Behind every great indie film is a great woman. Or, as “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” shows, an entourage of them. Autostraddle spoke with director Desiree Akhavan about making the film that won the Sundance 2018 Grand Jury Prize for Drama and got gay teens in Montana on screen.
Everyone has some things that make them hard to live with — like, literally, like in the same apartment as them. Here are ours.
Laverne Cox’s music video Beat To The Gods, LGBTQ athletes winning at the Olympics, Daniela Vega is the first openly trans presenter at the Oscars, gender-inclusive makeup launch, Pulse survivors join gun control activism, and tear-jerking photos of Black kids watching Black Panther that will probably destroy you in a good way.
The dating apps working to create safer experiences for people of color and queer and trans people, how to muff, how to have boundaries and more.
Reneice got in my bed and we MADE COOKIES. That should be all you need to know but I will also tell you that we answered food-related advice and also some relationship-advice, all while filling my sheets with crumbs! Woot!
Your family buys you weird gifts, your mom is kinda rude about your long-distance girlfriend, and you can’t move on after this breakup. Let’s get some shit done! Come on!
Okay, are these two dating or not? We did the research, and we have receipts.
I discovered the #1 thing that isn’t cool: giving a damn about someone’s opinion of me.
TAG YOURSELF!!! HAPPY FRIDAY!!! JANELLE MONÁE GAVE US TWO BISEXUAL ANTHEMS!!!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for bi-scream!
South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has come under fire from LGBTQ activists and community members for discriminating against LGBTQ people in their processes.
Sometimes being queer and black, bisexual and biracial, feels like contradiction, like too many things, and sometimes I’m not sure that I’d recognize myself if I walked by.
The “Heathers” reboot pilot dropped yesterday and Heather and Riese are here to tell you why it shattered their queer dreams into a million tiny terrible pieces.
I’m not sure what else you have going on today, but you are going to want to make room for this video.
The very premise of Wakanda is based on imagining new black realities. Creating new legends, tales of heroics that aren’t predicated on whiteness. Stories of community and strength. Liberation and stardust.
We’ve got one warm-up song to help you be the very best like no one ever was, as well as two songs of cooldown, totaling about five minutes, from everyone’s favorite queer farming simulator. And everything in between.
So much good STEM news this week! Come and get your links.
Brace yourself for the “Heathers” pilot, Melonie Diaz is playing gay again this time in Charmed, Lena Waithe’s “Twenties” is going to TBS, “Every Day” is a gender-hopping love story, Cherry Jones stars as a lesbian in “The Party,” the dudes who wrote Everything Sucks! on their inspo and so many other important YES VERY IMPORTANT stories!
“I guess there just aren’t enough hours on the bus.”
Greet them with various felicitations – ones you’re comfortable with. Don’t step too far out of your “vibe” as that will be unsettling.