[Editor's note: The Gay Place has a new blogger. Please welcome LGBT-ally, college student (Go, Bobcats!), San Marcan Jordan Gass-Pooré who will write from these perspectives and some others that are uniquely her own.]

Rachel Maddow shames Drudge Report readers, Sophia Bush makes the haters eat it, and Andrea Peyser invents some gay friends. Today’s AggreGAYtor knows that with great power comes great responsibility.

Tributes and celebrations are planned all over the country. The Smithsonian has re-opened the exhibit containing her home kitchen for the next two weeks at the National Museum of American History, and PBS is sponsoring a 10-day, multi-platform initiative with public interaction.

Former Travis County Medical Examiner Roberto Bayardo says his testimony in the 1998 capital trial of Rodney Reed for the sexual assault and killing of Stacey Stites was misconstrued by prosecutors to suggest a solid timeline for Stites' death, and to prove that Reed had sexually assaulted Stites. But that, he now says, is not at all what he found.

I'm not gonna do it.

After two terms on the Austin Independent School District Board of Trustees, Board President Mark Williams has announced that he is not running for re-election this November.

South by Southwest Music Festival Creative Director Brent Grulke, 51, died of a heart attack this morning following oral surgery. A pillar of the Austin music community starting at UT's Daily Texan and later the Chronicle, he went from writing about local bands to working for them and finally booking thousands of them and more at SXSW.

Who better to write about the pussy than a gay man who's never interacted with one? Let's have a riot with some of my personal favorites.

Festival happenings past and present, a local casting call, and movies that need your monies to get made.