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aim to tackle what the queer space of Austin is right now before it becomes just a memory.With gentrification being as hot a topic as it always has been in Austin, Varnell, Chiu, and Yap all maintain that the documentary is not an “us vs them” narrative. Instead they intend to document and explore Austin’s current queer scene, as well as how and who gets to influence that.
All three have lived in the city for varying lengths of time, Chiu having stayed here the longest at 12 going on 13 years. Chiu says that going to spaces like Red River fixturegave her permission to engage with queer nightlife in a way she hadn’t before. “It's been really cool to see our city actually have a bigger queer presence,” she says. “Especially since my early years here, even though Austin's gay, it still wasn't as accepting.
To Varnell, whose seven years in Austin have included photo and video work for the local queer scene, her perspective changed around the opening of. With that space and the longer-established Cheer Ups, she says the vibe of Austin is more queer than specifically gay or lesbian. “[It’s] not like in other cities where you go to a certain part of New York and it's all the gay bars,” Varnell explains.
Both Chiu and Yap are UT-Austin grads, with Yap having graduated in 2020. She says that the post-vaccine rush of 2021 was the first time she dipped into Austin’s queer nightlife scene and, having only come out as queer herself a few years prior, she says seeing folks being so unapologetically themselves helped her come into herself.
“Once the news about the redevelopment of Fourth came out, there was a lot of uproar,” Yap recalls, “And it wasn't necessarily from the businesses themselves, because they kind of knew about it ahead of time, but it was from the community.” Hearing the outcry from community members at Historic Preservation hearings as well as directly from folks like
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