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.

We’re always coming out. As an: anime fanatic, manga-collecting Pokémon plushie hoarder; as a giddy, youthful ray of sunshine and not just the dense, American Dream-deprived immigrant, prompted over-thinker — I realize I am more than any of these individual rooms at all times.

R#J is gay because Romeo and Juliet are a canon U-Hauling Cancer for Cancer lesbian couple.

Therapy influencers can point you in the right direction, certainly… but healing happens in relationships, intentionally and in an embodied way, over the course of our lives.

“Polyamory and queerness are pretty much inseparable for me in practice.”

Looking for children’s books with queer moms, binding as a cis woman, communications issues in relationships, and more!

Life moves fast. Time is a warp. It’s possible that you missed some of these tension-filled erotic S L I C K moments. Join A+ so you can read the slow, tight tension — right before the frenzy — that I love to revisit.

The team answers A+ member questions like: How do you reconnect with friends after not being in touch during COVID? Do you tell a friend where you’re going if you’re meeting someone from the internet on a date? How do you support your partner in speaking up against micro (and macro) aggressions at work? What do you do if you have a crush on a (maybe straight) coworker? How do you navigate a food-related relationship pickle? …And more!

The wedding was a bust but we sure do have a lot to talk about! Come on in and join our dear friends for the most fight-packed episode in L Word history!

“It’s funny that I’ve seen a hundred queer couples on TV at this point, and it was finally these two teenage dorks who really reflected my own reality back to me for maybe the first time.”

“If I was accidentally on a date with Gigi, it would be the best day of my life.”

Which one do you want to be your girlfriend: mini moon, thicc moon, or mommi earth?

The transcript for the June Autostraddle Town Hall is now available!

I swear the Blockbuster cashiers knew I was gay before anyone else in my life.

“Right off the top, it’s crucial for me to say this: being monogamous and being bisexual are not mutually exclusive. This is a really problematic stereotype that has to go, like yesterday.”

Advice for coping with a parent who’s an addict, being accountable to people you’re dating, and more!

Bennett could barely feel the flogger’s tails on their back. It was all muffled, hitting the energetic wall that felt like concrete, not actually feeling it make contact with their skin. By the time Reina fell into a pattern, Bennett was starting to soften. The dense thud was working the concrete into clay, clay into sand, and Bennett was starting to feel again.

It becomes increasingly difficult to ask individuals to make huge personal sacrifices, at great cost, when it is clear the government is doing almost nothing to move us toward a different world.

Now is a great time to escape to outer space, don’t you think?

A how-to guide to your first polyamorous adventure, from someone who made all the mistakes so you don’t have to.