We believe that the best lesbian movies rank among the very best movies, period.

Particularly impressive categories this year include memoir/biography, horror — queer and trans horror writers are appropriately giving us their all these days — and comics.

Almost every category in this 2022 best of list was very competitive.

Writer Blair Braverman talks preppers, survival, queer love, and her gripping new novel, Small Game.

Thoughts and reviews on 41 movies from the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival — all the queer cinema and more!

Come for the queers, stay for Richard Burton’s striking fashion.

So many women who’ve suffered death by television and just-so-happened to also like other women.

This year for Trans Awareness Week, I wanted us to focus on recent trans history. Autostraddle itself is part of that history.

“We spoke up. Hell, this was post-#MeToo era. We were heroes. I was… a hero. So, why did I feel so much shame when, a year later, a woman sexually assaulted me?”

7.2% of the population identifies as LGBTQ+, according to the latest Gallup poll. But the numbers for Gen Z remain high enough to suggest the future could be 20% LGBT+.

Cocaine Bear has finally hit theaters. Apparently he only terrorizes straight people? But we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to be part of such an important cultural conversation. And so, we have ranked fictional bears by lesbianism. 

“Lesbian bed death” does happen, and many lesbians feel they’re not having enough sex. But it doesn’t happen for the reasons you think it does, and it’s not necessarily the problem you think it is.

If I had to guess, I would say that Warheads are made of sugar and that stuff called The Dip that Judge Doom uses in Roger Rabbit to melt cartoon characters.

The writing is gorgeous and filled with beautiful imagery and insightful quotes.

We owe it to Kesha to listen when she tells us who she is. We owe it to ourselves to move beyond our boxes.

Everybody in your family knew you were gonna name your kid after your Mom — but your brother beat you to it. What now? Also, a lesbian cat lover struggles with the possibility of a dog in the home.

Is there anything gayer than enemies to lovers, when you really think about it?

When I read Middlesex, I felt that tinge of recognition I think a lot of queer and trans people look for when they realize something is different about themselves.

Putsata Reang’s memoir “Ma and Me” grapples with what it means to carry intergenerational trauma not only as an Asian American, immigrant, and refugee but also as a queer person.

There are many ways to spell Chanukah, and they’ve all got their own personality. Just for kicks, I imagined eight of them as people at an LGBTQ bar.