Queerbomb in the News

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Queerbomb

6/3/2011

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]

One Big Gay Happy Family?

6/3/2011

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]

Queerbomb Takes the Place of Austin Pride This Year

6/3/2011

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]

QueerBomb/Pride Roundtable: Extended Remix

6/2/2011

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]

Austin to hold gay Pride a week before Dallas in September, but QueerBomb goes off Friday

6/2/2011

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]

Gay rally, parade fills June void left by Pride's move to fall

6/1/2011

by Joshunda Sanders
www.austin360.com

Austin's Changing Pride

4/22/2011

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]

Austin Pride and QueerBomb drop dates for 2011

4/21/2011

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]

Dissent Means Austin Gets Two Prides

6/8/2010

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]

Long Live QueerBomb

6/7/2010

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]

Queer Bomb at 501 Studios

6/5/2010

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]

Austin Gay Pride vs. Queerbomb

6/4/2010

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]

Will a Queer Bomb destroy Austin in 2010?

6/4/2010

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]

I Am QueerBomb. I Am Austin Pride.

6/4/2010

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]

Split Pride: Gay Event Plans Marred by Tension

6/4/2010

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]

Dropping a QueerBomb on Austin Gay Pride

6/3/2010

by John Wright
Dallas Voice

Many North Texans will undoubtedly be heading south to Austin this weekend for our capital city’s Pride celebration. But before you head out, you may just want to read up on some major drama that’s apparently going on behind the scenes. [...more]

Austin Has a Queer Bomb

6/3/2010

by andycampy
FeastofFun.com blog

There’s a Shitstorm a Brewin’ in Austin, Texas.

That liberal bastion in a big, fat (and by fat I mean politically obese), red state is going through some growing pains when it comes to their LGBTQI citizens and this year’s pride. [...more]

Split Pride, Unified Chronicle

6/3/2010

by Ricky Hill
Austin Chronicle's The Gay Place blog

It feels very edifying to have our brothers and sisters over in the Politics Department and elsewhere on staff covering stories like this. [... more]

The Cost of Pride

6/3/2010

by Andy Campbell
Austin Chronicle's The Gay Place blog

With all this ballyhoo about Pride and QueerBomb, a central tension has arisen from the preoccupation with something called The Gay Dollar. The Gay Dollar is, for anyone wishing to know, the shorthand for market analysis on those LGBTQI persons with disposable incomes. But I'm worried about a different "Gay Dollar" … [... more]

Not just one way to salute gay pride

6/1/2010

by Michael Barnes
Austin360.com Out & About blog

Who owns gay pride? Or, more to the point, who owns the Austin tributes to the Stonewall Riots of June 1969, which ignited the modern gay movement? [... more]