South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs has come under fire from LGBTQ activists and community members for discriminating against LGBTQ people in their processes.

Queer women of color dominated the Texas primary elections!

Celeste sets out to climb a mountain and learns a whole lot about herself along the way.

Vida’s out non-binary actor Ser Anzoategui gave Autostraddle an one-on-one interview about the show, the importance of queer Latinx representation in front of and behind the camera, and even sang a little Selena for the heck of it. You want this!

“I had two stuffed animal bear friends as a child. Pretty tight crew, I know, but two bears was enough as I also had an imaginary friend who was an adult woman that I had to entertain. I was only one child!”

Here’s how we handle TV that lets us down, the shows we think successfully turned it around, and our ultimate dealbreakers.

Ten thousand reader votes later…

“Your assignment is to write about what happens when Sarah Schuster moves back to LA after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital in her hometown in Illinois.”

I have never seen Sara Ramirez more comfortable in her body. She looks like she’s at home in herself.

Let’s talk about those really tiny really good things that happened to you this week!

If The Merry Spinster seems almost fixated on gender, it’s because Ortberg began participating in gender therapy and exploring identity while writing it, and “It turns out I’m trans!”

Tegan and Sara’s keynote speech, a Desi feminist and DJ from Harvard samples some beats off my her phone, how augmented and virtual reality can be used in politics, how tech is helping the resistance and much more from Lesbians Who Tech!

The Indystraddlers take you on a tour through Indianapolis!

Good Girls tries to do a little too much right out of the gate, but thankfully one of those things is capturing the spirit of the Women’s March and the female-driven resistance.

Helen James wins her case and is generally a real American hero I can get behind, new documentary about Black lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Sarah Waters on 20 years of Tipping the Velvet, Joan Greene is yet another LGBT candidate running in 2018, Melissa Etheridge wants an uprising of love, and more good stuff!

“Sally? Sally, are you here? Are you selling those shirts?”

If you’re wondering why it’s important to believe these suffragettes were sleeping with every other suffragette, it’s because they were. I made you a chart.

Misery loves company. We know where this tale inevitably leads, but some pleasure precedes the axe.

The first meeting of a queer women’s writers group. All levels welcome.

The first-of-its-kind study revealed some surprising findings on queer and disabled folks in particular.