Gay Place

BACK IN ACTION It's about food. Sort of. It's about women. Yes, please. It's about community. Indubitably. It's Foodies. And it is back, babies: Western, English, Sybian, however you prefer to ride, Foodies is back in the saddle again. Kitty – the woman behind the coveted mass-mailing list of local lesbians – has kept the group alive even during its slow time. But if these recent few events are any indication, the Foodies phenom will quash any frets of Austin dyke culture withering due to its lack of bars or, ahem, watering holes. When Foodies is cranking full gallop, that lack just doesn't matter. Sure, it would be lovely to have a place to call our own, but necessity is the big hot mama of invention, and Foodies answers that cry in the lesbo wilderness. This past weekend's pub crawl, co-coordinated with beneficiaries Blindsided Softball, saw more than 250 women (dressed in white and bedecked in glow necklaces color-coded by availability status: green = single, red = taken, blue = total slut) strolling the past, present, and future of the collision of cultures that is East Sixth Street, 2009. When else have you seen gaggles of women descending in equal degrees of intensity upon establishments as varied as Rio Rita and Primo's? Rabbit's Lounge and East Side Show Room? Cheer up Charlie's and the ATX? Foodies is back, babies. It's free. It's not for profit. It's for fun. And it is so very Austin. ­­­­­Get on the list. (See Gay Place listings.)