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The True Accurate History of LGBTQ+ Performers Competing for Lead and Supporting Actress Oscars There's a lot of confusing information out there but this here is the real true history of LGBTQ+ nominees for Lead and Supporting Actress Oscars — a field in which queer roles are often rewarded, but...

There’s a lot of confusing information out there but this here is the real true history of LGBTQ+ nominees for Lead and Supporting Actress Oscars — a field in which queer roles are often rewarded, but out queer people very rarely are.

Let's play a game of This Or That for Yellowjackets S3E3 "Them's the Brakes" (if you need a refresher, check out our recap here: autostraddle.com/yello…)

Recent Challenges to Trump’s Anti-Trans Agenda Remind Us of Our Collective Power If even the youngest amongst us aren’t sinking into hopelessness, then we shouldn’t either.

"If even the youngest amongst us aren’t sinking into hopelessness, then we shouldn’t either."

Sam Nordquist Loved His Family, Cooking, Dancing, Cats, and Nature Sam deserved to keep living this life every day, and he deserved to grow up even further, to grow old, to achieve his goals, and get every single thing he desired.

"Sam deserved to keep living this life every day, and he deserved to grow up even further, to grow old, to achieve his goals, and get every single thing he desired."

The Word 'Transgender' Has Been Removed From the Stonewall National Monument Webpage The Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website has removed the word transgender and any mention of trans people. But was the Stonewall National Monument ever worthy of its r...

"The Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website has removed the word transgender and any mention of trans people. But was the Stonewall National Monument ever worthy of its radical roots?"

The Most Anticipated Queer Books for February 2025 Check out our top five picks for the month!

How lovely to be scrolling through @autostraddle.bsky.social's Most Anticipated Queer Books for February list, avidly noting titles to place holds on and buy, and see my book cover in excellent company! www.autostraddle.com/the-most-ant...

How Am I Supposed To Feel About the Ceasefire? No one feels comfortable with genuine optimism.

"What I know for certain is that no one feels comfortable with genuine optimism."

We Need More Movies Like 'Jupiter Ascending' Let's celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Wachowskis' sci-fi cult favorite.

Always an honor to get published on @autostraddle.bsky.social and this newest piece was no exception! My latest for this publication explores why, on its tenth anniversary, we need more movies like Jupiter Ascending in the cinematic landscape!
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Trump’s Trans Sports Ban Is Unconscionable. Athletic Governing Bodies Should Resist Rather Than Doubling Down on Existing Anti-Trans Policies The Executive Order tactically perverts Title IX case law.

"This Executive Order is just going to give these sports-specific governing bodies who already have policies aimed at trans participation in their sports more fuel to enforce them."

Fascist 404s: The Government Is Deleting LGBTQ Resources Trump's Executive Orders are already having devastating impact.

More than 8,000 web pages with vital information across a dozen government websites have been removed from the internet. These deletions are far-reaching, targeting diversity initiatives and pretty much anything pertaining to gender equality.

Book covers for Why on Earth, The Secret Public, The Trial Period, and Queer lasting all in a row. Beneath, text reads: Why On Earth: An Alien Invasion Anthology, edited by Rosiee Thor and Vania Stoyanova (Sci-Fi). Queer characters--including humans and aliens!--populate some of the stories featured in this multi-author collection of literally out of this world fiction.

Oh hey I spy WHY ON EARTH on this @autostraddle.bsky.social list of most anticipated queer books! 🌈📚

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How Rachel Rampleman Built the Largest Drag Archive in the U.S. Life is Drag currently features over 350 video portraits by 200+ drag artists.

My latest for @autostraddle.bsky.social is live now!

Sundance 2025: 'Rains Over Babel' Is Queer Cinema That's Wholesome and Transgressive This has been a terrible week to be trans in the U.S. and I’m so grateful I could take a break and spend a couple hours in Gala del Sol’s fantastical world.

"RAINS OVER BABEL is queer Cinema that’s wholesome and transgressive” says @autostraddle.bsky.social on the Colombian film by Gala del Sol #Sundance #IFFR2025

The Most Anticipated Queer Books for February 2025 Check out our top five picks for the month!

Today in actually good news: A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US is one of @autostraddle.bsky.social's most anticipated queer books for February. 🤩📚 @sunypress.bsky.social

www.autostraddle.com/the-most-ant...

Quintessa Swindell Can Punch You In the Face Swindell discusses their directorial debut where they play a Muy Thai fighter.

"The ‘Trinkets’ and ‘Prime Target’ actor discusses their directorial debut where they play a Muay Thai fighter facing off against their childhood best friend."

Trump Wants To Fight Imaginary Indoctrination in Public Schools by Implementing Ahistorical and Anti-Trans Indoctrination Trump's Executive Orders aimed at America's schools make it clear his administration wants to destroy public education.

"Trump’s Executive Orders aimed at America’s schools make it clear his administration wants to destroy public education."

How To Argue Effectively Against Trump's Executive Order Banning Health Care For Transgender Youth Trump's executive order attempting to ban gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 relies on lies and misinformation to push through sweeping reform that will ruin a lot of lives.

