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Marian and Jamie from Drive Away Dolls against a background of Florida maps, bar signs, and palm trees
LGBT History Movie Features

Real Life Late-90s Lesbian Spaces in the South Where the Drive-Away Dolls Could Have Stopped

Being from Florida, I know how easy it is for the history of queer and trans people to be lost to time, and I think it’s an important part of our fight for liberation to buck against that where and when we can.

Stef Rubino March 18, 2024 2 Comments
Edible Arrangements: Modernism's Queer Forms by Elizabeth Blake
LGBT Book Reviews

Elizabeth Blake’s Edible Arrangements Is Hungry (and Horny) for Modernist Literature

The book can help us understand the sensual relationship between food and sex in Je Tu Il Elle and in other forms of LGBTQ art, media, and cultural production.

Lauren Herold March 18, 2024 1 Comment
1 across / 5 letters / Grammy winner Victoria who wrote "Touch Me" about Kehlani
Puzzles

Mini Crossword Loves a Good Portmanteau

As I get older, I remember all the people I lost along the way.

Darby Ratliff March 18, 2024 3 Comments
a collage of an AI model with red hair
Comedy

I Accidentally Crushed on a Rocket Scientist Lingerie Model Who Was Actually AI-Generated

I hunger for the exploits of smart, beautiful women, and Instagram is happy to feed me. So when she was recommended to me, I foolishly took the profile at face value.

Summer Tao March 17, 2024 4 Comments
A collage of Drive-Away Dolls characters for the which Drive-Away Dolls character are you quiz.
Quizzes

Which “Drive-Away Dolls” Character Are You?

Are you the free-spirited Jamie or the uptight Marian? Or maybe you’re a hippie chick played by Miley Cyrus with an affinity for making plaster casts of your lovers’ genitalia?

Drew Burnett Gregory March 17, 2024 7 Comments
First Four Contests of the 2024 Autostraddle March Madness
AF+

AF+ Members: Pick the Winners of the Autostraddle March Madness First Four

La Brea’s Izzy vs. Bel-Air’s Ashley Banks! Dare Me’s Beth vs. Big Shot’s Mouse! Gen V’s Marie vs Jordan! Everything Sucks’ Emaline vs. Ginny & Georgia’s Max! Are you ready to tip off this year’s edition of Autostraddle March Madness?? LFG.

Natalie March 16, 2024 4 Comments
Marian and Jamie kissing in Drive-Away Dolls
Movie Features

Anatomy of a Queer Sex Scene: Drive-Away Dolls Is Suffused With Lesbian Sex Throughout

“Justice for shower sex! It’s so controversial but I’m very pro.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and Drew Burnett Gregory
March 16, 2024 3 Comments
A cartoon illustration of a queer person declares that they are in their SLUT ERA
Webcomics

Reine #58: Communication Era

“Oh, I remember sexting on Tumblr! Vintage. I can vibe.”

Ren Strapp March 16, 2024 3 Comments
7 across / 4 letters / clue: Dildo, for some
AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Is Gayer Than Charlie’s Angels

You used to be able to get air for free at gas stations, but now it’s a dollar.

Rebecca Goldstein March 16, 2024
Drag Race 1611: Morphine leans back with her mouth open during the lip sync
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1611 Recap: Living for Your Lip Sync

It’s a star-making performance from someone I already knew was a star.

Drew Burnett Gregory March 15, 2024 3 Comments
Carina and Maya look at each other lovingly on Station 19
TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Carina and Maya Are Entering Their Hot Moms Era, You Know I’m Here for It

But this is Station 19’s last season. These are the last few weeks we will ever spend with Maya and Carina. They deserve a happy ending. So I’m going to step into that joy and stand ten toes down in it.

Carmen Phillips March 15, 2024 5 Comments
Renee Rapp calling for a Ceasfire in Gaza from the GLAAD stage, she is wearing a black suit against a black sparkly background
Politics + Activism

Reneé Rapp Calls for “Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza” From GLAAD Awards Stage

What most struck me about Reneé Rapp’s willingness to say the words “ceasefire in Gaza” from the GLAAD stage is how rare it is, even now, to see eventhat level of advocacy at all.

Carmen Phillips March 15, 2024 6 Comments
a book with scribbles on it
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #335: Big Pants, the Disney Adult-Industrial Complex, Fancy Dorms and Flo

Andrea Long Chu on the critic and her publics, Rich Juzwiak on quitting, Caity Weaver on Flo from Progressive. Also: the re-ascendence of large pants, Kowloon Walled City, High Point University’s luxury dorms for America, a teen’s fatal plunge into the London underworld and more longreads for you.

Riese March 15, 2024 2 Comments
Corkie biting Violet's fingers in Bound
Movie News & Trailers

Bound Joins the Criterion Collection, a Win for Sapphic Cinephiles

It will become the 9th film directed by and about queer women to join the collection. Listen, I know this is important for Cinema reasons, but it’s important for Horny reasons, too.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 15, 2024 2 Comments
A vigil for Nex Benedict shows his photo next to candles
Politics + Activism

Nothing the Medical Examiner Can Report Will Change Nex Benedict’s Cause of Death

It feels safe to say that Nex died as a direct result of trauma from the physical altercation at the school. Maybe not just the one, maybe so many more. Maybe years of bullying, of ostracization, of feeling unwelcome and out of place at the school he was required to attend every day.

Riese and Carmen Phillips
March 15, 2024 2 Comments
Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brian lie in bed together in a close up in Love Lies Bleeding.
Movie Reviews

“Love Lies Bleeding” Is a Queer and Carnal Neo-Noir Western

Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian have explosive chemistry, gazing at each other with an intensity that feels both too soon and eternal.

Jourdain Searles March 15, 2024 14 Comments
Kyle Richards at the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion part three addressing the rumors of dating Morgan Wade.
TV Show Recaps

Kyle Richards Says She Was Curious To Kiss Morgan Wade in “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Reunion

Kyle Richards answers questions about whether she and Morgan Wade are dating in the season 13 reunion.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 15, 2024
a bright yellow background with multiple cut out mouths smiling and seeming to talk on it
AF+ Friendship

Help! My Friends Won’t Shut Up

Plus advice about leaving a controlling partner and getting second dates.

the team March 15, 2024 2 Comments
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Dating

25 Things About Being Chronically Single

“I’m not sure that people who’ve spent most of their lives in relationships receive this same type of ‘Why?'”

swan huntley March 15, 2024 21 Comments
A collage that features a gloved hand of a medical professional with a BRCA test vial, more gloved medical hands, and a torn up insurance card.
Health

What to Expect When You Feel a Lump

If I was going to consider the possibility of having cancer then I wanted to be sure all treatment options were on the table without anyone else’s view of what it means to be a woman getting in the way.

Katie March 15, 2024 1 Comment
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