Queen Latifah’s rom-com history, Black queer winemakers, a must-read personal essay R.O. Kwon about Atlanta, and how to plan for the growing old when you don’t plan on having kids.

This is someone showing their rejection of the oftentimes traumatizing cishet Christian ideals many young Black queers are currently being taught. We live for anything that will shorten (or make obsolete) their pain so they can live bolder happier lives.

A+ members get their personal advice questions answered by Autostraddle writers, twice a month in the A+ Advice Box! This week Autostraddle team answers A+ member questions about biphobia, struggling to text friends back, dealing with gender feelings and weight gain, tips for hot strap-on sex, finding that perfect masc-of-center scent and more!

As a queer TV critic for over a decade, I have seen a LOT of stupid queer deaths. Here are 15 of the stupidest.

When it comes to boundaries, our strengths are our weaknesses and our weaknesses are our strengths. (Also let us talk about Raven Symoné’s chaotic gay TikTok, shall we?)

All about asexuality, comparing the best queer astrology apps, why sexual health and STI testing still matter in the pandemic, your parents’ divorce could be the reason you have a crappy love life, queer sexting can let you write your body into being and more.

Crushing on your therapist, a partner controlling your time with friends, the long-term impacts of gaslighting, maybe getting married again, making adult friends via Facebook groups — the AS team gives A+ members advice on these topics, and more!

The first thing I thought when I saw this episode was coming out was damn, Willow is about to put herself through some emotional labor trying to explain this aspect of her life — and my goodness do I hope it’s worth it.

“Heather Hogan’s misandry gives me LIFE.” Welcome to Some Answers to Some Things You’ve Been Asking Us: in which the Autostraddle senior team answers q’s A+ members send in, freaks out with you over exciting news and responds to your all-consuming need to share various things!

What is happening this fall for Black queer women’s representation is unmatched, there is not a single point ever in television history where you could even find something comparable.

This was a great year for LGBTQ music and my gay little heart.

A super-sized round up including updates on All American, Charmed, the iCarly reboot has a bisexual storyline you’ll want to see, In the Dark, The Chi, Betty, and the best episode of Genera+ion yet.

Herz might just be the queer miracle of Mobile.

Reflect on the ways in which you’ve internalized purity culture’s messages about sex, love, and what is “good” and what is “bad” or shameful in your own life

A young black queer girl goes to her first pride parade, tackles her fears of her own queerness rooted in acceptance, and becomes friends with other black queer people after the death of her parents.

We’ve got some girl-on-girl in Modern Love’s second season, a dramedy about Indigenous teens in Oklahoma, a documentary exposing the ex-gay movement, Season 2 of Control-Z and a little bit more!

Our TV Team has voted and these are our picks for the Best TV Shows of 2021 with lesbian, bisexual, queer and/or trans characters.

I attended the Chicago Pride Parade, where safer sex advocates tossed dental dams in shiny squares of plastic from a float. Thrilled, I swept them up, put them in my bag and promptly put them to use.

I can see how some viewers might be turned off by a character’s queerness being turned into a plot twist, but I can assure you it’s not intended as a punchline.

“It sounds like we were all told by others that we were too big as children — rather than actually feeling that way ourselves?”