On Saturday, June 25, queer hip-hop artist/entertainer BabiBoi, aka Dorian Delafuente, will take to the Long Center stage to perform pulse-pounding, body-quaking music – including new single “Boyz 2 Men.”

Despite the LGBTQIA rainbow flag’s multicolored nature, many Pride events are unfortunately monochromatic in their representation. So when Austin Queer Asians, Austin Latinx Pride, and QWELL Community Foundation decided to put together an event, they wanted to uplift all of Pride’s shades.

At the start of 2022, the friends-with-benefits relationship between pharmaceutical daddy Gilead Sciences and LGBTQ+ and sex-positive clinic ASHwell Sexual Health + Wellness dissolved when Gilead canceled its significant funding of free PrEP treatment through the federal 340B drug pricing program.

On Saturday, June 11, I got up before 9am – a rare occasion. My early rising was for an important reason: Me, Chron Event Coordinator Cassie Arredondo, and a buncha Qmmunity branded stickers were set to be at a booth from 10am to 2pm at Waterloo Greenway’s Pride event, Rainbow on the Creek.

According to RuPaul’s Drag Race drag superstar Shangela Laquifa Wadley, better known mononymously as Shangela, what characterizes queer Texan pride is entertainment. That and kindness.

Julia Scotti apologizes to me for her voice. “My allergies are going nuts,” she says, “and this is like the fifth interview I've done today.”

Building new housing facilities is now more a reality than a dream for Project Transitions, the local nonprofit whose efforts focus on providing hospice care, housing, and support to folks with HIV.

Lizzy Lehman’s no stranger to a Chron interview, and her music’s graced this fair paper’s online and print prose many times previous – both as frontwoman for Carry Illinois and in her solo outings.

In a 2021 Gallup poll, about 21% of adults in Generation Z identified on the LGBT spectrum.