Nigeria passes an appalling anti-gay law, Sara Gilbert & Linda Perry get together, TI thinks gay people are too sensitive and SO MUCH MORE!

“NPR is like a blanket; my parents didn’t believe in listening to music in the car and I did not really know there were other radio stations until my older sister drove me home from ice skating one day and my 6 year old brain exploded.”

Gather round stream queens, it’s time to watch queer horror all month long.

The team answers your questions about keeping those fires burning!

“What I do not enjoy is people saying a woman marrying a woman will lead to a woman marrying a dog. I do not want to marry a woman. I am very little and she would crush my bones.”

Autostraddle’s TV Team shares our picks for the best TV shows of 2020 featuring girls, gays and theys.

The tipping point was at the start of June, when I saw a rainbow sign outside the big Sainsbury’s on the edge of town. It dawned on me there might be a reason: Oh yes, it’s pride month. Except it’s not pride month here. Is it?

Alan Cumming’s latest blog post sums up the week perfectly, and addresses perhaps Newsweekgate’s most underasked question: “What is wrong with being effeminate, anyway?” It’s Friday, y’all. Let us praise ye wise men who know “queeny” isn’t even a word, give you some wisdom and share some of our favorite videos; Kurt’s Turn in Glee, Adam Lambert goes crazy, Alan Cumming emcees, Rickie finds World Happiness and Peter Paige finds Emmet’s truth.

The question of homophobia in historically Black churches is way more nuanced than conversations about Christianity and queerness often take into account. If the Black church and LGBTQ movements joined forces, they would be a force to reckon with.

Brush up on this year’s biggest news so you can impress that cute girl at your New Year’s Eve party.

Zines, lesbian MPs, international news, gay TV, bad news, sexual spectrums and lesbian poetry about manicures.

Happy Mother’s Day, queermos!

This week football gets sassy, the US gets a whole lot gayer, and Canada remains amazing.

After a four-year stint in Autostraddle’s top American lesbianish city, I thought I had developed impossibly high expectations for every future place I’d inhabit. Then I found Sydney.

“You should come by so we can show you how good and gay this gemütlichkeit thing can truly be.”

Dan Savage has gotten himself into quite a bit of trouble with quite a lot of people on topics such as Michele Bachmann’s husband and monogamy.

“My one note is, “God, I wish Tasha was a firefighter, so I didn’t have to feel conflicted about her.”

In 1990, Miriam Frank and Desma Holcomb released Pride At Work, a booklet on organizing for gay and lesbian rights in the workplace. They spoke with Autostraddle about their lives, this “naughty little pamphlet,” and the future of queer labor organizing. Plus, for the first time ever, the full 100-page pamphlet is being released online – right in this post!

Obama and Hillary are making efforts to assure us that gay rights are still a priority. Also gays will get more rights to take time off work to care for partners or kids. New York is about to have a gay/trans inclusive anti-bullying bill. And we’re still cautiously optimistic about the Prop 8 trial.

It’s Pride month; have you heard? Have you danced in the streets, wearing a rainbow flag, surrounded by topless women, shouting your queerness and here-ness, maybe honking a horn or ringing a bell? Here’s hoping!