By Janice Anderson People often complain that schools are not teaching essential life skills such as how to file your axes. But how to have healthy sex is so much more important. You can hire someone to do your taxes for you, after all. When it comes to sex education in Texas, the focus is

By Janice Anderson “How does this affect me?” is often the thought family and parents have when their loved one comes out. I thought that. I wondered how it would affect my close relationship with my child. Would he still want to go shopping with me? Would he still want to go to the same

By Janice Anderson If you are a student at a public school, you have a constitutional right to express your opinions about LGBTQ issues and to express your identity. You also have the right to form a non-curricular club for students, such as a Gay Straight Alliance or Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA). Public middle and

By Janice Anderson It’s almost school time. Are our kids ready? Are we ready? As a teacher, I am gearing up for the school year by going over my lesson plans to see what can be improved, made by more interesting, more inclusive, and more successful. I am stockpiling supplies I can take back to

By Janice Anderson The PFLAG Houston General meeting, held on second Sundays, is moving from St. Paul’s Methodist Church to the Montrose Center, 401 Branard Street, Houston 77006. We have enjoyed our time at the church, but we are moving to be closer to other LGBTQIA+ programming available at the Montrose Center. Please mark the

By Janice Anderson As PFLAG Houston’s next general meeting is May 12, Mother’s Day, our presentation will celebrate PFLAG Helpline Moms, who are very important. A few years ago, my eighth grade child and I were having breakfast before school. We were talking about the politics of the day and bathroom bills came up. I

By Janice Anderson Please join us on April 14 for our general meeting for a discussion of “Tony’s Place.” Tony’s Place is a drop-in shelter for LGBTQ+ youth up to 25 years of age who are unstably housed, couch surfing, or homeless. Their goal is to provide for kids’ immediate needs and to be a

By Janice Anderson Please join us March 10 for our general meeting when Sara Fernández will present “Going Beyond LGBTQ Myths and Stereotypes.” Fernández is a board member of the Association for Family and Community Integrity, a Houston-based organization with a mission to reduce rejection of LGBTQ youth by educating families and communities. She began

By Janice Anderson If you attack one Texan, you attack all Texans. Lou Weaver, from Equality Texas, will be our guest speaker at PFLAG Houston monthly meeting, scheduled Sunday, February 10. Join us to learn about Equality Texas’s mission to secure full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Texans through political action, education,

By Linda Bratsen Anunnaki Ray Marquez, a gender/intersex activist, writer and speaker will keynote PFLAG Houston’s Public Meeting scheduled January 13, 2019. Marquez will be presenting an enlightening discussion titled “I am the One Turning Everything Rainbow,” sharing how parents can support their intersex children.  The meeting runs 2 ’til 4:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s