Sunday Funday Is Honoring the USWNT Honoring Audre Lorde, Sally Ride and Abby Wambach at the SheBelieves Cup
Femme birds and lesbian animals, non-binary podcasters, Edie Windsor’s memoir, celebrate #BHM365, and more! Have a great Sunday!
Pop Culture Fix: That’s a Wrap on “Orange Is the New Black” and Other New Beginnings
Brie Larson believes Carol and Maria are the “great love” of Captain Marvel, Ellen Page pens an op-ed in The Hollywood Reporter about hate crimes, Lilly Singh comes out, IndieWire’s 100 greatest films directed by women is pretty gay, and more!
Four Black Queer Writers in Conversation About Jussie Smollett and Holding Up Space for Each Other
This piece was co-written by Natalie, Reneice, Alexis, and Carmen. We’re four of the black members of The Speakeasy, Autostraddle’s collective for its writers of color.
Sunday Funday Is Still Stoking Your “Killing Eve” Infatuation
Willow Smith is talking about the future, two trans legends, lesbian ephemera, and more!
Pop Culture Fix: Veep’s Lesbian Daughter Gets Sad Mainstream Lifestyle Haircut and Other Stories
Topics include the new Veep trailer, Alicia Witt on “Orange is the New Black,” casting P-Valley, a lot of Lena Waithe related projects, how “Dating Around” found its cast (including lesbians!), a lot of shows with lesbian characters getting cancelled and more!
Sunday Funday Is Obsessed With the New Killing Eve Trailer
Plus: The dictionary destroys another bigot, Ellen Page keeps being right, Japan and Switzerland get closer to marriage equality, a big court win for a trans nurse, Asia’s “gay Netflix” is coming to India, and more!
Pop Culture Fix: Alison Brie and Sugar Lyn Beard are Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer on “Drunk History”
Plus: A trailer for The Bold Type’s third season, someone finally said “I’m gay” on the Disney Channel, Sandra Oh has some thoughts on Villanelle and Eve’s post-stabbing relationship, Lady Gaga and Janelle Monáe have a mutual love, and more!
Sunday Funday Is Glorifying One Day at a Time’s Latinx Supergroup
Plus: Janelle Monae opens up about being a black queer woman, Lena Waithe pens an op-ed in Time about Hollywood’s black renaissance, Sara Ramirez is going to bat for #20BiTeen on Twitter, Kristen Gillebrand is fighting for trans service members, Carol and Therese art for Valentine’s Day, and so much more!
Be The Change: We Like to Party! 5 Activist Ideas For Your Best Birthday Bash
Birthdays are the perfect time to ask people to take action. Why? People like you! They want to celebrate you! And on your birthday, they feel slightly more-obligated-than-usual to do what you ask of them!
Also.Also.Also: How British Feminism Is Being Eaten Alive by TERFs and Other Stories for Your Day
Schitt’s Creek, a period emoji FINALLY, queer families are growing, VR and the trans body, a hole under a glacier (and other ways I describe my emotional state), the nightclubs of Harlem, and more!
Pop Culture Fix: Hulu’s Lindy West Show “Shrill” Gives Lead a Hot Lesbian Best Friend and Other Thrills
Topics include why I’m stoked for “Shrill,” Netflix’s queer-inclusive new reality show Dating Around, season three of One Day at a Time, The Walking Dead’s new lesbian couple, the Party of Five reboot and so much more!
Sunday Funday Is Celebrating the Black Queer TV Takeover
Plus: Queer food culture, Generation Z knows so many nonbinary people, King Princess on our secret history, Pride at Disneyland Paris, and New Jersey becomes the second state to require LGBT-inclusive materials in schools.
Black Queer Resiliency Will Guide Us Through Black History Month
“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” – Audre Lorde
Pop Culture Fix: Natalie Morales Will Play an Openly, Casually Bisexual Lead on NBC’S New Comedy “Abby’s”
Plus: Lena Waithe’s Boomerang looks so so gay, Megan Rapinoe thinks men should take a few hundred years off, Sasha Lane lands a spot in Gillian Flynn’s new show, Brittani Nichols is writing for Issa Rae and Robin Thede’s Black Lady Sketch Show, and your first look at Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya.
Empire’s Jussie Smollett Beaten in Racist, Homophobic Attack by Trump Supporters
An attack on a black gay celebrity like Jussie Smollet is also a message sent to his black and gay fans. So today, for all our queer fam out there, but especially for my black queer family, feel the love and strength of our community. Our kinship is a gift. Please, fortify yourself in that gift today.
Sunday Funday Is Over the Moon About Brandi Carlile’s Grammy Noms
Navajo grandparents advocating for their grandkids, a school in Latin America for trans youth, video games as a way to explore queer identity, plus RENT is back live, tonight! Happy Sunday!!!
Here’s Why Trump-Era Republicans Are Obsessed with Trying to Outlaw Trans People
In a post “love-wins” America, we’ve circled back to the underlying legal thinking of the 1950s. In the late 2010s and especially under Trump, gender and gender conformity are back under the legal microscope in a move that targets the gender nonconformity fundamental to aspects of gay identity for many, and also increasingly and dangerously, trans people.
Pop Culture Fix: Delightfully Weird Period Lesbian Film Gets Ten Oscar Nods and Other Stories
Stories include a record-breaking number of LGBTQ-inclusive films garnering Oscar nods, the long road to The Favourite, Kristen Stewart’s hot new haircut, queer Sundance picks, Batwoman gets a filming start date, gay women role models on TV, the Intimacy Coordinator of sex scenes, and so much more!
Why Did CES 2019 Revoke Its Award for Ultra-Innovative Woman-Oriented Sex Toy?
The team from Lora DiCarlo believes gender bias played a significant role in losing an award for one of their products, a sentiment echoed by other woman-run sex-tech companies. Meanwhile, the company behind the trade show insists the award was a mistake in the first place.
How Coretta Scott King Leveraged MLK’s Legacy to Fight for Gay Rights
On this Martin Luther King Day, Autostraddle remembers the activist legacy of Coretta Scott King and her fight for gay rights.