I can’t think of sixth grade without thinking of Iah. She was the friend I could never quite believe I had: smart, outspoken, well-liked across all social groups. Naturally, I always wondered what became of her.
Imagine my delight when the answer turned out to be “gay rabbi in Ohio.”

“ok who sent me an autostraddle email address request for kristen stewart”

Your family buys you weird gifts, your mom is kinda rude about your long-distance girlfriend, and you can’t move on after this breakup. Let’s get some shit done! Come on!

“When I think about Trans Day of Remembrance and how I’ve survived to see another one, I know that it’s because of my family.”

“Marriage is one thing – it’s just the tip of the iceberg of true equality,” says Cake Tin, bringing up trans people, intersex people, Indigenous people, and people of color. “It isn’t over yet.”

Checking on your ex, being honest with coworkers, being honest with everyone including yourself, and pulling yourself out of a year-long sad thing! Come help give advice!!

This female-focused episode of Supergirl kicked ass and took names.

Here are first time experiences that seem mundane to everyone else but were truly special for us.

Today is all about crushes and what you should do about them: something, or nothing? Three questions, three answers. Only the strong survive. It takes two to tango. Love is a battlefield. Loose lips sink ships!

How to know when you’re ready to have sex, turning relationship crises into opportunities, going braless, heteronormativity in queer dynamics and more.

2017 somehow turned out to be the best year ever for lesbian and bisexual women on television — but we’ve still got a ways to go.

A silent book club, women Vikings, small-press books out in August, Native people in literature, headless women on book covers and more!

Gurba’s writing feels devastating and holy and hilarious all at once, like a dead sea scroll that is as fun to read as an old issue of Playboy.

The Methodist Church elected a lesbian Bishop, Amanda Nunes made UFC history, small victories in the states for queer parents and baby gays, guinea pigs in hats, and whole lot more good gay news!

Brave New World, is a beautiful fever dream; it’s a gift to queer gamers, an eerily accurate depiction of what it’s like to be a teenage girl just starting to figure out that, hey, maybe you like girls.

“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”

I followed Kristin and Jenny at FlameCon, New York City’s gay comic con, as they spread their love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the LGBTQ community to everyone they met.

One Day at a Time is the most generous, compassionate, loving family sitcom on television. Carmen reviews the season, plus a bonus interview with her mom!

Did you know that you can avoid tangled headphones by winding the cord into figure eights? It’s true!

A queer Pakistani American female wrestler and Mexican American bookshop owner love story, Michigan providing transition care for trans inmates, new Apple emojis that you probably need right now, an end to gender stereotypes in advertising in the UK, The LGBT Inclusion Act, and lots more good news!