Riese Lyn Bernard

1 week ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

The devil works in mysterious ways and this May he has cursed us with a splashy new season of Sex and the City spinoff And Just Like That…, a show about large hats and the women who dare to live (and love!) beneath their swaying canopies. I’m here to recap the show, probably, depending on how many people read them because I require a lot of validation to move forward in life.

1 week ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

27-year-old actor Supriya Ganesh played Dr. Samira Mohan on The Pitt — the addictive HBO Max medical drama which has one asexual and two seemingly-queer women characters in it (you know the ones). Although unfortunately neither of those two seemingly-queer women characters are Dr. Samira Mohan, you will be pleased to learn on this very day that Supriya Ganesh herself is queer, and uses she/they pronouns.

2 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Drew Gregory |Riese Lyn Bernard

Deep in the marrow of the truly hellacious of 2023 summer, the first season of The Ultimatum Queer Love was bestowed upon us by Netflix — a bevy of couples who’d reached a crossroads in their relationship wherein one wanted to get married and the other didn’t and both were willing to allow Netflix to destroy their lives in an effort to resolve this situation.

2 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

When Autostraddle published our very first list of out gay WNBA players several years back, it held merely 15 names. Last season, that number had climbed to 38, although two of the players on last year’s list ended up getting waived from their teams shortly into the season, leaving us with 36. In the weeks leading up to rosters getting finalized this year, it looked like we might improve on that number — but cuts were made, and we find ourselves here, today, with 36 definitively out gay players.

2 weeks ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

It was easy enough to not clock historical fiction megahit The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo as a gay book — for starters, we had the title of said book, which suggested its protagonist was not merely a woman who liked men exclusively, but in fact had liked seven of them well enough to marry them. It was a massive bestseller and a BookTok phenomenon, and I’ve been alive and literate for long enough to know that queer books are generally not massive bestsellers.