• What Would Elena Kagan Do?

    What happens if Elena Kagan is confirmed and joins the Supreme Court? Is she a friend or a foe in disguise as a friend with a lesbian haircut? Our Legal Eagle Jessica attempts to decipher Kagan’s mysterious record to tell you what her confirmation could mean for gay rights and other key issues.

  • GO’s “100 Women We Love” Honors Autostraddle CEO Riese, Julie Goldman, Miss April, Also Other People

    GO Magazine recently debuted their 2010 list of 100 Women We Love. Autostraddle loves this list a lot, too, because not only does it feature tons of awesome women, but a lot of them work for us!

  • Prop 8 Trial is Over, We Obviously Won, Just Waiting for Confirmation on That

    We recap last night’s press conference on the Prop 8 Trial’s closing arguments and affirm our personal feeling that we’ve got this sh*t in the bag, amirite? Also; Stonewall Uprising, Boy Scouts still hate gays, Rachel Maddow on the oil spill and lesbians raise better kids.

  • Marriage Equality: Not Coming To a State Near You?

    Jessica our Real-Live Lesbian Lawyer/Legal Eagle, is back with more facts about things we don’t understand! If marriage equality isn’t coming to our states any time soon, what can we do NOW to protect the rights of same-sex couples in the meantime? Project 515 has answers, and its a blueprint you could bring to your own community much sooner than you think.

  • My Top 8 Retro Nintendo Games for Android: Geekender Edition!

    I’m still reeling, drunk on the freedom of Google’s Android OS. If you’re a gamer and you’ve got an Android device (or you’re considering one!), take heed of these 8 reasons to ditch the iPhone. Snesoid and Nesoid on the Android Market open up a whole world of retro-gaming, a world which I thoroughly explored this weekend for, er, research purposes. And because the Geekender is ostensibly for things I do on the weekend.

  • Embodiments that Matter: Queer America Looks Like You

    Molly Landreth and Amelia Tovey have set out into the gay wide open to document the faces, stories and sounds of this crazy queer country in their amazing photo/bio project, Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life in America. They sat down with Autostraddle to talk about the incredible things they’ve been doing, where they’re heading next, and why this work is so important.

  • 28 Docs Later You’ll Be A Better Person, Just Watch

    Autostraddle has a serious soft spot for documentaries, and we want to give you the same. Here’s the official Autostraddle list of the documentary films everyone should see before they die.

  • Glee’s Got Bad Romance Live, More Madonna, and Not Enough Diversity

    Today, there’s more television news than we can shake a stick at: Glee, Modern Family, Weeds, Ru Paul, Jennifer Beals’ new show… Plus, French Elle’s plus size covergirl spreads a message of acceptance, and the Wachowskis have a script about a gay relationship in the Iraq War.

  • Lesbian Safe Sex 101: The Doctor Is In (Also, the Cartoonist)

    It’s hard out there for a sexually active lesbo — how do you get the safe sex info you need when you’re afraid of the gyno and lesbians are ignored in sex ed? WELL WE’VE GOT A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE. Also; a cartoonist. Really you have to see the cartoons.

  • Ellen Page’s Lesbian Debut in Freeheld and Her Almost-Gay Role Retrospective

    It’s finally happening: Ellen Page is going to play a real live lesbian on the big screen. We take a deeper look at the story behind her lesbian debut in Freeheld and analyze her former roles where she wasn’t gay, but still warmed our gay hearts.

  • GLAAD Asks Newsweek for Apology (Though This Isn’t Its First Anti-Gay Offense)

    GLAAD asks Newsweek for apology over Seetodeh’s gays-can’t-play-straight piece! Why do we still care? Because, believe it or not, this isn’t even the worst thing he’s written about gay people for Newsweek, just look at the victim-blaming hate-crime cover story! Anti-DADT empirical research is on YouTube and they’re dancing, Happiness without perfection, what your server is thinking about your date, and a Catholic university isn’t hiring a lesbian.

