More queers use dating apps compared to straights; disclose your strep as well as your STI before hooking up; bussy; sex stains; and more.

Paige slowly took Bennett’s fingers back out of her mouth, but didn’t let go of them. “What about … “ She brought their hand down between her legs, under her slip, where she parted her thighs and led Bennett to touch her there.

In their debut story collection We Had No Rules, Corinne Manning makes a rare, generous offer to the queer community: to hold us accountable.

Pull a card to see which relationship format is right for you.

All the Spring TV coming up definitely or probably queer this March, April and May — lesbian and bisexual female characters and non-binary people investigating murders, surviving post-apocalyptic frozen tundras, skateboarding in New York City and so much more!

Plus updates on Betty, Burden of Truth, The Baker and the Beauty, In the Dark, and Siren.

Today – January 5th – is the busiest dating app day of the year. Plus: A vibrator is a CES finalist, don’t live with your ex, and how to set boundaries around rough sex.

How do you make adult friends? The A+ team approaches this question from so many different angles to offer up advice on making adult friends while sober, making adult friends in a new city, making friends when you’re in a long-term relationship, finding potential new friends using Lex, meeting cool people with Instagram, deepening friendships that started through fandom, and more! “…that’s the beauty of the A+ Advice Box — you get a sampling of all our brains and then you get to make your own choices!”

Need a gift that says, “Don’t worry — I’m a great communicator and navigating non-monogamy in a culture that privileges monogamous partnerships is totally easy for me?” Never fear!

For the first themed A+ Advice Box in our new themed series, you asked questions about dating yourself after having a kid, dating your partner after lockdown, using dating apps when you are tired of screens in general, getting into casual dating, dating again after time periods ranging from 7 months to 4 years, whether love is a lie, and more!

The team offers advice to A+ members who asked whether a relationship can make it if you don’t feel you’re sexually compatible, what to do when falling hard for a queer coworker, and more!

“My next note on this scene is, “I literally screamed in this hotel room,” which is true.”

More than one book involves lesbians falling in love while bonding over a cute festive pet.

Let’s remind the world that queerdos own the witching hour with creative, utterly adorable couples and throuples costumes.

Autostraddle’s TV Team shares our picks for the best TV shows of 2020 featuring girls, gays and theys.

“Books about *monstrous women* of all varieties. Softhearted giantesses, feral shapeshifters, malicious sea creatures, lonely gorgons. Women with the strength of gods, women with fangs and fur, women formed of craggy rock or ice or fire.”

The latest episode of Red Table Talk features Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield Norris casually chatting about queerness, polyamory, and their own experiences with it.

Congresswoman Katie Hill flipped a Congressional district last year; she has now resigned due to what she calls a “double standard” in politics.

“Baby Glum, definitely. Maybe to the tune of ‘Baby Shark’?”

Stating your needs around masturbation in a relationship, moving on from an on-again-off-again relationship, your dad hasn’t worked through his homophobia, and more!