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You know who’s funny? Drag performers! So it’s a no brainer to catch this storytelling series that’s running all June-long, where each show features a special guest drag artist telling their tales along with a cast of stellar local improv comics. He-he, haw-haw, and all that.

Stories matter: how we tell them, who we tell them about, and who does the actual telling. Join trans advocate Kanoa Arteaga – creator of Abundant Masculinities, a project providing space for men and transmasculine folks to address patriarchal wounds and create new, healthier models of masculinity – at a special writing sesh for trans and intersex folks to be the masters of their own narratives. Reconnect with your story, expand the memoir canon, find community and maybe even a little healing. Writers and non-writers of all levels are welcome; cisgender/non-intersex allies are encouraged to show their support by donating. – Jasmine Lane

Celebrate the end of Pride Month with a display of Austin’s multidisciplinary queer talent: a market with over 30 vendors put on by Future Front Texas; the Little Gay Shop hosting an all-ages tie-dyeing pop-up; a drag n’ draw with Skechers Drawing Club; a plant swap from Black Trans Leadership Austin; friendship bracelet making with Future Front; and improv exercises with the Gay Agenda. DJ Kickit will be spinning tunes, and you can either get your day buzz on or sample a bevy of nonalcoholic bevvies from Dear Dry Drinkery, JuiceLand, and Brother Friend coffee – all to wash down a delicious lobster roll from Garbo’s, tacos from Mariachi’s food truck, and sno-cones from SnoRide. – Lina Fisher

Here’s two chances to get your hair done and help out LGBTQ folks in need of financial assistance. All ages, cuts, and textures welcome, with proceeds benefiting local queer health heroes Kind Clinic.

Proving once again that our Sapphic community is the brains of the whole queer community, Austin’s annual Dyke March has moved to the much-more tolerably weathered fall season – a move also made to allow new leadership time to settle into their roles. In lieu of that event, they’re throwing a big ol’ splash at Chups so everyone can still enjoy the Susan Sontag Memorial water slide. So bring your partner, your friends, your situationship, and cool off among fellow dykes. Water you waiting for? – James Scott

Local bookers Howdy Gals go all out this Pride with a queer-centric lineup on the newest Radio Coffee stage that’ll scare away any Sunday anxieties quick. Catch Half Dream, Plum Tongue, Middle Sattre (June 9), Pony Sopprano, Virginia Creeper, Pelvis Wrestley (June 16), Onsim E, Cormae, Teal Waves (June 23), and a soon-to-be-announced June 30 lineup. Plus: queer vendors!

The host herself – Erica Nix, star of screen, sweating, and shows in MASS Gallery’s yard – warns that this pool party sells out quick. That means if you’re interested in getting wild and weird in the water, if you’re a real aqua aerobics all-star, if you love to get really really wet, then don’t spend another second reading this event listing! Jump on that wheezing ol’ laptop of yours and log on to Austin Motel dot com to claim your spot. If you’re too slow, well. Lucky you this is an every-Sunday type of deal. – James Scott

Biased as I am toward video rental nonprofit We Luv Video – that’s right; I pay $10 a month to rent Beverly Hills Cop instead of buying it on iTunes – their new SunGAYS screening series is factually cool. Cutting through the easy queer cinema choices such as But I’m a Cheerleader or To Wong Foo, these movie mavens pull Nineties sci-fi passion project Vegas in Space for the series’ inaugural show. Plot? Rare gems go missing on a ladies-only planet, and three Earth soldier boys must disguise themselves as women to help hunt the stones down. Bold, beautiful, and totally drag-tastic, this is the perfect bow on your Pride month schedule. – James Scott

Keep it Sun-GAY at We Luv Video with a screening of the cosmically camp Vegas In Space. WLV describes the film thusly: "After rare gems in a distant women's-only planet go missing, a group of male soldiers must change sex to save the galaxy."

As country legend Alan Jackson likes to say, “Way down yonder on the Chattahoochee, it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie.” We’re hundreds of miles from there, but since it’s just as hot here, let’s pop on our cowboy boots and waterski! Or at least line dance poolside at Austin Motel’s oasis on South Congress. Boi Orbison brings the good-time music for this Neon Rainbows summer spectacular, and Owie and Lawrie Bird return to host along with the notorious Lady Bull Johnson. As they say, “Ride the bull, ride the wave, beat the heat.” Free with RSVP, boot-scooters! – Kat McNevins

Austin's longest-running queer storytelling event greets Pride month with a special all-trans-and-nonbinary lineup for the theme Gender Reveal. ASL interpreters help make the stories available for all.

First, you load up on swag, goodies, and more at the annual Austin Pride festival, and second, you cheer and clap for the flamboy- ant floats from local queer- and ally-run orgs in the Pride Parade. Perfect day!

Austin’s oldest and queerest film festival returns every year with the best in movies made for and by the LGBTQ community – and beyond!