From wishes to bottoms to buckets, here are my 2011 picks. Read More | Comment »

It's been a while since we've weighed in on the homo-phonic sounds, but we're back with the queer beat. Each week, we'll recap what's hot in music worldwide and locally, and we'll have playlist picks from hot local DJs as well. Let's get it on. Read More | Comment »

Really? You want to know what's on the nightstand in this ol' patroon's quarters for this latest installment of the Books Dept.'s Under the Covers: Bedside Manner series? Point the scope abaft, mates, and a sturdy little bamboo three-shelver belonging to the dyke who runs Gay Place should come into focus… Read More | Comment »

The 1894 Grand Opera House in Galveston still has tickets for this one Texas stop on the B-52's tour, next Thursday, November 11. Here's Fred Schneider in Part 2 of a sit-down where we talk about teh ghey, and his place in the pantheon of LGBT-I-Is and Q cultural icons. (How did you miss Part 1?) Read More | Comment »

This past week, the Gorillaz released a new track they recorded three weeks ago entitled, "Doncamatic," with UK artist Daley. Usually, artists take several months to record and master a track before releasing it, but the Gorillaz (coming to Austin October 22) were so excited about the new track… they made it immediately available to the public. Read More | Comment »

Editor's note: Last week, Frank Rivera featured The Glitoris in his BizNasty column. He did not know La Glit would be a co-blogger. Today is Mo' Music Tuesday, and we introduce our weekly playlists from local DJs. Meet new Gay Place blogger, The Glitoris… again! – kxm Read More | Comment »

I hope you'll be kind enough to forgive my recent silence on the subject of Outfest. I've been processing. Read More | Comment »

If there’s anything that can make you feel more like Jethrine Bodine than staying at the Ramada in West Hollywood, I don’t know what it is. Read More | Comment »

When super-friend and UT Film grad Kerthy Fix invited me to join her at Outfest, Los Angeles’ fine queer film extravaganza, for screenings of two of her docs, I naturally jumped at the chance. When I saw that the festival was premiering Kyle Henry’s Fourplay: San Francisco, things started to get ridiculously exciting. Read More | Comment »

Every straight girl has a fantasy. It centers around a man with deep soulful eyes. He is funny, he is kind, he will cheerfully accompany you to shop for a new pair of shoes. He is your best, gay friend. Read More | Comment »

Wish I had known about this tasty li'l tricky treat a bit earlier before All Hallow's Eve, but I just learned of this Twilightian dream-cum-true today. Oh, those maligned boys over at FleshJack – maligned only in the sense that a load (pardon the pun) of local not-exactly-the-most-sex-positive-pickles-in-the-pickle-bucket refuse their Read More | Comment »

Interviewing an interviewer is always a dicey proposition, and I'll be the first to admit: I can be a tough subject – tangential, long-winded, potty-mouthed. But I must tell you, my experience on KOOP's OutCast this past Tuesday was one of the best I've had in the game. Hot media-on-media action pretty much sums it up. Host Heath Riddles did his homework and asked deeper than the obvious questions. Plus, I was treated to eye/earwitnessing the depths of Stephen Rice's crooning talentude. Did I just type, "depths"? His brilliant news account of the West Texas Chico's Tacos homophobia incident was presented in the form of a thoughtful re-working of the classic C&W hit "El Paso," presenting key changes previously unheard in the ditty and surely making Marty Robbins spin in his grave, if not posthumously saddlesore. If you missed the hijinx, the podcast of the July 14 broadcast is now up for you to click and listen to me and the fellas discuss things like "lesbian flavor," the origin of the Gay Place, and how it doesn't suck too bad being a dyke in Austin. Also, keep listening past my interview to hear a terrific chat with local filmmaking hotten hottytot PJ Raval. Read More | 1 Comment »

