Seventh-Day Adventist pastor Alicia Johnston knew she would lose leadership of her congregation when she came out as bisexual, but did it anyway. She talked with Autostraddle about her hopes to the future, and how she wants to continue ministering to queer people of faith.
“I thought changing something on the outside would change the wrecked ruin of me on the inside. I thought somehow the inside would get a memo from my outside and get into shape. It didn’t, but my hair is the first way I was able to gain autonomy over my body.”
“You have to wonder which things came and went while you were busy being Saturn and now you maybe won’t have a chance to be them ever at all.”
“I try and proudly practice calling my body home, to truly inhabit my body, to feel what it feels like to live inside these muscles that bend and curl, and to feel proud of it, and no longer ashamed. This is queer crip pride.”
Fat women deserve space in fairytales, magic vs math, why calling it “confessional writing” is sexist and more.
These four powerful femmes have Done The Work, and they want to show you that you can, too!
Paige and Emily kiss and twirl and Ali finally realizes she’s pregnant with Emily’s child.
We’ve got around 30 lesbian, bisexual and queer female characters in this Summer 2017 TV Preview that’ll keep you cool for the summer, even though it’d be even cooler if there were more than 30 and they all had bigger parts!
These comedians’ answers will surprise you, and you definitely can’t find any of this stuff on Google.
“Baby’s first lecture?”
New trailers from Orange is the New Black and Orphan Black promise very intense storylines, Southwest of Salem picks up a GLAAD Award, hot queer female spokesmodels are hot, Korean television goes queer and other very important pop culture stories that could really make your day or not.
You’re going to want to see this video of Kristen Stewart dancing, trust me.
Just some gals being pals at brunch. Worth each other’s extra effort.
Join Whoopi Goldberg, Judith Light, Jane Lynch, Janet Mock, Sarah Paulson, Holland Taylor and more in sharing a meal with our LGBT elders — and then tell us all about it!
“Something about our conversations just makes me want to take off my underwear. And by ‘something’ I mean ‘everything.'”
Renegade city fae, post-apocalyptic bicycle gangs, reclusive monster boyfriends, and mysterious sewer-dwelling mermaids!
If you live in or are moving to or visiting any of the cities that we have Queer Girl City Guides to, you’ve probably noticed that they’re pretty gosh dang out of date. But not for long!
Priestdaddy, the poet’s new coming-of-age memoir, has a lot of twists and a lot of power.
For a wardrobe that seems to consist mainly of old t-shirts, cutoff shorts, and strappy sandals destined to leave tan lines, camp counselor fashion works.
Nine out of the ten trans people reported murdered this year have been Black; the tenth was a Native American woman.