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Promoting a hate group, Midtown icon to close and other top stories


By Johnny Trlica

Promoting a hate group, Midtown icon to close and other top stories

Sports have an uncanny way of uniting and helping cities recover from catastrophes. New York City had the Yankees after 9/11. Boston had the Red Sox after the marathon bombing. And now Houston has the Astros after Hurricane Harvey. Thank you, Astros!
Here is a bit of what we’ve been reading at HoustonRainbowHerald.com.

Trump addresses anti-LGBTQ hate group
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.†Maya Angelou made that robust statement. President Donald Trump has been showing his true colors (sorry, Cyndi Lauper) in relationship to the LGBTQ community all year. His latest move should come as no surprise.
The President spoke at the Values Voter Summit on October 13, making him the first sitting president to do so, reports LGBTQ Nation.com. The event was put on by the Family Research Council, whose anti-LGBTQ activism has earned them the designation of a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Attendees were given a swag bag which contained a flyer advertising what it called an “important new book†called The Hazards of Homosexuality, by the anti-LGBTQ group MassResistance. The flier blames the “sexual revolution and mainstreaming of homosexuality†for creating “a public health crisis affecting us all.â€
It specifically blames gay and bisexual men in particular as being responsible for the rise in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and warns of youth being “increasingly at risk by imitating dangerous ‘gay’ practices.â€
Sarah Kate Ellis, president and chief executive office of GLAAD, told BuzzFeed News,
“MassResistance is an identified hate group and Trump becoming the first sitting president to address this event is the latest example of a clear and disturbing pattern of using the presidency of the United States to promote and normalize hate speech.â€

Sunday Funday
October 8 was a monumental Sunday Funday even with loses by the Astros and Texans. The baseballers lost game three of their series with the Boston Red Sox but came back the following day to win the series, three games to one.
The footballers fell to Kansas City, 42-34, and lost J.J. Watt and Whitney Mercilus for the season.
But the weekend was not a complete wash out. Houston Leather Pride Weekend 2017 wrapped up at the Eagle Houston. The block party celebrating leather and those who love it (and who doesn’t?) took over Eagle Houston and the surrounding streets for three days of non-stop bear (or bare) fun!â€
Vendors present at the event included Leather Masters, Nasty Pig, Hollywood Super Center, EZ Wear, Impact Toys, Monkey & The Bee, Scentsy of Houston and Mistress Jennifer.
Tony’s Corner Pocket also celebrated its 11th anniversary. A live band performed while guests enjoyed cheap drinks and a Mexican style buffet. And since this is Tony’s, there was a strip show later in the evening.

Midtown Sears to shutter
“Time marches on and eventually you realize it’s marching across your face.†Dolly Parton’s Truvy uttered that memorable statement in 1989’s Steel Magnolias. In this instance, time is marching over the Sears store in Houston’s Midtown.
Last week, Rice Management Company, which is responsible for Rice University’s endowment, bought out the remaining 28 years of Sears’ lease and acquired about three contiguous acres owned by Sears, reports TheChron.com.
The store has been a staple to Montrose residents not keen on driving to the suburbs or Galleria and do not mind walking past the homeless and recently released psychiatric patients who roam the streets of Main, Richmond and Fannin.
Opened in 1939, the building is said to be the first in Houston to have an escalator. My Aunt
Vlasta told me her daughter Joyce worked in the store selling candies in the 1960s.

Opinion: NRA all about money and influence of power
HRH encourages readers to send us their views and opinions on any topic, LGBTQ related or not. Kirk Ritchey had some opinions on gun control and the Second Amendment after the Las Vegas shootings. Here is a snippet of what he wrote.
“The National Rifle Association (NRA) ‘owns’ both parties. They are the biggest lobbyist group in America. Do you know that during an NRA convention/meeting, guns are not allowed inside? That right there should tell you a lot. They don’t trust their own supporters not to shoot them in their own meetings; yet it’s ok for a mentally ill person or a child to have one? They do not care about lives; all they care about is money and influence of power.
“The NRA has blood on their hands. Every time they pay off a congressman to drop ‘common sense’ gun laws, that is blood on their hands.
“The NRA is excellent at marketing. They market themselves as ‘protectors of the 2nd Amendment’. However, they are there to help gun manufacturers. They care about profits of gun makers, at the expense of safety and lives.
“Every time a toddler shoots themselves by accident or a mass shooting takes place, the NRA should be guilty of murder. Even if some gun regulations saved just one person, it would be worth it. Of course gun restrictions would not stop this, but it would add one more layer of protection.
“Until then, the NRA, lobbyists, and Congress, you have blood on your hands from these and tens of thousands of other victims. Enough is enough!â€

For the latest LGBTQ news and current events in 2017, click on HoustonRainbowHerald.com. Johnny Trlica is the editor of the HoustonRainbowHerald.com, the Bayou City’s only daily LGBT internet newspaper. Contact him at HRHeditor@gmail.com.

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