Welcome to the 2022 Autostraddle TV Awards (previously known as the Gay Emmys)! These awards are meant to celebrate the best of television — through a lens of LGBTQ+ representation.

Out-gay, Out-slay, and Out-sport are the three pillars of OUTVIVOR, a Survivor-inspired weekend birthed by OUT Sports, an Orlando queer sports league started by John Teixeira in 2018. 

In-depth looks (with handy TL;DRs) for every team of the WNBA’s Western Conference going into the 2025 season: Dallas Wings, Golden State Valkyries, Los Angeles Sparks, Las Vegas Aces, Minnesota Lynx and the Seattle Storm.

If you’re struggling to find your queer community or just looking for other avenues for deep connection, our team shares our own approaches and the unexpected places where you can not just survive but thrive.

Plus updates on Mythic Quest, All American Homecoming, The Sex Lives of College Girls, and peep the photo that made Natalie ask, “Is this too risque for our website?”

It’s important for new and old fans of the WNBA to understand that while this league has 144 of the best women and nonbinary basketball players in the world, it’s also about more than basketball. It has to be.

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Is there anything gayer than enemies to lovers, when you really think about it?

Plus updates on The Chi, For All Mankind, and Roswell, New Mexico.

Plus updates on Station 19, All American, Fantasy Island, The Power, Saint X, Good Trouble, and NCIS: Hawai’i.

Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.

There are so many myths about why lesbian bars close and/or don’t survive.

Topics include “border theater” in Texas, the rise of Nerds Clusters, the WNBA, regional McDonalds’ cuisine, behind the scenes at Love is Blind, how the Fentanyl crisis is harming teens, the collapse of self-worth in the digital age, the competitive cheerleading monopoly and more!

Sydney Colson and Theresa Plaisance started their sketch comedy “The Syd + TP Show” to become the faces of the league. We got together to talk about how that’s… worked out better than expected.

“Ok someone had previously asked if Autostraddle was going to write a piece on How To Build a Sex Room and I did not realize it was a SHOW I just thought someone was requesting extremely specific DIY content?????”

Plus updates on The Chi, For All Mankind, Only Murders in the Building, Roswell, and American Horror Stories.

Plus updates on Roswell, New Mexico; For All Mankind, All Rise, P-Valley, and more!

(Bear training is also secretly for people who want to get wifed.)

Plus updates on Charmed, Legacies, and All Rise!

Plus updates on 9-1-1, Good Trouble, A Million Little Things, Station 19, Survivor, The Power, and Grey’s Anatomy!