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Tops & BoTToms We appreciate anyonewho has a solid preference for tops or bottoms.We, however, can’t choose. We like themboth so much! So here is our list of lists for2012. Online, the Gay Place blog (austinchronicle.com/gay) burbles over with even more tip-to-tailgoodness, including krewe members’ individuallists. Check online for the full batch, and watchas our blog stretches into 2013. Also! Pleasecome out this weekend and say howdy to ourkrewe in the pasty or ashy flesh as we take tothe Eastside streets in a new lusty Mardi Graskickoff tradition called 12th Night Austin (seeSaturday). If you’d like to join our walking krewe,email us at gayplace@austinchronicle.com. We’ll sendyou a Facebook invite that elucidates on ourrighteous theme (super secret: see pic).on our GaydarMARGARET WRIGHT Come see why they named thestage in her honor. Alternating Fridays, 7-9pm. Rusty’s,405 E. Seventh. Free.SONYA JEVETTE Soulful Dallas sister hypnotizes withvibrato and vibe. Fri., Jan. 4, 9:30-11:30pm. Rusty’s,405 E. Seventh, 482-9002. Free. www.sonyajevette.com.12TH NIGHT AUSTIN Austin kicks off the Mardi Grasseason with this first-ever procession (from CocoCoquette/Maison d’Etoile), coronation (vote online fora king and queen now!), and afterparty (at the Blackheart,where they’re pulling out the big guns: KOOP’sTom Mahnke from the Fais-Do-Do Show!). Follow thestar! Find the baby! Sat., Jan. 5, 7pm. Maison d’Etoile,2109 E. Cesar Chavez; the Black heart, 86 Rainey.www.12thnightaustin.com, www.blackheartbar.com.SNOW BUNNY If you missed Lady Bunny at thisyear’s Austin Pride, here’s your chance to see her veritablelaugh-in, winter-style. Sat., Jan. 5, 10pm &12mid. Oilcan Harry’s, 211 W. Fourth. Free.www.oilcanharrys.com/ComingEvents.html.GRRLZ WILL BE BOIZ Meet the GWBB crew hereonce a month. First Sundays, 5-7pm. Rusty’s,405 E. Seventh. Free. www.grrlzwillbeboiz.com.PFLAG NORTH Meet and greet with allies in thecause of love. Second Tuesday of every month,6:45pm. Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Church,3315 El Salido, Cedar Park. Free. www.pflagaustin.org.GIRLFRIEND PRESENTS DJ S.I.R. hits the wheels.Second Thursdays. Cheer Up Charlie’s, 1104 E. Sixth.Free. www.facebook.com/girlfriendatx.PROPOSE A TOAST(MASTER) Come zhoosh yourpublic speaking and communication skills. Secondand fourth Mondays, 6pm. Rusty’s, 405 E. Seventh.www.aglcc.org/toastmasters.ho-riZonPOO POO PLATTER: POST APOOPCALYPSE Comedressed to poop for Annie DePressant’s costume contest.DJs Mouth feel and Dren Pasht will have youhoofin’ like constipated chickens. Fri., Jan. 11, 10pm.Elysium, 705 Red River. $3.TOP NATIONAL GAY 10 OF 20121) U.S. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPOR-TUNITY COMMISSION RULES AGAINSTGENDER IDENTITY DISCRIMINATION Booya.2) “TRANSGENDER” NO LONGER A MENT-AL DISORDER according to the AmericanPsychiatric Association.3) SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VALIDATIONMaine, Maryland, and Wisconsinlegalized it, and California’sProposition 8BY kATe XGAYPLACEwas deemedunconstitutional.4) HONEY BOOBOO VALIDATIONShe loves us –she really, reallyloves us.5) SENATORTAMMY BALDWINCongrats, Wisconsin!You’ve delivered ournation’s first openlygay senator!6) PRESIDENT OBAMAAFFIRMS HIS SUPPORT OF GAYMARRIAGE Hope evolved.7) ANDERSON COOPER CAME OUT Rrrawr!8) TEXAS REP. MARY GONZALEZ ANDSEVEN LGBT REPS IN CHAMBER These lastelections may not have flipped our Lone StarState from red to blue, but it sure is a lot pinkerand more glittery.9) QUEERLYMPICS Brassy Megan Rapinoefan fiction goes for the gold.10) KRISTY MCNICHOL COMES OUT If youlived through the 1970s, you understand thesignificance of this.TOP