Jenna Bissell is being discriminated against in the fifth grade because she has two moms. Happy Mother’s Day! Also, Iowa hates gay campers, David Dean Bottrell hates Setoodeh’s Newsweek article, and important historical milestones for gays in Lithuania and the Philippines.

How about a little Valentine’s Day inspiration from your favorite fictional couples?

When was the last time the two queer women of Riverdale got any semblance of character development?

You shared some very thrilling stories with us on our recent Queer Travel Survey. Here are highlights of your adventures!

The hot evil parents get hotter and eviler!

We published so much good work this year, and here is a fraction of it we think you will particularly enjoy reading back through!

Tomorrow is a brand new year! Here are the words we’re thinking about when we think about 2019. Tell us the words you’re claiming in the new year! Tell us what you’re doing for New Year’s Eve! Tell us all your hopes and dreams! Tell us everything! We love you! Happy New Year!

From memoirs to how-to’s to love stories to sports to space, 2018 was another brilliant year for graphic novels written by queer people about queer people.

“Ho ho ho, no! This beer tastes like a literal snickerdoodle.”

Betty Who’s new music video, bilingual children’s books about gender neutral pronouns, and an Israeli-Palestinian lesbian stand up couple, Hayley Kiyoko’s killer year, and more!

Plus updates on Legacies, Coronation Street, Sally4Ever, and (for some reason) Camping.

We put our heads together and this is what the Autostraddle Team wants for the holigays! We think you’ll find some sweet stuff for your loved ones in here, too.

Queer, bisexual and lesbian trans women exist and thrive and belong here.

“I’d actually never even seen a woman in a blazer before. Like a men’s cut blazer. It really was like Fun Home. Inside I really did feel like I KNOW YOU!”

Some of you might be here because the weather changed and you need warm things, some of you are like me and can’t wait to buy shit for every season, and some of you just want to look cute and don’t know where to start.

“One time my coworker asked if I could dress any dykier and you know what? I don’t know. It’s pretty gay.”

“She doesn’t mean to be limiting. She just doesn’t see that the way she feels about her body is not the way that I feel about mine.”

Find out who Riese ships with Baby-Sitter’s Club founder Kristy Thomas on this week’s Queery podcast!

Archie stars in a middling, trope-filled prison movie, but at least the season’s murder mystery is heating up. Also, I’m still worried about Betty!

I choose her, always, because she’s my home and my light.