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Have you laundered your perfect picnic blanket? Amassed your crew? Picked out a cute outfit? Because, really that's all you are going to need since GayBiGayGay's got everything else under control. Lezdeez and gentlequeers, we present to you, courtesy of Silky and Hazey, the line-up for GayBiGayGay 2013. Read More | Comment »

Even though we seldom talk about it, LGBTers are used to the abrasion of the casual hatred. The blowhard in accounting tells a sub Tosh.0 lesbian joke. A cousin makes a careless comment about a “tranny.” Frat boys in F250 yell “fag” out the window. it chips away, but there is little we can do. Our skin thickens like elephant hide. Read More | Comment »

Chic-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy's hurtful anti-gay sentiments may have riled his base, but they've riled our allies, too. People seem to be coming out of the woodwork, offering sandwiches of support, intending to turn this thing on its cock's crown. Here is one local story. Read More | Comment »

You know him from NBC's The Voice. We know him as an old school Gay Place krewe member and Chronic cover boy. We all love Nakia. Read More | Comment »

In honor of Anderson Cooper's coming out, we'd like to re-up our Crush of the Week. Read More | Comment »

On Fri., May 20 at approximately 12:30pm, Christeene bulldozed through the Barton Creek mall foodcourt – eating people's food, kissing patrons on the cheek and asking for rides on the mall cop's segues (Paging Paul Blart!). For many present Christeene's "visit" could be filed away in the "things you can't unsee" category. Just the way it should be. Read More | Comment »

Isabella Rossellini, I love you. For talking about hermaphrodite and trans animals. Dolphuck yeah! Green Porno, her previous series for the Sundance Channel, was about doin' the deed, but Seduce Me is about foreplay. Glad she's fighting the fight to describe all the kinky things that happen... naturally! Read More | Comment »

It's the new year, yes? So, I thought instead of focusing on things that were sad, difficult, meandering, or meditative, I'd spout words of adoration for a restaurant that I have a serious crush on. This is not a review, for reviews come from better palates than mine, but a little love note for the food, the atmosphere and the eye candy of parkside on Sixth. Read More | Comment »

In honor of the return of ex-Austinite Kerthy Fix's new documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields we thought it would be a good idea to talk to Mr. Merritt himself. What we discussed ran the gamut, and it was just too good to leave to transcription. Read More | Comment »

Omar Lopez is a one-man activism machine. He runs the Equality Now club at ACC, and has been an LGBT activist for years. He is inspirational, not just for his work ethic, but for his biiiiiiiiig… Read More | Comment »

If you missed last week's episode of Project Runway (fat chance, knowing our readers), then you missed one of the most powerful episodes of the show ever. Mando Guerra, the talented and adorable three-time winner, used last week's episode to tell his story of living with HIV. Read More | Comment »

He's hot, he's hunky, and he's Gloria Vanderbilt's kid. But that's not why we adore CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. We love him because he PONY PONI POWND that creepy Andrew Shirvell. Read More | Comment »

It's a damn shame, really, teaching kids to discriminate. It's not like high school isn't already tough enough, but adorable, hunky Michigan teen Oak Reed gets to enjoy his Homecoming knowing that transphobia trumps a democratic vote. Read More | Comment »

Better luck next time to all other fabulous Dinah! contest entrants. Please still consider attending! Each ticket comes with food, drinks, an evening with DJ Amerykah and DJ L'Air du Temps, the gorgeous grounds of the Hummingbird House, plus a year's membership in HRC. It also comes with some exceptional Austin eyecandy. Now click below to see who won! Read More | Comment »

I mean, I'm just speechless. Read More | Comment »

School's out, I've graded all my students' papers, and so naturally I am looking for ways to fill the void. For the past two years I've turned to YouTube to stave off sadness. This year is no different, and I have found the perfect rabbit hole to fall down. Ladies and Gentlemen, Rainbow Tales. Read More | Comment »

My interspecies dalliance has me all a-dither. And, yes, he was a he. I must re-think everything. I have so much to share about how, or more precisely, when to see Texas on the cheap. Now's the time to plan your trip gifts. The price is right. Watch this space and check for updates throughout the holidays. Come along and learn how you, too, may kiss a fish. Read More | Comment »

Artist Zanele Muholi calls her photographs "visual activism", and we here at the GP couldn't agree more. Read More | Comment »

Walter van Beirendonck, who is tied with Baroque artist Hendrick Ter Brugghen for coolest Dutch name, unveiled his Summer collection in Paris a few days ago. Fashion buffs know that Beirendonck always delivers color, sex and fun in his shows. Just look at his previous collections: eXplicit, sexclown, and gender?. Uh. Maze. Eeng. So when a call for "bear" models started to circulate this past Spring, we knew something great was in the works. Read More | Comment »

Oh, Edie Falco, you've got me crushing like a crushed up Percocet. Nurse Jackie is almost as addictive. Everybody and their doctor (and my fave, Belinda Acosta) has written about the new Showtime show, so I'll spare you… save for my ear-to-ear grins realizing, for example, that Eddie, the hospital pharmacist, Jackie's lunch-hour shag pal, is played by the same dude who played Father Phil in the Sopranos. And that the guy who plays her husband once had a small part in one episode as a Moltisanti. And that in the premiere, when we first see Jackie and her BFF, the droll Dr. Eleanor taking a meal at a fancy restaurant, it could have been Carmela at Vesuvio. And the mere sight of Anna Devere Smith wasted, with her face smooshed up against a window made me guffaw. Out loud. Very loudly. Almost as much as the Valley of the Dolls theme. And that recurring food stuff, what's that about? Pancakes happen twice in the pilot, and Heineken and pudding make two appearances each in the second eppy. (UPDATE: Third episode: Chicken Soup!) Food stuffs and product placements, I have my eye on you. I'm hooked. Sure, we all nurse our own brands of dysfunctional and lonely: No OC. No Veronica Mars. No Strangers With Candy. True love is so fleeting, yes? And somehow, I always manage to fall for these bleak, gorgeously flawed, huggably fucked up creatures… like Nurse Jackie. Read More | Comment »