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The Night I Slapped a Monster: A Halloween short story
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Current events are pretty scary and frightening and deserve attention, but once in a while we like to step away from politics to share a funny story
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Top 10 must-see Halloween shows and movies
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Halloween is the great gay holiday. Long before June officially became Gay Pride Month and October became Coming Out Month for the LGBTQ community, Halloween was
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The cult of gay Trumpsters
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: There are five definitive warning signs of a cult. 1. The leader is always right. 2. Criticism of the leader is characterized as “persecution.†3. No
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Houston’s LGBTQ bars as ranked by Google reviews
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Review! Reviews! Reviews! Businesses are all about the reviews they receive nowadays. Unfortunately, most people only take the time to write a review when they have
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Tight Ends and Wide Receivers
|Predictions for this football season By Johnny Trlica Football season has arrived and yes, there are lots of gays who know, love, and understand the gridiron game. We can talk
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We Are El Paso. With Love, Houston
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: The LGBTQ community knows all too well what it’s like to be in the crosshairs of a deranged person filled with hate. When the killer (we
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Decency loses to quest for notoriety and shamelessness
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Licking ice cream and returning it to the store shelf, gargling with mouthwash and spitting it back in the bottle, and urinating on potatoes on a
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Our difference isn’t our politics, it’s our morals
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: It’s a known fact that one never really knows a person until they have lived together. Some longtime friends become roommates only to find the other
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On the Horizon: Bar roundups and gay concentration camps
By Johnny Trlica Commentary/satire: Last Saturday, local police in a joint effort with Homeland Security raided nearly every gay bar in the Houston area, arresting more than 500 patrons and
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Commentary on returning Pride to Montrose draws mixed reactions
By Johnny Trlica Our recent commentary article “Blood Was Shed on These Streets: It’s time to bring Pride home to Montrose,†drew a wide range of reactions. While there was
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The Summer of ’69: A significant moment in time
By Johnny Trlica Summer of ’69 was chosen as the theme for this year’s Pride Houston. Those three months mark many important historical moments in time, ranging from the first
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Blood Was Shed on These Streets. It’s time to bring Pride home to Montrose
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: The early days of the Houston Pride Parade did not see the large throngs of people lining the streets that are seen today. Held along lower