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HRH Report

A cancer diagnosis can wreak havoc on lives

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month  By Johnny Trlica   Commentary: October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sure, I could tell you how each year about 264,000 cases of breast cancer is diagnosed in women and about 2,400 in men in the United States. Yes, men can get breast cancer. About 42,000 women and

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Celebrity Feature

Tuc Watkins on Queer TV, Then and Now 

The ‘Desperate Housewives’ star uncouples from Neil Patrick Harris in a new Netflix series  By Chris Azzopardi  Tuc Watkins hasn’t just seen how gay relationships have evolved on television — he’s been a part of that evolution. On “Desperate Housewives,” Watkins portrayed one half of gay couple Bob and Lee, who became residents of Wisteria

  • October 4, 2022
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Across the Causeway

Galveston readies for coming festival season 

Ghosts, Goblins, Witches and Hollow-weenies   By Forest Riggs  Though the weather does not indicate it, fall is here and with it comes a lot of activity on Galveston Island.   Once again it is “BOO!” time on the island. Galvestonians love Halloween and enjoy all the fun that comes with it. This is the time

  • October 4, 2022
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Positive Thoughts

My HIV Cure Trial 

In this essay, Tom Perrault recounts his journey toward hopefully controlling HIV without medication  By Tom Perrault  “Oh, I have a study that you’re going to join,” my doctor, Lisa Sterman, MD, MPH, said to me almost flippantly. It was August 27, 2020, and I had gone to see her in San Francisco for my

  • October 4, 2022
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What a Word

The wrong stuff for the right person 

By Nancy Ford  If you have been a frequent or even occasional What a World reader for the last 34+ years, you probably know that my relationship with relationships — the serious, long-term type — has been somewhat spotty.   First, thank you for reading. I appreciate and marvel at your dedication to this relationship more

  • October 4, 2022
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Deep Inside Hollywood

Turn it to Tig in the ‘Morning’ 

By Romeo San Vicente  Cross prestige television’s serious-minded exploration of real-life issues with messy, back-stabbing, workplace soap antics and you have the not-so-secretly trashy, exceptionally entertaining Apple TV+ series, “The Morning Show.” And going into its third season, the world-building that involves famous media faces deeply mired in personal hypocrisies can only benefit from adding

  • October 4, 2022
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Op–Ed

STATE OF THE SENATE | Will Democrats retain a majority?

By Colby Etherton  With midterm elections just over a month away, the campaign trail is heating up and the plethora of political ads are about to come crashing in. Conventional wisdom is that in a midterm cycle, the party that is not in the White House tends to gain seats in both the House and

  • October 4, 2022
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Paula Dream

New flavors and old favorites 

By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood)   Well, here we are in the fall season. I think we have all been awaiting some cooler weather as we embark upon the holiday season…already!  My old shoebox is beginning to run empty of untried recipes. You may think I went off the deep end with this issue’s recipes. In fact,

  • October 4, 2022
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Celebrity Feature

Neil Patrick Harris’s Penis Problem 

The actor on ‘Uncoupled’ and his ‘digital dong’ in ‘Gone Girl’  By Chris Azzopardi  It wasn’t that it was hard, but when Neil Patrick Harris shot a scene for the new Netflix series “Uncoupled,” in which his character tries to snap just the right Grindr shots, it was a little… hairy.   It was “taking angles”

  • September 7, 2022
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HRH Report

A queer eye’s take on the 2022 football season 

By Johnny Trlica   Commentary: Can one ever get tired of watching young, muscular jocks wearing skin-tight football trousers, slamming their buff, sweaty bodies into each other while keeping their backfield in motion? We may find out very soon since Houston now has three professional football teams, sort of. More on that later.  Twenty years

  • September 7, 2022
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