Looking for more queer community in the Bay Area and want a sober space to celebrate pride?? Come join us at Heritage Park in Palo Alto for a potluck style picnic. We will be setting up in the local park and will have games and music. Check out the link to our original event page here: https://www.meetup.com/Book-Club-Dropouts/events/262244360/ . Hope to see you there!

“When was the last time you saw a straight person in a bog? That’s what I thought.”

Our team weighs in on 12 queer action/thrillers, from the Power Rangers to Atomic Blonde to Bound and beyond!

“I wasn’t a sports gay until this article and now I love sports.”

For one group of Chicago lesbians in the mid-1990s, building a queer community meant sitting around a barrel fire in the freezing, rainy April night, casting smelting nets and awaiting a barrage of tiny fish.

Plus top hat-shaped holes in our hearts, what if the brownies were gay tho?, and polar bear flirting facts.

“oh yeah we haven’t even scraped the surface of pandemic sex dreams”

Plus: She-Ra season three (featuring Geena Davis), non-binary Android emoji, certified Mommi Diane Keaton wants to play gay, the battle for gender-inclusive passports in the UK, and more!

Plus a queer country playlist, intergenerational Pride, Late Night is maybe a feminist dream, and more!

For the past five-ish years, I have worked in the hellish, uncertain landscape known as the media industry. I have written for well over a dozen publications. None have made me feel more valued for my work than Autostraddle.

“to be extremely fair i’d let bette porter run me over with a honda”

Y’all, Jenny is about to take her tights off and we are so here for it!

Plus updates on: How to Get Away with Murder, Black Lightning, and don’t forget Kristen Stewart’s hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend!

Plus, Angelia Ross is killing it in American Horror Story: 1984 and updates on Why Women Kill!

Our summer issue is a broad look at traveling around and about this whole weird place, for all the right or wrong or baffling reasons. Submissions are open until July 22nd!

The more I allowed myself to want, the more I realized I wanted. The more I leaned in to my desires, the clearer they became.

Also: A lesbian couple on My Little Pony, Ellen Page says Juno grew up to be a lesbian, that Yorkshire lady of renown, Lena Waithe wants to help you with your wardrobe, there’s still hope for One Day at a Time, Pose Pose Pose Pose, and more!

“I’ve grown physically stronger through trail work than I ever thought possible, but there’s that different kind of strength that trail work has fostered in me that I believe to be a lot more important.”

Pride coverage, Lena Waithe’s fashion, and recyclable Pride DIY crafts!

I’m rediscovering how much I love simple, catchy, fun pop music. There’s some other solid rock, folk, and R&B this month, though, too!