“I think the one thing that really sticks with me from my childhood is that I felt very alone–I felt like no one else’s family was like mine, so I just sequestered that part of my life and didn’t talk about it with my friends or acquaintances.”

Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (“The Nanny Diaries”) re-imagine the story of how Britney Spears ended up under her father’s permanent legal control in their new novel.

In which it is revealed that moms have sex lives and there is clearly something in the Rosewood water.

The “brony” fandom is a lot more Sapphic than you’d think, at least as far as their fanfiction goes.

Staceyann Chin’s got some explaining to do.

This week on The Real L Word, everyone fought about stupid shit and something terrible happened and there was a lot of crying.

Australian actors Renee Lim (Alex) and Debra Ades (Scarlet) open up about their experiences shooting The Newtown Girls. Also, watch the season finale!

Lip Service actor and musician Heather Peace opens up about everything from her new album, Fairytales, to how it felt to take DS Murray down to rock bottom.

Jess chats with the couple about camp, the reality TV experience, the upcoming election, finding an anonymous sperm donor, Smash, Oprah, their Real L Word comrades and — in an Autostraddle exclusive — the sex of their baby, due in October!

Oh, I’m sorry, did you think neon went out with the 80s? You’d be wrong.

Forget everything you know about the Midwest, Chicago’s got as much big-city queer action as either coast.

This week on The Real L Word, I took a long nap, Kiyomi drank too much, Whitney popped the question and Amanda inhaled toxic paint fumes.

This week on “The Real L Word,” various lesbians sat at tables and talked to each other!

The gay foreign policy spokesman Romney hired tolerated about two weeks of B.S. before jumping ship — yep, it’s gotten that bad over there.

“Within the violence of invisibility there was also a sense of liberation and expansiveness, like we could just make everything up as we go along.”

Are there really only 2 episodes left in the series 2? But it’s just starting to get good again!

Things get really intense in Episode Two of Lip Service Season Two. Didn’t this show used to be fizzy and fun?

“Things seemed so big out there and we were just waiting for life to begin properly. I felt electric with anticipation.”

When the water is turquoise and the sun is out and the coastline is spectacular, politics don’t seem necessary.

Let’s take a trip back in time to Bali, Michigan, Nigeria, New Orleans, New York and many other fine fine locales.