In February, I found myself sitting in a folding chair in a country club just outside of Pittsburgh, directly across from Kristen Stewart and Mackenzie Davis.

“You can trust someone not to kill you with a knife, but still not trust them with your feelings.”

“I saw how they reacted to Max and I was like, ‘ohh, I’m gonna transition and I’m gonna be shunned from this community that I’ve longed for for 18 years, I’m gonna lose my community if I transition.'”

“It’s a real mark of our collective queer delusion that everyone tries to forget how weird it is when serial roof marauder Piper Perabo climbs on top of her car to screech about wankers over the standstill of London traffic.”

“I had a moment where I was watching this again, and I remembered watching this scene 12 years ago, and I was like, wow, I’m gay. You know?”

I did make out with my ex in the house here and there but the family was French and basically encouraged it and gave me wine every night.

Betty from Riverdale Remains a Bisexual Queen! Your favorite rapper Chika with an in-depth profile you’ve never seen from her before, Naomi Osaka bringing Black Lives Matter to the US Open, and how to *actually* get your vote counted in this hellscape of an election.

“Whether it’s the gay internet or a show like ‘Trinkets’ it makes it easier to be like maybe I’m not the one that’s wrong. Maybe everyone around me is wrong.”

“I love a ballad that reaches it’s climax with a big note. Lesbians known all there is to know about reaching a climax so there ya have it.”

So much has happened, and in many ways it feels impossible for me to not look at everything through the lens of the insurrection in the U.S. Capitol. This is just one of those times where it’s as much as I can do to look at all the many ways America is, quite simply, falling apart right now. So this week’s Extra! Extra! is pretty much limited to American news: several angles of breaking down everything that’s horrifying about the insurrection, the Trump administration’s parting shots and how COVID continues to rage amid American incompetence.

“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.”

“It’s funny that I’ve seen a hundred queer couples on TV at this point, and it was finally these two teenage dorks who really reflected my own reality back to me for maybe the first time.”

Also: Lizzo is going to develop some TV projects for Amazon, Zoë Kravitz rightfully calls out Hulu for cancelling High Fidelity, Rebecca Sugar and Noelle Stevenson in conversation, and more.

Just a little data, discussion and analysis from the backstage area of the Autostraddle Gay Emmys!

Getting top surgery with my butch identity is no longer some unattainable fantasy. Now the question firmly rests with me: do I want to go ahead with it or not?

First I became a cloud-woman. Min had always liked watching them as a child, one of her only good memories from that period. I lifted up my skirts, let her lap up my water. Her mouth was covered in dew when I kissed her.

Plus updates on: Legacies, S.W.A.T., and All American!

If casual dating is a thing you want, you can do it! I believe in you / us / our ability to not get married on the third date.

“My one note is, “God, I wish Tasha was a firefighter, so I didn’t have to feel conflicted about her.”

I swear the Blockbuster cashiers knew I was gay before anyone else in my life.