We have declared this week Autostraddle Pure Poetry Week, when we are going to talk about poets we like all the time! First up is T.S. Eliot. Just kidding it’s Def Jam.

  • Where the Bois Are: Bklyn Boihood is the Future

    In which we talk about the future with Bklyn Boihood, “a collective that provides visibility and promotes the empowerment of masculine of center bois, lesbians, queers, trans-identified studs, doms, butches and AGs of color.”

  • How I Turned Straight Actors into Badass Butch Queers in Three Days Flat

    Gabrielle Rivera wanted an all-queer cast for her first short film. When she ended up with straight girls in her three butch/AG leads she found herself giving them a crash-course in abandoning gender norms, taking up space and playing gay. And then everything changed, forever.

  • Margaret Cho Gets Cho-Dependent: Autostraddle Interview

    We talk to Margaret Cho about tattoos, her romantic relationships with gay men, celebrities who come out later in their careers, her pick for “the next Gaga,” Adam Lambert, Ani DiFranco, Sex & the City and more.

  • Puerto Rican Singer Lisa M. Comes Out Lesbian on Facebook: “IM GAAYYYY!”

    Puerto Rican singer Lisa M. Marrero came out this week. Lindsay Lohan’s worst week ever (with complete tweet transcript, corrected for spelling & grammar) plows on. Johnny Weir’s gonna do music, Nicki Minaj in XXL, Rihanna’s BFF’s special tattoo, Archie Comics go gay, nerd crushes and LaRoux.

  • Local Cops Out Lesbian Soldier: Is Bigotry to Blame? Or Spite?

    Gay people, especially lesbians of color like Jene Newsome, continue not asking or telling and being discharged anyways — and sidenote, Rapid City has a significant history of racial discrimination. J. Crew has discriminatory hiring practices, Elton got a death threat, gay men may or may not be able to give blood eventually, New Hampshire is standing for marriage equality, and the Paycheck Fairness may be able to make a difference for working women and their families. Also, Jon Stewart explains it all for you.

  • Race, Sexuality & Feminism: Autostraddle Feminist Roundtable Part 2

    In which we ask: How does your race and/or sexuality impact your feminist identity? Do you ever feel you have to “pick one”?

  • A Shot at Tila Tequila: The Autostraddle Interview

    Autostraddle stops talking about Tila and talks to her instead: “Hopefully, after people read this interview, it will change their minds about me. But if not, it doesn’t matter. I’m still happy. I’m still going to fight for our right to get married. I’m going to buy my Teletubbies pajamas, and throw pickles at paparazzi!”

  • Sweet Sweet Charlene of Logo’s “Gimme Sugar”: The Autostraddle Interview

    “You have to break the shell, be okay with who you are regardless of the cameras and know that there’s someone out there who’s gonna relate to you. There’s no character space so if you’re not yourself that shuts off the whole reason for reality TV. Especially when it’s something about lesbians — that’s for everyone, even for gay boys, we’re fighting for visibility.”