By Johnny Trlica Commentary: The Pride Festival has been canceled, according to Pride Houston 365, but are appearances in the Pride Parade by drag queens on the chopping block now? They are if Republicans in the Texas legislature have their way. According to the Texas Tribune, Republican Texas lawmakers have filed around three dozen bills

The new faces of the GOP  By Johnny Trlica  Commentary: If silence is complicity, one of our nation’s political parties seems to have had its lips sewn together. When a certain U.S. Senator from Florida is accused of human trafficking a minor for sex, all we hear are crickets from his side of the aisle. 

By Johnny Trlica  Commentary: For a very long time it has been a misnomer that gays are not religious or believe in God. If that were true, why do so many LGBTQ individuals pray to God to make them “normal?” On any given Sunday, churches are filled with gays, on their knees, praying to Jesus,

By Johnny Trlica  Commentary: Christmas has never been the same since my mother left us in 2006. Our family still gathers together on Christmas Eve just as we always did. We eat, drink and exchange gifts. Conversations frequently are about our times as children and the memories of our mother.   Here are just a couple

By Johnny Trlica  Commentary: There is a lengthy list of issues on the ballot this month. Abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, the Texas electrical grid, school safety, the FBI, the DOJ, GOP extremism, election integrity and democracy itself are just a few of the issues. And like it or not, the former president is on the ballot,

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

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

By Johnny Trlica  Commentary: There is considerable debate about the origins of the phrase, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Many people attribute the quote to Albert Einstein, one of the most significant scientific geniuses of the 20th century.  Some others believe the phrase

By Johnny Trlica  Commentary: A cheating husband is quick to accuse his wife of having an affair. A thief will quickly point the finger at his best friend. A woman who emits a silent but deadly fart will blame the innocent dog in a flash. It’s called projecting. According to Karen R. Koenig, M. Ed,

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