  • Guinevere Turner, From “Go Fish” to L-Wording: The Autostraddle Interview

    Writer/actress/director Guinevere Turner tells all about her L Word legacy, her own “Chart,” why she stopped watching, seeing “Go Fish” two decades later, writing Michelle Rodriguez & Kristanna Loken’s Bloodrayne underwater fight scene, and — well — read this interview. Seriously. Read it right now, trust me.

  • Glee Creator Calls for Newsweek Boycott & Newsweek’s Response to Gay Backlash Fails All Over Again

    GLEE Creator Ryan Murphy backs up Kristin Chenoweth and calls for a boycott of Newsweek until Setoodeh apologizes — and invites him to come on set. Also, Ramin Setoodeh has responded to the “internet backlash” and Kristin Chenoweth’s response to his homophobic article “Straight Jacket” in Newsweek and unsurprisingly, all he really does is dig himself even deeper. We break it all down for you. Lots of feelings on this one.

  • Glee Finale: Glee Drinking Game & Season Recap – Watch “Episode 122: Journey” With Us

    Glee’s season finale, episode 122 “Journey,” is on FOX tonight at 9pm EST. Are you watching? Then you’ll need our Glee drinking game, feelings, and recap of the season thus far (by special guest Liz)! Glee Drinking Game you guys! Glee Drinking Game!

  • Obama Orders More Same-Sex Partner Benefits. When Can We Like Him Again?

    Today Obama did another thing for gay people, and we can hear the icicles of our soul slowly melting. Which got me thinking about relationships — are we in an emotionally manipulative short-term on-and-off relationship with Obama, or is he in fact being a better man?

  • Hollywood Loves Gay Men & Teens, Just Ask “The Marriage Ref”

    Not since the dawn of Rickie Vasquez & Will Truman have gay men been so loved by Hollywood. It’s fine, ladies have tampons and performance art. Also; A new teaser for Jill Bennett & Cathy DeBuono’s We Have to Stop Now, Glee on Oprah, & Prop 8 Films’ gay marriage documentary ‘Till Death Do Us Part.’

  • Let Us Now Praise Effeminate Men

    Alan Cumming’s latest blog post sums up the week perfectly, and addresses perhaps Newsweekgate’s most underasked question: “What is wrong with being effeminate, anyway?” It’s Friday, y’all. Let us praise ye wise men who know “queeny” isn’t even a word, give you some wisdom and share some of our favorite videos; Kurt’s Turn in Glee, Adam Lambert goes crazy, Alan Cumming emcees, Rickie finds World Happiness and Peter Paige finds Emmet’s truth.

  • Lesbian Prom Update: Constance Suing for Damages & Westboro’s Coming to Graduation

    Constance McMillen is now seeking unspecified monetary damages in her case against Itawamba High School, citing public humiliation. Even worse, Westboro Baptist Church has announced they’ll be picketing her graduation to remind everyone that dykes are ‘filthy.’ Also; more on Scott Baio’s evolving lesbian rage, Gay tourism, forced gay marriage, bisexuals aren’t gay enough, Sikhism and feminism, tv bans plus size ads, and headache fun!

  • Autostraddle Roundtable: Becoming Queer Feminists (Part 1)

    We finally wrote another roundtable, and it’s about feminism! This discussion is gonna take a while, so we’re going to start this by talking about how we first became feminists. Share your own experiences in the comments!

  • SHOCK: Movies Love Lesbian Psycho Killers, Gay Men in Period Costumes

    One newspaper asks if queer film festivals are still necessary, another discovers the lesbian psycho killer phenomenon and wonders why we don’t get nice gay man movies. also; Adam Lambert interview, eyeliner 101, The Runaways, girl bands like the Runaways, Ke$ha’s appropriation of Native American culture, Tina Fey, the Lambda Literary Awards and Angelina Jolie.