It sure has been a decade! Mainstream publishing has become much more open to queer stories, especially perhaps in YA, and the drive and determination of indie and queer publishing projects has meant that less saleable work that is sometimes more resonant to our lives has been able to make it to our shelves. Here are some of the brightest highlights!

“Don’t c@ me.”

Autostraddle’s editors are eager to continue to learn from our mistakes and keep striving to make Autostraddle a space where everyone under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella feels seen, heard, represented, and safe.

You have 48 hours left to vote your faves through to the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF COMING OUT STORIES!

8 great queer women-focused poly SF/F books coming right up!

“Okay so Christian Bale plays… Mr. Ferrari. And Matt Damon plays… Henry Ford?”

With just two episodes left this season, I made you a Charmed Cheat Sheet, filled with all the important details of this topsy turvy magical world.

In NBC’s new comedy, which lands this Thursday, Morales owns the role of the prickly, commanding, loyal, lovable former Marine who sets up an unlicensed, uninsured bar in her rented backyard.

Eight books with steamy summer affairs between women, with some settings abroad to boot!

There’s been even more talk of cats than usual on the queer internet lately, due to Oatmeal the cat in Russian Doll and Chewie the cat in Captain Marvel. Let’s keep that momentum going!

REI is doing so much to change the reality of being a human outside! Including sponsoring this very issue! Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about their Force Of Nature initiative and so much more!

In times like these, when people don’t understand us and decide that this means we shouldn’t live at all, we need to connect with the people that do understand, even if just a little bit, even if peripherally.

“I just want you to know that I don’t even want to go to Ilene Chaiken’s pool, but I want that for you so badly. I would die for your right to go to Ilene Chaiken’s pool.”

“I found Autostraddle while googling ‘how do you know if you should leave your girlfriend?’ And reader, I did leave her. And then I went to an Autostraddle meet-up and met the lady knight of my wildest dreams.”

The question becomes, are the generational differences portrayed in Tales of the City actually generational differences? Is the argument actually between baby boomers and millennials, gen x-ers and gen z-ers? Or have we simply widened the conversation to include, or begin to include, voices that were already there?

Plus: Janelle Monae opens up about being a black queer woman, Lena Waithe pens an op-ed in Time about Hollywood’s black renaissance, Sara Ramirez is going to bat for #20BiTeen on Twitter, Kristen Gillebrand is fighting for trans service members, Carol and Therese art for Valentine’s Day, and so much more!

Middle school is weird. It was awkward as hell when I was a hormonal, monstrous, uncertain twelve-year-old, and only slightly less so when I went back to teach English. So when I found myself, a 23-year-old rookie teacher, standing in a cafeteria fielding a question about how lesbian sex works from a seventh grader, I can’t say I had any right to be surprised.

Our team weighs in on 23 romantic drama films including High Art, The Handmaiden, Carol, Blue is the Warmest Color and so many more.

“If Nola Darling is one of the most famous, even if uncomfortable, black queer women in pop culture – what does it mean for us that nearly everything about her is so closely tied to the man who created her?”

GLAAD shows LGBTQ+ characters are at record highs across broadcast, streaming and cable, and for the first time ever, there are more QPOC than white LGBTQ+ characters on broadcast!