By Johnny Trlica Commentary: On June 25, 1978, I was one of about 6,000 gays and lesbians who gathered in the AstroArena for Town Meeting I. The event was being hailed as Houston’s first celebration of Gay Pride Week. Far from being an activist, I mainly went to see my political idol, Frances “Sissy” Farenthold,

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Is our country so polarized that we cannot even agree that rape is a bad thing? One of the most disgusting things we have seen in recent weeks is a Trump-supporting mother, standing with her teenage daughters defending Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, saying, “Groping a woman? I mean what is

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Nothing lasts forever, or so the saying goes. The Houston Oilers said goodbye to the Bayou City years ago. Meteor, F Bar and the Montrose Mining Company (more about that later) bade adieu to Houston’s LGBTQ community fairly recently. And now, the Volkswagen Beetle is being squashed. I first fell in

By Johnny Trlica  Along with presenting news highlights of the past couple of weeks, the HRH Reports strives to inspire others from time to time. The first segment, “Success in Sales is not Complicated. It’s Simple but Not Easy,” was written by a colleague of this writer, Juan D. Ortega who is also a business

By Johnny Trlica Has anyone ever noticed that there is a dearth of fast food restaurants in Montrose? Wendy’s ran away several years ago and Burger King followed suit last year. Relief is on the way. Shake Shack received a building permit last week and will soon begin construction on the property that was previously

By Johnny Trlica We’ve been following three big stories this week on the Houston Rainbow Herald Facebook Page. Let’s get right to them. Gay man attacked in Montrose Hate crimes have been on the rise since the election of Donald Trump as president and what appears to be a hate crime has occurred on the

By Johnny Trlica COMMENTARY: August of 1968 seems like a long, long time ago. I was a mere child of 12, growing up in small town Rosenberg. On August 1, the Houston Oilers scored a 9-3 pre-season win over the Washington Redskins in the first football game played in a domed stadium. I don’t recall

By Johnny Trlica Is it too early to start thinking about another World Series title? As we enter the dog days of summer, our Astros are just one of two teams (as of this writing) with 60 or more wins. The boys of summer are primed to bring H-Town back-to-back championships. Here is a sampling

By Johnny Trlica COMMENTARY: “This is not who we are.” That line has been uttered thousands of times over the past couple of weeks in response to the Trump administration’s policy to separate immigrant families. Are we really better than ripping infants and toddlers from their mother’s arms and locking them in cages? Is it

By Johnny Trlica | COMMENTARY: The recent deaths, apparently by suicide, of Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade, remind us that we can never know what is going on with another person. One would think these two celebrities had everything to live for. “We often assume that people who commit suicide are mentally ill, but this