And the fight for LGBT rights in the Deep South goes on.

What’s far too often missing from the narratives of global activism is the nuances of local contexts and agency of “oppressed” people, who don’t simply sit around waiting to be saved. Here’s where the ASC comes in.

Russia’s new lesbian magazine, Kansas’ proud gay parental unit, and women working harder than men. Again.

A new government campaign asks simple questions to win all the points.

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave orders to the Supreme Court to make changes to Russian adoption laws in order to prevent same-sex foreign couples from adopting Russian children.

Bisbee, Arizona just realized that the law only says “marriage”, not “civil unions”…

“But much like masturbation and other “personal relaxation” methods, it’s pretty obvious that most women are smoking marijuana, but not talking about it. There is a cloud of shame permeating these issues for women, where there is absolutely none for men.”

Obama outdoes himself, Jon Huntsman records in writing his support for same-sex marriage, and then an animal adopts another animal. This is real life.

From Dartmouth to the concert hall, there’s a ton of queer shit going down. And a little bit of Nickelback.

Paul Clement is branching out and trying new things in his campaign to make sure DOMA outlasts the heat death of the universe.

If any of you have ever experienced homophobia in the workplace or queer-related adversity in your personal life and moved on (ahem, way too many of us), then you need to know Rochelle Diamond’s life story.

“Where We Are On TV” has some promising and not-so-promising numbers for queer women on the teevee, and also raises some questions about how we quantify “representation” in the first place for all groups.

We’re checking out the over 40 set, making poetry out of 90s songs and giving comment awards to cats.

Azealia Banks is controversial, but then again, what isn’t? Everyone’s freaking out right now about gay marriage, Amber Riley’s haircut, and Obama’s pen.

I mean, why not?

I Don’t Do Boxes, but if you wanna go to Corgi Nation that’s fine with me.

Let’s get married, but only if RBG is invited.

Run, don’t walk, to our special Autostraddle Fallen London in-game goodies codes and the chance to learn a bit more about Failbetter’s new game, Sunless Sea.

Ali’s Team Pick: George Takei. Just… George Takei.

Totally qualified, totally awesome Christine Quinn wants to be the next mayor of New York City! Also, she walked down the aisle to Ave Maria… the Beyoncé version. I mean come on.