With LGBTQ people – especially young people – increasingly under threat, it's really time for companies that claim they are allies to put their money where their mouth is. The Alamo Drafthouse has done just that, with the announcement that it has raised nearly $60,000 for the Trevor Project.

How can a show created by a bunch of self-described straight white dudes ensure that it builds diversity and representation into its structure? In the case of gen:LOCK, the latest series from Austin's Rooster Teeth studio, it's by taking time, making the effort, and asking the right people the right questions.

In 1992, Celia Israel had one thing holding her back.

With temperatures expecting to drop into the 30s Thursday and Friday nights, Lifeworks, a nonprofit dedicated to serving runaway and homeless youth in Central Texas, is working with the Congregational Church of Austin to set up and provide temporary shelter from the cold.

Amidst the bigoted bathroom debate, a light has emerged from the doors of the Alamo Drafthouse. On Tuesday, Facebook users were greeted with a post from the founder, Tim League, detailing proposed bathroom plans for Alamo’s new Mueller location. The post opened up the designs for public comment with compassion and compromise in mind.

Name: Jim Brunzell
Status: Austin, TX, Originally MN.
ID: Ally
Queerly Quotable: "I would love to see every single screen and theatre packed. I want all the films to be successful in their own way, and I want people to walk away learning something new, or discovering a filmmaker they haven’t heard of before."

The producers of popular read-out-loud series Mortified and BedPost Confessions are bringing unique versions of their already public and sideways takes on memoir writing to Austin audiences.

Name: Jo Eckler
Status: Austin, TX homegrown (originally from Dallas)
ID: Gender-fluid
Queerly Quotable: "I like to see people become free."

Attention all bookworms and anarchists: Monkeywrench Books celebrates their soft reopening with a potluck, and you're invited.