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The Rev. John Wright knows the church has a PR problem with the LGBT community. "For many people, the only image they have of Christianity is the hateful churches that get press. I think the church is aware that we have a lot of sins to atone for." Read More | Comment »

3:29PM Wed. Feb. 27, Brandon Watson

It Gets Better… Today!

The It Gets Better team crashes into Austin today, 4pm at the Long Center. Be part of the community discussion… and yes, the musical! Read More | Comment »

12:58PM Thu. Feb. 7, Liz Williams

Tops & Bottoms

The whole impending Mayan doom thing got me thinking a lot about how I would never experience a high speed Wi-Fi Internet connection in my Texas State University-owned apartment, or get to find out what Nazis, aliens and Catholicism have in common on the TV series American Horror Story. Read More | Comment »

6:17PM Mon. Jan. 7, Jordan Gass-Poore'

GP Crush of the Week

Earlier today, we told you about Baltimore feminist group FORCE’s PINK ♥s Consent Campaign. Last week, the group sent press releases out announcing a new Victoria’s Secret line. Read More | Comment »

4:00PM Thu. Dec. 13, 2012, Brandon Watson

The Straight and Narrow

[Editor's note: The Gay Place has a new blogger. Please welcome LGBT-ally, college student (Go, Bobcats!), San Marcan Jordan Gass-Pooré who will write from these perspectives and some others that are uniquely her own.] Read More | Comment »

3:59PM Tue. Aug. 14, 2012, Jordan Gass-Poore'

DVD Watch: 'We Were Here'

Several decades of advancements in HIV/AIDS research and treatment have reversed the virus from a death sentence in the first world, but that doesn’t mean the shadowy, lethal menace of its stateside detonation has been forgotten by those who were there at ground zero. Read More | Comment »

12:37PM Fri. Jun. 1, 2012, Russ Espinoza

Lucie 'splains It All

Lucie Arnaz comes this Sunday to entertain Austin as a part of Austin Cabaret's 10 year anniversary series of divalicious evenings from the American Songbook. She also happens to be one of my childhood sheroes. Read More | Comment »

2:26PM Thu. Feb. 10, 2011, Kate X Messer

'A Tickle In Your Soul'

Atticus Circle, the Austin-based, national agency that encourages straight people to stand up for gay rights, hosts their first annual Awards Luncheon this Thursday to raise funds to fight bullying in schools. And this year, they honor out gay country singer Chely Wright among others. Read More | Comment »

10:00AM Tue. Jan. 25, 2011, Julie Gillis

Alone in a Crowd

By now, many of you have heard about an act of violence that occurred on Sunday outside of Rain on 4th. Bobby Beltran was leaving the club with friends and was attacked by five men. Worse? There was a crowd watching. No one helped. Read More | Comment »

5:05PM Mon. Dec. 27, 2010, Julie Gillis

Checking All the Connections

If you hold a baby goat just right, they make this sound like a purr. It's amazing, mind changing even. I did not know this in all my mumblemumble years, but I know it now. And it's stirring up the pondering pot of my mind about queerness, of being outside, or at times, inside while being outside. Of not being in the "norm" and what that means on a day-to-day basis. Read More | Comment »

12:17PM Wed. Nov. 10, 2010, Julie Gillis

Honoring Allies: The Home Edition

This whole month has been amazing, daunting, inspiring. Between LGBT history, poignant stories about bullying and suicides, breaking news about DADT, and politics at large, I want to take the political and make it personal. It's that personal perspective that often helps makes us political and paves the paths for allies. I'd like to share my path. Read More | Comment »

12:34PM Wed. Oct. 27, 2010, Julie Gillis

Ally Week: Atticus Circle and GLSEN

It's Ally Week, so let's share humpy love for two great organizations promoting equality and collaboration. Working together is the best way to ensure that respect, safety, and equality happen in our lifetime. No one gets it all done in isolation, right? Read More | Comment »

9:25AM Wed. Oct. 20, 2010, Julie Gillis

Come on Out!

By this time you are all very well aware it’s National Coming Out Week, and if you aren’t aware: Guess what? It's National Coming Out Week! If you are fashionably late to the party, my sexy ally friends, here are some ways you can shake it up, dust it off, and come on out of the closet in style, along with your LGBTQ friends and family. Read More | Comment »

9:08AM Wed. Oct. 13, 2010, Julie Gillis

One Sweet Treaty

Ally. What the flippity flip does that mean? Since this whole Wednesday column is about allies and showin' em all the love we can since they do the same for us, I thought I'd just spell it out. Besides, I love playing around with the foxy Merriam-Webster, and it's nice to get things off on the right foot. Read More | Comment »

9:00AM Wed. Oct. 6, 2010, Julie Gillis

Allies vs. Bullies

Editor's note: The heartbreaking story of Houston-area teen Asher Brown inspires our new blogger Julie to explore how allies can help address the issue of bullying in schools. It's a fine launch for Gay Place's first Hump (Our Allies) Day Wednesday feature
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9:00AM Wed. Sep. 29, 2010, Julie Gillis

Cho My God!

Sunday's Margaret Cho show at the Paramount kicked the ass of me! Nobody does scat so sweetly. Nobody. Her soliloquy about the results of drinking olive oil (NSFW) certainly got the crowd lubricated, and the slope only got slipperier from there! Read More | Comment »

4:59PM Mon. Sep. 13, 2010, Kate X Messer

Split Pride, Unified Chronicle

It feels very edifying to have our brothers and sisters over in the Politics Department and elsewhere on staff covering stories like this. Read More | Comment »

4:00PM Thu. Jun. 3, 2010, Ricky Hill

The Elements Covered for a Queen

So much to tell you about from the road in Louisiana, darling chickenlips. Read More | 1 Comment »

10:25AM Sat. May. 1, 2010, Kate X Messer

Looney for Clooney

Don't judge. So the guy stripped down to tie and manties to declare his adoration for his beloved. Who can blame him? I know some dykes who would go to even further lengths of humiliation than this for this particular beloved. His beloved is adorable, he's desirable, he's George Clooney for goatssake. Read More | Comment »

10:58PM Tue. Sep. 8, 2009, Kate X Messer

And That's the Way It Was It Was It Was

Ah, the NYT Arts Blog caught an Austin something we totally missed! The Daily Texan reposted on their website a 1935 interview that an 18-year-old named Walter Cronkite conducted with a then visiting writer by the name of Gertrude Stein as a part of a lovely webpage homage to the media standard bearer who attended UT Austin all those years ago. His prose is succinct with every word an impact. He's also very hip:
Miss Alice B. Toklas, Miss Stein’s traveling companion whose title is not “secretary,” according to the author, was present. This lady who walked in on Miss Stein twenty-five years ago and has been with her ever since has absorbed much of the charm possessed by the most famous of the pair.
Godspeed, Mr. Cronkite. As one who has always considered herself a passing admirer, I feel compelled to become a better student of the art you so graciously possessed. Read More | Comment »

4:20PM Fri. Jul. 24, 2009, Kate X Messer

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