Results for: representation
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Gal Pals Without Benefits: Why Does Kissing Your Bestie Get You Killed in Horror Movies?
Using Barbara Creed’s ‘The Monstrous Feminine’ as a guide, I take you on a journey of exploration and analysis across the lethal lesbian kisses of horror history.
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“To L and Back” Gen Q Podcast Episode 203: Luck Be a Lady
“In Gigi’s head she’s always calculating everything and very aware of everyone’s emotions and very aware of her own emotions and then does the chaotic thing anyways. And that’s how I live my life and I love to see it on TV in someone so hot.”
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“I’m Not a Stripper, but I Play One on TV”: Why Hustlers Won’t Change the Game for Sex Workers
If you can’t handle the titties, get out the strip club, babe. Even if it’s a fictional one.
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The Quiet Lesbian Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
There is sufficient evidence, both from Lorraine Hansberry’s own hand and from those with whom she interacted socially, that she was a lesbian. But the how of it all — that we have to piece together in fragments.
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“Razor Tongue” Web Series Review: Rain Valdez is Here to Save the Romcom
Valdez is attempting to radically change the industry. She’s also making a compelling case that she should be to 2019 what Julia Roberts was to 1999.
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Holigay Gift Guide: Gifts for Your Fave Baby Gay
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that a newly-out baby gay must be in want of rainbow-bedecked everything. Here’s a guide to the easiest holiday shopping you’ll ever do.
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I Just Want to Look Like Greta Garbo: On Icons
Personal icons from Greta Garbo to Jenny Lewis: how we come by them, fall in love with them, and want to be like them. Who’s to say whether we’re really falling in love with them or with ourselves? Who’s to say whether we want to be them or be with them?
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8 Cute Queer Holiday Romances to Snuggle up with this Holigay Season
More than one book involves lesbians falling in love while bonding over a cute festive pet.
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I Loved “Sex Education” Season Two — I Wish It Loved Me Back
What’s incredible about Sex Education, and especially this second season, is its ambition is to include everybody.
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“To L and Back” Generation Q Podcast Episode 201: Late to the Party
“If I was accidentally on a date with Gigi, it would be the best day of my life.”
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Vulture Festival: Sunday Dinner With the “One Day at a Time” Family
It was as if the cast’s casual banter was written by the show’s writing staff.
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Film Historian Jenni Olson on “Mädchen in Uniform,” The First Ever Lesbian Film
“They were like whatever we have dozens of lesbian bars, we have magazines, we have all of this culture, we have Marlene Dietrich, we don’t need this little girl thing.”
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Gay Agenda Recap and Transcript: Autostraddle’s Leaders Talk About the Vision!
We’re very serious gay professionals.
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I Love “Euphoria” and I Hate It
We can debate the actual quality of Euphoria, but what’s undeniable is Sam Levinson is writing about people most of the film and television world has ignored. After two failed movies focusing on cis white people and one mediocre HBO movie about an old cis white guy, Levinson discovered what Hollywood at large still hasn’t.
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Selfies Are Gonna Save The World
If we all spent more time taking selfies can you IMAGINE the confidence of the queer community at large? We would be unstoppable.
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Mae Martin on “Feel Good,” Dating, and What They’re Doing In Quarantine
“Everyone is going to want to have orgies after this.”
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Boobs on Your Tube: “Station 19” Continues Shondaland’s Legacy of Hot Gay Sex (And Drama)
Plus updates on: Harley Quinn, How To Get Away with Murder, In the Dark, Motherland: Fort Salem, Tommy, Roswell, The Baker and the Beauty, 911, Top Chef, and Siren.
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The Comment Awards Are Running For Mayor Of Los Angeles
“Leia…I am your mommi.”
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Pop Culture Fix: Jo March and Her Hats Seem Tolerably Gay in That “Little Women” Trailer
Also: What’s ahead for your favorite stabby lopvebirds on Killing Eve, Gentleman Jack’s scripts are available for you to pursue, the state of trans TV, GLOW’s fashion upgrade, and more!
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The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 69, May/June 2020
“the sex bench is like all the flatware in beauty and the beast collecting dust waiting for somebody to come along and use it to feel purpose / meaning again”