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COCKPIT ROCK IT
Don't be afraid of the Cock. Girls, just call it CP's, because this night is for you. Well, it's Club Inclusive, so everyone's invited. Come early, and get into Julie Nolen (of Telling Stories) on a patio for pups and pub grub: buck burgers and drafts, with a Getty bartender. Indeed. Your dance moves will prove the pudding. Pop.
Wednesdays, 9pm.
The Cockpit, 113 San Jacinto, 457-8010.
www.myspace.com
CP'S GOT TALENT
Plate spinner? Yodeler? Lion tamer? What don't you do? Come on and flaunt it for a $500 prize. Be available for four evenings of competition until the Dec. 20 final.
3pm.
The Cockpit, 113 San Jacinto, 457-8010.
GAY GUYS' BOOK MEET
Each month there's a new book to peruse with pals.
Every third Wednesday, 7pm.
Genuine Joe Coffeehouse, 2001 W. Anderson, 220-1576.
Free.
LIVE AT THE DRIVE
Austin's hunky leather bar continues free live music nights. This week: The Ramifications, Lux Divon, Mouse About.
10pm.
Chain Drive, 504 Willow, 480-9017.
Free.
www.chain-drive.com
 QUIZZICAL
Join Quizmaster Lois and the gang for another rousing round of memorized minutiae.
Nueva Onda, 2218 College Ave, 447-5063.
www.nuevaaustin.com
TIG'S GIGS
You may remember her as the dyke cop on The Sarah Silverman Program, or you may remember her from her salad days in Austin – eating salad and hitting on your best friend. Either way, it's Tig, and she's back for five nights.
Cap City Comedy Club, 8120 Research #100, 467-2333.
www.capcitycomedy.com
W4W
Is it a coincidence that CP's ladies night falls on Hump Day?
Wednesdays, 9pm.
The Cockpit, 113 San Jacinto, 457-8010.
www.cockpitaustin.com
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
Send a sassy text to your club crush and see it displayed on the club's multitude of plasma screens at Club Popular, the every-Wednesday dance party. OCH presents Mailbox 2.0 to connect new-millennium-style. Hi-NRG, special guest celebs, and prizes? Oh, that's why they're popular.
Oilcan Harry's, 211 W. Fourth, 320-8823.
www.oilcanharrys.com
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'AUSTIN CHRONICLE' GAY URLS!
You can directly access the Chronicle's gay listings online without clicking until your fingers turn blue. Plus the URLs are super easy to remember. The Austin Chronicle gAyTX Fun Guide is our regularly updated list of fine local queer establishments and concerns. And Gay Place is, of course, what you are reading here, our weekly best of the best of queer Austin.
454-5766.
gayplace@austinchronicle.com
austinchronicle.com,
austinchronicle.com
ACTOM
Because men are like coffee – the best ones are rich, hot, and can keep you up all night. Join the newest online way to meet men, Austin Coffee, Tea, or Me? – a group to help you find Mr. Right … or at least Mr. Right There, oh yes, right there.
groups.yahoo.com
ADVENTURING OUTDOORS
Austin's gay and lesbian group for making the nature scene. Minimal dues, maximum fun!
236-7176.
www.main.org
ARE YOU A PROUD TEXAN?
Do you care what happened in this Lege session? About fights for equality and equal protection under the law? Get on Equality Texas' list. This week they seek eager volunteer types to assist in Pride preparation. They have daytime, afterwork, and club-hopping opportunities. Call Bren for further info.
Equality Texas, PO Box 2340, Austin, 78768-2340, 474-5475.
info@equalitytexas.org
www.equalitytexas.org
ATTICUS CIRCLE
Come join the grassroots gay-straight alliance that stands up for dignity, justice, and the (true) American way! Huzzah!
450-5188.
info@atticuscircle.org
www.atticuscircle.org,
www.myspace.com
AUSTIN LONESTARS RUGBY CLUB
Taking a break for '08 but referring interested parties to the Austin Rugby website.
Burnet Middle School, 3000 S. I-35, 841-8289.
www.lonestarsrugby.org,
www.austinrugby.com
AUSTIN ROUNDUP
Getcher ticket now for next week's Drag-o-ween! This local nonprofit hosts an annual conference (Next one slated for late January 2009) for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered members of AA and Al-Anon.
