Slowly but Surely, Gay Conversion Therapy Is Coming Out of Mental Health Practices
Lawmakers across the United States are working to eliminate therapies from mental health practices that seek to “cure” homosexuality.
He Said/We Said Rocks Fall Style in Prospect Park
Like a boi band.
New Report Reveals Bisexual Youth Face Specific Challenges — and Need Our Support
The numbers paint a bleak picture, but it’s important that they exist at all. They can be a tool for anyone invested in improving outcomes for bi youth.
“Words With Girls” Episode One Recap: Pilot This Pilot Into Your Heart This Minute
Hey remember that time Brittani Nichols got her lesbian TV show produced? IT’S ONLY THE MOST EXCITING THING TO EVER HAPPEN.
VIDEO + OPEN THREAD: Watch “Words With Girls” Now!
Watch the “Words With Girls” pilot RIGHT NOW. I’ll be here basically all day answering questions, chatting about the pilot, and hoping no one says anything too mean on YouTube.
Community Scrapbook: These Are Photos of Your Smiling, Brunchtastic Faces
I’ve compiled a gallery of your adorable brunch photos and amazing-looking brunch food shots that will make sure these days live forever in whatever the opposite of infamy is.
Drawn to Comics’ One-Year Anniversary Presents The First Annual Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards
The goal of the Autostraddle Comic and Sequential Art Awards is to recognize and celebrate positive representation for queer women and feminist issues in comics, webcomics and graphic novels.
It’s Bisexual Awareness Week! Here Are Five Ways To Celebrate
The first ever Bisexual Awareness Week aims to celebrate what makes bisexuality and bisexuals great, and honor our accomplishments throughout history and today.
The A+ Bee, Issue Four: Please Won’t You Bee My Neighbor?
This issue has everything: secret messages, advice from Dear Sour, tea that might be a UFO, a book club, and a series of horses that look like Autostraddle staff members!
Comedy Crush: Everything Brittani Nichols Touches Turns to Hilarious
“I wore a hooded shirt with a suit jacket which is a look I really enjoy but there aren’t any pictures of me in it because I’m not important, so I avoided trying to make people care about me by skipping most of the red carpet.”
How Racism, Not Shonda Rhimes, Created The Angry Black Woman
“For whatever reason, Stanley assumes that these contemporary characters are living in the same post-racial world that many people prefer to pretend we’re already living in. It’s within the confines of this utopia that these characters appear to be nothing more than sexually charged Angry Black Women, instead of oppressed minorities living in a white man’s world.”
The Speakeasy Book Club Is Reading “Sister Outsider” And You Should Too!
The Speakeasy is starting a book club to read QTPOC-relevant books, and you’re all invited to join.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Wants To Watch
A sexting game, the way people smell, a cuddling app and more!
Cara Delevigne is Rockin’ Menswear This Sunday Funday
Hillary Clinton’s there for you, Cape Town just got a gay mosque, and both the GOP and North Carolina will probably feel the sinful wrath of gay marriage at some point soon. Good thing I’ve got an owl and a kitten to get me through it.
All My Sims Are Queer, Here, Getting Used To Sims 4
“Before I was ready or able to kiss a girl in real life or to reinvent myself as the wild party girl or fierce leader or boho artist — all identities that eventually became a part of my real identity — I could play them out on my computer screen.”
The Comment Awards Are Cooking Something Up
Tea, tattoos and the tears of men.
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue Three, September 2014
Were mermaids the original lesbian separatists? What thrilling editorial conversations were had this month? Those questions and more are tackled in this peek behind the curtains.
Once More With Feeling: House Democrats Make Renewed Push ENDA Vote
Democrats, in a push led by Ohio Rep Jared Polis, are using a long-shot procedural maneuver to force a vote on ENDA this year over Speaker Boehner’s objections.
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Let’s Make Some Fall Resolutions
With all the great not-yet-winter emotions stirred up by fall comes the distinct urge to rethink and restructure some parts of my life. Am I alone in this? TELL ME I’M NOT ALONE, Y’ALL.
tATu’s Yulia Volkova: Girls Kissing Are Hot, but Gay Son Would Be Gross
O RLY?