LOCAL GAY 10 OF 20121) AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL Our hometown publiclydeclared support for same-sex marriage.2) BETTIE NAYLOR STREET Bettie paved theway. ’Tis a fitting tribute.3) AUSTIN PRIDE The AGLPF slathered oursundae with dark chocolate and rainbow sprinkles,then topped it all off with some deliciousnasty Peaches. We’re still licking our chops.Best. Pride. Ever.4) GAY-FIL-A The sweet allies at Johnnye’sfood trailer politely told Chick-fil-A to bite it.5) CHEER UP CHARLIE’S HANGS IN THEREWhat noise ordinance? Stay tuned.6) POLARI Austin’s newly rebranded gay film fest:A rose by any other name may smell sweeter.MesseRLISTINGS7) OBAMA COMES TO AUSTIN ANDTHERE’S AN LGBT TIP Thank ObamaLeadership Circle mama and Texas trans-activistMeghan Stabler.8) THE LAST GAY BI GAY GAY If you’regonna go out, go out with Rusty Laser, NickyDa B, and John Cameron Mitchell … But oh,wait, this wasn’t the last one after all.Stay tuned.9) AUSTIN DRAG RENAISSANCE Wedon’t want to name names (Poo PooPlatter, United Court, Ms. Trix,Babtist Women, Ms. Killingspree,KNT, Ms. Kline …), but thereare some busy li’l bees in anemergent and wildly diversearray of bonnets in the ATX.10) ’BOUT TIME II OPENSThe crew at the original BTdidn’t even give us a chanceto miss the first one.BOTTOM GAY 10 OF 20121) SUMMER OF CHICK-FIL-AWho knew that America’s summerculture war would be so stomachchurning,yet so delicious, all at once?2) MARK REGNERUS An academic audit ofRegnerus’s hotly touted (mostly by right-wingers)data found it lacking. The UT academic himselfadmitted it too weak to warrant the conclusionsmade by so many anti-gay zealots.3) BERNADETTE’S CLOSED We are bereft.4) UNITED WAY CUTS made AIDS Servicesof Austin, Project Transitions, and so manyothers suffer.5) RICK PERRY To reiterate what put him inour Bottom (umm …) last year: Do we reallyneed to annotate this? National stage =national joke.6) PUSSY RIOT Free Pussy Riot!7) THE LAST GAY BI GAY GAY Should wefeel jerked around that it really wasn’t the lastone, after all? No. We should party.8) BOY SCOUTS OUST DEN MOTHERJENNIFER TYRELL Can’t a lesbian mom justlead her den in peace?9) JAMES DOBSON BLAMES SANDYHOOK ON GAYS And the world says, “WTF?”and “hell no!”10) UGANDA ‘KILL THE GAYS’ BILL STILLPUSHING FORWARD And hopefully, the worldwill step up and say, “WTF?” and “hell no!”Many thanks to Brandon Watson and JordanGass-Pooré for contributing to these lists. Seemore online at: austinchronicle.com/gayWHERE CANMETRORAILTAKE ME THISWEEKEND?AMOA-ARTHOUSE Feast youreyes on good art in the new year, with the strangeand glorious soundsuits of Nick Cave’s ‘Hiding inPlain Sight’ and the relentless invention of AustiniteAndy Coolquitt’s ‘Attainable Excellence.’ Bothshows: Extended through Feb. 24. 700 Congress,453-5312. www.amoa-arthouse.org.THE HEADLINERS OFCOMEDY The Velveeta Room invades thebig stage at Esther’s Pool with a line-up of someof the best stand-ups in town: Bob Biggerstaff,Kerry Awn, Mike MacRae, Matt Sadler, and yourmaster of ceremonies Dana Smith. Jan. 4-5. Fri.,8pm; Sat., 8 & 10pm. Esther’s Pool, 525 E. Sixth,320-0553. $10-20. www.esthersfollies.com.VIDEO GAMES LIVE The AustinSymphony is joined by composers from the worldof gaming to play the hits from games like Journey,Red Dead Redemption, and a smattering of tunesfrom the classic era. The synchronized video footagekeeps the kids’ attention spans in check.Sat., Jan. 5, 7:30pm. Long Center for the PerformingArts, 701 W. Riverside, 457-5100. $30-60.www.videogameslive.com.GO DOWNTOWN.Friday & Saturday‘til midnightPlan your trip at capmetro.org/metroraila u s t i n c h r o n i c l e . c o m JANUARY 4, 2013 T H E A U S T I N C H R O N I C L E 49