"A body found near the University of Texas campus this morning is that of perennial mayoral candidate Jennifer Gale, Austin fire officials said. Ms. Gale, 47, a transgendered homeless former Marine, had run unsuccessfully for numerous public offices in Austin and Dallas….Ms. Gale gained fame in Austin by repeatedly running for multiple offices, including mayor, City Council, governor and Congress. Ms. Gale was also known for attending municipal hearings where she presented arguments in song. She planned to run for Austin mayor in 2009." [Dallas News]
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo had to play bad cop with some of his colleagues this week. The copper, who took over his post last July, suspended one veteran and fired another after the former took some jabs at lesbian cadets. The latter failed to report the incident. The city's Police Association, meanwhile, accuses Acevedo of "financial blackmail" by giving the officer's an ultimatum: lengthy suspension or their badge. [Statesman]
Oilcan Harry’s, The Silver Spur Saloon; they may not sound like anything a cowboy would find on Brokeback Mountain, and yet they are faggot watering holes in Austin, Texas. The same city is home to a bar called The Rainbow Cattle Company; how utterly queer, and wonderful. Austin even hosts two Splash Days events at the beginning and end of every summer providing gay revelers with a reminder of what water sports actually are.
As reported last week on Queerty, the KKK is planning a rally in Austin on November 5 to show its support for an amendment to the Texas state constitution that would ban both civil unions and the normalization of marriage for homosexual persons. Texas already has a law prohibiting marriage for gays, but a-hole rednecks want to forestall the possibility of an enlightened judge overturning the law. Countering the KKK and other a-hole rednecks this coming Saturday will be a group opposed to the amendment, No Nonsense in November.
Amid fears that the two groups could come to blows, the KKK released a statement including this phrase. “We certainly don’t want any of our people hurt nor any city officials.” The failure to include gay people and other opponents of the amendment in those they don’t wish to see hurt is as glaring as a burning cross. Rosa Parks has hardly been buried, but already she has reason to be turning in her grave. That beauty in the image, by the way, is drag diva Lauren Taylor, a one-time Miss Gay Austin.
Talk about a white party!
The city of Austin has granted permission for the KKK to hold an anti-gay rally November 5, on the south plaza of the city hall.
The KKK, Kooky Kunts in Kostume, are known for their poetic irony. For instance, their web site home page says that they are “Proclaiming a message of hope and deliverance for white Christian America.” A Jew interviewed at random on the streets of Manhattan first thanked Madonna for popularizing the Kabala and then asked “What am I, chopped liver?”
Meanwhile, to prepare for the November 5 white party, you can go to the Kooky Kunts on-line store. They have books demonstrating incontrovertibly that Charles Darwin was an utter nincompoop, and tastefully appliquéd t-shirts that will have you burning your Dolce and Gabbana. Those of you who disagree with Queerty’s pro-Kooky Kunts stance may go to the American Family Association website to send them an FU valentine.