Maybe all art is derivative. But sometimes, rarely, after what genius hath wrought filters down through a few generations of American culture, the inevitable spawn, so often a diluted bastard of its inspiration, actually beats the original at its own game. HBO's Grey Gardens, the anticipated bio pic of Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, accomplishes just that rare feat. The source material in this case is the groundbreaking 1975 documentary of the same name by Albert and David Maysles, filmed during a particularly hot summer at Grey Gardens, the Beales' derelict family estate in East Hampton, New York. The release of the grainy film, which examines the once haute, now absent-mindedly squalid lives of an eccentric, but still bitingly observant mother and daughter, announced a brash new approach to what was then called cinéma vérité, and brought a cult following to the Edies, who were no less fascinating in 1975 for being the forgotten Bouvier relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy. After all these years, and all of the flies on the wall it inspired, we continue to rubberneck at the Maysleses' documentary … Read More | Comment »

In what kind of twisted universe does the town exist where, on the same night, Ladytron is playing on one end and My Bloody Valentine is playing on the other? CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP CRAP. Read More | Comment »

The secret surprise guests? The Indigo Girls. Perez's party is packed – sundresses, great music, and fag hags as far as the eye could see – but there's still room for YOU (if you RSVP'd). Read More | Comment »

OK, so that nine or so hours we just spent online on thousands of MySpace queer band pages trying to cull this list for THE PEOPLE could have been condensed down to the 30 seconds or so it took for that email that Koonce just sent out, but either way, the GayBiGayGay line-up is here! Without further ado: GAYBIGAYGAY Sunday, March 22 1-1:20 Agent Ribbons
1:30-1:50 Dangerous Ponies
2-2:20 Polka Dotdotdot
2:30-2:55 Gretchen Phillips
3:05-3:15 Christeene
3:25-3:50 Butch County
4-4:20 Dave End
4:30-4:50 Storm Shelter
5-5:25 Purple Rhinestone Eagle
5:35-6 Maple Rabbit (maybe later for projection reasons)
6:10-6:35 Excuses for Skipping
6:45-7:10 Romanteek
7:20-7:45 Big Freedia (Sissy Bounce) Watch this space over the next few days for even more details. Read More | Comment »

Hello gaybies! It is time for this week's Drag Race recap, and here's the line-up: As always we have the inimitable Claudette Murphree, and our special guests this week are film wrangler PJ Raval, drag-mangler Paul Soileau, and Lezbo entangler Felice Trirogoff. Here are the comments from our own Interior Illusions Lounge... Read More | Comment »

Check it out: Our Gay Place 'mo-on-tha-scene correspondent, Dacia Saenz answers a question posed by CNN's Richard Lui. See if you can catch her sneak in a brief, yet effective direct camera address, reminiscent of another Internet star. We expect some posts from Dacia (hopefully tomorrow) once she settles into the relative sanity of NYC. In the meanwhile, check this embed from CNN (the Austin Tiger appears in the last third). Read More | Comment »

This just in: The gay mafia controls musical theatre! Scott Eckern, former artistic director of California Musical Theatre, found out the hard way Tuesday after antigayblacklist.com published a list of all those contributing a thousand dollars or more to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign and his name came up. Well as it turns out, many in the musical theatre community in California may, in fact, be gay and enjoy having civil rights. He resigned Tuesday stating, "I am leaving California Musical Theatre after prayerful consideration to protect the organization and to help the healing in the local theatre-going and creative community." Uh huh, I'm guessing after a boycott of the theatre was called by gay and lesbian artists, CMT was left with no cast, crew, sets, music, make up artists, or costumes. In an interesting side note, the California Musical Theatre is currently running the musical, Forever Plaid at the Cosmopolitan Cabaret which just might be one of the gayest things I have ever heard. Read More | 2 Comments »

Funny juxtaposition in a recent GaySocialites.com post. They criticize US Weekly for having a slow news day, yet lead off with the same exact schlocky headline they are making fun of. And then proceed to validate the idea further by reporting the details of the story. Back in a Media Studies class I used to teach, we'd call this technique "Having My Critical Cake, and Eating It, Too." And sometimes we'd add, "And Then Purging." But the capper? The relative proximity of the last line:

"It's great to be accepted, bad to be capitalized upon…"

right above the obviously gay targeted loveandpride(tm) ad for gay wedding rings! (UPDATE: YMMV, it's a revolving ad. But when we read the article that was the ad that showed up!) Read More | Comment »