Alex Vega w/Mary, AB Chao and Mal Blum, A-Camp 2015. Angelus Oaks, CA.

Oh honey, I signed up for A-Camp the day registration opened and paid for my shuttles on the spot!

When faith, spirituality, and cultural practice feel complicated and contradictory, it can help to have a physical object to hold onto and reflect upon. These items can root us to our histories of faith — or they may simply be a symbol of old memories.

A selection of queer erotica just for you.

Autostraddle has been around for SEVEN years, and we’ve been making playlists that whole damn time!

“Sometimes I turn to Waffle and randomly exclaim, ‘This is happening!’ I should probably stop doing that as we get closer to, like, the possibility of me going into actual labor.”

The dismal GLAAD studio index has inspired Frozen fans to campaign ambitiously for Elsa to get a girlfriend, Sense8 photos suggest a new girl-on-girl pairing in Season Two, Bad Moms looks awesome and other important stories!

Patreon is sort of like a virtual tip jar, or a Kickstarter that keeps on going each month, and it lets you support all your favorite creators so that you can let them know you appreciate them and so that they can keep doing what they do.

Falcons, hawks, vultures, buzzards, shikras, kites, caracaras; hell, a lesbian can be any bird of prey.

What? You don’t think I know how to get myself off? Hell, that’s what half of band camp is. Sex Ed.

This one time, at band camp, she stuck a flute in her pussy!

A lesbian firefighter was harassed and discriminated against for years by her co-workers and her complaints were ignored by her superiors; Tennessee’s “bathroom bill” is dead, at least for now; Ani DiFranco cancelled an upcoming show in North Carolina, Georgia is investigating the treatment of LGBT prisoners in their prisons and more news.

This week we’ve got flirting with straight people, Evan Rachel Wood Bisexual, Samira Wiley memories and so much more!

We’ve got Angel Haze’s cereal monstrosities, Ellen Page all cuddled up and Jen Richards’ dogs finding it difficult to even.

This music video is so gay Ali Liebert is playing it in the movie version. It’s so gay it’s legal to discriminate against it in Mississippi and North Carolina. It’s so gay the CW is planning on killing it off next week.

Bacteria paintings, bravery vs. perfection, and drag depictions of famous scientists singing that song from Wicked that they did on Glee.

“I don’t especially want to be gay, but If I was, no big deal, and who knows?”

We talk about some great episodes of the Lore Podcast, a few terrific essentials for starting off your altar, a bunch of amazing home remedies, and a drawing of a certain True Gay Icon as a witch.

Topics include Gawker losing the Hulk Hogan case, digital media’s lack of geographic diversity, analytics-driven content production, Genius annotating personal sex stories, drinking with your clients and other crucial stories!

“How exactly do I make new friends, especially queer ones? This is the first time I’ve been not-in-school for a long time.”