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Rainbow Black by Maggie Thrash
LGBT Book Reviews

Satanic Panic Depicted in Thriller ‘Rainbow Black’ Feels Strikingly Relevant to the Present

If there’s one word I could use to describe Maggie Thrash’s books, I’d use “tormented.”

Sa'iyda Shabazz April 5, 2024 2 Comments
3 across / 4 letters / clue: ___ Dyke: An Obsessive Quest To Track Down The Last Remaining Lesbian Bars In America" (2023 Krista Burton travelogue)
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Definitely Thought “Geoduck” Was a Pokémon

I really love my dry erase board.

Kate Hawkins April 5, 2024 1 Comment
Autostraddle Final Four (from top left, CW): Willow Rosenberg, Ellie Williams, Santana Lopez and Vanessa "Van" Palmer
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Final Four

Willow Rosenberg from Buffy the Vampire Slayer! Ellie Williams from The Last of Us! Van Palmer from Yellowjackets! Santana Lopez from Glee! One queer teen will rule the school, and it’s up to you to decide. Vote! Vote! Vote!

Natalie April 4, 2024 3 Comments
A still of Katharine Hepburn in Sylvia Scarlett
Movie Features

How the Academy Museum’s Queer Programmer Planned a Tribute to Sapphic Icons

“The audience perception of these actors can be just as important as their actual personal lives.”

Drew Burnett Gregory April 4, 2024 3 Comments
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First Person

Untethered: The Lesbians of Shinjuku Ni-chōme, Tokyo

I found a lot of comfort in a sapphic space, even on the other side of the world, and I even found some friends.

Nico April 4, 2024 2 Comments
A collage of photos of Bev Francis from Pumping Iron II. Bev is in a pink bikini against a psychedelic purple and blue backdrop.
Sports

Bodybuilding Icon Bev Francis Reveals Real World Behind ‘Love Lies Bleeding’

“It’s pretty simple. I wanted to win. That’s pretty much it, I wanted to be Ms. Olympia.”

Stef Rubino April 4, 2024 5 Comments
In Search of the Antidote by Fletcher
Music

Fletcher’s ‘In Search of the Antidote’ Is a Sticky, Syrupy Gossip Fest

Fletcher has the capacity to crack her world wide open. We see it in her lyrics, and we see it in the way she’s setting up the rest of her career. I still want to hear it in the sound.

Aamina Inayat Khan April 4, 2024
Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn with makeup running down her face
Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Hear First Listen of Bisexual Gaga as Bisexual Villain Harley Quinn

I mean if you’re going to cast a singing Harley Quinn, Lady Gaga does make the most sense (new key art and audio just dropped). Also: Billie Eilish speaks out against ‘predatory’ music AI, finally a premiere date for Orphan Black: Echoes, and more!

Valerie Anne April 3, 2024 5 Comments
postcards and stamps
Book Features Gender

Why I’m Compiling Queer and Trans Goodbye Letters to Places We’ve Left Behind

I stand with the grief of maps and the ways I bittersweetly still carry the places I left.

Lexie Bean April 3, 2024
Hunter Schafer and Rosalia dating
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

You Bet Your Ass Hunter Schafer Dated Rosalia

In an interview with GQ, Hunter Schafer opened up abut her long-speculated prior relationship with Spanish pop star Rosalia, thus deeply pleasing the aforementioned speculating lesbian community.

Riese April 3, 2024 1 Comment
Jasmine Goode on The Valley
TV Show Recaps

‘The Valley’ Brings Another Bisexual to Bravo — and She’s a Former ‘Bachelor’ Contestant

Jasmine Goode and girlfriend Melissa Marie appeared in the latest episode of ‘The Valley.’

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 3, 2024
Foxfire: Maddy gently touches Legs' face
Movie Reviews

‘Foxfire’ and the Intensity of Queer Teen Friendship

When you’re a teenager and only remember a decade of your life, everything feels new and important. Every feeling, every relationship, every night feels like it’s going to last forever.

Valerie Anne April 3, 2024 2 Comments
Megan thee Stallion in hot pants that say BEST *SS ON INSTAGRAM
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Hot Girl Summer Neareth

Also, how do we as a community feel about fuzzy bucket hats?

Christina Tucker April 3, 2024 1 Comment
Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing ofGay Bars SParked a Revolution by Amin Ghaziani
LGBT Book Reviews

Queer Nightlife Doesn’t Need Permanent Spaces To Thrive

In Long Live Queer Nightlife, Ghaziani examines how the closing of gay bars over the last 20+ years has helped bring about a new kind of queer nightlife, one that is less focused on being a permanent fixture in one location and more focused on mobility, inclusion, and ephemerality.

Stef Rubino April 3, 2024 2 Comments
7 across / 6 letters / clue: Peek through, like a lesbian's beanie collection
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Might Have a Hat Problem

My wife asked me the other day where I got so much candy.

Darby Ratliff April 3, 2024 5 Comments
Graphic for the 8 characters still remaining in Autostraddle March Madness 2024. Rows are each of the 2 characters across the 4 regions (Brainiacs, Jocks, Rebels and Thesbians)
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Elite 8

It’s come down to this. We have Brittany *verses* Santana in a battle royale you don’t want to miss. Plus, Elena Alvarez vs. Willow Rosenberg, Emily Fields vs. Vanessa “Van” Palmer, and The Last of Us’ Ellie Williams vs. First Kill’s Calliope Burns. YOU HAVE 48 HOURS TO VOTE.

Natalie April 2, 2024 5 Comments
collage of dead lesbian characters
TV Lists

All 242 Dead Lesbian and Bisexual Characters On TV, And How They Died

So many women who’ve suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.

Riese April 2, 2024 1,715 Comments
a person vacuuming and another person looking bummed out
Relationships

You Need Help: I Live With My Partner and Their Ex-Girlfriend and It’s Getting Hard

“I’m a lesbian in my early twenties and I have been in a relationship with my enby partner for a year and a half. We share a flat with several other (queer) people in Copenhagen, one of whom is my partner’s ex-girlfriend.”

Nico April 2, 2024 34 Comments
A stylized graphic featuring a grid of the 12 astrological signs in a light lavender against a swirled muted navy blue background.
Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for April 2024

I wouldn’t say this April is the cruelest month but it isn’t necessarily kind. So, right now, it’s up to us to be kind to each other.

Corina Dross April 2, 2024 1 Comment
The cover of A Good Happy Girl three times. A close up of a woman eating a sandwich.
LGBT Book Reviews

‘A Good Happy Girl’ Oozes With Lesbian Kink and Familial Pain

This is a work of textures, of excess, of grease, of desire. It is a portrait of pleasure as punishment and punishment as pleasure, a gluttonous urge for more until both small joys and small discomforts are compounded into the same nauseating grotesquerie.

Drew Burnett Gregory April 2, 2024
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