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

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: There is so much more to being gay than watching untalented drag queens (RuPaul’s Drag Race, among other places), finding fresh meat on Grindr or sitting at a bar for hours on end. While you were watching Shuga Cain get eliminated, deservedly so, by the way, a lesbian in the Texas

By Johnny Trlica “You can’t help getting older but you don’t have to get old.” That line by George Burns, who lived to be 100, speaks to staying young, no matter your age. Bunnies on the Bayou turned 40 this Easter and proved to be as wild and as much fun as numbers 1 through

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Two distinctly different groups of people were playing defense the past two weeks. One group gets their feathers ruffled any time their bigotry is called out while the other group got their balls in a wad over a scientific report. ‘Your quarrel, sir, is with my creator.’ Pete Buttigieg’s campaign is

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Heard enough about story reading drag queens? Do you not quite believe the Attorney General’s accounting of the Russia investigation? And Jussie Smollett. Boy, bye! While these stories have dominated the last few news cycles, our GOP friends in the Texas legislature have quietly been working on a few bills that should

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Michael Jackson, R. Kelly and Houston drag performer Tatiana Mala Nina have at least one thing in common. All three have either been convicted or accused of inappropriate acts with or sexually molesting underage children. They also have another thing in common — family, friends and fans who enabled their behavior.

By Johnny Trlica Commentary: I’ll admit it. I believed him. A few weeks ago news broke that Jussie Smollett was assaulted on the streets of Chicago with racist and homophobic slurs hurled at him. It sounded like such a horrific crime that the prospect of it not being true seemed unfathomable. As each day passed