Autostraddle / The Excitant Group, LLC is NOT a non-profit. Your gift is NOT tax-deductible. What we are, however, is an independent and queer-owned media company. Thank you for your support! To learn more about how our finances work, check out our fundraiser announcement post and Yes, Fundraising is Part of Our Business Model! You must, for obvious reasons, give us your address if you want to receive perks! Please also include a phone number as these are sometimes necessary for shipping. We'll only share your number with shipping agents. To contact you, we'll email.
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Still here and still queer after all these years.


It’s impossible to keep any type of online media afloat, but especially indie queer media, without a lot of reader support — and we need yours to survive the year. If you think our work is vital, if we’ve ever given you information or affirmation you couldn’t find anywhere else, if you value a site that centers queer voices and isn’t subject to the whims of a larger corporation, please consider pitching in. No donation is too small, and our A+ membership program starts at just $4 a month — a price we’ve kept steady for you despite inflation and rising internal costs. 


We’ve also gotta spend money to make money, and to make incredible things happen that you, our community, have asked for. In that spirit, we’ve also got some exciting milestones for the fundraiser:



  1. $100,000: Puzzle Time! Hitting this goal will give us the money we need to put our plan for queer crosswords (and more!) into play. (Get it?)

  2. $140,000: Events! [And someone to help us!] We simply can’t move forward on the return to live events without some expertise in our corner. Once hitting this milestone we’ll start the search.

  3. And also!!! In 2023: We're Committed to Autostraddle Audio Explorations
    • We want to explore making audio versions of articles available for your ears! On the site and maybe even in podcast form. Especially, we recognize this is important for accessibility.
    • You told us you wanted more audio content on the reader survey and we are LISTENING!
    • We started looking into it and it's more expensive and complicated than it might seem at first glance.
    • We need money to make this happen: equipment, actors / pay for writers, editing, branding and production, but we're committed to exploring it in 2023...so long as we can stick around!



We don't need you to do it all, we just need as many people as possible to do something. Most of our members give just $4 a month, and most donations to any of our fundraisers have been $50 or less. Together, we've got this.


Will you help?


There are multiple ways to help!

  • Give via this form! (and check out our hot, gay perks below!)
  • Become an A+ member (get bonus content and more!) www.autostraddle.com/join
  • Do both! A+ members get a discount on fundraiser perks if they choose to also give a one-time gift.
  • Give to the A+ member pool: https://www.autostraddle.com/a-plus-gift-membership-pool/
  • Share this fundraiser!


Together, we can do this. Will you help us out?


Perks FAQ


How will you know if I'm an A+ member?

Use the same email as the one associated with your A+ account and Nico will cross-reference.


In the past, I got to choose which perks I got. Why is it different?

Having a storefront-style situation presented a lot of issues for us actually. It's way easier to have standardized packages than it is to put together custom orders. We're hoping this will make perks fulfillment go much faster so that you can have perks in your gay hands sooner, and you can enjoy them!


When will I get my perks?

Nico, our fundraising director, will start shipping perks out after the close of the fundraiser, starting with folks who donated first and going in chronological order. This can take a number of weeks, but trust us, it will happen! Your patience is greatly appreciated as we're a small team and the person sending the perks still has a full-time job on top of perks fulfillment. We'll email you about any unexpected delays (which we have to say because we've all been through a pandemic and have certainly dealt with our fair share of delays).


Will I receive a tracking number for my perks?

If you're receiving stickers or magnets, likely, no, outside of certain international shipping situations. If you are receiving any of the larger items (bag, puzzle), then, yes! You'll get an email when your perks are sent out with tracking info.


Will I get my perks in time for the holigays?

The sooner you give, the higher up on the list you are, but there are no guarantees that you'll get these in time for the Holigays! Sorry, we just ship them as fast as we can, and we go down the list in chronological order from the first person to give, to the last person.


I'm outside of the US! Is there anything I should know?

If you are in the UK or Europe, your perks will ship out of the UK. All other places will receive perks shipped out from the US. You'll be responsible for any VAT / Customs fees upon receipt.


Why do you need my phone number?

If you're in the US, we don't, really, but we're asking for it in case our shipping carrier requires it (sometimes they do and for international shipping, it's always necessary).


A chart showcasing the perks available at each giving level. At the level of $30 for non-members and $25 for members are 4 stickers. One says Build Queer Futures and has a gay spaceship on it and is black and holographic, one says "Sounds Gay, I'm In" and has sound waves on it, one that says "We Are the Weirdos" and has a colorful purple and pink crystalline land mass floating in space in front of a pink moon, and one that says "It's a Wonderful Lifestyle in font on a TV with angel wings on the top, which is in grayscale. At the level of $50 for non-members and $45 for members are additionally, two magnets, each modeled off of one of the stickers. One magnet is the same It's a Wonderful Lifestyle design. The other is the same We are the Weirdos design. At the $100 level for non-members and $90 for members are an additional Gay Agenda sticker pack featuring a variety of stickers for use in a gaying up your agenda such as Game Night or a Trans Day of Visibility sticker. At the level of $150 for non-members and $140 for members, is a white zipper pouch with a black peach pattern on it. At the $300 for non-member and $250 for A+ member level is a jigsaw puzzle with an illustration by A. Andrews on it showing a diverse group of queers spending time together around a bonfire.

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