South by Southwest 2019 is already looking rather queer. This morning, the multifaceted festival released their latest round of keynote and featured speakers and two prominent LGBTQ icons find their names on this list: Laura Jane Grace and Lance Bass.

Between aGLIFF wrapping in September and OUTsider not starting up until February, what’s a queer, festival-loving Austinite to do in the downtime?

Dr. Erica Anderson is a leading expert in transgender medical practices. With a successful career in psychology, she’s considered one of the most well-known and respected transgender doctors in America, but her fame extends beyond the medical world.

Take everything you know about a queer arts festival and pack it away for this weekend’s Gender Unbound. The (now expanded) two day art fest will display visual artwork created by trans, nonbinary, and intersex visual artists from all over, but it's far more than just eye candy.

The LGBTQ Studies Program at UT continues to foster queer camaraderie outside the bounds of the University. The program recently sponsored artist Alok Vaid-Menon at this weekend’s Gender Unbound Festival and continues to host an animated monthly Transgender Feminisms Reading Group that will meet again Thursday, at Patton Hall.

In 1992, Canadian singer k.d. lang released her monumental breakthrough, Ingénue, a defining moment both in style and for its role in the LGBTQ rights movement. Twenty-five years on, calling from a Calgary smoky from wildfires, she reflects on revisiting the multiplatinum LP and creative rejuvenation ahead of playing the Paramount Theatre on Tuesday.

Ah, fall in Austin. When it’s still too hot to drink pumpkin beer and the (queer) events are overflowing. Sure, we have loads of fabulous LGBTQ parties, gatherings, and get-togethers all year, but there’s something special about fall. Could it be that students are back – which means more queers! – or perhaps it’s just a banal desire for cooler temperatures.

According to Kita Khan and Rainny Daze, two members of Austin’s Sex Workers Outreach Project, the group grew out of an online platform used by local sex workers to trade stories, support folks just starting out, and provide advice.

Tomorrow night, Vice on HBO refocuses its gaze on Texas’ trans youth. The 18-minute segment shares an update on Kai Shappley and her family, which recently relocated to Austin for a more accepting school district.