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Butches, Trash Humpers, Queer Jews, Soul Singers
Andy Campbell
Tue Mar 16, 1:16pm
Tags: SXSW
There's more to do - here are some GP suggestions for the next few days of SXSOOOOOOOOOOGAY.
Christeene, Liza, Heather, and Bears
Andy Campbell
Fri Mar 12, 7:18pm
Tags: SXSW
It is time for that clusterfuck we love to call SXSW. From my perch in some corporate kiosk I can see everyone dressed to impressed and energetic. I think I just got cruised... Awww. The cuteness doesn't stop for the next week. Here's my schedule for the next couple days - come out and join me, say hey, and we'll queer the shit out of SXSW.
Let Me See That Sissy Bounce
Thomas Fawcett
Fri Mar 12, 11:39am
Tags: SXSW
In New Orleans - a city defined by Mardi Gras, where gender-bending is the norm - Big Freedia and friends came up in the bounce scene, performing mainly at straight clubs and parties where the frenetic call-and-response sound has been booming since the early 1990s.
SXSoGAY
Kate X Messer
Thu Mar 11, 1:45am
WELCOME TO AUSTIN YOU DELICIOUS QUEERS
Yeah, we know you're out there, desperate in your posh hotel suite, having drowned your loneliness in trail mix, M&Ms, and those teeny bottles of Gallo from the minibar, cruising the Craigslist personals to find some shred of human connection – your tribe in the ATX…
Thanking the Academy
Kate X Messer
Sun Mar 7, 12:34am
Tags: Film
We're touched, really. You shouldn't have.
Political FAIL
Frank J. Rivera
Sat Mar 6, 11:05pm
Day or two late to this schadenfreude party but do not think it dulls my enjoyment whatsoever. It's stories like this that make me put on Keedz's "Stand on the Word" and dance around my apartment.
That's how the good Lord works, indeed.
Newsflash: Some Bimbo Has an Opinion About Gay Marriage!
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Mon Mar 1, 9:54am
Does anyone else find it bizarre how much we care lately about the political opinions of beauty pageant contestants?
The Conservative Future of the LGBT Movement
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Mon Feb 22, 4:28pm
Tags: Politics
If you support the agenda of the LGBT movement as it exists today, if you consider yourself to be in favor of same-sex marriage and gays in the military, you need to watch this video, because it is the future of your movement.
Will Gov. Perry's Cancer Concern Extend to Queer Boys?
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Thu Feb 18, 6:36pm
Remember Gov. Rick Perry's big campaign a couple years ago to make HPV vaccine Gardasil mandatory for sixth-grade Texas girls?
A Queerbot by Any Other Name ...
Frank J. Rivera
Wed Feb 17, 10:47pm
A CBS News/New York Times poll released this past week finds that while 50+% of Americans are in favor of "gays and lesbian women" serving openly in the military, less than half want "homosexuals" in our armed forces. Yes, you read that correctly.
A Reason to Get Up on Saturday
Andy Campbell
Tue Feb 16, 4:45pm
For years now faculty, staff, and students at UT Austin have been rallying President William Powers and the board of regents to allow Domestic Partner Benefits for those outside of the hetero box. The University has remained largely mum. That is, until now …
Goodbye Mystique
Andy Campbell
Tue Feb 16, 11:15am
Tags: Drag Race
First, apologies all around for not posting a Drag Race recap last week - forgive, forgive!
But this week was a good'un. It was all country, all the time! After playing a rousing game of "Chicken or WHAT?!?!" in which the ladies had to guess what they were eating, the queens broke into two teams…
You Say You Want a (R)Evolution...
Ricky Hill
Tue Feb 16, 9:03am
Girl, you read that right. Tonight is your chance to watch the queer dance crew who brought voguing into the living rooms of teenagers (and some mildly obsessed more-than-teenagers-cough-cough) all over America last fall on the fourth season of MTV's America's Best Dance Crew.
