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

Really all that matters though is that you watch this video from the National Association of the Deaf affirming their support for marriage equality.

Hey there, Dawlin’!

The California state Senate has a bill advancing that would require ex-gay therapists to get signed consent forms that acknowledge that ex-gay therapy is harmful and useless.

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.

The only thing better than one extraordinarily accomplished queer woman is two of them, in love!

There’s a lot of confusing information out there but this here is the real true history of LGBTQ+ nominees for Lead and Supporting Actress Oscars — a field in which queer roles are often rewarded, but out queer people very rarely are.

“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!

We recap last night’s press conference on the Prop 8 Trial’s closing arguments and affirm our personal feeling that we’ve got this sh*t in the bag, amirite? Also; Stonewall Uprising, Boy Scouts still hate gays, Rachel Maddow on the oil spill and lesbians raise better kids.

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!

30 questions! IS ONE OF THEM YOURS?? Wow!

Are we all bi? Who’s tired of labels? Plus, the de-gay-ifying of A Single Man, Maddow’s just a journalist, New Hampshire will vote on repealing gay marriage, and we had so much fun at Stiletto on Sunday!

Sandra Bernhard talks to Autostraddle about prepping her eight live shows next week at Joe’s Pub in New York City, separatism between gay men & lesbians, Obama and the gay rights movement, her fave celeb trainwreck on Twitter, and gives advice to Lindsay & Samantha.

“I’m finding, especially with women, a couple of different kinds of gays. I’ve met people who say, “I knew I was gay my whole life, and I lived this lie, and then I finally came out.” My kind of gay is like the late-breaking-lesbian kind of gay.”

105 more humans for you to have awkward crushes on.

Buenos Aires’ dark streets glistened with youth and possibility, and most of our nights revolved around an easy camaraderie between travelers.

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

Happy Mother’s Day, queermos!

An epic guide to San Francisco for locals and visitors and newbies written by two girls who have been here for a really really long time.