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Riese Bernard

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As seen in: Autostraddle, Jezebel, Queerty, EIN News, NYLON
Covers:  LGBTQ+ culture, television, film, literature, sex, relationships, lesbian culture, politics, sports, lifestyle and trends
co-founder and editor at autostraddle.com, podcast @tolandback. writer, editor & lgbtq+ market consultant. dead. any pronouns. ✡️🏳️‍🌈
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Quiz: Which Lesbian Beverage Are You?

Quiz: Which Lesbian Beverage Are You?

Autostraddle — Deep down in your soul are you a refined rocks glass of top shelf bourbon? Or are you more of a hot tea girlie? Perhaps you're maniacally drinking an iced coffee right now, or cracking open a cool can of lightly flavored sparkling water.
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Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

Our Birth Story Has Severe Features

Autostraddle — Our birth story has everything: preclampsia with severe features, catheters, bloody explosions, ginger ale, nurses from heaven, a birthing ball used as a chair and the eventual debut of a really really cute little baby boy.
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How To Argue Effectively Against Trump's Executive Order Banning Health Care For Transgender Yout...

How To Argue Effectively Against Trump's Executive Order Banning Health Care For Transgender Yout...

Autostraddle — 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.
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Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Couples Eagerly Wed as Thailand Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Hundreds of LGBTQ+ Couples Eagerly Wed as Thailand Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

Autostraddle — Nearly two thousand couples got married in Thailand today as legalized same-sex marriage went into effect and these photos are going to warm your heart I guarantee it.
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What Will Trump's Anti-Trans "Gender Ideology Extremism" Executive Orders Actually Do?

What Will Trump's Anti-Trans "Gender Ideology Extremism" Executive Orders Actually Do?

Autostraddle — 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 as you might think.
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What If The Girl You Made Out With On New Year's Eve Becomes Your Wife?

What If The Girl You Made Out With On New Year's Eve Becomes Your Wife?

Autostraddle — "You tell everyone you see that night, including but not limited to all the friends you came with, another friend you run into, a stranger on the street, your dog and your Uber driver, that you are not going to have sex because you don't want to ruin the friendship."
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20 Iconic Sapphic Pop Culture Moments of 2024

20 Iconic Sapphic Pop Culture Moments of 2024

Autostraddle — Lesbians and bisexuals sure got up to some things in 2024 - from Megan Thee Stallion's strap to Kristen Stewart's pantsless press tour to rugby's lesbians to Tracy Chapman's fingers, these were just some of the moments that defined sapphic pop culture in 2024.
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16 Lesbian Couples Time Forgot

16 Lesbian Couples Time Forgot

Autostraddle — The annals of sapphic gossip are deep and full - here's 16 sapphic couples and love triangles that will bring you back in time or perhaps trigger memories of times gone by.
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25 Streaming Movies With Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes

25 Streaming Movies With Hot Lesbian Sex Scenes

Autostraddle — What are the hottest lesbian sex scenes in movies? Settle in and stream these movies and you'll be rewarded with cinema's best sapphic sex.
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'I Want You More' Traps a Lesbian Ghostwriter in a Manor With a Devious Food Network Star

'I Want You More' Traps a Lesbian Ghostwriter in a Manor With a Devious Food Network Star

Autostraddle — Talking to Swan Huntley about her new queer thriller "I Want You More," building a writing career, whether she takes her own advice, the endless internal void, loving food shows despite not being a cook.
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What the Gay TV Show You're Rewatching Says About Your Mental Health

What the Gay TV Show You're Rewatching Says About Your Mental Health

Autostraddle — From Grey's Anatomy to Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The L Word to "San Junipero" on repeat, this is what can reasonably be deduced about your mental health at this time based on the gay TV show you're currently re-watching.
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17 Queer "Celebrity Falls For Normal Person" Romance Books If You Liked 'The Idea Of You'