Journey Church, 3009 Industrial Terrace, 439-7410.
chairs@austinroundup.com
www.austinroundup.com
BLOGGITY BLOG BLOG BLOG
Why wait 'til Thursday? Come visit us online at the Gay Place Blog and on our design blog, Chronique. Join the fun; leave a comment. Maybe win yourself a nice unicorn or T-shirt or something. Or go naked for all we care. (You can do that while you read a blog.)
454-5766.
gayplace@austinchronicle.com
austinchronicle.com,
austinchronicle.com
FOODIES
Yup. Women Who Love Women Who Love Food. In lieu of Austin's having an actual lesbian gathering space, this e-mail-based social network holds weekly meet-ups, private house parties, and special events for the lay-deez. Women of all stripes are welcome and encouraged to attend. E-mail Kitty to get on the list.
beatsagogo@aol.com
HANG OUT UT
When UT is in session, this queer-supportive college social group welcomes gay, straight, bi-, trans-, whomever to join the ranks and have fun! The goal is community; freshmen/new-UTers are encouraged to look them up. Every Wednesday, there's a Coffee Meet-Up at Little City (Congress, 10pm-12mid) and HangOut Picnic at the Turtle Pond under the UT Tower every Friday, 11am-3pm.
830/822-7632.
HIV RESOURCE GUIDE
is a great resource for folks in need of services as well as those who just want to volunteer or help.
Austin Area HIV Planning Council, 505 Barton Springs Rd., Fifth Floor, 974-2615.
Free.
HIV+ COUNSELING
HIV-positive? This group explores issues from recent diagnosis to life with HIV. Free to individuals who qualify; sliding scale for everyone else.
Waterloo Counseling Center, 3000 S. I-35 #315, 444-9922 x100.
www.waterloocounseling.org
HOT BEARS SAY RRRRROOOOW!
The cuddliest, hairiest, most barrel-chested bigboys of the Heart of Texas Bears are a social service group dedicated to all things "grrrrr." Get on their list for info about monthly coffees, movie nights, beer busts, etc.
info@heartoftexasbears.org
www.heartoftexasbears.org
KARAOKE AT 'BOUT TIME
Start your week off right with host AJ Kline for some serious crooning at North Austin's fave neighborhood bar. Never a cover.
Sundays, 8pm-1am; Mondays & Tuesdays, 9pm-2am.
'Bout Time Bar, 9601 N. I-35, 832-5339.
www.bouttimeaustin.com
LAMBDA OF TEXAS STATE
Get back to class with class, and hang out with fellow LGBT Bobcats and allies. Check the website for weekly meetings and the awesome, twice-a-year Bobcat Ball.
Texas State University campus, San Marcos.
www.studentorgs.txstate.edu
LGBT PETITIONS
The afterglow of the Obama win was dimmed for the LGBT world by the passage of anti-gay marriage initiatives in Arizona, California, and Florida and an anti-gay measure regarding adoption in Arkansas. There is a lot of work ahead. Locally, UT staff hopes to secure domestic-partner benefits, and over on the left coast, Californians are ticked off at the Mormon money machine. Check out the websites to inform yourself, and see if you'd like to support these movements.
UT Domestic Partnership Petition: www.petitiononline.com/dpbforut/petition.html; Anti-Prop. 8 Petition: www.mormonsstoleourrights.com.
info@mormonsstoleourrights.com
LGBT SUPPORT IN KILLEEN
The place to deal with coming out, relationships, emotional turmoil, or just a new place to hang out with like-minded peeps, and feel safe, secure, and fostered. Tuesdays.
Killeen Community Center, Rm. 101, W.S. Young @ Veterans Memorial Blvd., 932-2666.
MIDTOWNE SPA FREE PASS
Yo, Hunky Brewster: Get on the Midtowne site, and click on the Free Pass link to get free admission to some steamy relief. 18 and up, no alcohol.
Midtowne Spa, 5815 Airport, 302-9696.
www.midtowne.com
MY DINNER AT CHARLIE'S
Well, now you never have to leave Charlie's, Austin's gay club right next to the Capitol dome, cuz every Monday through Friday, it's Charlie's Cafe, for lunch (11am-2pm) and dinner (5-9pm). Then there are free burgers on Sundays, free tacos on Fridays, and one of the best steak nights around on Tuesdays. Nourishing in so many ways.
Mon.-Fri., 11am-2pm.
Charlie's Austin, 1301 Lavaca, 474-6481.
