by Joshunda Sanders
www.austin360.com

The annual Pride Parade and Festival, which would normally take place this month, is moving to September. But Queerbomb, a local gay and lesbian collective, will hold its second annual parade Friday from the East Side Drive-In on East Sixth Street to Congress Avenue and back. [more]

by Chase Martin

therepubliq.com

Just six weeks before the Pride Month of June, both of Austin's pride organizations, the Austin Gay & Lesbian Pride Foundation and QueerBomb, announced dates for their 2011 Pride parties this past week... [... more]

by Kate X Messer

Austin Chronicle

PRIDE PUSHED ASIDE? AWOL TILL FALL? It's a pretty big rock you are lounging under – or perhaps you are just one of the last 12 non-Facebook holdouts – if you did not see the dual announcements this week from Austin's two premier LGBT(QIA) celebrations... [... more]

by Kilian Melloy
Edge on the Net

Austin, Texas saw two Pride parades this year. One was the official event, organized by the Austin Gay and Les­bian Pride Foundation; the other was a breakaway event put together by QueerBomb, a group that accused the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce of being "non-inclusive, capitalist, heteronormative, safe and unchallenging." [... more]

by Steven Cheslik-DeMeyer
The Bilerico Project

My favorite sign at last Friday's "QueerBomb," the alternative pride march in Austin, Texas, was, "STONEWALL WAS A RIOT, NOT A TRADE SHOW." [... more]

by Michael Barnes
Austin360.com Out & About blog

A carnival mood attended the Queer Bomb assembly at 501 Studios on Friday. An hour before the alternative procession began, folks in costume gathered inside and nearby the versatile facility at Brushy and East Fifth streets. Familiar themes — modified uniforms, theatrical drag, all sorts of gender bending — proliferated. Freshest to me were women tufted with fur who formed “Clan of the Cave Queer." [... more]

by Erika Aguilar
KUT

Austin Pride President Chad Peevy says that the celebration has become accepted by the wider community. He attributes much of that to the efforts of the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, which has worked to make a family-friendly event that’s welcoming to everyone, while still getting out a message. [...more]

by Chris Apollo Lynn
Republic of Austin blog

Hide your women. Lock your doors. There’s a parade of rainbow-loving freaks, geeks, fairies and trannies marching into our fair town, and it’s causing quite a commotion. Nope, I’m not talking about the Phish fans descending on Austin for ACL Fest 2010. I’m talking about the Queer Bomb. [... more]

by Kate X Messer
Austin Chronicle

How queer is your Pride? How Austin is your bomb?

For many, 2010 will mark a year of great growing pains for Pride celebrations in Austin. It's the year the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce decided to move away from one of the best Pride celebrations Austin had ever seen (2009) by ignoring the lessons of history, dismantling the progress that did occur, and reinventing the wheel. As a result, many people were hurt, many differing opinions were dismissed, and many livelihoods were challenged, despite AGLCC's purported mission to represent the earning interest of Austin LGBT, members or not. The harm done by this sort of community fracturing is not irreparable. At any time, anyone in that organization who wants to step up and address the community as the constituency it was entrusted to serve – as opposed to a ripe market, ready for the plucking – the community will embrace. [... more]

by Richard Whittaker
Austin Chronicle

Gay pride weekend marred by tension

One goal of gay pride celebrations has always been to bring the range of LGBT communities and their straight allies together under one banner. This year, several local groups and artists say they have found themselves not so welcome in the planning for this weekend's Austin Pride events. [... more]