We’re celebrating Autostraddle’s Fifth Birthday all month long by publishing a bunch of Top Fives. This is one of them!
Hello enormous group of humans currently tuned in to this website! It’s me, Riese, the weirdo who thought making this website would be a good idea. I made this decision five years ago with the help of my trusty business partner, Alex Vega, a designer with incredible vision and dance skills, and since that time we’ve descended slowly into madness and loved every other minute of it! FIVE YEARS IS SUCH A LONG TIME. As we’ve discussed recently, we’re currently growing super-fast, averaging about 1.3 million unique visitors a month — for comparison, the first month we measured unique visitors (August 2009), we got 25,000 of ’em.
Obviously your fifth birthday is a very big deal, which is why we’re going to be celebrating ALL MONTH LONG. Here’s how:
- Because “five” is such a gorgeous number, we’re really gonna immerse our brainspaces in that number by publishing a Top Five or two every single day.
- We’ll be re-posting some gems from the archives to introduce new readers to past glory
- By the end of the month we will be launching our Premium Membership Program, Autostraddle Plus, which you should all be really excited about! WE ARE SO EXCITED ABOUT IT.
To kick off this celebration, we’ve dug into our Google Analytics account to look at some of the most popular posts ever published (most popular = most pageviews) over the last five years! These definitely are not necessarily our BEST posts, just the posts with the most hits. We’ll be finding other ways to introduce you to our best work, but in the meantime we would suggest looking at 24 Incredible Personal Essays We Published in 2013, The Most Underrated Posts of 2012 and 2010’s Best Posts As Chosen By Autostraddle Writers.
Top Five Most Popular Posts Ever Of All Time
1. How To Have Lesbian Sex for the First Time: NSFW Sunday Special, by The Team (2011)
2. Ten Hot Lesbian Movie Sex Scenes for NSFW Sexy Sunday, by Riese (2010)
3. Flawless Trans Women Carmen Carrera and Laverne Cox Respond Flawlessly To Katie Couric’s Invasive Questions, by Mey (2014)
4. How To Own It: The Queer Grrrl’s Guide To The Galaxy, by Gabrielle (2012)
5. Ellen Page is Gay: Ellen Page Comes Out, Makes Best Valentine’s Day Ever, by Riese (2014)
Top Five Most Popular Queer City Guides
1. Portland
3. Seattle
4. Manhattan
5. Montreal
Top Five Most Popular Top Tens Of All Time
1. Ten Hot Lesbian Movie Sex Scenes for NSFW Sexy Sunday (2010)
2. Top Ten Queer Movies That Don’t Suck (2009)
3. Top Ten Lesbian Fashion & Style Icons (2009)
4. The L Word’s Top Ten Best Sex Scenes Of All Time (2009)
5. Top Ten Instances Of Open and Unapologetic Celebrity Cultural Appropriation in 2013Â (2013)
Top Five Most Popular Lists Of Things Numbering Between 10-100
1. 22 Kickass Queer Women Who Came Out in 2013Â (2013)
2. 15 Ways to Spot A Lesbian According To Some Really Old Medical Journals (2012)
3. 14 Lesbian & Genderqueer Tumblrs To Watch (2009)
4. The Lesbian Insiders Guide To 40 LGBT-Friendly College Campuses (2011)
5. The 21 Most Lesbianish Cities In The US: The Autostraddle Guide (2012)
Top Five Most Popular Lists Of Things Numbering 100+ (Besides Hot 100s)
1. 150 Years of Lesbians and Other Lady-Loving Ladies(2012)
2. 100 LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know (2014)
3. The Alternative Autostraddle Hot 105: Hotties You Will Like Who Also Like Girls (2013)
4. 100 Best Lesbian Fiction & Memoir Books Of All Time (2013)
5. 100 Ridiculously Hot Lesbian & Bisexual Women (2010)
Top Five Most Popular Posts With “Weirdo” In The Title
1. Why Taylor Swift Offends Little Monsters, Feminists and Weirdos, by Riese (2010)
2. Movie Review: “Room in Rome” Features Lesbian Sex and a Bunch of Weirdo F*cked Up Shit, by Riese (2011)
3. Coming Out As An Amorphous Weirdo, by Stef (2012)
