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Drag Race 1602 recap: The second group of queens all line up and pose
TV Show Recaps

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Episode 1602 Recap: B Team

Her sign should’ve read: “If you love drag on TV, don’t let your conservative families and shitty husbands vote against our rights.”

Drew Burnett Gregory January 13, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

The Traitors Is a Dramatic Game of Social Manipulation, What Does That Teach Us?

“The Traitors” demonstrates how groups of people define otherhood, rightly or wrongly, based in reality, assumption, fantasy, or some mix of all three.

Anya Richkind January 13, 2024 19 Comments
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AF+ Puzzles

AF+ Crossword Supports Queer Indie Bookstores

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Emet Ozar January 13, 2024 1 Comment
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TV Show Recaps

Boobs on Your Tube: Team Work Really Doesn’t Make the Dream Work as Work Woes Sour “Good Trouble”

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Natalie January 12, 2024
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First Person

The Big And

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Anya Richkind January 12, 2024 10 Comments
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the team January 12, 2024 4 Comments
Feature image for 6th annual Autostraddle TV Awards: title text with images from Harley Quinn, Last of Us, A League of Their Own, and Sort Of
TV Feature

Presenting the Winners of the 6th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!

A League of Their Own, Sort Of, The Last of Us, and more! Here are the winners of the 6th annual Autostraddle TV Awards.

The TV Team January 12, 2024 6 Comments
Mean Girls Janis queer: Auli'i Cravalho as Janis from the Mean Girls movie
Movie Reviews

“Mean Girls” (2024) Made Us Feel Too Gay To Function

With the power vocals of Auli’i Cravalho and Reneé Rapp and a canonically queer Janis, Mean Girls is back and gayer than ever.

Valerie Anne and Nic
January 12, 2024 7 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword Was a Freshperson Once

Did you hear I won the award for best knock knock joke?

Kate Hawkins January 12, 2024 1 Comment
Kyle Richards saying "Would you ever date a woman?"
TV Show Recaps

Maybe All Real Housewives Are Bisexual

Kyle Richards says she’s open to dating a woman.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 11, 2024 1 Comment
Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

Kristen Stewart Says “Twilight Was Such a Gay Movie,” Talks Queer Sex Scenes, Does a Kristen Stewart Impression

In a Variety Magazine cover story, Kristen Stewart is telling us everything: why she came out on Saturday Night Live, gay sex scenes in Love Lies Bleeding, a new take on Panic Room, the queer subtext in Twilight and so much more!

Riese January 11, 2024 5 Comments
A trans masculine person showing their post-surgery scars.
Health

Healing After Top Surgery: Expectation vs. Reality

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Max Gross January 11, 2024 12 Comments
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Book Lists

Consider This: Listening to an Audiobook While Doing a Jigsaw Puzzle

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Riese January 11, 2024 6 Comments
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First Person

Untethered: A Great Lady

I’ve been eulogizing, just to myself, in the moments between other moments that are claimed by tasks or thoughts of the present or literally anything else.

Nico January 11, 2024 9 Comments
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Pop Culture Fix

Pop Culture Fix: Here’s A Gay Rundown of the SAG Nominees

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Valerie Anne January 10, 2024 4 Comments
The Lynx bookstore
Society + Culture

A New Author-Owned Bookstore Centering Banned Books Is Coming to Central Florida

One bookstore isn’t going to change everything, but it’s a significant reminder there are people fighting for this place and especially for its arts and culture spaces.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 10, 2024
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Celebrities (Vapid Fluff)

No Filter: Keke Palmer Stays Making History

Also, this entire column COULD have been just Reneé Rapp and Megan Thee Stallion.

Christina Tucker January 10, 2024 1 Comment
Our Flag Means Death canceled: a group of pirates including Jim scrub the ship and look off in worry
TV Feature

Max Abandons Ship and Cancels “Our Flag Means Death,” Wrecks Passionate Queer Fandom

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m so tired of watching our shows get canceled even when they’re wildly successful.

Nic January 10, 2024 11 Comments
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Relationships

Asking My Fiancée Questions I Don’t Know the Answers to a Month Before Our Wedding

“Have you ever called someone the wrong name during sex?”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 10, 2024 13 Comments
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Puzzles

Mini Crossword is Really Into Etymology

I want a job cleaning mirrors.

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