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Carrie and Bren’s Great Big Lesbian Wedding With 300 Queers On A Mountaintop

When little lesbian girls dream of their wedding day, they probably envision it happening on top of a mountain in Southern California with zero actual family members and 300 members of their big queer “family,” many of whom they do not actually know personally. They probably imagine a 22-year-old comic-book writer / forever intern serving as their ring bearer, substituting a stuffed dog named Tin…

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Anonymous Sex Toy Review: Bondara’s Rabbit Vibrator

AUTOSTRADDLE ANONYMOUS SEX TOY REVIEW #43:
It’s our 43rd Autostraddle Anonymous Sex Toy Review! Over the last few years, sex toy companies and stores have propositioned us, wondering if we’d like to review their toys in exchange for, you know, their toys.
This week, one of our anonymous reviewers tried out the Bondara Silicone Rechargeable Rabbit Vibrator available at Bondara.
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Seeing Double: Smoking Up With Orphan Black and the Clone Club

Calling all Homoganjas! Let’s talk about anything and everything Marijuana related, from legalization to pop culture to how to your own bong using a box of Diva cups and a broken lamp.
Whether you’re a newbie who doesn’t know a blunt from a joint, or you’re planning your gay dream wedding to Mary Jane, this column is for you. Puff, Puff, Pass.

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The Autostraddle Guide to Adopting Your Furry Best Friend: Cat and Kitten Edition

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Okay, are we all properly misty-eyed now? No one can argue with animal adoption — offering a space in your home to a being who doesn’t have one, or even opposable thumbs, is a worthy cause. And we’re already on board with the Adopt Don’t Shop philosophy (adoption means saving a life!).
Let me tell you where I’m coming from: I’ve…

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When they rolled me in for the EKG, they told me that it would be okay to cry, which I hadn’t yet, not once. I wondered if that was what a person in my situation was supposed to do. I wondered that a lot in the following weeks and months as I recovered. I drifted in and out of consciousness on my parents’ couch, watching the pundits on an endless loop discussing Michelle Bachmann, and wondered — if my last name was not Mandanas, if the other names involved did not sound similarly Hispanic — would they be talking about us? Did I even want that? How is it possible that we’re all so deep into American gun culture that it’s no longer considered newsworthy when an active duty soldier leaves his base on Memorial Day Weekend to go on a cross country shooting spree? I still can’t quite wrap my mind around it — except to say that when I turn on the TV or go to the movies and see the massive amounts of casual violence we’re exposed to, it doesn’t seem so far out of reach. What used to bore me now leaves me shaking and crying.

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The Fosters Episode 201 Recap: Things Unknown

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We anxiously await the answers to many questions this season of The Fosters. Will Brandon be able to play piano again? Will Callie ever be adopted or will she screw it all up by tickling Brandon’s ivories? How is Lena handling pregnancy? Will ABC Family show us dry heaving, extreme mood swings and inopportune gaseousness or will Lena run half-marathons with her perfectly formed bump…

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One Year Ago, A Gunman Opened Fire On Our Car

Note: This piece was originally written for and read to a live audience at the A-camp 5.0 staff reading. Edits were made to remove the names of the other shooting victims from print.
Staff reading, May 2014. Photo by Claire Suer.
The pavement was wet that night. The air was warm and the desert seemed to stretch infinitely onwards in every direction. Through the passenger side window, I watched…

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VIDEO: Mary Dickerson is Neither Artist Nor Predator

Earlier this week, New York Magazine published a cover story called “Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?” which is a maddening question to ask for many reasons, including that we already know the answer (definitely undoubtedly a predator, possibly also an artist depending on your definition of “art.”). The article itself is equally maddening. The gist of the situation is this: Terry…

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Two years ago we made a fake trailer for a movie we WANTED to make. And TODAY thanks to you guys, the OFFICIAL TEASER TRAILER for that movie is here! You did this. Your support and love brought the smart black movie genre back from the dead and into theaters this OCTOBER 17TH!!

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Things I Read That I Love #133: I’d Actually Love It If People Started Not Being The Worst Every Day

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HELLO and welcome to the 133rd installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can read them too and we can all know more about the drink! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of…

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Brittani’s Video Party: Black Women are Disappointed with OK Go

Ping Master General, Chloe Howl is back with a new video for “Disappointed.” The LA Derby Dollsare in the video which is great since I’ve recently discovered that maybe my type is “derby girl” but who REALLY knows. We’re all learning about ourselves together, isn’t it grand. Anyway, this video is not nearly as gay as I personally would have preferred (I prefer 100%) but I think you’ll enjoy it…

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You Need Help: Here Is A Worksheet To Help You Talk To Partners About Sex

Worksheet content by Ali and Dani , graphic design by Geneva.
We answer sex questions on this here website. And let me tell you, as a person who sometimes answers them, the number one piece of advice I give out is to open your mouth. And not in, like, a sexual way. What I mean by that is you have to talk to your sex partner or partners about the same issue you just talked to me about. And that…

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And Now, Every Character From "Orange Is The New Black" As They Appear On "Law And Order"

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Our own illustrious Kate suggested while putting together one of her brilliant Orange Is The New Black recaps that probably nearly every single actor on the show had at one point been featured in a Law and Orderepisode, a theory that turned out to be true. Because I am a person of questionable sanity and dubious employment, I decided to prove her hypothesis. I scoured IMDB, locked myself in my apartment for three days, and over time I was able to collect almost every appearance. These are their stories.

This shit is more comprehensive than the literature review to my dissertation. Bow down.

Nothing has ever made me more interested in any person in the history of everdom than these lists have made me in Lorraine Hansberry.

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

And Now, Every Character From "Orange Is The New Black" As They Appear On "Law And Order"