Today's Gay History Icon

A different icon brought to you each day of October!

"...Equality Forum celebrates Gay History Month with a different icon right here on..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Happy Gay History Month!

We'll feature a new bio each day in October for Gay History Month!

"...Check the Gay Place Blog as Equality Forum celebrates the month with..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Happy Gay History Month!

Check the Gay Place Blog each day in October for a new Gay History Month bio, courtesy the fine folks at Equality Forum.

"...Check the Gay Place Blog as Equality Forum celebrates the month with..."

Oct. 1, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Today's Gay History Icon

A different icon brought to you each day of October by the fine folks at Equality Forum.

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Oct. 31, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

History's Closet

Making the case for an Austin gay barchive

"...We are history. Some of us freshly minted, others sepia with tattered..."

June 5, 2009 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

San Marcos Welcomes First Gay Bar

San Marcos comes out of the closet and into the Warehouse

"...is up. Stonewall Warehouse owner Brian Scofield tells the Gay Place, “We are ready!”..."

Jan. 7, 2015 Qmmunity Post by Blake McCoy

Digging Into Queer History in Cured

Doc explores fight to de-list homosexuality as mental illness

"...Queer history is a collection of stories, and those stories only..."

April 21, 2021 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

History's Morgue

We choose whether to let our stories live or die

"...Dan is Daniel Alonzo, photo curator for the Austin History Center. Alonzo is taking me on a tour through..."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

Qmmunity: BT2 Joins Ranks of Gay Bars Austin Has Loved and Lost

We can still do our part to preserve its history

"...BT2 has closed. The North Austin gay bar, which had temporarily closed back in March, announced..."

May 15, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Qmmunity Wants Deets on Local Gay Bars From Decades Past

What are we missing? Send us yer memories!

"...part of our Aug. 9, 2019 Pride feature “The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin,” we compiled an..."

Aug. 14, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Gay Place

Time to dig in the crypt of queer music history

"...flood the nostrils of context. Young folk often feel history-less. Other cultures/subcults usually have books or websites to clear..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

What’s to Become of Austin’s Unofficial Gay District?

A development plan would maintain Oilcan Harry's but displace two other gay-friendly bars

"...were home to Kansas, the Boathouse, and other long-gone gay bars at the edge of the then-emerging Warehouse District...."

May 13, 2022 News Feature by Maggie Quinlan

Tuesday News Gay on a Wednesday: Jan. 18

Dan hits us with his news bits

"...Did you know a gay man beat out Michelle Bachmann for president in the..."

Jan. 18, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Daniel Villareal

Qmmunity: The Gay Place Rides Again

Original Chron legend Kate X Messer talks "Qmmunity"/"The Gay Place" origins

"...Messer remembers explaining what was soon to become "The Gay Place" as a solution to a problem she saw..."

Sept. 1, 2023 Column by James Scott

Lavender Country, World’s First Openly Gay Country Band, Comes to Austin

Patrick Haggerty on his groundbreaking album nearly 50 years later

"...eponymous debut album, which is considered the first openly gay-themed album in country music history...."

Oct. 21, 2021 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Gay Place

The Gay Place goes back to her roots, just south of the Wild Side and a hair shy of a Moonage Daydream

"...ON OUR GAYDAR..."

Jan. 31, 2014 Column by Kate X Messer

A Wild and Precious "Theraplay" of Gay Experience

One man's 50+ year gay journey comes home to a place that helped launch it

"...own wild and precious life, spanning an era of gay liberation, he brings this story back to Austin, where..."

Nov. 12, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Carmen Rising

UPDATED: Travis County Allows First Texas Gay Marriage

Travis County clerk issues marriage license to gay couple this morning

"...emergency stay by the Texas Supreme Court to halt gay marriages in Travis County after this morning’s historic order..."

Feb. 19, 2015 News Post by Mary Tuma

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

The life and times of the Golden Age of Cinema's favorite pimp

"...best-kept open secret, the town's biggest and most discreet gay brothel, and it was all Bowers' creation...."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Brief History of Austin’s LGBTQIA Movement Through Design

From protest to punk flyers, how LGBTQIA design has evolved in Austin

"...Like the history of the LGBTQIA movement, the history of queer design..."

Jan. 30, 2020 Qmmunity Post by Beth Sullivan

Gay Marriage Rights Rally Saturday

Sat., Nov. 7, 2009, 1-6pm, Austin City Hall

"...Equality March, to respond to Maine's vote to reject gay marriage tomorrow on the steps of the City Hall...."

Nov. 6, 2009 Qmmunity Post by Frank J. Rivera

The History of the LGBTQ Movement in Austin

From Stonewall to today, how Pride has progressed in our city

"...city of Austin required liability insurance to host a gay event in a public park for 2,000 people, the..."

Aug. 9, 2019 News Feature by Beth Sullivan

Qmmunity: 50 Years Queer History

Everything you need to know to make the best of Pride Weekend

"...I set off several months ago to uncover the history of Pride and LGBTQ rights in the capital city...."

Aug. 9, 2019 Column by Sarah Marloff

Indoor Queers Club: History’s No Mystery!

Qmmunity recommends readable & watchable media about queer history

"...Austin Public Library | The Little Gay Shop..."

Sept. 9, 2022 Qmmunity Post by James Scott

Gay Culture in Focus

"...The founder of the Southwest's first and most successful gay and lesbian film festival admits that, at times, he..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Screens Feature by Russell Smith

Gay Place: Seal '14 With a Kiss

Seal '14 with a kiss

"...Thank you for reading. We luv u. TOP NATIONAL GAY 10 of 2014..."

Jan. 2, 2015 Column by Kate X Messer

More Austin LGBTQ History

"...so much for the article on Austin Pride [“The History of Pride in Austin,” News, Aug. 9]. It is..."

Aug. 14, 2019 Postmarks

This Day in Queer History: One, Inc. v. Olessen

We celebrate a landmark case in the struggle for U.S. LGBTQ rights

"...ONE, Inc. was a gay collective created by members of the Mattachine Society in..."

Jan. 12, 2014 Qmmunity Post by Lawrence Everett Forbes

Gay Place: Oops, Mami!

The Laramie Project's Wilde Party, VAC's new Traditional Family Values, and ArtErotica top this week's list of must-do gAy-TX arty party fun

"...park, so WTF? Mea culpa, for sure! ON OUR GAYDAR..."

April 6, 2012 Column by Kate X Messer

One Big Gay Happy Family?

QueerBomb and Austin Pride meet for a roundtable

"...Austin's renegade counter-Pride, and members of the official Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation board agreed to sit down..."

June 3, 2011 Features Feature by Kate X Messer

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