Results for: gay marriage
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More Than Words: On the Word “Gay” and Definitive Dilemmas
Which should change first — society or the dictionary?
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More Than Words: AP Style Guide Is Once Again No Partner (or Husband, or Wife) To Gays
The AP Style Guide’s newest language decision is making everyone cry into their cake.
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Lez Liberty Lit #33: The Novel Is Not Dead
This week in lit news: reports that novels may or may not be dead have been exaggerated, the animated history of the English language, “Love Cake” and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #32: Turning The Screw
This week in lit: creepy books to read while we’re all still obsessed with Halloween, 10 years of queer YA, Emily Dickinson, “City of Night” and more.
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High Femme: Demystifying Lady Smokers
“But much like masturbation and other “personal relaxation” methods, it’s pretty obvious that most women are smoking marijuana, but not talking about it. There is a cloud of shame permeating these issues for women, where there is absolutely none for men.”
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Queered Science: NOGLSTP’s Rochelle Diamond Forged A Path For All of Us
If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need to know Rochelle Diamond’s life story.
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Special Autostraddle Fallen London Access Codes In This Post!
Run, don’t walk, to our special Autostraddle Fallen London in-game goodies codes and the chance to learn a bit more about Failbetter’s new game, Sunless Sea.
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Straddler On The Street: Chloe
Say hello to Chloe, our very first New Zealand Straddler, on this cheery Monday morning – though for her, it may already be tomorrow!
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Lez Liberty Lit #29: Against Stupidity, Apathy, And Zombification
This week in queer lit: women winning prizes, discussions about diversity, library-related crises, an excerpt from Sarah Schulman’s “After Dolores” and more.
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Going Down (South): Midnight in the Garden of Marriage Equality and Hate Crimes Laws
Georgia’s got a hot new lesbian in her legislature and she’s at the helm of some pretty progressive policies.
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More Than Words: Queer, Part 2 (Growing Pains)
From Queer Nation to queer theory to alphabet soup and umbrellas and the always-dicey process of reclamation.
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Lez Liberty Lit #25: War and Peach
This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.
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Lez Liberty Lit #26: Summertime, and The Reading is Easy
The books of Orange is the New Black, diversity in kids’ books, heroic librarians, subtle ways of convincing those around you to read your favorite childhood novels and more.
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More Than Words: The Associated Press Stamps Out Homophobia
You can take the word out of the stylebook, but you can’t take the complexity out of the word.
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Lez Liberty Lit #6: Read More Know More
This week in books: It’s NaNoWriMo! Also, East Coast booksellers deal with Hurricane Sandy, comic books and gay characters, copyright, Random Penguin House, Gore Vidal and what we’re reading.
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Almost Famous: Mary Lambert
You’ve already fallen in love with Mary Lambert’s voice, you just may not know it — she’s the female part on “Same Love,” the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis anthem for same sex marriage that we all fell in love with last year.
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Guilty As Charged
This week on NSFW Sunday: lingerie, the best vintage sci-fi porn (now with lesbian dominatrixes) and nation-wide sexual health rankings.
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Going Down (South): On Taking Your Sweet Time
Everything is slower in the South. I’m (slowly) realizing that this includes progress.
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Going Down (South): Here Comes Honey Boo Boo Child, Southern Progressive Icon
Actually, I love the image that comes from being from the same state as the Honey Boo Boo Child herself.
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Brittani’s Video Party: You’re Invited
It’s a moving picture show on the internet.