Austin’s Inaugural Stargayzer Fest Celebrates LGBTQ Music and Community
Here’s something you don’t hear much: “Austin needs another music festival.” Between the behemoth SXSW, the exponentially growing ACL, the quirky Fun Fun Fun, the tripped-out Psych Fest and several smaller fests in Austin’s orbit, one might well presume that the city’s music festival market is already quite saturated. But if you ask Stargayzer Fest…
San Antonio’s Transgender Community Shows its Pride
Despite the common belief that it was transgender activist Sylvia Rivera who sparked the beginning of the modern gay rights movement by flinging her high heel shoe at the cops during a 1969 police raid of the now-famed Stonewall Inn, the transgender community has clung to the letter “T” in the backseat of the “LGB”…
Pride Q&A: Partners and collaborators Britt Lorraine and Kristy Perez
An illustrative story about Kristy Perez: She exhibited her sculptural work this year as part of “Bruit rose” at Maison Populaire, a contemporary art center in Paris. Her piece Fight! began when she found an old crutch on a trash heap near her Southtown studio. She decided to reify the crutch by covering it in…
Where Do SA’s HIV-positive Homeless Go?
It’s raining … well, cats and dogs … outside the San Antonio AIDS Foundation, and I say so to the clients who are chatting in one of the hallways. “Is it raining men?” a gentleman in a wheelchair retorts, and waves disappointedly at the answer. The residents at the SAAF house are here for skilled…
Live Oak Singers Bring LGBT Chorus Back to SA
When Ron Casola hands me a business card for the Live Oak Singers, San Antonio’s latest LGBT chorus, the logo of a multicolored tree trunk leaning demurely into its right hip above the frisky font of his name doesn’t go unnoticed. Hoping to fill the artistic void left by the now dissolved Alamo City Men’s…
Just Happens to be LGBT: Does Pride Month have anything to do with politics?
Pride Month. What exactly does this month mean for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people? Is it primarily a time for a community and cultural celebration, or is it a political action of sorts? A reminder to take it to the streets? San Antonio’s own Pride “Bigger than Texas” takes place this weekend on…
Young, Gifted and Queer: Q&A with SA musicians Saakred and Pink Leche
Hit the bars where SA music makes its home and who do you see on stage? Dudes unlimited, on every instrument, of every genre and playing on every evening. Of course, women represent a good take of the creative musical space in San Antonio, but as Saakred says, it’s largely a hetero male space. As…
