“If Rachel Maddow ever hits Dinah Shore karaoke party in a three-quarter-length leather coat and leather pants, it will look like every performance on this live album.”

“When I walk into stores I really struggle to know whether I actually like clothes, or I want to like clothes because I’m ‘supposed’ to like clothes because it’s socially acceptable, so I’m only wearing about two pairs of pants over and over again and I hate looking at myself in the mirror half the time.”

Also, Lauren Jauregui is calling the corners and Demi Lovato and Kehlani are up to SOMETHING.

Why did we all want to share this thing? What made some videos so appealing? Why…are we like this?

Topics include Renting a Family, Easy Rider & Alice’s Restaurant, alcoholism, an imposter!, eating disorders, Brad Renfro, Facebook, Bad TV, Janelle Monae and so much more!

The couples (or maybe just VERY CLOSE FRIENDS) who set our hearts aflutter all year long.

It’s been a wild year for gay pop culture, and a great year for some very well dressed queers — enjoy it with this very subjective but deeply felt top 11 of 2018, as based on an internal Autostraddle staff survey. 

“Being a queer black woman in America,” Monáe tells Brittany Spanos, her interviewer, “someone who has been in relationships with both men and women — I consider myself to be a free-ass motherfucker.’”

Almost 100 amazing humans sent pictures for our #TransDayOfVisibility Community Gallery! Get in here and celebrate our lives!

Also, Jenny Owen Youngs wrote you a love song, Kehlani gave you a pep talk and I gave Demi Lovato a present from the heart.

Venus is asking your partner to tie your tie, and putting on a garter belt and stockings just as they’re leaving for work to maybe make them stay a few extra minutes, and putting on an old thing they got you ages ago that will make them weepy because oh my god, how do you still have it? Venus is call and response.

“EVEN THE STRAIGHTS CAN SEE IT.”

Mars helps us assert ourselves. It helps us go after what we want. Mars is our individuality. I want. I need. I desire.

Feminist films, feminist fonts, and ?. It’s Sunday Funday!

“How many lives has Autostraddle changed? How many lives has it saved? Thanks, Riese.”

Janelle Monáe made an album just for me and you, and it’s your solemn duty as a queer woman to go and listen to it right at this very second and share all your thoughts and emotions in the comments.

“wait there are nipples on shutterstock??”

Also, Evan Rachel Wood is bisexual underground and Kristin Russo became a vapelord.

A meet up does not always have to be a whole scenario!

“Pink, like the tongue that goes down. Pink, like the paradise found”