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Comedy

I Fixed My Acne With a Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Leatherface Killing Mask

The first step to wearing a Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1974 Leatherface Killing Mask is finding the mask online.

Riese April 1, 2024 2 Comments
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Comedy

I Was Watching Grey’s Anatomy To Cure My Depression but Instead I Learned How To Perform Brain Surgery

How hard is brain surgery, really, when they let Patrick Dempsey perform it for years?

Carmen Phillips April 1, 2024 5 Comments
A woman gasping with cucumbers behind her
Comedy

It Happened To Me: My Girlfriend Served a Cucumber at a Dinner Party That I’m Pretty Sure We’d Used as a Dildo

It happens to all of us (right? RIGHT?): Sometimes you just have to get f*cked with a vegetable.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 1, 2024 1 Comment
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Comedy

8 Things That Are Trans Culture Because I Like Them and So Do Two of My Friends

2. Butterfly and seahorse tattoos

Drew Burnett Gregory April 1, 2024 2 Comments
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Comedy

Give Your Wardrobe a Sustainable Spring Refresh By Stealing From Your Girlfriend’s Closet

Everything you need to give your wardrobe a sustainable spring refresh is already within reach.

Riese April 1, 2024 1 Comment
a woman with a mic and tears coming out of her eyes
Comedy

BREAKING: Local Lesbian Is Sad, Thinks Solution Is To ‘Start Doing Poetry Open Mics’

Janet P. says it was heartbreak that brought her to the “Free Drinks (Two Per Person Limit) Open Mic Night” at McKinney’s Irish Pub.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 1, 2024
1 down / four letters / clue: Actress, writer, and bisexual icon Wilson
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is a Musical Theater Gay

I only seem to get sick on weekdays.

Kate Hawkins April 1, 2024 1 Comment
Graphic for the 16 characters still remaining in Autostraddle March Madness 2024. Rows are each of the 8 characters across the 4 regions (Brainiacs, Jocks, Rebels and Thesbians)
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: “The Kids Are Alright” Sweet 16

Van survived a plane crash and being mauled by wolves on Yellowjackets… can she survive and advance in a match-up with Atypical’s Casey Gardner? Also we have two famous ships facing EACH OTHER, Glee’s Santana and Brittany vs. Everything Suck’s Kate and Emaline. It’s time to Vote!

Natalie March 31, 2024 1 Comment
A collage of Female Mimics International covers that look like they're spread out on a table.
LGBT History

Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility Thirsting Over the Sexy Retro Covers of ‘Female Mimics International’

The best way to see a wide variety of trans women in a wide variety of scenarios is by looking at porn.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 31, 2024 3 Comments
Lou from Love Lies Bleeding smoking a cigarette, egg whites, Jackie lifting a dumbbell
Quizzes

Quiz: Which Prop From Love Lies Bleeding Are You?

Please know I was tempted to make this a quiz to find out which word from the Love Lies Bleeding title you are: Love, Lies, or Bleeding?

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 31, 2024 5 Comments
the three leads of Y tu mamá también dancing together
Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: The Rules of Desire in ‘Y Tu Mamá También’

Y Tu Mamá También relies on ambiguity: Partly, I presume, so that it could reach audiences who might not have watched the film had it been more explicitly gay. I know young me wouldn’t have dared to.

Edgar Gomez March 30, 2024 7 Comments
9 down / 4 letters / clue: Boobies
AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Is Sorry Not Sorry

How do flat-earthers travel?

Kate Hawkins March 30, 2024
Drag Race 1613 recap: Sapphira in orange stands next to the dancer she put in drag
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1613 Recap: Magic Michaela

The Queen of Capitalism RuPaul Charles has tasked the queens to makeover hunky male dancers from Drag Race Live!

Drew Burnett Gregory March 29, 2024 4 Comments
A collage of Station 19's LGBT characters dressed up for their Pride episode. Everyone looks tense or scared.
TV Show Recaps

Station 19’s Pride Episode Played With Our Fear

Even before it aired, I knew that Station 19’s Pride episode going to polarize. It’s not that an episode of television about “violence at fun gay events” can’t be well done. It’s that it’s been done too often before. And betting on queer fear is cruel.

Carmen Phillips March 29, 2024 2 Comments
Marsha Warfield's Roz kisses her wife at her wedding in the Night Court season two finale.
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Night Court Rights a Historic Sitcom Injustice, Brings Roz Back for Her Gay Happy Ending

Plus updates on NCIS: Hawai’i and Rasika Venkatesa is our new chefbian on Top Chef!

Carmen Phillips and Natalie
March 29, 2024 4 Comments
Graphic for the 32 characters till remaining in Autostraddle March Madness 2024. Rows are each of the 8 characters across the 4 regions (Brainiacs, Jocks, Rebels and Thesbians)
TV Feature

Autostraddle March Madness 2024: ‘The Kids Are Alright’ Round of 32!

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Natalie March 29, 2024 2 Comments
Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy by Laura Ingalls Wilder
First Person

Et Tu, Laura Ingalls Wilder?

I, too, can only be what I am. And I am a hick, and a hillbilly, and a half-breed. I’m just telling you a story. It’s all I know how to do.

Autumn Fourkiller March 29, 2024 26 Comments
Beyonce in images from Cowboy Carter, in a cowboy hat, shared in a collage form
Music

Your ‘Cowboy Carter’ Reading List Is Here! Giddy the Fuck Up!

SERIOUSLY HAVE YOU LISTENED TO THE MASTERY OF THIS ALBUM!?!?!?

Carmen Phillips March 29, 2024 3 Comments
a black and white photo of a Black woman looking aggravated by her smartphone with a gray background dotted by red map app location markers
AF+

Is Refusing To Share My Location a Red Flag?

A request from a younger girlfriend has a reader wondering if her aversion to location sharing is a generational conflict. Also: how to keep a relationship sexy without sex and how to celebrate newfound queer desire and forgive our younger selves.

the team March 29, 2024 10 Comments
Fletcher Pretending music video: an image of Fletcher kissing a girl lying down on concrete six times with the middle images covered in an orange filter
Music

Fletcher’s Music Video for ‘Pretending’ Has Big Sapphic Crush Feelings — and Girls Kissing

The music video for “Pretending” has been released and it has the Fletcher signatures: girls kissing and lots and lots of gay yearning.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 29, 2024
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