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Politics + Activism

UK Home Office Says Aderonke Apata Can’t Be Gay Because She Has Children, Duh

“By ignoring the complexities of coming out both those who identify as bisexuals and lesbians with mixed dating histories like Ms. Apata are seen as demonstrating the idea that people can choose their identities with relative ease, and therefore the threat they face is technically self-inflicted.”

Rushaa March 5, 2015 23 Comments
Coming Out

You Need Help: Coming Out In Your Mid/Late 20s

The fact that you’re working through all this now doesn’t say anything negative about you or the way you moved through life for the past 24 years. What you did then was valid, and what you’re doing now is valid.

Laura Mandanas March 5, 2015 147 Comments
The Scene

Family Equality Council Honors Glee, Mayor Annise Parker and More at Awards Dinner

The Family Equality Council threw a fabulous shindig that honored the different ways in which people are fighting for LGBTQ equality. Plus, they had an excellent dessert selection.

Cleo March 5, 2015 3 Comments
TV Show Recaps

The Fosters Episode 218 Recap: The Mating Rituals Of Meerkats

Lena and Stef chat about some sexy handcuff situations, while Jude and Connor kiss right on the mouth.

Heather Hogan March 4, 2015 21 Comments
Movie Lists

9 Pretty Delightful Lesbian & Queer Comedies You Can Watch Online

AREN’T WE HILARIOUS??!!

Riese March 4, 2015 49 Comments
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Let’s Meet Up and Stay In: Autostraddle’s International Staycation Spectacular is March 14!

We want you – yes, YOU! – to take a staycation, dude. With your fellow ‘straddlers, of course.

Carmen March 4, 2015 54 Comments
Sex

5 Ways To Support Ethical Porn (Even If You Can’t Afford It)

Ethical porn can exist, but it needs your help.

Chelsea Poe March 4, 2015 23 Comments
AF+

Interview With My Ex-Girlfriend: Allison Weiss

The moment I stepped out of the moving truck and saw you, I was like: “something’s not right.”

Dannielle March 4, 2015 17 Comments
Politics + Activism

Alabama Continues Its On-Again, Off-Again Relationship With Same-Sex Marriage

Alabama’s Supreme Court has ordered probate judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples immediately.

Heather Hogan March 4, 2015 6 Comments
Book Lists LGBT History

Rebel Girls: Consider This Your Women’s Herstory Month Syllabus

I want us to embark on some serious herstorical journeys through time, but I simply cannot condense herstory into one post, so I’m gonna condense everyone else’s pieces, books, movies, and projects about women’s history into one instead!

Carmen March 4, 2015 13 Comments
Politics + Activism

Arrest Made in Brutal Murder of Black Trans Woman Islan Nettles

A year and a half after Islan Nettles’ murder, James Dixon has been charged with manslaughter and felony assault in connection with her death.

Mey March 4, 2015 3 Comments
TV Feature

27 Things I Didn’t Say Out Loud While Watching Teevee

Sure, some things need to be said when they need to be said, but apparently “that’s the guy from Lost!” is not one of those things?

Riese March 3, 2015 61 Comments
TV Show Recaps

Pretty Little Liars Episode 521 Recap: Vengeance Is Mine

Everyone visits Ali in jail to apologize for getting her arrested for a murder she didn’t commit. And Emily effin’ dances.

Heather Hogan March 3, 2015 28 Comments
Identity

You Need Help: 7 Highly Effective Habits of Dealing with Biphobes

Just kidding it’s not quite 7. They’re still good ones though.

Rachel March 3, 2015 66 Comments
First Person

TransBlack and Beautiful: Acknowledging My Authentic Revolutionary

“One morning, while I was applying my new lighter makeup, I accidentally put too much banana powder on which created a shroud of ashy yellow veil all around the center of my face. I stopped and stared back at my reflection. I looked absolutely foolish. Here I was relishing in this depigmentation of my beautiful ebony skin that I no longer looked like myself.”

L'lerrét Jazelle Ailith March 3, 2015 20 Comments
Geekery

Drawn to Comics: Girl Gamer Comics Anthology “Chainmail Bikini” Launches Kickstarter Today!

Chainmail Bikini is full of great comics by a bunch of incredibly talented women, it’s on the very timely topic of women in gaming, a lot of the comics talk about gender and sexuality and it’s just plain super geeky.

Mey March 3, 2015 2 Comments
TV News & Trailers

VIDEO: “This Just Out With Liz Feldman” Is Back With Sara Quin and Jokes and Stuff

This just in: THIS JUST OUT.

Dannielle March 3, 2015 12 Comments
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Annie Clark and Cara Delevingne Spotted Walking Next To Each Other Multiple Times

These two seem like a damn good time.

Stef March 2, 2015 50 Comments
Money + Work

Sunday Top Ten: Jobs I Didn’t Get Before I Invented This One

If at first you don’t succeed, laugh about it later on the internet.

Riese March 2, 2015 53 Comments
Politics + Activism

We Won A Thing: Nebraska Judge Strikes Down Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Gay Cornhuskers Could Begin Marrying Next Week

U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon called the ban an “unabashedly gender-specific infringement of the equal rights of its citizens.”

Heather Hogan March 2, 2015 3 Comments
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