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Sweets for your sweeties
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) STAR readers, we are off to a good start to 2019. I can’t believe the first month is gone, and we have already forgotten our
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‘Too Heavy for Your Pocket’ soars at Ensemble Theatre
By Colby Etherton You know you’ve experienced great art when twenty-four hours after viewing a play, you’re still thinking about it. It still resonates inside you. Ensemble Theatre’s production of Too
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Gun-toting women, women on the run and women in love
By Randall Jobe Queensbury Theatre presents Breaking Out of Sunset Place. Billed as a geriatric “Thelma and Louise plus one†comedy, it is the story of two best friends, Maudie
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All Come, All Served
| Pastor Diane McGehee walks the walk By Randall Jobe Bering United Methodist Church Pastor Diana McGehee begins each service with the proclamation that assures all attendees that “you are
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An island full of red and King Cakes
By Forest Riggs February has quietly crept upon us this year and with it come two very special events: St. Valentine’s Day on February 14 and the beginning of Mardi
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Lou Weaver to discuss 86th Texas Legislature at PFLAG meeting
By Janice Anderson If you attack one Texan, you attack all Texans. Lou Weaver, from Equality Texas, will be our guest speaker at PFLAG Houston monthly meeting, scheduled Sunday, February
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Jamie Lee Curtis RSVPs to your queer wedding
By Romeo San Vicente Unless she’s been to your wedding, you might not instantly know the name Sara Cunningham. But she’s the mother of a gay son, and she’s written
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People Will Talk: The wacky, weird and wise Valentine edition
By Nancy Ford “[We] made out for eight hours…. I wore my retainer the entire time.†—Emmy-winning comic and Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon talking to sister lesbian comic
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Former pro footballer comes out as pro-cannabis
By Rena McCain Happy Weedsday, everyone! The cannabis movement is growing by a larger and larger audience, day by day. I recently had the pleasure of spending time with a
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Give Margaret Cho a Hand
| Comedian talks new Asian-led kink series, queer sex and Hollywood homophobia By Chris Azzopardi Damn that bulging carpometacarpal joint. Without it, Margaret Cho’s kink play could’ve been trouble-free, but
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Attention, Gay Men: Your misogyny is showing
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Boys will be boys will be boys. Gillette is taking heat for a commercial that asks men to take a look at and behave themselves. In
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8 Ways I’m Snatching My Happiness Back in 2019
By Mikey Rox I’ll say it: The past few years have been a fucking nightmare. The climate in this country – and, arguably, the world – is so volatile that