If you’re lucky enough to have an August Pride, it’s time to take to the streets and trade in your vuvuzelas!

“It’s part of my life, like being a south sider and the only Hispanic in the Legislature.”

It’s a good week when you have 200 cops, Margaret Cho, Hillary Clinton, and a crown prince of India on your side.

Manhattan is a very good place to be a girl who likes girls.

Today Nepal’s queer community has fought to end fear, shame, and invisibility — and they made it fun.

The National Organization for Marriage photoshopped 60,000 Obama supporters to look like they’re protesting gay marriage. No, really.

NOM was more than ready to misconstrue the findings of the latest study on gay families to make gay families look as bad as possible.

There’s still good news to be had at the dawning of a new year of love / feelings / friendship / Autostraddle reading in your underwear.

So many things happened this year that weren’t terrible!

In the last installment on out queer survival guide to weddings, we’ve got a tale of two disasters, a guide on finding your balance and advice on giving the right kind of fucks.

” I did not feel one with the human race in that moment. That was the moment it had a direct effect on me & my rights – that is when I decided to make this documentary.”

A Westchester woman is suing her employer for denying her wife medical coverage.

“There was a great heyday in the 80’s in which I felt like you could publish anything, you could say anything – any of the initials, L, G, B, or T.”

“And as long as I have the privilege of being your President, I promise you, you won’t just have a friend in the White House, you will have a fellow advocate.”

Remember when you said that thing?

Ho, ho, ho, y’all.

Puppies, Ellen, puppies, feminism, PUPPY BOWL VIII.

According to the Saskatchewan Appeal Court, marriage commissioners cannot refuse to perform same-sex marriages on religious grounds, because it’s illegal and backwards and they say so. Saskatchewan: the province you didn’t know you loved.

On the upside, Zach Wahls gave a kickass speech about his gay family and you need to see it right now.

“…a class of people large enough to constitute a population majority—as women did—could not feasibly be “oppressed…”