"Trump’s executive order attempting to ban gender-affirming care for trans people under the age of 19 relies on lies and misinformation to push through sweeping reform that will ruin a lot of lives."

Trump’s Attack on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Will Be Challenged in the Courts, but It’s Alarming Nonetheless Trump's latest anti-trans Executive Order targets trans people seeking gender-affirming care under the age of 19, using pseudoscience, outright falsehoods, fear-mongering, and the threat of prosecutio...

"Trump’s latest anti-trans Executive Order targets trans people seeking gender-affirming care under the age of 19, using pseudoscience, outright falsehoods, fear-mongering, and the threat of prosecution against medical practices enthusiastically endorsed by medical professionals to make its case."

A Sunset Food Tour Through San Francisco With Chef Melissa King? Don’t Mind if I Do Plus, you simply HAVE to see this pic of Cynthia Erivo and Olivia Colman together. And more queer celeb IG updates.

Plus, you simply HAVE to see this pic of Cynthia Erivo and Olivia Colman together. And more queer celeb IG updates.

Sundance 2025: Eva Victor's 'Sorry, Baby' Is an Accomplished Traumedy About Life After Assault The most important relationship in the film isn’t between Agnes and her abuser but Agnes and her lesbian best friend.

#Sundance2025: "The most important relationship in the film isn’t between Agnes and her abuser but Agnes and her lesbian best friend."

What Will Trump's Anti-Trans "Gender Ideology Extremism" Executive Orders Actually Do? Trump's "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Act" Executive Order is a doozie. But its implications aren't as immediate or permanent...

Genuinely useful explainer from @autostraddle.bsky.social on Trump's executive orders, focusing particularly on anti-trans material. Outlines where the dangers lie, the significant limits to Trump's power, plus spaces for mainstream political resistance and contestation.

What Will Trump's Anti-Trans "Gender Ideology Extremism" Executive Orders Actually Do? Trump's "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government Act" Executive Order is a doozie. But its implications aren't as immediate or permanent...

This is a good read. Trump’s executive orders do not and cannot change the existing laws protecting LGBTQ+ rights. Normally executive orders direct policy; these ones are ‘also glorified press releases designed to create confusion and chaos’. tinyurl.com/3tt9s98b @autostraddle.bsky.social

Queer Books About the Environment for When All You Can Think About Is Climate Crisis These 30+ books are about land, ecology, natural disasters, apocalypse, the harm capitalism does to the planet, despair, hope, growth, death, and rebirth.

thank you to @autostraddle.bsky.social's Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya for including my poetry collection, FREEDOM HOUSE, in their queer books about the environment list. 💛

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Read an Excerpt From ‘Broughtupsy’, a Queer Jamaican Diaspora Novel Chirp of tree frogs floating sonorous, each piercing chirrup rising on the wane of the last. I’m in my childhood home.

Read an excerpt from @christinajcooke.bsky.social's BROUGHTUPSY (now available in paperback!) via @autostraddle.bsky.social.

The Erotica Magazine That Paved the Way for Horny Lesbian Art On Our Backs portrayed lesbian sex and sexuality, with real lesbians.

This is a delightful trip down queer memory lane for a lot of us: @autostraddle.bsky.social gives a history of the classic lesbian smut mag "On Our Backs," which introduced a generation of queers to BDSM. 

Sundance 2025: A Gay and Trans Festival Recap (LIVE UPDATES) Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Daily updates from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival of the best LGBTQ+ cinema and beyond. ⬇️

Trump's Latest Attempt to Ban Trans People From The Military Comes With Extra Malice Famously dishonorable cretins Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth claim that being trans is incompatible with military principles of possessing an "honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle, even in one...

Famously dishonorable cretins Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth claim that being trans is incompatible with military principles of possessing an “honorable, truthful and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”

Why Does "Anyone but You" Take Place at a Lesbian Wedding? The whole wedding somehow looks straighter than an Imagine Dragons fan guesting on The Joe Rogan Experience.

"The whole wedding somehow looks straighter than an Imagine Dragons fan guesting on The Joe Rogan Experience." #AnyoneButYou www.autostraddle.com/anyone-but-y...

Pop Culture Fix: Reneé Rapp Was Low-Key in Love With Her Best Friend and Co-Star, Wrote “I Do” About Her Reneé Rapp is the "out and proud Voice of Gen Z" in a Hollywood Reporter cover story, Lydia Tár was a medicore conductor, Hollyoaks set to explore teen gender identity, Tubi's changing its whole deal ...

"Reneé Rapp is the “out and proud Voice of Gen Z” in a Hollywood Reporter cover story, Lydia Tár was a medicore conductor, Hollyoaks set to explore teen gender identity, Tubi’s changing its whole deal and more!" www.autostraddle.com/who-did-rene...

Ali Krieger is READY for the NWSL Season Kickoff Also, welcome to No Filter Zoe Lister-Jones!!!

This week, we check in on Ali Krieger, Melissa King, Laurie Hernandez, and more queer celebs - which includes, for the first time, Zoe Lister-Jones! www.autostraddle.com/ali-krieger-...