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Beloved "After a Fashion" photographer Seabrook Jones passed away in the very early hours of Wednesday, April 24. Read More | Comment »

Like many activists, Jeanne Manford got her start on the street – marching proudly with her son in the 1972 Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade. Someone snapped a picture of the sign she was holding – a hand-lettered placard urging “Parents of Gays: Unite in Support for Our Children” – and she became an accidental icon. Read More | Comment »

Kevin Clash faces further allegations, Russel Brand pulls a ratings stunt, and Allen West finally gives up. Today’s AggreGAYtor makes no promises. Read More | Comment »

Thomas Roberts hears wedding bells, Paris Hilton kisses a girl, and Sahara Davenport sashays away. Today’s AggreGAYtor shoots an arrow, and it goes real high. Read More | Comment »

Pride is a time of celebration, but also a time of remembrance. Read More | Comment »

Bettie Naylor, a tiny woman who loomed large at the Texas Capitol for several decades, died in her sleep last night. She leaves behind her loving partner, Libby Sykora, her three children, and a legion of friends and admirers. The out-and-proud late bloomer of a lesbian became the state's first official gay rights lobbyist in the Seventies. Read More | Comment »

Who was Harvey Milk? There are two ways I can think of to answer that question. One is to rent the documentary The Life and Times of Harvey Milk, and to read Randy Shilts's The Mayor of Castro Street. Both of these sources give accounts of Harvey Milk's biography. But still, the question remains, who was Harvey Milk? Read More | Comment »

I went to the vigil at OutYouth last night for Norma and Maria Hurtado, who were murdered in their home on Thursday. It was a beautiful event, and a beautiful night, windy and wild, with beautiful, wild, perfect people, all holding light in their hands and in their hearts. One thing was not beautiful, though, or light. Read More | Comment »

There will be a vigil Thursday, April 21 for Norma and Maria Hurtado, the daughter and mother who were murdered in Austin in what can only be considered a hate crime against LGBT identified people. Read More | Comment »

Today it was announced that Queerty is no longer with us, and indeed if you go to www.queerty.com you get a whole lotta nada. The site, which our new Gay Placer Daniel Villareal worked for (sad), was known for it's snarky commentary, luscious lists, and mostly male-oriented content. Read More | Comment »

Pinky = Hold 'em high.
Stinky = Sink 'em low. Let's get started: Read More | Comment »

2010 was a beautiful, mess, and now we must ruffle through the debris to start the new year fresh. Here goes. Read More | 1 Comment »

Just a quickie reminder and update on today's Vigil in Purple event at City Hall. Read More | Comment »

What a week it's been. With the recent suicide of 19-year-old Raymond Chase that makes five of our comrades on this little spinning ball that have taken their own lives after suffering the humiliation of bullying. Read More | Comment »

I'm heartbroken to hear that Kate McGarrigle died on Monday. Read More | Comment »

As part of Austin Red Week, several panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt are on display. If you happen to be at check-out #9 at Whole Foods Market at Fifth & Lamar, look up at the quilt over head. This one bears particular significance for the Chronicle: It was sewn in part in memory of Ed Lowry, one of the founding forces behind this publication. Read More | Comment »

A King and an Angel, gone today. Rest in Peace, my lovelies. Read More | Comment »

Oh, Bea Arthur (née Bernice Frankel). How we loved your characters: Maude in the All in the Family spin-off, Maude and Dorothy in the Golden Girls. How we loved your husky voice, your gentle, but snappy and sardonic demeanor. You were a fabulous, most glamourous big mama butch role model. You leave mighty big pantsuits to fill. And who knew? You were a Marine! One of the corp's first female recruits. You are loved, Bea Arthur: Rest in peace. Read More | Comment »

I'm in the midst of studying for my Ph.D. exams right now, which entails building bibliographies on subjects I care about (Queer Theory being one of them) and reading through said bibliographies. One of the authors I've been prodigiously rereading (my copy of The Epistemology of the Closet is well-worn at this point) is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, a theorist who is central in the formation of the Queer Studies/Theory discipline within the walls of academia (a fact she demurely denied often), has passed on from this world. And every queer should observe a moment of silence, because we have truly lost something. Because, to echo a familiar refrain spoken about Michel Foucault by David Halperin, as far as I'm concerned she was a fucking saint. Like cultural/literary/discourse theorists before her, most notably Michel Foucault, Sedgwick was committed to thinking about queer activity in the most unlikely of places. Read More | Comment »

Our most (un)favorite poetess, Jenny Schecter, is dead and now, at the end of the final season of the L-Word, we get see whodunit. My money's on suicide, but with the caveat that someone else gets blamed for the crime (ahem, Alice). Obviously we'll have lots to say after tonight's show is over. And yes, the cast and crew of the Gay Place will experience this seminal lesbian moment together (despite the fact that most of us have never watched the show). But until then, R.I.P. Jenny Schecter! ::Pours Zima out on the parquet floor:: Read More | Comment »