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OUTsider Fest
C’mon y’all freaks and geeks: Austin’s premier transmedia festival dedicated to bold creativity within the LGBTQ community is back again. Over four days, creators like Good Pollution, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Ajani Brannum, Xandra Ibarra, and many more will bake your noodle with performances pacing past all known artistic outposts. Special presentations pop up throughout the fest run, but ongoing all four days will be DARKROOM, a blindfold-required sonic experience, and Lezbian Popcorn Cart, a celebration of savory sapphic her/hirstory. Highly recommended: the Legacy Awards boosting Austin spacemakers Priscilla Hale, Chale Nafus, Sandra Martinez, and Susan Post at Cheer Up Charlies on Friday, Feb. 16. – James ScottThu.-Sun., Feb. 15-18 -
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Always a Boy
Author of Never a Girl, Always a Boy and subsequent co-playwright of its stage adaptation Jo Ivester hopes the play written alongside her son Jeremy serves to “contribute to the growing awareness of what it means to be Trans.” After an industry presentation in NYC with Tony-Award winning A Strange Loop producer JJ Maley directing, this personal transition story comes home for its world premiere at Ground Floor featuring director Lisa Scheps and performers Laura Leo Kelly, Kaden Ono, Molly Fonseca, Nathan Jerkins, Max Green, Chelsea Corwin, Trace Turner, and Jeremy.– James ScottThursdays-Sundays. Through March 1 -
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Matteo Lane: The Al Dente Tour
Queer stand-up comic among Variety's Top Ten Comics to Watch and "pasta aficionado" Matteo Lane brings his Al Dente Tour to Austin.Fri., Feb. 16, 8pm. $50-200.
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Free HIV & STI Walk-In Testing
Know your status by taking advantage of Vivent Health's free testing hours and other sexual health offerings like free condoms/lube.Mon.-Fri., 8am-4pm; Tue., 1-4pm -
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Good Time Club
Angelina Martin hosts a stand-up show where "everyone on it is deeply funny." Groundbreaking!Third Friday of every month, 10-11pm. $20. -
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Madly Involved
Curated by Texan Mueni Loko Rudd, this exhibition highlights art from Black creators like Audrey Lyall, Moses Leonardo, Sacugar, and Big Linda. Opening night is this Friday, but the show runs through April 14.Thursdays-Sundays. Through April 14Future Front, 1900 E. 12th -
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The Little Gay Book Club
Crack open a new queer lit section every month with the Little Gay Book Club, a subscription-based "community of booklovers and bibliophiles that share in our passion for reading through conversations, monthly meetings, and events." Meetings are available virtually and in-person.$0-50 per month.