Results for: representation
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Glee Episode 603 Recap: To Infinity And Beyond
Brittany and Santana are going to the chapel, y’all. They’re gonna get married!
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Also.Also.Also: Dolores Huerta is Fighting Street Harassment with Poetry and Other Stories We Missed This Week
People all over the world are mobilizing to end street harassment, fight for sustainable food, address discrimination, and secure better representation in media.
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Introducing Gayworld: Disney’s Newest Park Offers Dynamic and Educational Fun For The Whole Family!
Autostraddle has the inside scoop on Disney’s boldest show of supporting equality since Timon and Pumbaa sang “Are you achin’ for some bacon” in hula skirts! Gayworld is finally here!
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Latin Lovers and Spicy Bombshells: What “The L Word” Got Wrong About Latinas
The truth is that Carmen and Papi are Latina characters who perpetuated sweeping generalizations about Latin@ Folks and ultimately made matters worse.
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Magical Girls, Heroines and Anime Amazons: Field Notes from Otakon 2013
The East Coast’s largest anime convention had everything an anime fan could want, including some interesting conversations about representation of women in anime.
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Laverne Cox, Superstar: The Autostraddle “Orange Is The New Black” Interview
Laverne Cox talks about trans* representation in media, relating to her character and what it’s like being a trans* actress in tv.
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Orange is the New Black: 7 Things We Should Talk About
It’s important to be super fucking aware of why this show resonates so deeply with people, and I wanna know what y’all think. [SPOILER ALERT: all the spoilers]
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Hey Lesbians! You, Too, Can Have Your Dress and Car Stolen By A Straight Lady
Is acting like you’re going to have lesbian sex, and then not really having it, and then stealing the girl’s shirt/dress/car the hottest new trend? This ad depressingly says “yes.”
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Daily Fix: The GLAAD Network Responsibility Index Makes Us Do Math to Uncover its Most Shocking Statistic (Lezwhat?)
Methodology: For GLAAD’s third annual report, we divided our analysis of reports into two sections (network & cable) and found neither section provided statistics that specifically addressed lesbian, gay and transgender characters as independent groups, therefore requiring us to read every word to get some info about the ladies. We suspect this decision was made because lumping gays, lesbians, transpeople and bisexuals together makes it less depressing.
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Mary Gray Knows What it Feels Like For Gay Kids in Rural America
“I’m not less gay when I take the rainbow sticker off my car. I just know that if I have that in my car, I’m going to piss off people who are already angry at me.”
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Paul Clement Keeping That “Defending DOMA” Gig by Quitting King & Spalding
Paul Clement was quickly hired by a law firm started by the architect of the Patriot Act, where he can safely pursue his desire to defend discrimination against gay people.
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‘OUT’ Celebrates Powerful White Men, ‘Marie Claire’ Clears Up Achele Rumors
What’s happening in the magazines, you ask? Well, it’s the 5th Annual Power 50 over at OUT and boy are they WHITE! Meanwhile, Marie Claire features the girls of Glee and I ramble on about power or something.
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Being a Bad Gay: Things That are Begging, Even Now, to be Quieted for the Sake of Good Company
“It’s just that of all the spectrum riding, genuinely evolving, delicate fixtures of flight in my life, I so love my sexuality being articulated as concrete.”
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Hot Girl Robin is Your Substitute Tuesday Televisionary, With Extra Tron-ness
A haiku for Kathy Griffin, a Top Ten List of Weird Things That Happened on Weeds, onomatopoeia for Nurse Jackie, and visual representations of all of our feelings, plus the Hot Girl of the Week … also, C-Tron has “this idea to create and produce and star in a show called “So You Thought You Could Dance?”. “
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Presenting the Winners of the 8th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!
Yellowjackets, Agatha All Along, and The Last of Us dominated in this year’s awards, while the Comedy categories had a bit more variety. Plus, see which fandom came out on top in the fan favorites categories!
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The Ultimatum: Queer Love’s Bridget Matloff on What the Cameras Didn’t Show You
Bridget Matloff speaks on friendship with Gabby Windey, pressures of reality TV, thoughts on marriage, gender roles, and yes, haircare.
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‘Big Mouth’ Finally Grew Up
Underneath the raunchiness and gross-out jokes, the series has been a trailblazer in its efforts to challenge societal norms and welcome LGBTQ representation.
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Staying Up All Night With Kathryn Gallagher
Kathryn Gallgher talks about starring in the new play All Nighter, written by her best friend, and co-starring Kristine Froseth, Havana Rose Liu, and Alyah Chanelle Scott.
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Why Hasn’t There Been a Good Movie About the Stonewall Riots?
Thirty years after Stonewall (1995), there still hasn’t been a film that meaningfully captures this major LGBTQ+ historical event.
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10 Queer Animation Wins in 2024
There were miraculous updates on beloved characters like X-Men’s Morph and Bob’s Burger’s Marshmellow, CaitVi became canon and then kinky, and Nimona was Oscar nominated!