MYSPACE IS FOR QUEERS
Yuh-huh. We up and did it. All 2006-ish, we finally got caught up to 2004 and leapt into the Rupert Murdoch-void balls-out, baby. (Cough.) Uh, yeah. So, send us your info the ol'-fashioned way at our regular, dependable Chronicle e-mail addy, or come be our friend online and send us stuff there! Humor us with an add, at the very least? Like a perky poodle on the leg of luv, we're notorious collectors … shameless.
gayplace@austinchronicle.com
www.myspace.com
NEW TO TOWN? JUST VISITING? WHERE THE QUEERS AT?
Welcome to Austin! Don't know where to go, you big beautiful queer? Let our newly updated Austin Chronicle gAyTX Fun Guide assist you. More, more, more. How do you like it?
gayplace@austinchronicle.com
www.austinchronicle.com
OUT YOUTH DROP IN
High school can be hell, especially for the li'l tyke dykes and fag-o-tots. Our local nonprofit support/drop-in center for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and questioning peeps, ages 12-19, is open to youth three days each week. A place where they can be. Just ... be.
Sun. & Wed.-Thu., 4:30-8:30pm.
Out Youth House, 909 E. 49th, 419-1233.
POSITIVE INFLUENCE
Therapy/support group for HIV-positive gay men. Eight-week sessions. Call for schedule. Wednesdays, 6-7:30pm.
784-8220.
SAPPHFIRE
Do you prefer game nights, movie nights, lazy Sunday brunches, and Sapphic book clubs to all-night stomps through the Warehouse District? Well, meet your peeps. Check the Web site for the where and when.
833-5040.
info@sapphfire.org
www.sapphfire.org
ST. EDWARD'S GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE
Austin's own St. Ed's has its own GLBT/straight alliance.
St. Edward's University campus, 416-5876.
kathyb@stedwards.edu
www.stedwards.edu
SUPER BUFFET/MANWATCH DANCERS
Watch the Men of Manwatch wiggle as you scarf down that free buffet, 6-9pm. DJ Bryan Konrad spins, 9pm-close. Wipe your chin, skippy.
Fridays.
Oilcan Harry's, 211 W. Fourth, 320-8823.
TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FAERIES, ELVES, & SATYRS
That's THCFES to you, delicate nymph of the forest glen. (All's we wanna know is: Where are the fekkin' unicorns?!) THCFES is a group for alternative/progressive gay men who understand the goodness of all things fae. Yae!
groups.yahoo.com
TGT
It's time for school, and UT's Transgender Texas is fabulous and here to stay. So if you are a trans-identified Longhorn, get in touch.
jesse.free@riseup.net
THE GATHERING PLACE
Inclusive, inviting. Sundays, 10:30am; Bible study, Wednesdays, 7pm.
Gathering Place Worship Center, 7801 N Lamar Ste. F-25, 323-9501.
www.whosoever.net
TRANSFORMATIONS PSYCHOTHERAPY SERVICES
Katy Koonce, LCSW, offers two transsexual support groups with a holistic approach.
329-6699.
Donations accepted.
UT GENDER & SEXUALITY CENTER
Hey UT noob, did you know your university has a GSC? A queer hub, as it were? They keep regular business hours (Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm) to help you feel more at home.
232-1831.
gsc@uts.cc.utexas.edu
www.utexas.edu
UT GSC LISTSERV
UT's Gender & Sexuality Center maintains, among other fabulous things, a helluva listserv. To submit something for the GSC’s list or to subscribe to the e-mail list, please send an e-mail.
gsc@uts.cc.utexas.edu
VIOLET CROWN COUNSELING
Specialized individual and relationship psychotherapy for the LGBTQIJKLMNOP and open-minded. Over 86 years experience between 'em.
895-9558.
www.violetcrowncounseling.com
WATERLOO COUNSELING
Austin's hub for GLBT support has openings in the following therapy groups: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Group; Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Group; HIV Support Group; Transgender Support Groups (M2F and F2M); and Coming Out Groups (Women's and Men's).
Waterloo Counseling Center, 3000 S. I-35 #315, 444-9922.
www.waterloocounseling.org
WATERLOO'S HART PROGRAM
Low- to no-cost mental health counseling and support for folks struggling with HIV or AIDS. Bilingual? ¡Sí!
Waterloo Counseling Center, 3000 S. I-35 #315, 444-9922 x329.
www.waterloocounseling.org
WHAT'S GAYER THAN A CABARET?
Not much. Check out Austin Cabaret Theatre's sassy-ass blog.
www.austincabaret.blogspot.com
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