4. 10 Lesbosexy Valentine’s Day Things For Weirdos, by Riese (2012)
5. Top 10 Special Weirdo Things I’ve Done Since My Very First Break-Up, by Lauren (2014)
Top Five Most Popular Dating & Relationship Articles
1. Your Completely Queer Guide to Horoscope Hookups, by Kate (2013)
2. How to Pick Up Chicks: A Lesbian Guide To Getting Girl-on-Girl Action, by Katrina (2009)
3. Texting Your Ex-Girlfriend in Five Easy Steps, by Lizz (2012)
4. How to Date Girls: 10 Simple Rules For Properly Courting a Lesbian, by Sarah Hall (2010)
5. 8 Steps Every Girl Can Take To Get a Girl To Sleep Over, by Riese, Laneia & Taylor (2010)
Top Five Most Popular Sex-Related How-Tos*
*not including posts on the “Top Five Most Popular Posts Of All Time” list
1. How To Have Lesbian Sex 102: Cunnilingus Edition, by Ali (2013)
2. Bondage 101: How to Tie Someone Up, by Carolyn (2013)
3. You Need Help: Real Talk About Your First Strap-On, by Ali (2013)
4. Lesbian Safe Sex 101: The Doctor Is In (And Also, The Cartoonist), by Taylor (2010)
5. You Need Help: Double-Ended Dildos, by Ali (2013)
Top Five Most Popular Coming Out Posts
1. Ellen Page (2014)
2. Jillian Michaels (2010)
3. Michelle Rodriguez (2013)
4. Lori Lindsey (2012)
5. Brittney Griner (2013)
Top Five Most Popular Galleries
1. 100 Hot Sexy Curvy Models & Celebrities (2010)
2. 50 Adorable Lesbian Couples Having Adorable Lesbian Weddings (2012)
3. 50 Queer Women With Outrageously Good Hair (2012)
4. Lesbians Take Girls To Prom: We Have a Gallery For That (2010)
5. 100 Ridiculously Hot Lesbian & Bisexual Women (2011)
Top Five Most Popular Posts In Which A Reviewer Really Hated A Movie Despite Popular Opinion
1. Blue is the Warmest Color, by Kate (2013)
2. Black Swan, by Julie & Brandy (2010)
3. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, by Julie & Brandy (2012)
4. Spring Breakers, by Brittani (2013)
5. The Dallas Buyer’s Club, by Eleven (2013)
Top Five Most Popular Personal Essays
1. Fat Booty Butch Wears Leggings, Confuses World, Confronts Self, by Gabby (2013)
2. I’m a Trans Woman And I’m Not Interested In Being One Of The “Good Ones,” by Vivian (2013)
3. Butch With A Side of Misogyny, by Kate (2013)
4. I Had Facial Feminization Surgery, by Olivia (2013)
5. How To Leave Your Husband (Because You’re a Lesbian), by Laneia (2012)
Top Five Most Popular Interviews
1. Lori Lindsey, by Lora (2012)
2. Hannah Hart, by Taylor (2011)
3. Laurel Holloman, by Jess R. (2010)
4. Nikki Weiss & Jill Goldstein, by Jess R. (2012)
5. Jennifer Beals, by Jess R. (2010)
Top Five Most Popular Posts With “We Won A Thing” In The Headline
1. Same-Sex Marriage Passes in New York, 33-29! We Won A Thing!, by Riese (2011)
2. We Won A Thing and So Did You: Autostraddle Sweeps Bloggies 2012, by Brittani (2012)
3. We Won A Thing: You Can Get Married in Utah and New Mexico, by Yvonne (2013)
4. We Won A Thing: UK House of Commons Votes To Legalise Gay Marriage, by Sawyer (2013)
5. We Won A Thing: Judge Rules That You Can’t Take The Same-Sex Marriage Out of Texas, by Yvonne (2014)
Top Five Most Popular “You Need Helps” That Aren’t About Sex
1. You Need Help: Being The Visible Femme, by Lizz (2011)
2. You Need Help: Requisite Crush On a Barista, by Laneia (2011)
3. You Need Help: I Feel Like We Would Like You If We Met You, by Laneia (2011)
4. You Need Help: Your College Roommates Are Homophobic Assholes, by Rachel (2011)
5. You Need Help: When Your Girlfriend is Abusive, by Riese (2012)
Top Five Most Popular Craft Projects
1. Galactic Leggings, Dresses and Accessories, by Gabrielle (2012)
2. This is a Hold-Up: Make Your Own Suspenders, by Laura (2010)
3. DIY Underpants, by Hansen (2013)
4. Cassette Tape Wallets, by Hansen (2012)
5. Hollowed-Out Book, by Hansen (2012)
Okay now it’s your turn to tell us your favorite kind of Birthday Cake!!!! Mine is carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.
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