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Have you shopped for all your LGBTQ crew yet? Well, whether you’re like me and have a box you fill up over the year with gifts or you just woke and remembered presents are a thing right now, there’s places for you to keep the season’s shopping small, local, and gay as hell. Here’s a […]

As I look at the trinket shelf where my PC monitor sits, I’m struck by the three most prominent figures among the various bric-a-brac. One is a plush Totoro gifted to me by former Qmmunity editor Beth Sullivan, which represents the uncynical shepherdship I must inhabit while heading up the Chronicle’s queer events coverage. There […]

Here’s the time for gratitude, and boy am I full of that this year. Honestly, when times are at their most tough is when I realize just how MUCH I have that’s good in my life. So imagine for a moment we’re at a big long table covered in brown, beige, and dark green dishes […]

When I was in college and pursuing my Women & Gender Studies minor (which I found out a week before graduating I was one credit away from securing), I got the chance to see trans theorist Susan Stryker speak. It was there I first heard the concept of being transgender as not being itself revolutionary. […]

Hello readers! This is my annual birthday column, which I write just in case anyone has birthday compliments for me burning a hole in their pockets. Usually I have a whole gimmick like trans movie recs, but this week I actually also wrote the cover feature so my gift to myself is keeping the column […]

This Monday morning I cracked an egg on myself, if you’re curious how your faithful Qmmunity editor’s life outside the column space is going. To be honest, the worst part of gooey unfertilized egg mess being all over myself and the floor was knowing I had to clean it up. Ugh! Isn’t it enough for […]

Hey: Anyone else out there reading books? I find real-deal paperbacks and hardcovers to be my favorite – and honestly best-acting – escape from social-media induced mania. Can’t click any weird links if there’s literally no interactive capabilities, right? Plenty of strange and unusual queer-written and -centric tomes to pick from for the last few […]

Many words have been shared throughout the online- and meat-space about queer venues in Austin over the past, oh, million years. (This is how long Austin has had LGBTQ-centric places, yes?) And while I’m sure everyone – aka no one – is salivating for this print-media employee’s thoughts, I really don’t care to share ’em […]