Original Chron legend Kate X Messer talks 'Qmmunity' / 'The Gay Place' origins
publisher Louis Black at the office mailboxes with an idea. In Messer's recollection, the idea grew from two opposing forces in the queer atmosphere: 1) A blossoming of visibility from every letter in the LGBTQ alphabet – especially the T and Q factions – and 2) a frustrating lack of space and energy put toward covering the goings-on of that burgeoning social set. Messer remembers explaining what was soon to become"The Gay Place" as a solution to a problem she saw all over Texas.
"The Gay Place" – so named to tribute Billy Lee Brammer's tri-novella masterpiece on Texas politics – had a dedicated audience, who made their voices heard when the column was, in Messer's words, cannibalized into the wider event listings. Constant change was the name of the game, at least while writing for an alt-weekly newspaper."There wasn't any vision, I don't think," Messer says of"The Gay Place" format,"other than doing what we could ...
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