IT’S HERE. WE’RE ALL HERE TOGETHER AND IT’S HERE.

From the dog park to your front stoop, these are the places you could hang out with your fellow ‘straddlers this summer to beat the heat, make some friends, and potentially get a little drunk.

Rachel: “The writing & philosophy class I was required to take freshman year mostly sucked. But there was this one girl, Lizz, who seemed cool. She wore comic book tshirts and had beautiful shiny hair. One day after class, I announced to a friend, ‘Lizz is not straight. I can just tell.'”
Lizz: “There was something about Rachel that I just couldn’t shake. She spent a lot of time quoting feminist theorists who I’d never heard of and she had what I would later come to call ‘Congenital Gay Face.'”

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It’s going to be a big summer, so we’ve made you a calendar to use as a queer lady TV-viewing guide.

All month, we’re inviting you — yes, you there in the cute crop top and biker shorts! — to host Autostraddle meet-ups and celebrate pride with some of the shiniest faces of wonder on the Internet. You in? Okay, good. Let’s make it happen!

Five non-itinerary things that make A-Camp, A-Camp. In no particular order.

Cosima scores with Canada’s favorite lesbian dating app, and Helena and Sarah break each other’s hearts.

Soon, many of you will be piling into cars together to make your pilgrimage to The Mountain for A-Camp. Here are some questions to help you learn each other.

Once you figure out what feeling you were chasing, you can start working toward it – and getting a solid taste of it — every day. And that, my friend, seriously changes everything.

Topics include what Facebook Instant means for publishers, how to work remotely like a CHAMP, re-thinking the slush pile, the best cities for jobs, internet ads and moar!

Furthermore, Miley has launched a charity “devoted to helping homeless youth, LGBT youth, and other vulnerable populations” and played music in her backyard with Laura Jane Grace and Joan Jett!

Big Bear, where bears are big and beer flights are awesome.

” The back of a Jeep next to a beaver pond. That’s right. Beaver. Pond. A pond with an entire family of beavers in it.”

Sisters, won’t you step into the light with us?

This is an especially epic edition of The Insider, if I do say so myself. There were a lot of funny chats during the Advice-a-Thon and you had SO many questions for the A+ box and Yvonne went on a press trip to Philly and so many other neat things happened!

“I’m really good at just torching a bridge and not looking back. And you are the only fucking person who has forced me to build the bridge back.”

This week on Glee, the new kids finally got some lines! NOT THOSE KINDS OF LINES

I’ve got a bad case of the winter doldrums, y’all. Get in here and warm my heart!