Riese Lyn Bernard

Los Angeles

co-founder and editor at https://t.co/axdxxKmVoj, podcast @tolandback. writer, editor & lgbtq+ market consultant. dead. any pronouns. ✡️🏳️‍🌈

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Aca-Scuse Me, It Appears Actress Anna Camp Has a Girlfriend

3 days ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

Over a week ago, a TikTok video posted by Mr Big USA (“Documenting the thoughts & beliefs of people in this Era!”) .
Quiz: Which Lesbian Mom Are You?

5 days ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

Well it is Mother’s Day for those who celebrate. But there are so many types of mothers out there, aren’t there? Sure there are lesbian mothers who have children. However, there are also Mommis. There are, too, Mothers. There are Dog Moms, and Cat Moms. There are Daddys. There is the lesbian polar bear mom on Peppa Pig. With so many Moms out there, it’s time to figure out — which one are you?
JoJo Siwa's Breakup With Kath Ebbs and 'Big Brother' Sexuality Discourse, Explained

1 week ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

“If you had told me that in 2025 we’d be living in a world where the lesbian queen of gay pop herself, JoJo Siwa, would be living in the Big Brother house, questioning her sexuality because of Jesy Nelson’s ex-boyfriend Chris Hughes from Love Island, I would not believe you,” said Max Balegde on TikTok last week, before eventually noting, “Have we lost the plot? I fear the plot has been lost. JoJo Siwa, Straighto Siya? JoJo See-Ya to my lesbianism! What’s happening?
I Regret To Inform You That Our Baby Will Be Throwing Up On Your Shirt

2 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

Some things about this perfect baby boy Jude: his eyes are still blue, enormous and glassy like tiny pools, gently sunset with the longest eyelashes I’ve ever seen. His favorite thing in the whole world is this psychologically unsettling mobile over his changing table — an upside-down cone of black and white spirals, something straight out of Vertigo. He is, arguably, a baby beluga in the deep blue sea. He loves baths, always falls asleep in his car seat, and makes adult facial expressions.
May 2025: What's New, Gay and Streaming on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Max, Peacock, Apple and Paramount+

2 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

You know what they say — April flowers bring May television shows with lesbian, bisexual and queer women and/or trans characters. But do they? This month I actually think that yes, they do. Bet: Season One // May 15Netflix’s live-action (and English-language) adaptation of the manga series Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler finds a new student Yumeko at a gambling-focused elite boarding school full of evil children, intent on carrying out a secret mission.
Quiz: Which Lesbian Beverage Are You?

2 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

As you may or may not know, women invented beer, iced coffee is iconically gay and vampires drink blood and all vampires are pansexual and ALSO once we devoted an entire month of content to sparkling beverages? What I mean to tell you is basically this: lesbians are all over beverage history. We love to take a drink from assorted fountains of love and affection and each other and also of the world. But which drink are you? Okay, let’s find out:
18 Historical LGBTQ+ TV Shows To Remind You That We Have Always Been Here

3 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

While it’s certainly interesting to argue that LGBTQ+ people generally, and trans people specifically, are a relatively new development in human history, in fact all of us have been thriving under pressure for all of human history — and there’s so much incredible television out there to remind us of who we are and where we come from. Here’s how to immerse yourself in the past to remind yourself that even when people hated us more than they do now, we lived.
15 Queer Romance Books and Sapphic Literary Novels Set On Reality TV Shows

4 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

It turns out that as a community, all we really want in life is for the women competing for men’s hearts on reality television programs to forget that guy and fall deeply in love with each other. Or, you know, for two girls to meet on a reality show that isn’t about dating, but still decide to date each other! Or, if we can’t have that — for girls on the Bachelor Nation, in general, to eventually come out as queer. (Gabby Windy of course, is the moment).
Shyanne Sellers Gets Engaged To Her Girlfriend and Drafted to the WNBA All In One Week

1 month ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

While the WNBA is resplendent with out gay basketball players, it’s still relatively uncommon for women’s hoopers to be out publicly while still in college.
Baby Steps #7: A Rip-Roaring Birth Story With Severe Features

1 month ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

By the final month of her pregnancy, Gretchen was reportedly exhausted but still seemed to be moving swiftly through the world with the nimble vitality of a junior varsity field hockey captain. She was still attempting daily workouts. She was still walking her deranged, maniacal dog around our neighborhood despite said dog’s dreams of dislocating Gretchen’s shoulder and submerging her entire body in a pile of garden fertilizer.