“Last night I drunkenly uploaded Robin’s lovely photos from the NewNowNext Awards and drunkenly wrote captions for said photos. I considered changing the captions this morning, but decided it’d be way faster to not change a thing!”

Hi squirrel friends! The winners are listed below under their respectable items. If your name has a ‘*’ next to it, please contact alex@autostraddle.com with your mailing address. Welcome to the First Ever Autostraddle Pride Raffle/FUN(d)RAISING extravaganza! Some of our favorite lez-friendly retailers and service providers are sponsoring our existence and you can reap the […]

” I’m not sick of lesbian jokes, I think they’re all true, and I love them. I love that if I wanted to walk around and not shave my legs and have a bad attitude, wear a belt buckle the size of a burrito, I could. I could, and that would be okay because people expect that of me, and I like that people expect that of me.”

“It’s a tiny tiny tiny fraction of our population, one or two percent has this particular orientation and they dominate, dominate, dominate the news, it’s amazing.”

“We want to write honestly, interact genuinely with as many of our readers as possible and only work with businesses & businesspeople who share our ethics & ideals and promote similar community values.”

“When time came for them to watch Top Model, which they did, I think they started seeing gayness in a normal and great light, because people liked me for that on the show. That was an attractive part of me on the show, it wasn’t anything embarrassing or perverted, and it was just a great thing. I think they started seeing me through the eyes of all the accepting people.”

Trust us, you’ll wanna be there next year.

You can be gay in India today, Tegan and Sara are finished recording, Obama is goddamned wrong. And no one likes New Jersey. Still.

Obama sits down with the Catholics and says he is “wrestling with his faith and solicitude and regard and concern for gays and lesbians.” Also, a new UK webseries for lesbos, Gaga topless, Dancing with the Stars goes gay (er), the Lynch can still do no wrong but Perez can, Middlesex, ex-gays, and LUGS for Heroes!

Our photoblogger Robin and her girlfriend Carlytron, aka the cutest couple ever, travel to Gorges Ithaca and a wedding in the Berkshires provide some helpful hints for traveling with your lesbian lover.

Why Do the Concerned Women of America Hate my Sexual Orientation? What happens at a New Jersey Sweet 16? Why is Katherine Heigl so annoying? Why do gays & lesbians smoke so much? Why is Andrew WK doing the weather? Will I have an orgasm before I go insane?

“Living here and having grown up here you almost forget it’s so different. I never had to worry about walking down the street with my girlfriend holding my hand. And if this show — if me coming out — helps one person, then it was worth it.”

Robin & Carlytron take their lesbian loverthon to Provincetown, Massachusetts, for the annual Carnival and have fun partying with the boys!

++ ++ Curve Magazine – December 2011 Holiday Issue Curve Magazine features The Autostraddle 2012 Calendar in its annual holiday gift guide: “Back for a second pulse-raising year, Autostraddlers Robin Roemer (photographer) and Sara Medd (stylist) are bringing their special brand of SoCal sexy for your daily pleasure. By selecting calendar girls with an emphasis […]

Phaidra Knight “always wanted to play football as a little girl.” Now she’s one of the best women’s rugby players in the world. She shares her secrets in a special photoshoot and interview with photographer Robin Roemer.

This just in: Obama to deliver speech to room full of gay people. What are you gonna do without Conde Nast’s parenting, wedding, and gourmet cooking advice? Autostraddle can help. Also; Lady Gaga endorses the National Equality March and Illinois introduces gay marriage bill.

Hawaii’s governor vetoes civil unions bill, Today Show excludes gays from its Modern Weddings contest and a lesbian is denied the malpractice settlement from her deceased ex-wife — seems gays can’t get a break in the US these days. It’s okay though, because new studies show that straight people are married & have kids & they HATE IT. But also there’s the super-cute new issue of gay wedding mag EquallyWed… gawd, it’s so hard to choose a number one feeling today!

We had a special visitor from Australia (Oz, co-leader of The L Word Online ) and creator, head writer, director and executive producer of AfterEllen’s hit series Alexi’s Closet, Alexi Melvin. Because the “Fly Riese to LA and/or Haviland to NYC so they can vlog and watch The L Word together” fund is very empty (TIP JAR PEOPLE!), she obvs won’t be watching, but I did get everyone else to come, and this little post will end with all of Team Autostraddle telling YOU what they’ve liked best, and loathed, about The L Word thus far.

Xena the warrior princess shows up for another round of adoration from her number one fans: the lesbians. Also, shocker: Jenny DIED.

Episode 606 of The L Word, titled “Lactose Intolerant,” is the worst thing I’ve seen on television since Episode 604 of The L Word. Howevs; whereas 604 was calmly terrible — bumbling softly along its housework-heavy path of mediocrity — 606 was outrageously, actively, aggressively terrible.