FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Help Me Pick New Specs Also Yay It’s Friday!
I need some help picking out new gay eyeglasses and also it’s Friday so come in here and get some love!
A Total Beginner’s Guide To Bow Ties
If you’re ready to jump on the bow tie bandwagon, this guide will help get you started.
KOKUMO’s Galactic Bitch-Slap to the Literary Establishment
KOKUMO blasts through the bullshit rhetoric and tokenism that too-often engulf queer and trans communities in order to expose the raw struggle to survive at their heart.
Bisexual Adventist and Former Pastor Alicia Johnston Contemplates Ministry After Coming Out
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 Never Meant for My Hair to Be the Way Back to the Lighthouse
“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.”
“Everything” Is a Video Game, Maybe
“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.”
Queer Crip Love Fest: We Make it Radical
“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.”
Lez Liberty Lit: Never Neutral
Fat women deserve space in fairytales, magic vs math, why calling it “confessional writing” is sexist and more.
Fool’s Journey: Which Queen is Your Mentor?
These four powerful femmes have Done The Work, and they want to show you that you can, too!
Pretty Little Liars Episode 714 Recap: After This, And So Much More?
Paige and Emily kiss and twirl and Ali finally realizes she’s pregnant with Emily’s child.
Summer 2017 Gay TV Preview: Some Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Characters For Ya
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!
10 Stupid Questions With 10 Hilarious Queer Women, Part 1
These comedians’ answers will surprise you, and you definitely can’t find any of this stuff on Google.
Foolish Child #22: Too Sick to Function
“Baby’s first lecture?”
Pop Culture Fix: “Orange is the New Black” Season Five Trailer Is A Lot and Other Stories
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.
No Filter: Abby Wambach Coaches Fiancé Glennon Doyle Melton’s Kid To Victory
You’re going to want to see this video of Kristen Stewart dancing, trust me.
“Supergirl” Episode 220 Recap: Worst Mother’s Day Ever
Just some gals being pals at brunch. Worth each other’s extra effort.
Is Somebody Bringing the Lentils to the SAGE Table? Is It You?
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!
Real Live Lesbian Sext(ing the Zine)
“Something about our conversations just makes me want to take off my underwear. And by ‘something’ I mean ‘everything.'”
Drawn to Comics: Support the Beyond Anthology Vol. 2 Kickstarter and Read Some Great Queer Urban Fantasy and Post-Apocalyptic Comics
Renegade city fae, post-apocalyptic bicycle gangs, reclusive monster boyfriends, and mysterious sewer-dwelling mermaids!
We’re Looking for More Queer Girl City Guides and to Update Our Current Ones!
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!