Holigay Gift Guide: For the Reluctant Pandemic Chef
Kitchen gifts for beginners and people who get bored in kitchen. I mean, I love making dinner but also like damn we really gotta have dinner EVERY NIGHT?????!!!!
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Holigay Gift Guide: Sexy Gifts Based on Quarantine Style
It’s time to normalize giving sex toys as gifts, and not just to partners. Everyone’s stuck at home anyway!
Holigay Gift Guide: For The Loved Ones You Want To Survive The Apocalypse
Whether you’re convinced America is on the brink of collapse and want to get your loved ones some gear to survive the coming hellscape, or you think they could use some quality hiking and camping stuff so they can safely get outdoors and away from everyone else, this gift guide has you covered.
NEW MERCH ALERT: Tees! Sweatshirts! Stickers! Face Masks! QUEER! MAGNETIC! POETRY!
Buy something for you, your pod friends, your girlfriend, your ex girlfriend, your mom who’s secretly gay, your best friend who you’re secretly gay for, and your polycule.
Autostraddle’s Ultimate Team Holigay Gift Guide 2020: Presents Produce Serotonin, Right? RIGHT???
“What I would most like is to sleep in a glass coffin in a secluded forest dale doted on by chirping woodland creatures until the butch of my dreams comes to wake me with a kiss in roughly mid-2021, but excepting that, I will take these things.”
My Coming Out As Told Through The Outfits In “A New York Christmas Wedding”
I originally added this movie to my queue because, well, It was black. I love black people, I adore Christmas and I wanted to check out and support black films and who knows, maybe I would find a new classic. I started watching and quickly realized that not only did it feature a mostly POC cast — IT WAS QUEER!
POST-HOLIDAY MERCH SALE: 15% Off Everything in the Autostraddle Store
It’s here and queer and only comes once a year. It’s the annual post-holigays sale!
Prone to Wander
“Selfishly, I’m worried about what will happen if I say out loud that I’m uncomfortable with all this God, if I let my brain run its anxious course. If my atheist, queer, bipolar self comes to choir with me in all its unkempt glory, will I lose my safest place?”
Holigay Gift Guide: Last-Minute Anal Gifts
Anal toys are the PURRFECT holigay gift. I can say this with a false self of certainty that literally everyone’s New Year’s Resolution will be “MORE ANAL” or “BIGGER ANAL” or “FINALLY I WILL TRY ANAL.”
Holigay Gift Guide: Planners for Your Most Organized Decade Yet
Planners can be so many things: super structured, super loose, artistic or woo-woo or politically radical or conservatively minimalist. Here are some options to start with for yourself or a loved one!
Three Mocktails for Your Holigay Reunion of Exes
So you’ve invited three of your exes and each of their respective partners/polycules over for holiday dinner. It’s a potluck, so food is taken care of, but what will you drink!? These delicious mocktails, of course.
The 12 Queer Sex Positions Of Christmas
Try these positions to add some spice (ooh, is that nutmeg?) to your sex life this December.
How To Be The Estranged Gay Kid This Holiday Season
Because you’re gay — and maybe a host of other reasons — you and your family don’t speak. Get through it by exclusively listening to music from your parents’ era and try not to have a meltdown.
Holigay Gift Guide: Some Cheer For Your Sad Friends
You might not be able to cure your buddy’s sadness, but you can definitely bring some holiday cheer into heart this season.
10 Non-Confrontational Gifts For Your Girlfriend’s Other Partner
Need a gift that says, “Don’t worry — I’m a great communicator and navigating non-monogamy in a culture that privileges monogamous partnerships is totally easy for me?” Never fear!
Holigay Gift Guide: Gear and Gadgets for Wilderness Survival
Have a queer survivalist friend who needs some new gear to round out their “get up and go” kit? Or a friend who just likes hiking and/or being outdoors but isn’t sufficiently prepared for the possibility of something going wrong?
Gey in Kikh: Rainbow Latkes and Narrow Bridge Candles for Hanukkah
Why have plain latkes when we can have RAINBOW latkes?!
Holigay Gift Guide: For Dykes Who Love Their Bikes
From the moment I got the training wheels off my Strawberry Shortcake bicycle in kindergarten to the starter mountain bike I got for high school graduation to the first bike I bought with my very own money, nothing has ever made me as free as cycling.
Tips on Staying Sober Through The Holidays
Staying sober through the holidays can be anxiety inducing even for the best of us. Here are some tips to get through the big three!
Everyone You Love Wants New Autostraddle Merch This Season and We’ve Got Lots
“Think of me as your friendly Autostraddle Store Elf, guiding you through the kickass new merch we’ve added to store so you can support your favorite website and find that bone deep gift giving satisfaction.”
Holigay Gift Guide: Surprises For Your Favorite Stranded Babe
Whatever has your loved one stranded at home this season, perhaps they could use a little holigay cheering up!