Take a gay road trip to all 50 states right on your couch with queer fiction, memoirs and graphic novels set all across the United States.

The fact is most of the films about us — and especially the films by us — do not get the attention they deserve. But nobody is better equipped to tell our stories than we are.

The 2010s was an incredibly gay decade in music. Queer and trans musicians gained more visibility and success than ever before over the last 10 years! Here are the best 50 albums of the decade, according to me.

Our TV critics smashed their heads together to deliver our picks for the years’ 25 best shows with queer, lesbian, bisexual and trans women characters as well as each of our individual top 15s. So much TV you’ve gotta see in here!

What if kissing instead of stabbing?

Did you read these 28 posts in 2017? Because if not, you should really fix that right away!

In an unsafe world, we have to make our own survival packs. Carry the words of these 100 fierce poets in yours.

In the world of sex, choosing the right song is key. In my life, sometimes I choose songs that are just right, and sometimes a song gets associated with something especially heinous. These are their stories.

Planning on spending a lot of time on the couch? Here are 31 shows that would be good even without lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified queer female characters but luckily, they do!

AfterEllen is a part of a legacy of brilliant publications created by passionate lesbian, queer and bisexual women that unfortunately no longer exist, but were cool for a while.

“He gave me “the benefit of the doubt” that traffic was indeed too rough to allow me, a braless 25-year-old nervously driving a station wagon, to shift over.”

Butt plugs and anal beads not on a string; these are a few of my favorite things.

Our QTPOC besties are vital to our existence so we wanted to create a list filled with our stories to celebrate just how magical they are.

Emily Heller, Jasika Nicole, Lauren Morelli, and many other dope people picked the favorite thing they tweeted this year and told us why they like it so dang much.

Definitely don’t worry about it you’re fine everything’s gonna be fine.

2. Tension is a productive force.

Autostraddle’s television writers on their favorite lezalicious, bisexual, queer and trans* ladies on the 2013 teevee!

“No one can deny the intense ’90s danceability of the Mortal Kombat theme. I even poorly choreographed a half-time dance routine for the cheerleading squad I was briefly a part of before being unceremoniously removed after punching a fellow cheerleader.”

105 more humans for you to have awkward crushes on.

Things from your childhood that you probably didn’t associate with homosexuality, but now you will.