“It was like throwing a tennis ball at a wall and expecting it to bounce back but against all odds it gets stuck in the bricks.”

Sneak peaks for days, Brittani’s special workout recommendation, Stef’s pursuit of ERW, Rachel’s trip to Madison, early requests for AS 1.0 and so many more things you care deeply and passionately about!

On the second recamp of A-Camp my true love gave to me one cool pool party, five all-camp photos, one epic RenFair and an extra long staff reeeeadddadinggggggg!

London Friend’s Lesbian Line, which opened in 1989 and closed in 1999, was one of many gay and lesbian phone lines across the UK.

I’ve been thinking about it almost every day lately.

If you’ve read this far I think it’s pretty clear that I love a highly competent femme with a lot of personal problems.

For queer couples, deciding to get pregnant often involves a lot of planning, money, and time.

Even though I didn’t get to experience A-Camp in the traditionally transformative way, I got an even deeper peek into the ways that this community is both very real and deeply caring.

Plus: JR and Petra try co-parenting on Jane the Virgin, Lena Waithe smooches Halley Berry on the mouth on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and Kat’s new love gets complicated on The Bold Type.

We published so much good work this year, and here is a fraction of it we think you will particularly enjoy reading back through!

A full video of Jennifer Knapp’s appearance on Larry King Live is out — will Jennifer Knapp be the one to show Gay & Christian are not mutually exclusive? And when did Ted Haggard stop being an asshat and start being bearable? Rosie makes our little gay hearts feel full of love, Archie Comics are getting a new gay in Riverdale, Will Phillips is the cutest recipient of a television journalism award in the history of television journalism, and there’s a new name in media aimed at Muslim women. And hey, have you made a video for Be Queer, Buy Queer yet? If not, make moves!

We’re bringing A-Camp to the midwest and we wanna see you there!

“It’s the kind of work that makes me look forward to eight hours on my feet holding five pounds of camera in my hands with another seven pounds slung across my back. It’s wonderful to create not just art, but art that makes people feel special and good and beautiful.”

We’re having an Advice-a-Thon/AMA on A+ on Monday to celebrate our sixth birthday with tons of Autostraddle editors and special guests like La Loba Loca, Mallory Ortberg, Dannielle Owens-Reid and more! We’re also giving away some free A+ memberships to ‘Straddlers-in-need and THIS is the post wherein you can get yourself in the running!

Cheerleading is a sport full of contradictions and paradoxes, and Backspot explores that well.

It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for!

Visit five feminist bookstores across the south east that are creating community building and political organizing space as well as curating feminist literature written by authors from different backgrounds holding often marginalized identities.

“to be extremely fair i’d let bette porter run me over with a honda”

Not all libraries have Kanopy access, but if yours does, you are hot to trot, my friend. Much like the subjects of the documentary about same-sex ballroom dancing, Hot to Trot, discussed within! Just a little LGBT documentary humor for you. 

“Tag yourself — I’m ‘not sure who is supposed to make the first move.'”