Autostraddle

Established in March 2009 by Riese Bernard and Alexandra Vega, Autostraddle is led by a passionate team of unique individuals, offering a smart, humorous, and bold platform for a diverse community of kickass lesbian, bisexual, and otherwise inclined women (and their allies). What began as a small group of friends aiming to spark change has grown into the most popular lesbian website globally, attracting over one million unique visitors and 3.5 million views each month. Despite its success, queer women's media often struggles to secure advertising revenue, which is why we depend on our readers' support to continue our work. Our team consists of six full-time remote employees, three part-time staff members, and numerous independent contributors who regularly enrich our content. We generate income through various channels, primarily through A-Camp, our A+ Membership Program, and merchandise sales, with additional revenue from advertising and affiliate partnerships.

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'And Just Like That,' Miranda Is Failing at Dating Bingo

1 day ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

Welcome to the second recap of the third season of And Just Like That…., the critically reviled spin-off of Sex in the City, a show about a dating columnist in New York City who breaks up with her politician boyfriend because he wants to pee on her during sex even though she probably deserved to get peed on for not being registered to vote.
Yes, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey's 'So Gay For You' Is a Must-Read Memoir

3 days ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

I received an ARC of So Gay For You in March, about a month into my paternity leave. I wasn’t planning to read it right away. I knew it was a book I’d be writing about for work, and therefore it’d make more sense to wait to read it until I was back at work, closer to the book’s release date, because I had promised myself, after all, that I wasn’t going to do work on leave.
'I Don't Want To Run Into My Ex and Ex-Friend WHO ARE DATING at Pride'

4 days ago | autostraddle.com | Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Q:There’s a pride event in my town that i want to go to but i know my ex is gonna be there, we broke up two years ago. I’ll call her J. We haven’t spoken in a little over a year — I wanted to stay friends, she wasn’t ready for that because she still had feelings for me. Her current girlfriend of a few months, N, is someone she actually knows through me, but me and N had a friendship breakup while I was dating J.
Our Most Anticipated Queer Books for June 2025

5 days ago | autostraddle.com | Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

In the midst of Riese and I working on this list of upcoming LGBTQ+ books for June 2025, news began circulating that the Chicago Sun-Times and other newspapers had published a syndicated summer books reading list that was generated by AI. While the list was full of real authors, the books attributed to them were largely made up. Only five in 15 titles were real, the rest were cobbled together imagined descriptions pulled from the dregs of AI slop.
Olivia Miles and Chicago Sky Rookie Maddy Westbeld Hard Launch Relationship, Co-Parent a Cat

5 days ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

We love it when the stars of college basketball teams fall in love with each other and, even though one of them goes to the WNBA and one of them stays in college, they stay together and then hard launch their heartwarming relationship on Instagram.
June 2025: What's New, Gay and Streaming for Pride on Netflix, Max, Hulu, Peacock, Apple TV, Disney+ and More

6 days ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

Well my friends, it is June, which means it’s time for networks to prove how much they care about us through creating new LGBTQ+ programming, and I don’t mean just creating a “Voices of Pride” section on their primary interface that houses all the LGBTQ+ movies in their catalog as well as television they made and cancelled in the past.
Quiz: Which Lesbian Scent Are You?

6 days ago | autostraddle.com | Riese Lyn Bernard

The world is full of things to smell and the world is full of lesbians.
'Hacks' Is One of the Best Shows About Being a Writer I've Ever Seen

1 week ago | autostraddle.com | Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

Hacks concludes its excellent fourth season run this week with a quiet, contemplative, intimately character-driven episode written by the showrunning dream trio of Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky and directed by Aniello (who truly deserves awards for her directing work this season). I felt mixed heading into this season finale, mainly because last week’s episode was so perfect. It would have been a great season finale. I imagine some viewers will wish it had been.
Lowkey Queer-Coded "Lulu is a Rhinocerous" Is a Musical Romp For Kids About Self-Acceptance

1 week ago | autostraddle.com | Sa'iyda Shabazz

Even though my kid is a tween and doesn’t watch television geared for the six and under crowd anymore, I still do, especially when it has positive queer-adjacent messaging. Apple TV+’s new hour-long film Lulu Is a Rhinoceros, based on the popular 2018 picture book of the same name by Allison and Jason Flom (who also executive produced the project) seemed to fit the bill. It’s 45-minute long story full of catchy songs that remind you there’s nothing more important than being who you know you are.
'And Just Like That,' Miranda Is Too Cool For The Nun She Hooked Up With

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.