MUSICAL QUEERS No, it’s not a game where you get to sit on me when the music stops. (Though, there are a few of you … umm, let’s just say I have the face of a very comfy ottoman.) It’s you, sailor, in the ever-accommodating port of Austin for a conference, for the time of your life, if we have anything to say about it. And when we tell you about all that you missed at last week’s SXSW Interactive and Film Conferences (Bob Mould throwing down wicked-mad thump for a house full of bears and thumpers, just to tease for one. The first-ever queer Interactive panel for two. The Magnetic Fields and Bear Nation films for three – you get the picture), you’ll be time-machining it back to early March to check that other box that says Platinum. But really, why live in the past? No regrets. The future’s so bright, as some Austinites used to say, and the present is a gift (…). Coming this week, you got some serious sissy bounce, the remaining showings of the above films, plus Christeene‘s “Fix My Dick” video, not to mention Ms. Cho, Girl in a Coma, and the big off-Conference capper on Sunday, GaybiGayGay. So where mah queers at? Funny you should ask.
WHERE MAH QUEERS AT? Find your people right here at Austin’s hot patooty alt-newsweekly, in “Gay Place.” Yup, come learn about all the great LGBTQI-ness happening in our fair city. We’ll be covering all of it, on- and off-official SXSW propertyness in this section (look for the li’l crown!), online, plus in all three of the SXSW dailies. Online, click here. Hey, and if you are a great big queer who has a show, etc., to promote (or are super friendly and presenting something of specific LBGT-interest), please get in contact. Right now! E-mail us! (And just to keep things organized, please put “GPB SENT ME”in your subject header.) Let us list the crap out of your stuff and pass it along to one of the most literately sassy queerwad readership in the universe. C’mon honey-
bunchesofoats, your unicorn-drawn carriage is waiting. Don’t wait for that hoopty to turn into a punkin or them unicorns to have their horns shorn. Get on it. (And check back every single minute online. We’ll be adding all sorts o’ faggoty shizzlenizzle all throughout the Conference.)
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This article appears in March 19 • 2010.