I can’t put my finger on why I think this is a queer look, but if I saw a post-teenage girl wearing one I would definitely think that maybe she might hopefully sort of be gay.

We’re going to read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and it’s going to be great.

We’ve written 2,020 posts so far this year! Which were the best? Which were the most popular? The editors pick everybody else’s best posts and SO MUCH MORE!

“A disorder is a description of something with which a person might struggle, not a description of the person or the person’s identity.”

“The fact that they are mustering the courage to come for help on their own is indeed a paradigm shift.”

Google’s got this unannounced “gaydar” feature and someone else has got this “is your son gay?” app and unfortunately, none of them work as well as your gut, ladies.

I wish we were all in a room so I could say, “If you are LGBTQI, could you please raise your hand if you believe you had room to develop your identity at your preK-12 schools? Your full identity?”

Everybody likes to be held, which is good since everybody wants to wear a good sweater, too. Plus, the only thing better than a sweater is the presidency, right?

AKA “How to not make a trans* documentary”

“What’s a liberal, feminist, gay-friendly, Democratic girl like you doing in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?” “I was born this way, to borrow a phrase.”

“So much second-guessing involved every decision that I made that I became a paradox in a way, a combination of bravado and insecurity.”

Elmhurst College in Illinois has become the first school to ask (optionally) about your sexual orientation on their admissions application. How does that make you feel?

“To say “I was born this way” is to apologize for the person I am and for whom I love. It’s like saying I would be different if I could. I wouldn’t.”

The internet wants to know where our gender-neutral clothing is at. Obviously all the queers at Autostraddle have a lot of feelings about this. It’s a mini-roundtable!

In Part 3 of the series, we’ll be addressing issues like dealing with internalized transphobia, going “stealth”, and how you can help your partner if they are struggling with gender dysphoria. PLUS a video!

New survey shows that most US young people don’t find homophobic, racial or sexist slurs offensive. Is this a good or bad thing?

“We don’t discriminate, we just don’t believe in homosexuality.”

The brief that John Boehner and his lawyer Paul Clement filed to try to have Edith Windsor’s case against DOMA dismissed is exactly as full of anti-gay gems as you thought it would be.

We discuss interracial couples and how the gay marriage movement could learn a thing of two from their struggles.

If you’re less ‘pastries and diamonds’ and more ‘car chases and Steve McQueen,’ consider a pair of key-hole sunglasses… Be warned: you will look like your dad and you will look awesome.