You know about Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, but what about the women who wrote classical music?

“I feel like in some ways, I could be down for a marriage in the sense of contract-to-build-a-family-unit rather than the marriage-driven-by-romantic-love sense.”

Learning to swim as personal journey, how corona is affecting the WNBA, queer skating collectives and more!

This month, there are some wintry tracks for relaxing and looking out the window at a rainy day, as well as some upbeat stuff for breaking out of the doldrums. And a bunch of stuff in between.

Also: Janelle Monáe’s virtual reality concert experience, a Dickinson season two trailer, Demi Lovato reveals the exact moment she knew she was queer, some photos of Viola Davis working out just because, and more!

More than anything, this year, I wish black queer and trans people JOY. Martin Luther King didn’t fight that damn hard for us not to have a quality of life that comes with celebrating our joy and humanity first.

“I suppose I should have been suspicious when they kept pushing for me to come up Thursday, instead of Friday.”

If you’re white and still haven’t had that hard conversation with your relatives, wow you are out of excuses. Also: binging Battlestar Galactica at the end of the world, examining the Grief Industrial Complex, gay college sweethearts who broke the trend and miraculously stayed in love, and more!

“We partied during the week and met up between classes, but brunch was where we let our queer identities free in a way that was more natural and less defensive compared to who we were in public.”

Queers, allow me to introduce you to Saint Martha.

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!

Fatigue, nausea, boobs like bowling balls, mood swings, the sweetest moments you keep to yourself, and so much more. It’s the first trimester and wow it’s a roller coaster!

It’s our epic guide to some of the best places to eat, learn, walk, shop, party and be queer in Los Angeles.

Two queer American expats want to tell you everything that made them fall in love “Gay Paree!”

Desi parents get a bad rap in America. Across TV and social media, immigrant aunties are typecast as judgmental or conservative, or else passive victims of circumstance, unable to navigate American society as fluently as their children.

This is very clearly your problem, not your girlfriend’s problem, and resolving it will be your work, not hers.

PregnantTogether is the queer family building community you’ve been waiting for.

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.

It’s a little city full of odds and ends (and some queers) planted in the mountains.