Comment on a controversial target, and you could easily end up as one yourself. It happened to Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce President Jimmy Flannigan.

My name is Lawrence Everett Forbes, I'm queer in all the ways the word implies, and am pleased to be blogging for "The Gay Place." I'm also a bourgeois dork, and have quite the thing for bow ties – the real kind, not the clip-on crap.

Here's a round-up of resources and archives to assist in understanding the life and legacy of John F. Kennedy as well as the traumatic events of November 22, 1963.

Oh Google, how often do I gaze upon your lovely Doodles in wonder and awe, and yes, sometimes in confusion – not unlike how I feel about children.

Carlo Key did not leave the Republican Party, he says, the party left him. The Bexar County judge will run for re-election under the Democratic Party.

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."

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

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.

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.