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Love and Understanding: A Conversation with Cher
| Icon talks ‘hope’ gleaned from the LGBTQ community, ‘breadcrumbs’ of her legacy and that time she jumped out a window By Chris Azzopardi | Cher is so low-key about
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Ray Hill, a club shooting and other top stories
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: On June 25, 1978, I was one of about 6,000 gays and lesbians who gathered in the AstroArena for Town Meeting I. The event was being
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Keira Knightley Werks the Queer Narrative
| ‘Colette’ actress on playing bisexual author Colette, making a lesbian sequel to Bend It Like Beckham and her drag-inspired Sugar Plum Fairy By Chris Azzopardi You know what’s to
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Hot and tasty chicken, three ways
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Welcome to the fall season! As the seasons change, so do our appetites. In this issue I’m concentrating on giving you some easy chicken
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Loving La Lucha: Nothing to fight about here
By Jim Ayres Make no mistake. Hunky Dory and Bernadine’s did not flop with critics or the public. Their closing just 18 months after opening reflected shady fiscal mismanagement more
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People Will Talk: The Dr. Christine Blasey Ford Edition
By Nancy Ford  “It is not my responsibility to determine whether Mr. Kavanaugh deserves to sit on the Supreme Court. My responsibility is to tell you the truth.… Thousands and
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6 Get-Up-and-Go Ways to Experience Fall’s Magnificent Foliage
By Mikey Rox Experience Mother Nature’s majesty with these make-a-weekend-out-of-it ways to view stunning displays of fall foliage like never before. Cross-country rail trip When I read about how blogger
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Sherlock Holmes and a double dose of Shakespeare
By Randall Jobe Final weekend. Main Street Theater presents The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson. This beautiful play tells the tale of how Shakespeare’s First Folio came into existence
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Christina’s got talent
By Joey Amato Christina Wells is a former winner of Pride Idol and is a fixture with Houston audiences and now with a much broader audience. She recently became a
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WE ARE HAVING A PARTY! Celebrating Bering Memorial UMC’s 170th year
| ‘Heaven Can’t Wait’ and Bering Can’t Either. Bering is having a birthday… a big one! With a milestone birthday, Bering found a way to celebrate and underwrite its ministries:
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Galveston: Where the ‘haints’ go marching in…and out!
By Forest Riggs Boo! Finally, it is that time of year again. Halloween quickly approaches and Galveston Island turns black and orange. Like communities everywhere, the Galveston LGBTQ family loves
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Sandra Bernhard will regularly strike a Pose
By Romeo San Vicente Nurse Judy is back from her break and she’s still not having any of your nonsense. Oh, wait, sorry, have you caught up on the first