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 matter how harmful, the leader’s behavior is justified. (Pay close attention to this one.) 4. Adherents are obsessed with the leader. 5. The leader has

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 had a negative experience. And write, they do! Why is it that negative reviews are always 10 times longer than a positive one? The next

|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 about tight ends and wide receivers and it’s not a Grindr conversation. Besides patting each other on the butt, football can be a bonding experience.

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 will not publish the his name) drove more than 650 miles from Allen, Texas to El Paso for the sole purpose to “kill as many

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 store shelf are three things I would never even think of, as would most rational individuals. My mother taught me right from wrong. Once when

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 has some peculiar and/or disgusting habits. Like not bathing on a regular basis, staying up partying all night, being a filthy pig, having family over

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 employees. Among those taken into custody without incident were Barcode’s customers and staff including Tanya Hyde, manager Larry Guerrero, and Lana Blake. Over at the

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 no scientific poll to gauge agreement or disagreement with the opinion expressed in the column, most of the responses were in agreement — that Pride

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 moon landing to the Stonewall riots and the onset of the modern-day gay rights movement.  For the LGBTQ community, celebrating the uprising at the Stonewall

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 Westheimer Road in the gay section on the Bayou City, the first parade in 1979 attracted a few hundred LGBTQs, very different from the 700,000