What if you had found out about gay historical figures and role models from your teacher, and not frantic late-night googling?

“Due to the tsunami advisory, filming of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn has been delayed. All cast and crew were evacuated to the movie production’s base camp. Everyone is safe and sound.”

Did you know that Rilke’s Mom initially raised him as a girl? True story.

Lip Service 104, in which Frankie finds new ways to have sex/surprise us and everyone else has sex, goes to work, moves around and has feelings.

Once upon a time I hated Sylvia Plath. Now I don’t! How did this happen? The answers lie inside this post…

Lesbians on the teevee, pure poetry week forever.

This is where the Carmen and Carolyn not-showdown will begin. We’re friends, after all, but we’re going to give you guys a little bit of both sides. We framed it like a girlfight to make it more interesting, though.

Second verse, same as the first, but a little bit louder and a much less worse.

“I think that anyone’s a fool to become a junkie or a poet… it’s the same kind of hook really, and it has the same withdrawal symptoms if you ever try it.”

“You must nurture the kiss. Turn out the lights. Notice how it illuminates the room. Hold it to your chest and wonder if the sand inside hourglasses comes from a special beach.”

I had no idea it was possible to make it all the way to Los Angeles from San Francisco in only 14 hours!

Talk about speed-dating.

This is just a post (mostly) about old white men. But it’s happy. It’s Autostraddle is Pure Poetry week and this is how we do it.

Were you slightly fearful that 2011 would be filled with vapid pop music created by soulless machines? Me too! I don’t think we have to worry though.

How did Emily get Paige’s photo on her cell-phone is what I want to know.

Every detail you have ever ever possibly thought about wanting to know about the GLAAD Media Awards in LA, updated minute by minute!

Fortune Feimster has been tapped as the next great lesbian comedian with Saturday Night Live knocking on her door. Fortune talks to Autostraddle about her run on Last Comic Standing, life as a celebrity personal assistant and being mistaken for Jonah Hill and Richard Simmons.

If only the outrage over a rehabilitated 29-year-old woman becoming the personal and financial property of a man she dislikes was half as loud as the chorus that once proclaimed her outfits degrading to women.

Let’s waste more time reading this than we already did watching the episode

Gabrielle Giffords’ condition is rapidly improving, and hopefully soon she’ll be able to speak! Some officials want women to have more prospects in the military; Chris Colfer wants what’s best for Kurt, Jessie J on Gaga, sexy photoshoot interpretation of Lisbeth Salander, and Jackass does Black Swan.