Results for: representation
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Transplants, Transition, and David Cronenberg’s Body Horrors
How many organs do I have to replace before I can be classified as “biologically female”?
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Why Is Boston’s New Women’s Soccer Team Ad Campaign So Transphobic and Bad
Excuse me but who decided that an ad campaign focused on the abundance of cis male genitalia in sports would be an effective method of promoting Boston’s new National Women’s Soccer League team, Bos Nation?
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‘The Wild Robot’ Is an Unexpected Depiction of Queer Found Family
This may be a sizzling hot take, but Chris Sanders’ The Wild Robot is a queer film.
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Possession, Heartbreak, Transition
During my most nervous-system-destroying breakup to date, I found myself feeling like an abandoned child, the victim of a broken contract.
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Kate McKinnon Moved to the Woods, Grows Her Own Food, Got Into Carpentry and Wrote You a Book
Kate McKinnon is living the lesbian dream and doing a press tour about her new middle-grade book, Agatha All Along ASMR, a peek into Heartstopper’s potential future, Ariana Debose’s new horror flick, and more.
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I Was Naive To Think I Could Shape It More Than It Could Shape Me
“Young and naïve, I looked towards magazines, media and the Internet to tell me about the world. I imagined what it might look like when I grew up and became a part of it, not realizing how literal or destructive that aspiration would become.”
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Sasheer Zamata Wants To Be Your Queer Julia Roberts
“I think it’s cool that people now know a little bit more about me and know that the person who is playing these characters is also living this lifestyle.”
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Last Night’s ‘Agatha All Along’ Was the Gayest Thing The MCU Has Ever Done
Will this be the first Marvel property to give us an on-screen sapphic kiss?
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Remember When Russian Pop Duo t.A.T.u Pretended To Be Lesbians?
“From the minute “All the Things She Said” hit the airwaves, there had been rumblings that the girls in t.A.T.u. weren’t actually lesbians. I mean, it makes sense; they were too stereotypical. The schoolgirl outfits, Julia’s spiky short hair, Lena’s long curls. It just feels like what two older straight men think lesbians look like.”
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Pixar Really Didn’t Want ‘Inside Out 2’ To Be Gay but Let’s Be Honest It Was Still Pretty Gay
Employees working on ‘Inside Out 2’ report a grueling work schedule and an intentional push to avoid “LGBT themes.” Also — Britney Spears wonders why Sabrina Carpenter kissed an alien instead of a girl, Ariana Debose getting that haunted chef gig and more pop culture news for your day!
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2024 Emmys: Just The Gay Parts
Jodie Foster and Jessica Gunning won Emmys, the LGBTs wore great outfits, Lily Gladstone and Greta Lee held hands and more gay highlights from the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards.
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33 Action Villains, Ranked by Lesbianism
Gays! We love our villains!
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Vote Now in the 7th Annual Autostraddle TV Awards!
Fewer gay shows are being produced and the ones that do slip through are often canceled. But that makes it all the more important to celebrate the work that does get made!
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Anarchist Author Margaret Killjoy Crafts Trans Worlds in the Woods
Margaret Killjoy is a master world-builder. Her first young adult book, The Sapling Cage, comes out next month.
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‘The Umbrella Academy’ Final Season Feels Rushed and Chaotic — and Not in a Fun Way
You have Academy Award nominee ELLIOT PAGE!! Use him!!
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Disney’s D23 Announcements Were More Gay-Adjacent Than Anticipated
Disney’s D23 announcements contained a lot of queer artists and actors, Nicole Maines talks Dreamer, Elliot Page talks crushes, bad news about the lesbian couple on “Tracker” and more queer pop culture news for your life!
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55 LGBTQ+ Women Athletes Won Medals In the 2024 Paris Olympics
Over out LGBTQ+ women won medals in the 2024 Olympics — we ran, we hooped, we kicked, we swam, we rowed, we rugbied, we boxed, we fenced, we cycled, we WON.
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‘Cuckoo’ Isn’t As Good as Its Final Girl
The scariest part of ‘Cuckoo’ is how it wastes Hunter Schafer’s performance.
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How Gay Are the Books These Queer Shows Are Based On?
My favorite adaptations are always the ones that inject queerness where there previously was none. Here are 69 book-to-queer-TV adaptations along with a look at just how queer the books were.
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Trans Teen Pauly Likens’ Murder Haunts Her Rural Pennsylvania Community
Pauly Likens was a 14-year-old trans girl. She had a core group of close friends, and she was seen by them, and loved by them and by her family.