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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
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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!

We have actual *couples* going against *each other* this round! Including Yellowjacket’s Van and Tai and First Kill’s Calliope and Juliette! Plus Buffy’s Willow, SLOCG’s Leighton, and 26 other queer teens on TV who are clawing for your votes this March Madness!

Natalie March 29, 2024 2 Comments
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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
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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
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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
Godzilla queer: a diverse group of queer people with Godzilla photoshopped on the side
Movie Features

Why Do So Many Queer People Love Godzilla?

To celebrate the release of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we look at why classic Godzilla movies have such a big queer fanbase.

Lisa Laman March 29, 2024 1 Comment
5 down / 4 letters / clue: "Can a gay girl get an ___?" (Renée Rapp lyric from "Not My Fault")
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Is in a Tizzy

During my calculus test, I was sitting between identical twins.

Darby Ratliff March 29, 2024 1 Comment
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First Person

Every Life on This Page All at Once

I’m burdened by unlived lives, hovering within my dreams, just behind my pupils.

Em Win March 28, 2024 1 Comment
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Queer Pregnancy Sponsored

You’re Queer, You Want to Be a Parent, Now What? Meet PregnantTogether

PregnantTogether is the queer family building community you’ve been waiting for.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 28, 2024 6 Comments
TV Lists

12 Pretty Good Lesbian Shows We’re Pretty Sure You Haven’t Seen Yet

There’s so much great sapphic television across many genres right now that sometimes things slip through the cracks.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 28, 2024 8 Comments
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Relationships

Cheating Is Not Abuse

Consensual sex between adults should never be treated as a crime. It might be a horrible betrayal; it’s still not abuse.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 28, 2024 32 Comments
Xena and Gabrielle
First Person

I’m Watching Xena: Warrior Princess for the First Time, and My Wife Is What Makes It Special

I love getting to see this show through her eyes; I don’t think I’d enjoy it half as much if I was watching it on my own without her as a guide.

Sa'iyda Shabazz March 28, 2024 11 Comments
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TV Reviews

New ‘Top Chef’ Season 21 Host Kristen Kish Has Us Hungry AND Thirsty

There’s something about the way she looks into the camera, both smirking and glaring at the same time, that makes me want to watch Top Chef until the end of time … but also turn off the TV immediately because it is TEW MUCH.

Nic March 28, 2024
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Book Lists

Let’s Celebrate Gay Books! Congrats to the 2024 Lambda Literary Award Finalists!

Here are all the Lambda Literary Award finalists that Autostraddle wrote about this year.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 27, 2024 1 Comment
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Movie News & Trailers

Baby, Please!! ‘A Simple Favor 2’ Confirmed to Start Filming With Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick Returning

I have excellent news for any gay person reading this who still gets a shiver when Blake Lively calls you “baby” — the “A Simple Favor” sequel is OFFICIALLY HAPPENING!

Carmen Phillips March 27, 2024 2 Comments
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