Everyone in Austin has a crazy, sexual story about Texas state governor and former republican presidential candidate Rick Perry.

People of all political affiliations hate this guy, so there’s a lot of pressure to come up with dirt on him even before he ran “Strong” his anti-gay campaign ad and YouTube’s most hated video.

Are any of the rumors true, or is this just a way people handle corrupt, sleazy leaders like Perry?

Joining us is talk show host Stephen Rice, who has been anchoring OutCast Austin, KOOP’s local community LGBT radio program for over three years.

Will someone please turn this into a Showgirls sequel?

Stephen recently interviewed Republican Robert Morrow who ran the infamous “Have You Ever Had Sex with Rick Perry?” ad in the Austin Chronicle and Glenn Maxey, the state’s first openly gay representative about the governor’s secret sex life.

Listen as we talk about Austin’s diverse LGBT community and Stephen shares his thoughts on the stories, truths and myths on Texas’s notorious governor Rick Perry.

Plus–

Willemgate scandal! Find out the ultimate crime Willem did to get unceremoniously kicked off this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race.

And Madonna keeps her upcoming show in St. Petersburg and joins the fight for gay rights in Russia.

Featured Music:
Jackie Beat – Gimme All Your Blood: Youtube

This video has gone viral and Twitter especially is aflame with shock over what appears to be Aransas County Court-At-Law Judge William Adams viciously beating his 16-year-old daughter with a belt for using the internet against his instructions.  This Reddit thread is encouraging people to contact his office and the local media for investigation and confirmation of the events depicted in this video.

December 2010 Vlog; FAQ #1. Discussing sex, gender and sexual orientation.

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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.

Gay Pride Parade in Austin Texas, 2009 - photo by Tiger Boy Angel

Here’s the deal: This year, as in recent years past, Austin’s “official” Pride celebrations are being run by the Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (AGLCC). Unlike year’s past there’s a new entity which is doing god-knows-what called the Austin Gay and Lesbian Pride Foundation (AGLPF).

Funnily enough the boards of the two organizations look mighty similar. You can see where this is going, right? Sometimes the AGLCC’s version of Pride is inclusive and lovely – as it was last year – and sometimes it feels a little… vampiric. And not the sparkly Twilight kind of vampires who ignore their personal hygiene just enough to be cute. Vampiric as in the current manifestation of the AGLCC is obsessed with something called “The Gay Dollar”. Oh, and gay meaning gay and lesbian, not bi, not trans, not queer, not intersex.

Go to the AGLCC’s website and see images well-heeled Gs and Ls lounging around BoConcept. You would be forgiven for thinking all Austin queers are wealthy people who have a soft spot for luxury furniture. As is made painfully clear by many in the AGLCC they couldn’t give a shit about “bisexuals and transvestites.” Add to this, egregious and petty abuses of power and strikingly conservative views from the leadership of AGLCC over the past year. The org wants to make a “family-friendly” Pride as in years past, but the idea of family is conventional and feels like a cover to disclude any whose gender manifestation is anything but normative.

Keep It in Good Taste

Marc Felion, Christeene, Fausto Fernos

At a meeting for the Pride march and festival participants were told to “keep it in good taste”. That’s classy, not Qlassy.

And now, in response a counter-group has arisen, more concept than organization, called QueerBomb. The ethos of QueerBomb, in their own words:

“QueerBomb is a flash Force assembly of LGBTQIA individuals within the community who have found the current strategy and structure of Austin Pride to be non-inclusive, capitalist, heteronormative, safe and unchallenging.QueerBomb has been assembled with boisterous urgency in organizing a counter ‘Pride’ procession that carries a strong Queer message to the streets of Downtown Austin reclaiming the radical, carnal and transgressive lineage of our ever changing community, while celebrating every facet and form of our people as a unique and vibrant whole.”

QueerBomb, unlike the AGLCC has no head or endless committees. All the events held by QueerBomb are free for everyone – gawkers, nonproftis, participants. It’s people – excited that they’re queer! It’s even questionable if QueerBomb has a permit to march at this point, but march they will! Chanting Dadaist phrases and singing songs by Erasure, or The Itsy Bitsy Spider, or whatever! The goal is to reach for radical inclusivity by making the events accessible – anyone can participate.

In many ways, those of you from bigger cities would be shocked at what I’m saying – even the official Austin Pride in comparison to the big city Prides elsewhere might seem provincial and grassroots-y. But to this scrappy town earnestness and community-building still matter a whole hell of a lot more to people than corporate sponsorship and tracking how GL folks spend their disposable incomes. At least in this town – minds and bodies are split this year.

Here’s a links roundup so you can do a little digging yourself:

• Queerbomb
• Austin Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce
• Austin Pride
• The Austin Chronicle Pride Guide by Kate Messer

Three blog posts from the Austin Chronicle’s GayPlace:

• A Queer Renaissance?
• The Cost of Pride
• Mind Your Ts and Qs
• The Austin American Statesman on Pride v. Queerbomb

Watch out! Christeene is driving her way to you.

Paul Soileau’s drag character is exploding across the South, exploding onstage with her back up dancers as they spill out a hot mix of raw sexual shamlessness and original rap music. Is it too much to say that Christneene might replace Britney Spears as the new pop sensation from Louisiana?

Today we continue our shows from the heart of Texas with gender bending drag terrorist Paul Soileau. Paul shares with us his journey becoming both the outrageous Christeene and his other drag alter-ego, the more conservative Rebbecca Havemeyer.

Listen as Paul chats with us about Christeene’s chaotic sensibilities, his videos banned from YouTube that are making sites like Funny or Die rich, and the crazy things they eat in the bayou.

Plus hot news:

A prankster overtakes WallMart’s intercom system, announcing “all black people must leave immediately.”

Ampo, Indonesia’s soil snack food, eaten for generations in the village of Tuban, really is soil baked into squares. It’s eaten as a painkiller and to improve the skin of developing babies. Will we see it at Whole Foods anytime soon?

And Prinny the little cat from Australia that learned how to swim.

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Featured Music:
Christeene – Soldier of Pleasure EP: Site

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Last Friday, Oct 3, 2008 I had an informal meet-up with some of the listeners who live in Austin, Texas at the Taco Cabana on MLK. Here’s the group photo! More after the jump.