OUTsider Festival’s Best Bets and Bites

What to see and where to eat, drink, and hang out to refuel or refresh

"...documentary from the Eighties, during the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis. The film follows the struggles of indigenous and..."

Feb. 14, 2018 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

What’cha Watchin’?

Office Manager Carrie Young dives back into Animaniacs' earworms

"...An inspiring documentary about the early days of the AIDS crisis, and the men and women who fought to..."

Nov. 10, 2017 Screens Column

AIDS Walk Austin 2017

Celebrating and advocating 30 years of progress and beyond

"...would pass before the city would have its own HIV/AIDS service organization. Today, AIDS Services of Austin is the..."

Oct. 24, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Mx. Justin Vivian Bond Comes to Austin

The queer cabaret legend is the friend we all need right now

"...community a cathartic release at the height of the AIDS crisis. “I felt that, as a young person, I..."

Sept. 7, 2017 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Double Nickelodeons on the Dime

Plenty of opportunities to catch some classic films

"...31), the story of how ACT UP fought the AIDS crisis, and Hooligan Sparrow (June 19 & 21), a..."

May 26, 2017 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chronicle Recommends: Protest Movies

Four films to get you out of the theatre and into the streets

"...France’s Oscar-nominated documentary revisits the early days of the AIDS epidemic and the mobilization of the LGBT community when..."

March 10, 2017 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Standing Witness

On living through the history of AIDS, and seeing a rising rate of infection

"...AIDS didn't hit Austin until several years after the destruction..."

July 22, 2016 News Feature by Sarah Marloff

The Queer Curator

Getting to know the Blanton's talented curator, Evan Garza

"...the existing checklist to include artworks produced during the AIDS crisis by such important artists as Felix Gonzalez-Torres, San..."

April 11, 2016 Qmmunity Post by Dan Gray

Gay Place

Sundays are the new Saturdays

"...notice that Sunday is also National Youth HIV & AIDS Awareness Day. With the startling – and upsetting –..."

April 8, 2016 Column by Sarah Marloff

Let's Go Gun Crazy

UT working group recommends allowing guns in classrooms, while a "mock mass shooting" and a "mass farting" protest in response bring out the national media

"..."dangers" of vaccines, to denial of the existence of AIDS, to 9/11 trutherism, to the belief that the Sandy..."

Dec. 18, 2015 News Feature by Mac McCann

Mothers and Sons

Zach Theatre's exquisite staging of Terrence McNally's drama speaks to families of all kinds

"...in a long-term relationship with her son, André, whose AIDS-related death she has always blamed on Cal. Her visit..."

June 12, 2015 Arts Review by Elissa Russell

Council Adopts 6% Exemption

Mayor says Council “serious about affordability crisis”

"...main objections to the homestead exemption is that it aids homeowners at the potential indirect expense of renters). Council..."

June 5, 2015 News Post by Michael King

From the Archive: Welcome to Chaos

Originally published on Nov. 12, 1993: ATCEMS saves lives every day, but the stresses of the job have high costs

"...to mention increasing urban violence and the spread of AIDS – what plans are being made to meet future..."

May 8, 2015 News Feature by Raoul Hernandez

This Time It’s Personal

Michael Barker endows Ed Lowry Student Film Program at AFS

"...in October 1985 as an early victim of the AIDS crisis...."

Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Let Me See It

A collection of elegantly wrought stories that follow two cousins, both gay, coming of age during the 1980s AIDS crisis

"...other while coming of age in Manhattan during the AIDS crisis of the Eighties. The French-speaking, erudite Elliot is..."

July 11, 2014 Arts Review by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez

The Chain Drive and the Rumor Mill

A gay Austin institution holds its last hoorah, again and again.

"...premiered her new single “Live to Tell” at an AIDS benefit at Madison Square Gardens. Martin Sheen had been..."

June 13, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

A Heavy 'Heart'

HBO adaptation makes the case for rage

"...intrinsic worth of chronicling the bad ole days of AIDS, but The Normal Heart isn't just memorial. It’s a..."

May 23, 2014 Screens Post by Brandon Watson

The Sweet Queerafter: What's in a Word?

Shall we stash the powder keg in a flameproof closet or light the fuse?

"...Then the AIDS crisis hit. Gay communities were decimated; tens of thousands..."

Feb. 13, 2014 Qmmunity Post by David Estlund

DVD Watch: 'Night of the Demons' / 'Witchboard'

Director Kevin S. Tenney talks scream queens and classic posters

"...story of a 10-year-old in Bermuda during Cuban missile Crisis), Tenney has plans for a sequel to the remake...."

Feb. 4, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Gay Place: Thank You

Thanks, gays

"...WORLD AIDS DAY Come join the Care Communities and the rest..."

Nov. 29, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

Writers on Kennedy

What we think about when we think about JFK

"...Kennedy. More florid claims have followed. The government started AIDS. The CIA turns little children into Manchurian Candidates via..."

Nov. 22, 2013 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Dallas Buyers Club

Matthew McConaughey gives a searing performance in this true-life story set in the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

"...The film’s portrait of the early days of the AIDS crisis is interesting, especially since it’s been such an..."

Nov. 15, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Egg & I

How an experimental treatment for major depression introduced me to the medical magnet and the return of 'energetic' medicine

"...depressives will do, for thinking things could be different. Crisis of Last Resort..."

Aug. 23, 2013 News Feature by Greg Harman

Hie Thee to the Drag Clown Nunnery

A true confession and a shameless plug.

"...queers," and those same queens produced the world's first AIDS fundraiser when the crisis hit, a dog show judged..."

Aug. 21, 2013 Qmmunity Post

From Africa to Zombies: Cori Stern Can't Stop

The weird, life-changing story of the "Warm Bodies" producer

"...behind rebel lines in Cote D'Ivoire during the first crisis there. It's a long, weird story, but I ended..."

Feb. 9, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

How'd He Do?

AFS Doc Nights: 'Koch'

"...infamous blackout of 1977. And the beginning of the AIDS crisis...."

Feb. 8, 2013 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

SXSW Eco: Beyond the Burlap Bag

Environmentalists ponder how to mainstream eco-culture

"...and help us come together and solve the defining crisis of the 21st century." So far, the game is..."

Oct. 10, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

About AIDS: July 20

The Gay Place resurrects the Chronicle's "About AIDS" column

"...Tears streaming, she asked me: “What about AIDS?” Even my mother, in a small Texas town, was..."

July 20, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Brandon Watson

The Resurrection of Mark Weaver

Pastor Mark Weaver spent Thanksgiving at Shoal Creek Hospital

"...Against Pornography, he was arrested for protesting at an AIDS Services of Austin meeting. In 1998, Weaver aggressively campaigned..."

Dec. 30, 2011 News Feature by Michael King

Gay Place: Remember

World AIDS Day is way more than a red ribbon

"...those affected directly, and queer folk in general. World AIDS Day is way more than a red ribbon. It's..."

Dec. 2, 2011 Column by Kate X Messer

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