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

In the rural South, the word “tomboy” is basically a euphemism for “She’s genderqueer, and she may or may not grow out of it. Hell if we know.”

This week on NSFW Sunday: lesbian love letters, sex and punishment, surveys, and cyclists.

Remember when you said that thing?

Ridiculously though, it was the best possible result for women.

Students in an allegedly ‘conservative’ rural county in California vote a lesbian couple as “cutest couple,” and it wasn’t a prank or anything.

“This little book… is to my mind the progenitor of all funny queer blogs written in the first-person. Yes, this is the story of the first queer blogger.”

It turns out that what you thought were women’s issues are actually just “shiny objects!”

Kristen Stewart cross-dresses for Elle Magazine, wants to make out with Charlize Theron, and I think has a movie coming out about Snow White, or something.

This week’s comment awards were brought to you by the letter “I” for “Incredible.” Which is what Community Managerette Carrie is.

The “brony” fandom is a lot more Sapphic than you’d think, at least as far as their fanfiction goes.

Lizz’s Team Pick: Sometimes the only thing that can really help is a calming manatee.

Yawning is the number one dance move for today.

Honey honey up in the trees/ Fields of flowers deep in his dreams/ Lead them out to sea by the east/ Honey honey food for the bees

This post is SO ten seconds ago.

Topics include law school, real estate, a boy who disappeared, Sothebey’s, Tetris and the TED conference!

Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!

Watch Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Chris Colfer, George Takei, Jamie Lee Curtis and so many other famous people performing the Prop 8 Play!

Laura’s Team Pick: During a challenge of 2009’s decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Nilanjana S. Roy looks at queer Indians throughout literary history.

Voting is still open for the 2012 Weblog Awards. Please vote for Autostraddle. I’m using my manners.