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Puzzles

Mini Crossword *Is* an Internet Subculture

What does a clock do when it’s hungry?

Emet Ozar January 5, 2024 2 Comments
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Lesbian Sex

Things I Do To Feel Submissive Even Though My Partner Isn’t Super Dominant

There’s room for ‘incompatibilities’ if we find mutually supportive ways to manage them.

Summer Tao January 4, 2024 5 Comments
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Book Features

“Here Are All My Favorite Delusions, I Hope You Like Them”: Talking to Gabrielle Korn About Queer Dystopian Novel “Yours For The Taking”

“I feel like so much of the theme of ‘straight women idealizing women’ just came from my dark times in women’s media. This idea that if you have a space that’s just women that it’s somehow superior — that just became so funny to me!”

Riese January 4, 2024 8 Comments
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Movie Lists

Actresses Born Before My Grandma Ranked by How Badly I Want Them to Top Me

I am a sucker for a mid-atlantic accent and a beauty in black and white.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 4, 2024 22 Comments
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Food Lists

25 Dishes for Hosting a Fancy Gay Dinner Party That Are Low Effort and Cost

Apps, soups/salads, mains, sides, and desserts that won’t break the bank or your back.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 4, 2024 8 Comments
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TV Show Recaps

“Good Trouble” Episode 511 Recap: Imagining the Past, Looking to the Future

Good Trouble thrives when it focuses on its chosen family and invests its energy in building the relationships between those characters.

Natalie January 4, 2024 1 Comment
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp and Coco Jones New Year’s Performance Is Living in My Head Rent Free

In case you missed it, queer artists like Reneé Rapp, Janelle Monáe, and Cardi B really gayed up New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Also, Jodie Foster on True Detective, noted bisexual Kate Siegel on recasting Roderick in The Fall of the House of Usher and more!

Valerie Anne January 3, 2024 3 Comments
TV Feature

Vote Now in the 6th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!

Welcome to the 2023 Autostraddle TV Awards! These awards celebrate the best in LGBTQ+ television and beyond.

The TV Team January 3, 2024 23 Comments
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Gender

A Trans Guy’s Guide to the Men’s Bathroom

2) Men do not lock the door.

Gabe Dunn January 3, 2024 21 Comments
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No Filter: Reneé Rapp Had a Pretty Banging 2023

Meanwhile, the Betts had a better day one of 2024 than I will probably ever have, but bless them!

Christina Tucker January 3, 2024 1 Comment
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Comedy Holigays

13 New Years Resolutions You’re Welcome To Steal

I don’t know when we normalized asking people what their worst habits are, but at some point, we did and now we do it every year! I hate it!

ashni January 3, 2024 3 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword is a Messy Breakup Connoisseur

Did you see the new documentary about beavers?

Rebecca Goldstein January 3, 2024 2 Comments
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LGBT Book Reviews

“Survival Takes a Wild Imagination” Shows How the Labor of Liberation Makes Us Better

Through her newest collection of poetry, Fariha Róisín explores her experiences as a queer, Muslim, Bangladeshi woman trying to heal from a childhood of abuse and the pain of generational trauma.

Stef Rubino January 2, 2024
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Politics + Activism

This Bookstore Is Giving Banned Books Back to the Florida Community They Were Removed From

A school district in Florida expunged thousands of LGBTQ and BIPOC kids books. This radical anarchist bookstore is giving them back.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 2, 2024 4 Comments
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Breakups

You Need Help: I’m Not Sure I Want To Be Friends With My Ex

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to lean into your gut feeling.

Em Win January 2, 2024 6 Comments
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Holigays

New Year’s Resolutions Can Be Fun Actually

If you want to work out more, that’s great. But it’s also great if what you want is to watch every episode of the original Twilight Zone or dedicate more time to long masturbation sessions.

Drew Burnett Gregory January 2, 2024 5 Comments
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Astrology, Tarot & Witchcraft

Satellite of Love: Queer Horoscopes for January 2024

In 2024 we need to be able to think the unthinkable.

Corina Dross January 1, 2024
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What’s New and Gay To Stream in January 2024

January is coming in hot and gay with new seasons of Hightown and Sort Of, Jodie Foster’s “True Detective: Night Country,” a quirky locked room murder mystery on a luxury ocean liner, an adult animated series starring the princess of hell and so much more!

Riese January 1, 2024 7 Comments
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Parenting & Family

Queer Mom Chronicles: Happy New Year!

Giving up control is hard for me as a mom who was a single parent for so many years.

Sa'iyda Shabazz January 1, 2024 6 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Has a T-Shirt for That

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Emet Ozar January 1, 2024 1 Comment
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