Dandy Unicorn, former face of The Gay Place (Art by Lindsey Taylor) In the mid-Aughts, young Austin Chronicle journo Kate X Messer approached then- Chronicle 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.

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