Who Dat Rollin' on Dat Float?
Kate X Messer
Fri Feb 12, 6:53pm
Tags: Mardi Gras
There's nothing like the sound of a parade line-up. Those moments before roll out, when musical mayhem from floats testing PAs bleeds over the bleats of marching bands strutting their stuff on the side streets – with quick over the shoulder glances to see if rival high schools are paying heed to their mighty, mighty jams. It's Mardi Gras 2010, y'all!
Boys Beware
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Fri Feb 12, 3:49pm
I recommend this wonderful essay by Dave White on Advocate.com. It reminded me of a short film I ran across on YouTube a while back. It's kinda funny, except for the fact that it's not.
Countdown to L-G-B-T
Kate X Messer
Tue Feb 9, 2:30pm
Tags: Politics
Apparently, tonight's is the first LGBT Town Hall ever, and our participation in this will determine the efforts expended by the U.S. Census folks on our behalf. Here's the deets from Equality Texas:
Austin Town Hall
Tonight! Tue., Feb. 9, 7pm
Mexican-American Cultural Center Auditorium
600 River Street, Austin, TX 78701
Austin Town Hall
Tonight! Tue., Feb. 9, 7pm
Mexican-American Cultural Center Auditorium
600 River Street, Austin, TX 78701
Dear Philip Huang, I Love You
Andy Campbell
Fri Feb 5, 9:54am
Tags: Politics
I mean, I'm just speechless.
Tim Miller Preaches to the Choir
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Thu Feb 4, 11:56pm
I went to see Tim Miller's Lay of the Land at the Vortex on Sunday night. Since the late Eighties, Tim's work has represented the intersection of queer theatre and politics. For the religious fanatics who revile him, and for the artists and activists who revere him, he has been the quintessential queer performance artist for some 25 years. Tim is an icon.
Restart Your Engines...
Andy Campbell
Tue Feb 2, 4:20pm
Tags: Drag Race
Last night was the premiere of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race – a cross between America's Next Top Model and Project Runway – a formula that targets to gays and 14 year old girls. There were nine of us packed in my tiny apartment living room, sharing wine, cookies, stories, and of course a love for reality drag competition.
Redefining Marriage
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Fri Jan 29, 12:19pm
Tags: Gay Marriage
I’ve always found the gay marriage movement’s rhetoric – their claim that they’re not trying to "change the definition of marriage," they only want equal access to an institution that heterosexuals enjoy – to be disingenuous.
Your Queer Schedule
Andy Campbell
Fri Jan 29, 12:03pm
Now that the new issue of the Chronicle featuring Paul Soileau has hit Austin, the children are GAGGING in the streets. It's uh-maze-eeng. Want to see what everyone's talking about? You can.
Don't Ask/Don't Tell/Don't Let the Door Hit You on the Ass on Your Way Out
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Fri Jan 29, 9:07am
Tags: DADT
Apparently, it was more than just words. Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic blogs:
Joy Behar Opens a Can of Worms on 'The View'
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Fri Jan 29, 8:19am
Tags: Gay History
I guess I'm old enough to find it amazing – breathtaking, really – that the differences between homo and hetero relationships are being discussed morning TV, with the assumption not that hetero is right and homo is wrong, but that they are just two types of relationships which in some ways may or may not be the same or different. Wow.
Two Sexes Only, Please!
Steven Cheslik-deMeyer
Tue Jan 26, 11:22am
Tags: Sports
It is mind-boggling the knots people will tie themselves into in order not to face something staring them in the face. How long will it be until we grow out of the notion that anyone whose particular biology does not clearly put them in the category of "male" or "female" is a freak with a condition that must be corrected?
How to Keep Up With the Prop 8 Trial
Andy Campbell
Tue Jan 26, 10:41am
If you're interested in the Perry V. Schwarzenegger case (and if you're not WHY AREN'T YOU?) there's one place to go to get a play by play of the trial: The Prop 8 Trial Tracker!
