Time to Werk Those Pecs!

Introducing Autostraddle’s new music blog AUDIOSTRADDLE, where we’ll bring you more content more often about bands you love and bands you should know. We debut with Tegan & Sara’s NYC concert review/set-list, The Gossip’s Portland show, and bands to watch including Fan Death, the xx, Lindsey Ray, The Cassette Kids and Don Diablo, Grant Smillie and Ruby Rose.

Supporters of same-sex marriage Suzanne Blackburn, left, and Ann DiMella, of Portland, prepare to set up a NO on 1 sign in Deering Oaks Park, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009, in Portland, Maine. Voters will decide Question 1, the proposal to rescind the Legislature’s approval of same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

“Being an activist leader brought dozens of women to my bed,” Córdova recalls. “Power seemed to attract people, and my political life put me at the center of the action.”

Jennifer Camper, Diane DiMassa, Alison Bechdel, Robert Kirby, Joan Hilty and Howard Cruse via Lambda Literary

This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.

On this week’s televisionary, Carlytron accidentally takes some nice pills and is temporarily less snarky than normal. Journey with us as we delve into the gay Halloweens and implausible storylines of the Office, Parks and Recreation, Ugly Betty, Community, Gossip Girl, FlashForward, and Grey’s Anatomy.

Some things we read and saw on the internet on #trayvon and race in America.

Why are our parades always in the summer? Because Pride goeth before a fall! Thank you, thank you.

“Social equality for all people, regardless of size, must become a goal of the queer movement.”

The Supreme Court has ruled DOMA unconstitutional and that the petitioners in Prop 8 did not have standing.

MP Robert Biedron of Poland

Topics include Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP), web developers, poetry and death, meth, psychic Sylvia Browne, Coyote Ugly, Wikipedia, The Whole Earth Catalog and more!

From lost classics of teen lit to NYC filming locations to “the gang’s all queer” to the whole entire world and back.

Topics include Lefrack City, UCB, American teeth, selling the South to Southerners, tech money’s influence on The Bay Area, The Bling Ring, The Preppy Murder case, Detroit, killer crushes, missing First Nation women and more!

In which Erika Moen, the mastermind behind DAR! and Oh Joy, Sex Toy, tells us to go have a wank.

THE NEW NORMAL — Season: Pilot — Pictured: (l-r) Ellen Barkin as Jane, Andrew Rannells as Bryan, Georgia King as Goldie, Bebe Wood as Shania, Justin Bartha as David — (Photo by: Robert Trachtenberg/NBC)

Was the world’s first dyke a snappy dresser, a 1st-century warrior queen, or a tiny antelope?

Lesbians have always mastered the blazer, but this also means that we were especially vulnerable to the late ’80s-’90s terrible/AWESOME Blazer Situation. You know the situation I’m talking about.

What do the leading names in science fiction tell us about the future of gender?