Queer Women Masturbate More Than Straight Women, Our Sex Survey Says
On the masturbation practices of the 8,566 humans who took our Ultimate Lesbian Sex Survey — how they do it, for how long, how often, and “how much more than everybody else.”
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VIDEO: Button and Bly’s Travel Show in Los Angeles
Meet Button and Bly, lesbian travelers! Then get ready for the premiere of their third season, where they show you around beautiful LA! You’re gonna love these two.
Visiting Family After Marrying my Wife, Part 1: Packing My Suitcase
“Since the wedding has made me come out to more people than I had ever intended, this trip back to my place of origin makes facing their reactions inevitable. Will my physical presence stoke the intensity of their opposition?”
Where Do Lesbians Live? New Gallup Numbers Add More Numbers To Pile Of Confusing Numbers
In which I dive into piles of mostly-confusing data to figure out where the girls are in a country where gayborhoods tend to be filled with boys.
State of the Lesbian Bar: Were DC’s Legendary Lesbian Bars Just a Phase?
Phase 1, both the oldest standing lesbian bar in America and the last to remain in the nation’s capital, closed abruptly this month. Meanwhile, venues for gay men are booming. What’s the future of lesbian nightlife in DC?
My Brother Interviews Me About The Olive Garden For His School Paper
“They don’t fire girls, only guys. One guy got fired for swearing, another called his table “ghetto,” and the third got fired for asking his table why they didn’t tip him.”
We Went to the Moon; Why Can’t We Make A Baby from Two Eggs Yet?
In the early oughts, Dr. Orly Lacham-Kaplan got pretty close to figuring out how to turn two human eggs into a baby — something a lot of lesbians want to see happen very soon. What happened?
Autostraddle’s Ultimate Holigay Gift Guide 2014: What We Want
Considering how special each and every snowflake is who works here, there’s bound to be something in this guide for you, your girlfriend, all your gay friends, and maybe even one of your most badass family members.
How Leslie Feinberg Changed Our Lives: The Autostraddle Roundtable
“I could feel the power that came from being butch, the paradox of growing up a girl and then becoming the suited partner of a beautiful woman, the torture of being such a social outcast, and the deep craving hunger for being accepted.”
Autostraddle’s 2014 Fall TV Preview: Queers and Women of Color All Over Your Teevee
We’ve got a genderqueer lead, an intersex teenager, multiple shows headlined by women of color, the first ever recurring lesbian woman of color character in a primetime network superhero series and SO MUCH MORE!
Your Obsessive 2014 Winter Olympics Ladies Figure Skating Preview Is Here
Complete guide to all the Olympics 2014 women’s figure skaters, focused on frontrunners like Yuna Kim, Ashley Wagner, Gracie Gold and Mao Asada. I LOVE SKATING.
Everything Hurts All The Time
“I hated my body and punished it, and it hated me and punished me back. Is that what happened? That’s the thing about getting sick the way I got sick: nailing it down.”
Body as a Second Language: Navigating Queer Girl Culture on the Autism Spectrum
“For me, reading and speaking body language is like communicating in any foreign language — I concentrate hard, stumble, and make embarrassing errors. Turns out other queer autistic people have this problem too.”
A-Camp October 2013 Recamp #4: You Look Wonderful Tonight
It’s our very last recamp! In this heart-pounding tale of love and life, a bunch of weirdos go to prom, witness an epic proposal, and share all their feelings.
A-Camp October 2013 Recamp #3: If You Wanna Be My Lover, You Gotta Get With My Carnival
We sang, we danced, we laughed, we cried, we bobbed for apples, we got a bear hug, and we lived to tell the tales!
A-Camp October 2013 Recamp #2: How Do You Spell “Regalement”?
On day two we read our feelings out loud, stripped and spelled, tied each other up, got crazy/beautiful and cheered for our lives!
A-Camp October 2013 Recamp #1: Let It Snow!
It’s our first behind-the-scenes A-Camp 4.0 Recamp in which we reminisce about the day before we met you and the day we met you and how everything started to snow!
How My Motherhood Made My Mother Accept My Lesbianism
She didn’t say “I have suspected this for years and I still love you.” It went more like a Scared Straight kind of thing but instead of scaring me about drugs and a life of crime, she wanted to scare me straight, straight. “Just Say No to Lesbianism” straight.
Blue Is The Warmest Color: The Male Gaze Reigns Supreme
If you’re looking for a primer in all the ways that modern media is still failing queers, this film is a good start.
“Yes, I Know What A Gigabyte Is”: Let’s Talk About Sexism In The Tech Industry
Following the “Titstare” fiasco at Disrupt, we’re having a greater conversation about sexism in the tech industry. And women who work in tech won’t be the only humans to benefit from the disruption of brogrammer culture.