Results for: queer parenting
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Sister, Sister: Creating Queer Spaces In Greek Life
Perhaps you picture fraternities and sororities like Animal House or the House Bunny, but here’s a life lesson: life and movies often do not resemble one another.
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Coming Out: Yet Another Roundtable
“Coming out never ends, and for some of you it hasn’t even begun.”
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The Ones We Left Behind: On Being An Ally To Small Town Queers
“If you’re reading this and are currently in love with a tiny place that hasn’t loved you back yet, I want you to know that this is okay.”
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100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time
You voted and the results are in – the best 100 queer-lady fiction or memoir books of all time!
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Holding People Up: How An All-Female Acrobat Troupe Saved Me
“There is no better feeling than knowing you can’t do something, just knowing it to the core, and then surprising yourself because you can.”
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You Are Not Alone: On Being A Queer Survivor
“I called it sexual assault at first. Sexual assault seemed less damning, less permanent.”
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You Don’t Have To Come Out On Thanksgiving: On Going Home and Being Quiet
My grandma shoved 30 dollars in my hand once and told me, “Always tell the truth about who you are and know we’ll love you anyway.”
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Lori Lindsey, USWNT Dark Horse: The Autostraddle Coming Out Interview
The lesbian USWNT player opens up about the Olympics, the future of women’s soccer, her bff Megan Rapinoe and coming out at Applebee’s.
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Read a F*cking Book: 20 Best Young Adult Novels For Queer Girls
NPR’s list of Top 100 Choices For Best Teen Novels lacked proper queeriosity. Thus we present our top 20 picks for Queer Teen Novels For Girls.
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Estranged: How I Fell In Love With A Girl And Lost My Family
“When they see you happy, they’ll accept it,” someone told me once. When there are tears about something unchangeable, people can only be optimistic. It’s the only thing that is left.
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Shit White Parents Have Said to Me
“Minority youths are really just more violent than white ones. Seriously, you can’t argue with the news.”
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Gays Fight To Enjoy Shitty Fast Food In Good Conscience, Which Is Impossible
The problematic aspect of the discourse around Chick-fil-A is that it isolates the anti-gay rhetoric and investments as its sole transgression against the queer community.
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Experiments In Sobriety or “This Is When I Admit That I Have A Drinking Problem”
“It’s like I’ve got an internal switch that flips and not everyone has it, and if you don’t it’s almost impossible to explain.”
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How To Leave Your Husband (Because You’re a Lesbian)
Once upon a time I married a man, had kids, and realized I was a lesbian. Here’s what happened and what I wish somebody had told me at the time.
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Everything Happens Elsewhere: Northern Ireland in the Nineties
“Things seemed so big out there and we were just waiting for life to begin properly. I felt electric with anticipation.”
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I Am Alike: A Nigerian Boi’s Reflection on ‘Pariah’
“I remember holding my breath during pivotal scenes in the movie. I wondered nervously if my brother saw then the direct parallels to his own sister’s life.”
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Texas Is Not the Only State: Confessions of a Lesbian Exile in New York
“I kept MapQuest directions to Albuquerque in the glove compartment of my car, just in case I needed to run away. When I graduated, I moved to upstate New York for college.”
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The 21 Most Lesbianish Cities in the US: The Autostraddle Guide
We did our own highly scientific research to determine where in the country you’re most likely to meet other queer ladies, hang out with other queer ladies and admit that you’re a queer lady in public!
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Glee 306 Recap: It Was a Monster Mash-Off, With Feelings
Oh Santana! Oh! Don’t you cry for me, I’ve come from Alabama with my banjo on my knee!
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Our 17 Most Favorite Musical Cast Recordings Of All Time
Let’s get real deep right now into some hard-core musical theater appreciation.