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Nine Ways to Be a Grown-Up LGBTQ Ally to LGBTQ Youth

We’re teaming up with GLSEN for Ally Week! Let’s look at how we can be better allies to LGBTQ youth.

Kristin September 28, 2015 27 Comments
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You Need Help: You Cry Much More Than You’d Like To and Feelings Are Really Hard

Why are you crying again? How are you supposed to handle this? What are feelings and why do you keep having them? Let’s find out!

Rachel September 28, 2015 29 Comments
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Fifteen, September 2015

“In other, lighter news I want to share with everyone that there is a segment of a hot dog on the section of our roof that we can see from the bedroom window.”

Riese September 28, 2015 41 Comments
Queer Fashion

Journey To The Center: Casual Looks Inspired By My Favorite Boys

“I will never be as cool as Willie Nelson, but I’m willing to die trying.”

Adrian September 28, 2015 50 Comments
Money + Work

How to Deal With Credit Card Debt and Not Totally Ruin Your Life Forever

We’re here to talk about how to get out of credit card debt or, if that feels too big right now, how to manage your debt in such a way that it doesn’t keep you awake at night. Because neither you nor I are going to win the lottery tomorrow.

KaeLyn September 28, 2015 45 Comments
Food Lists

20 Recipes That Were Perfectly Healthy Until Bacon and Butter Came Along

Because you can always start eating healthy tomorrow.

Hannah Hodson September 28, 2015 9 Comments
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Sunday Funday Loves Your Gay Families and Baby Pandas

A train for stray dogs, lots of good news for the queer kids and parents of the world, a formal victory for Caitlyn Jenner, and more!

Carmen September 27, 2015 8 Comments
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NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Meet You Out Back In Five

A not terrible sex tape, fat people in porn, whether your summer fling will last and more.

Ryan Yates September 27, 2015 5 Comments
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The Comment Awards are Falling for You This Season

The Comment Awards are here for fall with thoughts about Galadriel, Jane Austen, and righteous Stonewall indignation.

Raquel September 26, 2015 11 Comments
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Lesbians Who Tech Takes New York, Here Are Some Free Summit Tickets

The Lesbians Who Tech Summit in New York City is coming up October 1-4, and is packed with events like TED-style talks and what is literally called “networking that doesn’t suck.” Comment on this post for a chance to win a free Summit pass!

A.E. Osworth September 26, 2015 17 Comments
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Roommate

AWMAN now we gotta talk about “Rules.”

Archie September 26, 2015 24 Comments
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Boob(s On Your) Tube: Scream Queens, Empire and Rosewood Add Even More Queer Women to the Fall TV Lineup

If you’re counting, here are four more new lesbian and bisexual women on your TV. How long they’ll stick around is anyone’s guess!

Heather Hogan September 25, 2015 28 Comments
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Shondaland Is The New Narnia: Annalise Keating Is Bisexual, Grey’s Anatomy Returns With a Very Special Lesbian Episode

TGIT premieres with six queer women!

Heather Hogan September 25, 2015 47 Comments
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I Was Invited to See the Pope Arrive at the White House and Made It a Moment of Trans Visibility

Back in August I received an invitation to the Papal arrival ceremony …a story went up, was picked up by Breitbart, and Fox News took it from there. Before long a few gay and trans folk among 15,000 guests on the White House lawn was enough to get media talking around the planet.

Vivian September 25, 2015 16 Comments
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FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Home Is Where the Gal Pal Is

I’m having a lot of feelings about “home” and I want you to come share in this general pool of emotions with me. Or not! Either way, GET IN HERE!

Carmen September 25, 2015 101 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #185: You Don’t Choose Her But She Finds You

Topics include the Slender Man murders, girls’ games, multilevel marketing, how to write about trans women, scars, Disneyland/Dismaland, Kony 2012 and moar!

Riese September 25, 2015 14 Comments
Music

VIDEO: GAYmous’s “Femme on Femme” Will Cast A Disco Witch Sex Coven Spell on You

GAYmous’ new video has everything: crystals, spells, tarot, candles, bondage, glitter, and hot femme on femme action.

KaeLyn September 25, 2015 19 Comments
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Follow Your Arrow: Blacksmith Willow Zietman on Returning to her Craft

“The one thing that is ‘typical’ about a day at the forge is that there is a lot of mess and noise, and that I sweat buckets and come home very dirty.”

Beth September 24, 2015 17 Comments
Movie Features

22 Hilarious Excerpts From Scathing Reviews of “Stonewall”

“Stonewall couldn’t be more whitewashed than if it was doused in Clorox Bleach and thrown into the laundry three times over.”

Riese September 24, 2015 84 Comments
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Recipes

My Picnic Date With Galadriel: Strawberry Soup, Mango Shrimp Salad, Focaccia and Galettes

“Just keep an eye on it and pull it out when it looks like something you think an elven queen would repin to her Pinterest cooking board.”

Laura Mandanas September 24, 2015 26 Comments
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