With ‘Queer as Folk’ and ‘Hacks,’ Johnny Sibilly keeps ascending to new career heights By Chris Azzopardi If you think you’ve heard the name Johnny Sibilly, you have. Or at the very least you’ve seen him, whether on FX’s groundbreaking trans-focused series “Pose,†where the 34-year-old actor had a three-episode stint as Costas Perez, or
By Johnny Trlica The beat goes on! The streets of downtown Houston will be fabulous once more. After two years of Covid-induced cancellations and restrictions, the Bayou City’s Pride Parade returns this month for a festival and parade. The 44th annual Houston LGBT+ Pride Celebration will take place downtown at Houston City Hall, 901 Bagby
By Nancy Ford Ukraine. Uvalde. Monkey pox. What a year 2022 has been already, and it’s not even halfway over. Is it really time for Pride? Before we start blowing up balloons and jacking up our hair with glittery AquaNet, let’s do our perfunctory annual history lesson to remind us why we celebrate. The rebellion
By Forest Riggs Recently I hosted houseguests, a BOI (born on island) brother and sister team. The siblings (now living in Phoenix, Arizona) grew up in Galveston and from all accounts shared a wonderful childhood on the Island. Because of employment requirements involving several relocations over many years, the two had been away from Galveston
By Colby Etherton A leaked Politico report recently revealed that five of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices (Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Cavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch) privately voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that deemed abortion a federally protected constitutional right. While initial votes on cases sometimes change before
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Well friends, May is gone and, from the feel of the heat, early summer is here. And, the newspaper articles are telling us that we are in for an active hurricane season. Yay, that means lots of hurricanes parties and other things going on the next several months.  In this
By Jim Ayres Marmo, in the new Montrose Collective mixed-use development on Lower Westheimer at Grant, is quite a pleasant, sunny L.A.-style restaurant. Once they tighten a few screws, it will become a great one. Marmo’s website calls it an “…Italian chophouse concept. Marmo, meaning ‘marble’ in Italian, features fresh hand-rolled pastas, house-made charcuterie, and
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Rosenberg, Texas on June 22, 1969. I, along with my four siblings and some neighborhood kids gathered in the playground at Robert E. Lee Elementary School for a friendly game of baseball. After an hour or so in the scorching south Texas heat, we
By Romeo San Vicente It’s a scientific fact that everyone loves Celine Dion (and if it’s not then it should be). Her repeated Las Vegas residencies pack in audiences and she’s currently on her first world tour in years. She was the subject of a delightfully goofy concert documentary called “Celine: Through the Eyes of
By David-Elijah Nahmod Three Months, a new film by Jared Frieder now streaming at Paramount+, is an AIDS drama for the millennial generation. Set in Hollywood Florida in 2011, the film stars gay actor/singer Troye Sivan as Caleb, a young gay man graduating from high school who may have been exposed to HIV during a
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