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

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.

Instagram and Facebook etc. are failing sex workers by shadowbanning their content. Plus: what to do if you can’t orgasm, what love bombing is, misunderstanding herpes and more.

Did you love My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris? Here are 8 more queer graphic novels with mind-blowing art and dark themes.

Disaster lesbians need representation too!

Light as a Feather finally focuses on Alex’s love life while she and her friends try to thwart their death curse.

“megan rapinoe’s leather shorts and a tux jacket ONLY look is exactly what a 7 year old might negotiate to be able to wear to a fancy thing, and i love it.”

This is a movie about lonely queers. And it’s a movie about queers who sometimes make baffling choices.

YOU LETTERED IN BEING THIRSTY I LOVE IT I LOVE YOU!

Today, it was announced that four more souls have donated their lives to the cause of “The L Word: Generation Q”: bi actress Olivia Thirlby, Lex Scott Davis, lesbian comic Fortune Feimster and trans actress Sophie Giannamore.

Instead of counting down the days to see if we get three lines on The L Word reboot, we should be counting down the days until Simone gets to turn this short into a full-season show.

How hard do you go on the Hayley Kiyoko when making your summer road trip playlist?

Sloppy exits, queer porn director Shine Louise Houston on why porn is just another genre, the secret level of KonMari IS people, and more.

Our angelic bisexual badass and soft butch sheriff are officially returning to us!

We’re gonna get to see Elena Alvarez wear a suit to prom! Cafecitos for EVERYBODY!

“For those keeping score, this movie with no lesbians now has four lesbians. Two living, two dead. And now enters the fifth non-lesbian lesbian, the dykiest of the them all: Miss Holloway.”

I’m interested in Pride as a time for angry resistance! As such, I’ve got a bunch of new queer rock music to share.

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?

“Blood does not family make. Those are relatives. Family are those with whom you share your good, bad, and ugly, and still love one another in the end. Those are the ones you select.”

I didn’t know then that Devon would become one of those women in my life who’s there for good, who I could not text for months and then suddenly dive right back in with. One of those friends who would show up, who would stay.