I made Bang! Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities because it profoundly made sense to me, because there was a gaping hole in that plastic wall where there should have been some acknowledgement of pleasure, consent, or the emotions of sex. Bang! was designed to fill this gap with emotionally-aware, positive sex-ed. While we had been taught about the vas deferens and fallopian tubes, we had never been taught how to even talk about sex with a partner. I made Bang! because I thought it needed to exist.

We all — Ex-Orthodox, Orthodox, and bisexual — deserve better from Netflix than the perpetuation of misconceptions about our identities.

Work in Progress knows friends are family (and not in a corny way), the queer teens have a night to remember on Raising Kanan, and Jess is STILL MISSING on In The Dark.

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!

Last week I followed the sweet sound of fanboy weeping and discovered a treasure beyond my wildest imagination.

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

Angelica Ross being interviewed by Crissle in a flurry of Black queer and trans brilliance, how to make serious sense of yesterday’s SCOTUS push to re-evaluate gay marriage, could the parents of LGBTQ+ kids decide the election? And more!

“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!

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

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.

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.

Herz might just be the queer miracle of Mobile.

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.

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

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!