Nikki Giovanni so loves Black women that she never waivers that our strength can only be matched by the stars themselves.

As Black women, isn’t that what we want to be afforded? A chance to be messy and vulnerable instead of tidy and unbreakable?

These little monsters are breaking generational curses and making their own way in the world.

If I’m being honest, it’s one of the better written celebrity fiction novels that I’ve read (and I’ve read Lauren Conrad’s YA series).

Plus updates on Grey’s Anatomy, Truth Be Told, A Million Little Things, How I Met Your Father, The Watchful Eye, and Fantasy Island.

Plus updates on Hightown, Nancy Drew, Legacies, A Million Little Things, and All American.

New York Magazine devotes a print issue to the titilating Sex Diaries, Geocities calls it quits (save ur Neve Campbell fansite asap!) and the ex-gay people want their books to be in libraries, which is fine if they’re OK with it being right next to And Tango Makes Three.

After Noman Robin witnessed the public beating of a transgender woman for using the women’s toilet in a shopping mall, he decided to something about it, Bollywood-style.

“Do you think we think everyone is gay because they are or because we are or because we are high or because of Jewish?”

At a hurricane party gone wrong, increasingly fraught group dynamics have deadly consequences — for people who largely aren’t very used to experiencing consequences at all.

Vada, the lead of The Fallout, is just a normal high schooler. And it’s all a normal day in a normal life, until it’s not.

July brings some relationship crunchiness, so let’s strategize how to get creative about conflict.

On our recent survey of Autostraddle readers over 29 we asked “who was the first lesbian or bisexual celebrity/public figure you remember being aware of?” These are the scientific results of that particular investigation.

Our ability to conceive of ourselves surviving and thriving into the future is a crucial part of manifesting it as a lived reality.

For her queer fans in the Midwest and South, Chappell Roan’s rise is about so much more than her music.

Our TV critics smashed their heads together to deliver our picks for the years’ 25 best shows with queer, lesbian, bisexual and trans women characters as well as each of our individual top 15s. So much TV you’ve gotta see in here!

The team answers your questions about keeping those fires burning!

Amid increased violence against LGBTQ+ communities, queer fight clubs have emerged as an emphatic response.

The AS team talks finding queer community with your lesbian sister, coping with a harmful mother-in-law, feeling ignored by your parents because you’re childless and more!

“I want to read stories about dykes not acting right. I want to read about people being messy. So I want to write about that too.”