Mental health, bisexuality, and the great outdoors.

A brief investigation into the particular phenomenon within same-sex relationships of same-name relationships. Are you okay with being Megan to her Meghan? Why??? I am listening.

Check out Nonames new song, watch The Prom’s Caitlin Kinnunen light up as she talks about a woman she’s dating, and lesbian cheesemongers!

“SHIT WAS GAY HEATHER
SHIT HAS BEEN GAY”

Our spring issue wants you to get outside and find the rest of us, or yourself, or the history of a people, or something else we’ve never seen! Deadline for submissions is midnight April 26th.

Also, get ready for the year of the Horse Girl and we have your post-Broad City-blues reading list. Happy Sunday!

If you wanna be my lover…

“Often we need the possibility of more not in order to reach it, but in order to stop just short of it, which is still far beyond where we would’ve landed had it not been there at all.”

Young M.A is making me sweat! Plus, a victory for LGBTQ+ parents in Michigan, 40 queer women under 40, rural queers, the lesbian Kid Governor of CT, The Prom: The Musical, and more!

It’s literally a social science experiment every day and we don’t have any control. That’s how it is with toddlers, I guess…

Purim is a party, so let’s make a big batch of rainbow hamantaschen to celebrate!

Jess’ Blackness is tended to, built back up as the positive it is. I don’t think we have ever seen anything like this — but I certainly hope we see it again.

Topics include kayaking in Alaska, taking Amtrak across the U.S., Queer Teen Stars, Cathy, Lindy West, frequent flyer mile obsessives, calories, the professional poet and more!

We’re absolutely thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of “To L and Back,” a new podcast about “The L Word.”

If I were a man invested, even subconsciously, in propping up a patriarchal society where women, even subconsciously, Know Their Place, Captain Marvel would terrify the pants off of me.

LGBT fiction for the tween / young teen in your life, or for anyone who likes a good queer book (spoiler: that’s everyone).

Even the most “accessible” queer fashion can feel intimidating when you only see it on celebs – that’s why we’ve assembled real-life queers to show you how real people are wearing wardrobe staples and celeb-inspired fashion. Today: gay boots!

You’d be surprised the kind of memories that can be sparked by a simple phrase or even by the look and feel of a book.

They say you learn your first lessons about how to be a person from your family, and that applies to chosen family, too. Today we’re sharing something we learned from watching another Autostraddle staffer that’s made our life better and brighter.

“I hadn’t yet come to terms with being a lesbian, so I also spent a lot of time making excuses not to have sex.”