Calling All Queer-Supportive Nonprofits: Texas Pride Impact Funds Wants You!

TPIF support those supporting LGBTQ folks

"...The Texas Pride Impact Funds is now accepting proposals for their..."

April 12, 2019 Qmmunity Post by Alex Puente

LGBTQ Activists Urge AISD to Better Support Queer Youth

Activists want AISD to do more with church money

"...would be used to pay for "district and campus Pride activities," including AISD's participation in the Austin Pride Parade..."

June 14, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Give Back to Queerbomb

Queerbomb 2013 seeks the community it creates

"...about the corporate and sponsor-driven nature of annual gay Pride celebrations...."

May 7, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Qmmunity: Honoring Black Trans Lives

This Pride Month and always

"...of Black and Latinx trans women, we don't have Pride. We can't separate Pride from standing in solidarity with..."

June 5, 2020 Column by Beth Sullivan

Qmmunity: Queer Comedy Pipeline

Ivy Le talks the impact of Tongue in Cheek, a queer comedy open mic providing fertile ground for Austin's LGBTQ comics

"...now in its second season, with Le tackling the Texas pastime of hunting...."

Sept. 29, 2023 Column by James Scott

A Claimed Space

Mexic-Arte blazed a trail in Texas by making a place for Mexican culture in a museum

"...missing in other museum spaces in Austin and Central Texas and declaring, "Mexican and Mexican-American art and culture has..."

Aug. 14, 2009 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

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Don't Dissolve District

"...the century-old doctrine followed in no other state but Texas that gives every landowner the right to pump as..."

May 1, 1998 Column

Funding Balance

Some Austin politicos think qualified candidates of average means are deterred from running due to low contribution limits

"...the election, council members either must return unspent campaign funds to donors or give them to charity...."

Dec. 11, 2015 News Feature by Jack Craver

Fat and Mostly Healthy

City Rolls Out Brave New Budget

"...reminds us every year, the lowest in a major Texas city - drops more than two-and-a-half cents, to 51.42..."

Aug. 14, 1998 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Sara Hensley Turns Over a New Leaf

The new PARD director has big ideas – to realize them, she'll have to raise big bucks

"...Austin has much to take pride in. In 2004, PARD received a prestigious National Recre­a­tion..."

July 24, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Wreckless Recs?

Garza's Affordability Strategy Slides Into Uselessness

"...beginning, the city's benchmarks for basic services were other Texas cities. Of course, we all take great pride in..."

Sept. 12, 1997 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Gay Place

The formation of groups like the CTTHC are more important now than ever

"...the mission to improve transgender health care in Central Texas. Today, they're known as the Central Texas Transgender Health..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Column by Sarah Marloff

Under One Roof

Can the City Make Good on Its Affordable Housing Promise?

"...-- but the residents and elected officials radiated genuine pride. The crack houses are mostly gone from Springdale, and..."

July 28, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

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Our readers talk back.

"...'Chron' Pride Coverage Myopic..."

June 21, 2002 Column

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A fresh melange of reader responses to our recent issues.

"...the truth," says Steven Collins, executive director of the Texas Legislative Council, "is that no one really knows." That..."

May 25, 2001 Column

The Threat to NEA Funding and Austin

How would the proposed cuts to the National Endowment for the Arts hit Austin? Hard.

"...were often dominated by controversies over what the NEA funds. This time around, arguments are being made that there..."

April 28, 2017 Arts Feature by Katarina Brown

This Way to the Big Top!

From budget disaster to hysterical bloodletting, the legislative circus is back in town

"...In 2009, the 81st Legislature of the state of Texas was nicknamed the "hurry up and wait" session –..."

Jan. 14, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

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"...And what was the point of deriding her pride in graduating from high school ("as if she had..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Column

Fighting City Hall

What began as a play for Austin by a Ukrainian playwright has become a dispatch from the front lines of a war

"...blue dot in the field of red that is Texas. However, a look across the ocean at Kiev gives..."

May 2, 2014 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Travels With Saúl

Austin filmmakers Ryan Polomski and Frank Bustoz found not just a subject in Guatemala, but a co-director, too.

"...town in the Guatemalan highlands, the two then-University of Texas students were ready to explore a village that proudly..."

June 20, 2003 Screens Feature by Rachel Proctor May

How and Why the City and County Chose to Cancel SXSW

Striking precarious, if unachievable, balance between protecting public health and avoiding economic calamity

"...enter the race to succeed Kirk Watson in the Texas Senate, told us, "It's a little bit like building..."

March 13, 2020 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...As Envision Central Texas heads down the decades-long path toward implementation of its..."

May 14, 2004 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

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Park and Ride

"...right to explore alternatives; to examine closely the environmental impact of every new mile of highway, the widening of..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...But we do take a lot of pride in our neighborhood. There's little crime, things to do,..."

June 27, 2003 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...Austin want very much to live with minimal environmental impact and with efficiency in their lives. But it is..."

Aug. 16, 2002 Column

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Our readers talk back.

"...attorney stated in a staff memo, "This has tremendous impact not only on the City of Georgetown but the..."

Sept. 21, 2001 Column

Total Entertainment Package

Rockin' out with Austin's Latin-metal crossover darlings

"...my first rock band and my first band from Texas. I couldn't be more proud or any more hopeful."..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Saturday Picks & Sleepers

Last night blurbs – hip-hop Picks and slept-on Sleepers

"...The Copper Gamins 6pm, Mexican American Cultural Center The pride of Mexico City, the Copper Gamins – singer/guitarist Jose..."

March 20, 2015 Music Feature