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by Travis Sandoval

Austinist.com

This Friday, Queerbomb will be making a radical queer blast on the streets of Austin. The event begins at 7:00pm at the East Side Drive In for a rally and pre-procession entertainment, followed by a march down 6th street, and several affiliated parties around town. [more]

by Kate X Messer

The Austin Chronicle

Members of QueerBomb, Austin's renegade counter-Pride, and members of the official Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation board agreed to sit down together in the offices of The Austin Chronicle last week. Last year, the relationship between the two organizations – as well as Austin Pride's with this paper, at various times – was contentious (to say the least). The agreement to meet felt, needless to say, significant. [more]

from Gayapolis.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 Kate X Messer
The Austin Chronicle

Members of QueerBomb, Austin's renegade counter-Pride, and members of the official Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation board agreed to a sit-down together in the offices of The Austin Chronicle last week. This felt monumental. Last year, the relationship between the two organizations – as well as Austin Pride's with this paper, at various times – was contentious (to say the least). Trust always feels monumental when it re-emerges after a period of distrust. [more]

by John Write

The Dallas Voice

Austin’s official gay Pride celebration has been moved from June to September this year, but an alternative “take back Pride” event called QueerBomb, which began last year, is set for this Friday in the capital. [more]

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]