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In praise of wine, women, and dessert
By Nancy Ford It was a grey, rainy Friday afternoon (surprise!) in Houston. All of my mundane obligations for the week had been met, so I decided to treat myself
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Sword play, fancy footwork, and stranger sex
By Randall Jobe Main Street Theater presents Alan Ayckbourn’s Relatively Speaking. Ginny and Greg are in love and despite the awkward moment of unexplained flowers and chocolates oddly filling her
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Red Dinner 4 raises funds for LGBTQ UH students in need
Eureka O’Hara. Photo via Instagram Imagine you are a college student coming out or are outed to your parents. Their reaction is not what you had hoped for and they
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Melissa Etheridge Has Your Medicine
| Returning with The Medicine Show, the legendary LGBTQ icon talks inspiration in world crises and her new ‘totally fueled by cannabis’ album By Chris Azzopardi Ain’t it heavy? Ain’t
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Bunnies on the Bayou at 40: As wild and outrageous as ever
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
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Burger Mania: Burgers from the most unexpected places
By Jim Ayres Occasionally, I crave a burger. Imagine that! Most of the time, I head to Houston’s well-known burger joints such as Mia’s, Rodeo Goat, Bellaire Broiler Burger or,
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Come out and !
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) May brings May flowers, mosquitos and cookouts (and, of course, those clothing optional pool parties). I just love warming my buns over a good
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Lena Waithe goes west
By Romeo San Vicente Sometimes Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe takes a break from being the Power Lesbian of All Hollywood, a breather from creating or writing or executive producing
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People Will Talk: The all-over-the-map edition
By Nancy Ford “Yes, I thought she was a boy, too. Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, ‘I am not a boy!’ So
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Galveston in the merry month of May
By Forest Riggs “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.†—Harriet Ann Jacobs When it comes to months that are most celebrated in thoughts,