17 Queer "Celebrity Falls For Normal Person" Romance Books If You Liked 'The Idea Of You'

Autostraddle — If you liked "The Idea of You" but wished it was gay, these lesbian, queer and gay novels that feature romance between a celebrity and a normal person will definitely fill that aching void in your heart.
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'But I'm a Cheerleader' Made Internalized Homophobia Fun

'But I'm a Cheerleader' Made Internalized Homophobia Fun

Autostraddle — Maybe asking Kelly to see But I'm a Cheerleader was an invitation not just to the movie but to what we talked about beforehand.
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Lily Gladstone Tops Riley Keough in a Bar Bathroom in 'Under the Bridge'

Lily Gladstone Tops Riley Keough in a Bar Bathroom in 'Under the Bridge'

Autostraddle — In this week's well-crafted episode of true crime drama 'Under the Bridge,' we learn a lot about everything including the connection between Cam (Lily Gladstone) and Rebecca (Riley Keough).
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Men of 'The L Word' and 'Generation Q,' Ranked

Men of 'The L Word' and 'Generation Q,' Ranked

Autostraddle — From Gomey to Angus to Pierce to Max Sweeney, we weigh in on the men of The L Word and Generation Q, ranking them from most awful men to least awful men!
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'Under the Bridge,' a True Crime Drama With Queer Leads, Wants More for Its Girls and the Genre

'Under the Bridge,' a True Crime Drama With Queer Leads, Wants More for Its Girls and the Genre

Autostraddle — Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough deliver magnificent performances as the queer leads of a '90s-set true crime drama that is less concerned with scandal or mystery than it is with empathy and curiosity.
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After AfterEllen: On The Future Of The Queer Community On The Internet

After AfterEllen: On The Future Of The Queer Community On The Internet

NYLON — How can queer women's media make it?
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Hayley Kiyoko, American Teen Lesbian Heartthrob

Hayley Kiyoko, American Teen Lesbian Heartthrob

NYLON — Nylon's June 2018 cover star, singer Hayley Kiyoko, is living her dream.
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In Conversation With Sarah Schulman: "They're Being Taught That Control Is Freedom"

In Conversation With Sarah Schulman: "They're Being Taught That Control Is Freedom"

Autostraddle — "This wholesale group exclusion of a person based on an accusation that they are somehow dangerous without any opportunity for that person to describe why they think this charge is happening or how they are experiencing it, or for anyone to look at the order of events that produced this accusation or the history of the person accusing - I mean, this is the definition of injustice."
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Bury Your Gays: 109 Dead Gay and Bisexual Male TV Characters, And How They Died

Bury Your Gays: 109 Dead Gay and Bisexual Male TV Characters, And How They Died

Queerty — I was curious what the numbers would look like for gay and bisexual male characters, too, because the Bury Your Gays trope isn’t limited to women. That is why I am here with you boys today!
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Style Like Eileen Myles

Style Like Eileen Myles

Random BL Musings (Rants, Screams and News) — My girlfriend got me an Eileen Myles t-shirt at this Sister Spit event in Oakland, it's black with big purple letters reading "YOU'VE GOT THE STYLE EILEEN MYLES."
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Prolific Lesbian Burglars Thwarted By Lion

Prolific Lesbian Burglars Thwarted By Lion

Jezebel —
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It's Not Britney, Bitch.

It's Not Britney, Bitch.

Autostraddle — If only the outrage over a rehabilitated 29-year-old woman becoming the personal and financial property of a man she dislikes was half as loud as the chorus that once proclaimed her outfits degrading to women.
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15 Historical LGBTQ+ TV Shows To Remind You That We Have Always Been Here

15 Historical LGBTQ+ TV Shows To Remind You That We Have Always Been Here

Autostraddle — From Our Flag Means Death to A League of Their Own to It's a Sin, here are 15 LGBTQ+ shows set in the past with vibrant, interesting queer characters.
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