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Celebrity Feature

Queering Christmas

Kristen Stewart on what’s personal about playing queer in her gay Christmas rom-com and how ‘the time calls for it’ By Chris Azzopardi Kristen Stewart is waving around what appears to be a joint. Even her Happiest Season co-star Mackenzie Davis, who’s seen on Zoom with Stewart, doesn’t quite know exactly what Stewart has lit.

  • December 10, 2020
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HRH Report

Yuletide Memories: Empty chairs, 20/20, and the greatest Christmas

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Before this year, 2020 was synonymous with cheap liquor and bad hangovers. Pandemics were only read about in medical journals and fascism was what we watched on the History Channel. While over 70 million Americans looked at the last four years and said, “Yes, give me four more years of that,”

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Positive Thoughts

Fighting For Our Shot

How HIV activists won their fight for inclusion in a major COVID-19 vaccine study by Rick Guasco Victory came in the form of a tweet posted in the middle of the afternoon on Aug. 5: Pharmaceutical company Moderna was dropping its exclusion of people living with HIV (PLHIV) allowing those whose immune system was stable

  • December 10, 2020
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Paula Dream

Apples are the eye of these recipes

By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Holiday greetings to everyone. Wow, what a year this has been! And where did the time go? Here we are into the holidays already. Hopefully you have stayed well and Covid will soon be on its way out.  Even though our traditional gatherings may be hampered a bit, maybe a smaller intimate gathering

  • December 10, 2020
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Foodie Diaries

DISH SOCIETY | Dishing up some good eats

By Jim Ayres Happy Holidays, MONTROSE STAR readers! I hope you all had a filling Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the year-end observances. We’ll be staying in and away from each other, so don’t underestimate the value of a phone call to someone you might not have talked with for a while. Normally, I’d

  • December 10, 2020
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What A World

Hailing the heroes of 2020

By Nancy Ford Nearly twelve months ago on New Year’s Eve, my partner and I stayed home and quietly toasted the exit of 2019, confident that 2020 would be a vast improvement over a year that included a presidential impeachment, massive earthquakes, mass shootings, the burning of the Notre Dame Cathedral. And who could forget

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My Life Behind Bars

Part 9 | ‘Secret’ only applies to deodorant

By Randall Jobe Working in any business for 25 plus years, I suppose knowing more dirt on bosses and employees than you need or care to is inevitable. A lot of the information is best left unspoken (or written!) until you no longer face firing or an ass-whooping. I will temper what I divulge here

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Across the Causeway

A holiday wish come true

By Forest Riggs This year, perhaps more than any other, a majority of Americans wished for more than their two front teeth for Christmas! After four years of a failed and miserable presidency, one that was in no way kind to LGBTQ folks and at every turn opted to go backward, it is slowly coming

  • December 10, 2020
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Review

New single from Morena Roas

Houston-based artist Morena Roas is rolling out of 2020 with the release of new music, starting with her latest single, “Next To Ya,” for which she also has released a music video. Musician Morena Roas hasn’t let the difficulties of 2020 and COVID-19 stop her creative train from rolling into the station just before the

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Review

Did God Die on His Way to Houston? A Queer Tale

By Alan Little, Guest Columnist In David B. Myers’ book, Did God Die on The Way to Houston? A Queer Tale, the reader is asked to “keep an open mind” when confronted with the most unorthodox, unbelievable articulations about God and his ability or lack thereof to address and subdue the suffering of mankind on

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