By Johnny Trlica  Kymber DeVine has been inspired by and been a fan of Cher (who hasn’t?) for most of her life, so to celebrate her 50th birthday, she planned a tribute show to her inspiration. Island Time Beach Bar and Grill was sold out weeks in advance for Kymber’s one-woman show on August 3,

She was Miss Continental Elite 2018, a former Miss Galveston Pride, and a former Miss Houston Pride, just to name a few titles, and the current Miss Gay Universe 2024. She also manages to find time to own and operate a bar. She is Miss Ashleey Houston!  Club Morena’s opened about four months ago at

By Johnny Trlica  For a small barrier island, Galveston sends some big-time talent into the entertainment industry. Barry White, Katherine Helmond, Valerie Perrine, “The Wizard of Oz” director King Vidor and Bill Engvall just to name a few. There must be something in that Gulf of Mexico water, right Charles Barkley?  One of the island’s

By Johnny Trlica   Just over ten years ago he entered a talent night contest. “So, You Think You Can Drag†hosted by Kofi was a regular feature at Meteor. The Montrose club is just a memory now, but Serena Spellman is still showing the world who can drag, and in March won the Miss Island

The dizzying, dissatisfying end to the first openly gay Republican Congressman’s political career By Sarah Bricker Hunt The sad, predictable ousting of George Santos from the esteemed (just kidding) halls of our nation’s Congress isn’t the satisfying end to the saga of the “proud, gay thief†I’d been hoping for. I’m still left with so

| Cavetown talks new projects, musical evolution and war on trans people  By Lawrence Ferber  As YouTube, social media, and self-released music platform Bandcamp grew in popularity, musicians could create music and garner followings from their own bedrooms: hence “bedroom pop†was born, and so was the career of UK-born, 23-year-old singer/songwriter/producer Robin Skinner (he/they),

By Finbarr Toesland It’s no secret that LGBTQ+ people face a range of financial challenges that heterosexual people simply don’t need to contend with. Less discussed are the effects of financial discrimination on building LGBTQ+ generational wealth. The stereotypical view of a wealthy gay couple with no children and a sizable disposable income is just

Pandemic sex-cam browsing led one photographer to an art project involving Grindr guys, their homes, and one very stinky situation By Lawrence Ferber A couple of blocks east from Manhattan’s Empire State Building in the neighborhood known as Murray Hill, 25-year-old Taiwan-born photographer Hsiang-Hsi Lu fires off a Grindr message. “He’s Taiwanese!†Lu remarks with

| BACK TO THE 60’S Bon Voyage is a cheerful collection that travels back to the 60s, the height of the industrialization boom in Barcelona when thousands arrived from smaller towns and cities. It was called “Catalan Manchester “because of the number of factories situated in the popular Poblenou neighborhood in Barcelona during the decade.

By Chris Azzopardi | ‘The world wasn’t ready for Einstein and his theories either’ Even in prison, Shea Diamond was a star. The concrete floor her stage, the men her audience. And the acoustics? “The best,†Diamond says. The 40-year-old soul songstress stretched her body over the hard ground, beating it while singing a song