Nikki of Total Trash wrote me to share the following news of an AWESOME event happening soon in Portland, OR: The Not Enough! Queer Music and Arts Festival is presenting the Night Of Possibilities on June 11th starting at 8 p.m. at the Fleetwood Shac (127 NE Lombard). The Not Enough! Queer Music and Arts [...]
Psych-garage outfit and riot grrrl/queercore Olympia scene vets Broken Water are playing San Francisco on Friday (tomorrow!) at Fivepoints Arthouse (72 Tehama St.). While I will be unable to make it to the show (boooooooooo!), YOU should go! If you aren’t in the Bay Area, you can still catch them on their West Coast tour [...]
Milo from the Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP) wrote in to share some info about an upcoming event in Milwaukee: On the weekend of October 22nd through October 24th, A Broader Vocabulary Collective and QZAP present Girls to the Front Fest. Girls to the Front Fest is a three-day event dedicated to the legacy and [...]
This is a really rad festival happening in Portland on September 18th and 19th. Total DIY ethos, going back to the golden days of punk rock where you didn’t have to be a ‘musician’ to be in a band. And it’s totally queer! There’s a tiny chance my new band might be playing, but we’re [...]
The Bash Back! Queer Convergence (May 27-30th, Denver, CO) is about a lot more than music (free hormones, housing, food, lit, and childcare and sessions featuring self-defense training, amazing queer films, “how to make porn” workshops, sex worker panel and practicum and–my personal favorite–”scheduling and coordination that puts the punk back in punctual,” and more!), [...]
I stopped by Goteblud zine shop on Saturday to check out the new Popstitutes show that was opening later that evening. Matt Wobensmith, the shop’s proprietor and former Outpunk zinester, was busy stapling and collating and putting a lot of love into thick stacks of paper that were being folded into one-off zines about the [...]
Jenn from Council of Lions was Soul Ponies’ eyes and ears this weekend at the NW QUEERCORE 2010 show in Seattle, WA. She wrote in with a most excellent account of what sounds like an evening of gayhem. Read on… Okay, I’m gonna be honest: I didn’t realize that there was even a current queercore [...]
Listen, we all know that all you lucky, Austin-bound jerks are going to be spending a majority of SXSW making eyes at anything with a pulse. Let’s up your chances of getting in some quality necking with a hot queer or two by talking about what shows you should go to that feature LGBT artists [...]
