10+ hour, 51+ min ago   (370+ words) Batter up! Hear that call! The time has come for one and all To play ball. The league debuts this weekend with games featuring its four founding franchises: the New York Heights and the Los Angeles Queens open league play…...

19+ hour, 33+ min ago   (390+ words) I started dating my future wife in undergrad. We married eight years later. She is a cis straight woman, but a few months before our wedding, I realized that I was a trans lesbian woman, not a cis straight man....

1+ day, 18+ hour ago   (128+ words) Like reading essays that make your mouth water? Find more queer foodie pieces in Autostraddle’s food-themed print issue. Ashni is a queer writer of fiction living in Brooklyn, NY. When not writing, they can be found outside: at their local…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (118+ words) But I’ll also admit too much Electra Undergrove would have pushed Five-Star Weekend into overly soapy melodrama territory, which it again largely avoids. Much media has been made about the power of female friendships, but Five-Star Weekend stands out in…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (126+ words) There are so many ways to be gay in the gym. This quiz goes out to all the beefy butches, twinky jocks, a cardio daddies, mega strong mommis, pickup basketball gays, lifting lesbians, and biceped bisexuals. Grab your nearest form…...

1+ week, 17+ hour ago   (132+ words) Lesbians and queer women have always been central to sports history: as spectators and superfans of woefully undervalued women’s leagues, as out athletes paving the way for more inclusion and visibility, as diligent, gregarious builders of community through recreational and…...

1+ week, 20+ hour ago   (392+ words) You have to protect your heart, even if it means losing a friend or having an uncomfy but not disastrous conversation. But will you really be able to enjoy this vacation with her if you feel like you’re hiding something…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (197+ words) Things aren’t all cartoon butterflies and fireworks. As the school year nears its end, worries about the future spring up; they hear people talking about how teenage relationships never last, they see Tao (William Gao) and Elle (Yasmin) break up…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (756+ words) Here’s what I remember: a wooden bowl. My father’s silver hair under the spotlit kitchen island. Hands busy mashing yolk and rind; the squeeze of a tube of anchovy paste, the clinks of spoon to jarred garlic. It was the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (108+ words) As summer marches on with all of its associated activities, you might be asking yourself if you are more of a “pool party with a DJ and a few go-go dancers” gal or more of a down-and-dirty “outside sex” gay....