In an effort to put to rest the debate over whether Austin has an actual gay and lesbian community, eight prominent LGBT organizations today announced the formation of the Pride Coalition. The unifying entity is, in many ways, largely an effort to eliminate some of the petty squabbling over resources and public attention that many of these groups often found themselves caught up in. It also hopes to better promote the various community volunteer efforts that take place throughout the year....

For the past few weekends, a handful of kindhearted volunteers have shown up to a patch of land in southeast Austin to help, literally, raise the roof of one Austinite's dreams. These folks are with the Austin Pride Build, the first-ever Habitat for Humanity project orchestrated by an LGBT community in Texas. Recently, they were honored as a Critics Pick for "Best Hammers of Justice" in this year's Best of Austin poll. "We're proud that......

Students at Austin High School, LBJ High school, Travis High School, Westlake High School, Hendrickson High School, and many other local schools will join students across the nation in a Day of Silence to protest the discrimination, harassment and abuse faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students and their allies in schools next Tuesday, April 18. Over 100 silent participants will wear stickers and pass out 'speaking cards' that read: "Please understand my......

The Austin Tennis Club (ATC) will be hosting its Fifth Annual Heart of Texas Classic—or HOT5—this weekend, March 10-12 at UT Intramural Courts and the South Austin Tennis Center. This year, the organization has designated Out Youth as their charity of choice. Out Youth, long a staple in the Austin lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) community, is the only organization for LGBTQ youth ages 12-19 in Central Texas. Out Youth services include counseling,......

Today being National Coming Out Day and all, we think it's the perfect opportunity to clue you in on a nifty nonprof that recently relocated to our little blue oasis: Fine By Me prints t-shirts emblazoned with the simple and catchy slogan, "Gay? Fine By Me." The long and short of it, as told by the FBM folks themselves: The T-Shirt Project is an easy way for the many, many Americans who support their LGBT......

BOY-O-RAMAShorts Screens: Wednesday, October 4th at 7pm Shorts include Seeing You in Circles (21 min), Intervention, The (15 min), Peking Turkey (13 min), nyc 2057ad (2 min), Available Men (15 min), Boy Wonder (12 min), Cabalerno (5 min), Davy and Stu (13 min) [info] [tickets] GypoDrama, Dir. Jan Dunn, 2005 Screens: Wednesday, October 4th at 7:15pm "Jan Dunn's emotionally charged debut feature Gypo, tells the story of Helen (well-known British actor Pauline McLynn) and......

Laurie Felker Jones, who serves as Field Director for NARAL Pro-Choice Texas and has worked on such political campaigns as Jennifer Kim's run for City Council, is included in The REAL Hot 100 for 2006. This list is the feminist answer to men's magazine's ranking of attractive women in pop culture (see Maxim). The REAL Hot 100 for this year includes three Austinites in all: Ms. Felker Jones, Amanda Marcotte of Pandagon.net, and Emilia......

Gay and Lesbian Pride Month continues this weekend with the Texas Pride Festival at Waterloo Park. The annual outdoor celebration brings together a bevy of artists, performers, local merchants and restaurants for an all-day celebration. The schedule of bands appears below: Noon: Manager's Choice 1pm: Lisa Richards ~ 2006 Kerrville New Folk Finalist 2pm: Lisa Rogers/Purly Gates ~ 2006 Kerrville New Folk Finalist 3pm: Flamin' Desire 4pm: Kit Holmes 5pm: Omar Lopez ~ 2006......

The 19th Annual Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (aGLIFF) is less than half a year away, and they're currently looking for submissions of LGBT films and videos, including features, shorts, documentaries and animations ("especially encouraged" are applications from "women, people of color, and southwest regional filmmakers"). They're also actively looking for volunteers to help out with putting it all together, whether your area of expertise is in PR, Film Programming, Web Apps Development, or......

The Austin Lesbian/Gay Political Caucus (ALGPC), whose mission is to "unite and organize Austin-area LGBT citizens and our friends and supporters in political action against all forms of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender expression," recently extended an opportunity to the Democratic candidates running in March's primary elections for ALGPC endorsement. Those seeking endorsements were asked to fill out a questionnaire, answering questions such as: Should you receive this endorsement, would you publicize......