So You Love a Sports Fan
“Here are some strategies that I’ve developed in order to survive each new season of bodies doing things inside of lines.”
When Real Life’s Getting More Like Fiction Each Day
When I say I was obsessed with RENT, I mean obsessed. I grew straight out of American Girl Magazine into the world of wildly risqué musical theatre. My mother tended to encourage the things I was interested in, but this one… well, it baffled her a bit. How could a good church girl from the suburbs of Connecticut relate to this musical?
Rebel Girls: 5 Times Women Swayed Presidential Elections
When women won the right to vote in America, they changed the entire political and cultural landscape that surrounded their lives.
View From The Top: I Started As A Bottom
Started as a bottom, now I’m here.
The Fosters Episode 312 Recap: O True Apothecary
Stef’s not dying of her cancer. Yet.
20 Feminist, Queer, Body-Positive and Otherwise Radical Coloring Books
Want to combine your values and your hobbies with some feminist coloring books? We’ve got you more than covered.
Oklahoma Sets New Record Number of Anti-LGBT Bills, Can’t Wait to Discriminate
Oklahoma introduces a bunch of anti-gay bills which can potentially be really dangerous, Hillary Clinton officially wins the Iowa Caucus, 16-year-old Gynnya McMillen wasn’t given CPR until 11 minutes after she was found “cold” in her cell, a father in Tennessee was arrested for chasing his daughter with a knife after she came out to him, Germany opens its first LGBT refugee shelter and more news stories!
Boob(s On Your) Tube: “Younger” Goes All In On Lesbian Love In Season Two
Maggie and Lauren are falling hard on Younger, Lexa returns to The 100, The X-Files tells a trans story, and Legends of Tomorrow and Black Sails are back!
A-Camp 6.0 Recamps Part Three: Queers, Queers, We’re Everywhere!
In our third of four recamps, Elicia Sanchez laughs so hard she almost pees in her pants except she wasn’t wearing pants, she was wearing tights.
The Great Console Debate: A Poll and Open Thread
I’m asking everyone THE question: what’s the best contemporary gaming console?
Drawn to Comics: Balderdash! Is the Best Webcomic About Cake and Witches Around
This whole comic about two witches trying to find themselves is told with such a profound hope kindness. It lifts your spirit and makes your heart swell.
Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for February 2016
Tap into that Capricorn energy to be patient and realistic about whatever comes up, and honor your inner wise old crone this month as you navigate all your loves and likes and lusts: picture yourself in ten, twenty, or thirty years and think about the life you’d like to build.
Sew You Want to Learn to Sew: All About Sewing Machines
Ready to start sewing? You’re gonna need one of these — let’s figure out what you should be looking for.
22 Excerpts from Carmen’s Secret Tumblr, 2012 – 2015
“there was a time i did what wasn’t justified and it opened up my heart and i bled and i dropped my phone in the toilet and i felt like i was born again or a little more naked or a little more light.”
Introducing Camp Autostraddle 7.0
Who wants to join Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, Brittani Nichols, Julia Nunes, Jenny Owen Youngs, Dannielle Owens-Reid and 300 other weirdos on a mountain in Southern California? YOU DO!
You Need Help: You Don’t Agree With Your Best Friend’s Advice
I think she’s being the most supportive—and she’s exactly what you want in a best friend, because she’s in your corner and she’s supporting you as a whole person. She’s giving you some solid advice here—this is a bad idea. It is. Darling, this is a terrible idea.
Also.Also.Also: Wizarding Schools, Chin Talk and Other Stories to Start Your Week
Lots of Harry Potter stuff happening right now, emotional complexity, late people, rich kids and veggies, reparations, being a teenage girl, “diversity,” and honestly more amazing stuff than you can shake a stick at, so get in here.
“Master of None” Sets New Standard For Diversity, Overall Awesomeness
There has never been a show like this on television, one that moves with warm precision from scene to scene, self-assuredly asking questions about race, immigration, sexism, modern love, and (brilliantly) minority media representation.
55 Banana Recipes to Make Before Bananas Go Extinct or Whatever
The future of bananas may or may not be sound. For that reason, we must make as many of these banana recipes as possible as an homage to what may be the most underrated fruit in your kitchen.
Sunday Funday Would Like to Thank the Cast of “Orange Is the New Black” for This Batch of Good Gay News
Lots of good local news from across the United States for queer and trans folks, a legislator who loves her trans kid, a sick burn for Tony Abbott courtesy of his gay sister, the diverse OITNB cast at the SAG Awards, and a dog that looks like a raccoon. Get in here!