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You Need Help: Coming Out as Non-Binary in High School

“It’s common to want to tell everyone about your newfound realization about your identity, so that you can feel like you’re living authentically and with integrity. But you get to do whatever feels best to you!”

By Abeni Jones| April 3, 2018 | 5 Comments
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Interview With My High School Crush: Leanne

“You totally had me freaked out. You must have been acting kind of weird that night and for a while before. Because when you were like ‘There’s something I need to tell you,’ I thought you were dying. I had no clue.”

By Carrie| July 5, 2017 | 17 Comments
Two people sit on a bench smiling into the camera by looking back over their shoulders. The person on the left is in a black shirt with a patterned top, and the one on the right is in a white lacy top with a black corset over it. They both have brown hair, though the one on the left has darker hair than the one on the right.
Sex + Relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: Radically Vulnerable Feminist Pep Talk

“We met on the first day of high school. I was drawn to her for some reason. She was reading; that might have been it. She had glasses; that could have been it, too.”

By Carrie| February 16, 2017 | 7 Comments
News + Politics

SCOTUS Temporarily Blocks Trans Teen’s Bathroom Rights as it Weighs Bathroom Bill Battle

SCOTUS has issued a stay on a Virginia circuit court’s ruling, temporarily upholding a school’s anti-trans bathroom policy until they can issue a fuller ruling.

By Rachel| August 4, 2016 | 6 Comments
Straddleverse

Prom Roundtable: The Magical Night Of Memories of Our Collective Lives

“My date got incredibly drunk and ended up passing out in the back of the limo, facedown in my boobs. It was not the romantic prom story I felt I’d been promised.”

By Adrian| April 22, 2016 | 37 Comments
Advice

You Need Help: You Don’t Agree With Your Best Friend’s Advice

I think she’s being the most supportive—and she’s exactly what you want in a best friend, because she’s in your corner and she’s supporting you as a whole person. She’s giving you some solid advice here—this is a bad idea. It is. Darling, this is a terrible idea.

By A.E. Osworth| February 1, 2016 | 48 Comments
Music

Mixtapes We Really Made When We Were Teenagers: A Roundtable

The Autostraddle staff has gone through their tapes, CDs and playlists to share a little corner of their past selves.

By Adrian| December 30, 2015 | 34 Comments
Youth + Family

10 Ways Educators Can Make Schools Safer for LGBT Youth

We’re participating in GLSEN’s Ally Week and talking about how K-12 educators can become better allies to the LGBT youth in their schools.

By Rachel| October 2, 2015 | 41 Comments
Youth + Family

Lesbian Prom Gallery: Heartwarming Photos Of Girls Taking Girls To Prom, 1985-2015

It’s prom season and there’s no better time to look at these adorable queer, lesbian, bisexual and otherwise-identified humans going to prom with each other and looking damn good doing it. Plus a chance to submit your own!

By Riese| May 1, 2015 | 72 Comments
Gender

Maine, Virginia and Minnesota Grant New Trans Student Rights, With Room For Improvement

While it’s great that these states are granting trans students rights, Virginia and Minnesota are still putting up a lot of hurdles for potential trans athletes.

By Mey| December 5, 2014 | 4 Comments
News + Politics

GLSEN Report Shows It’s Finally Getting Better in Schools For LGBT Youth

“High school and middle school are hard enough as it is. To think about the additional barriers facing these students is pretty heartbreaking, and we all need to stand up and do what we can to move them out of the way.”

By Adrian| October 22, 2014 | 2 Comments
Gender

Girls’ Happiness Plummets Circa Age 11, Says New Study and also a Billion Older Studies

But let’s not blame technology.

By Riese| May 5, 2014 | 40 Comments
Television

MTV’s New Fake Lesbian Show “Faking It” Makes Me So Confused

On April 22, MTV will be premiering a new comedy about two girls who pretend to be lesbians together in order to get popular at school. Needless to say, this has me very confused.

By Mey| April 3, 2014 | 60 Comments
Sex + Relationships

This is What Sex Ed Looks Like in My Queer Feminist Utopia

“We’re all normal, as long as we are having sex in ways that are consensual, risk-aware and injury free. Our bodies? They’re normal too. Beautiful, even. That should be the core concept in any comprehensive sex education, in my opinion.”

By A.E. Osworth| March 19, 2014 | 53 Comments
Youth + Family

These Adorable Lesbian Homecoming Queens Top Off Our Best Queer Homecoming Season Ever

Greta Melendez and Lily Cohen are the latest in a month of queer homecoming winners and a much longer line of kids battling for the right to wear tiaras in public while gay.

By Riese| November 5, 2013 | 10 Comments
College

Teach Me Your Ways: The Teachers Who Helped Make Us Queer

Many of us were lucky enough to have teachers who didn’t make us queer as such, but they did help make it a little easier on us, sometimes even before we knew it about ourselves. Here’s to them.

By the team| October 11, 2013 | 24 Comments
Youth + Family

You Need Help: On That Younger Possibly-Queer Human Who Might Need You

“I’m seventeen and I’ve already gone through my queer angst – and it kills me to see this kid alone almost all the time, they always look miserable and it reminds me of me a couple of years ago.”

By Kate| October 1, 2013 | 24 Comments
News + Politics

Fox News, CNN Show Their Transphobic Colors In Response To California’s Transgender Student Bill

Once again, 24-hour news networks let us down by giving a stage to bigots and showing that the only things they know about trans* people are outdated transphobic stereotypes.

By Mey| August 16, 2013 | 22 Comments
News + Politics

California Becomes First To Pass Law Requiring Trans* Students Treated Equally, Because Humanity

In a major victory for transgender youth, California passes law giving trans* students equal protection, opportunities and access in public schools.

By Mey| August 12, 2013 | 7 Comments
Politics + Activism

Join 11-Year-Old Marcel In The Fight Against John Ragan, Champion of Tennesee’s “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

“Just the idea of [the “Don’t Say Gay” bill] made me realize there are people out there who would not like me just because I’m gay. It made me feel really terrible. It made me feel unaccepted.”

By Hansen| June 5, 2013 | 5 Comments
News + Politics

Kaitlyn Hunt’s Case May Already Be Bringing Change for Laws About Gay Teen Relationships

Kaitlyn Hunt’s case is motivating Florida state senator Thad Altman to revisit Florida’s laws regarding teens’ consensual sexual relationships; he argues that they should “provide more forgiveness” for teens like Hunt.

By Rachel| May 28, 2013 | 56 Comments
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