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.

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.

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

As is only reasonable given the fact that we’ve been denied access to it for all but the last decade of our nation’s history, “the institution of marriage” has come to mean something unique and unprecedented to the gay community.

While in The UK, I consumed three years of the Sophie and ultimately Sian storyline in three days and to be honest I sort of miss them now.

Alternative lifestyle haircuts and candy striper uniforms. Need I say more?

All sorts of things are being done and said about gay and trans people in Australia; here are some of them.

When homeless gay teens need a place to turn, it seems that real and immediate support is more likely to come from local networks, despite the government’s best intentions.

So you’re going to your first semester at college! Do you have to come out to your roommate?

Lady Gaga’s working with Cher, Lindsay Lohan’s getting groped, nobody’s wearing clothes, everybody is in love, and New York City just might be getting a lesbian mayor.

Oh Santana! Oh! Don’t you cry for me, I’ve come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee!

My fingers have actually started melting onto my keyboard.

The predictable, yet still enraging, backlash to California’s groundbreaking LGBT-inclusive history textbooks.

There are so many girls on the television this season! Autostraddle has your guide to the best new fall shows and where to find the queers.