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10 Best Queer Pop Culture Moments
By Romeo San Vicente Is it because we’re all swimming together in the toxic Trump pool that makes every new addition to the LGBTQ cultural canon feel like an act
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Main Street Theater presents ‘The Secretary’
By Randall Jobe It’s 2019, the beginning of a new year, but local theaters are in mid-season and are continuing to bring you the best in professionally presented productions. Houston
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Breakfast on-the-run
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Happy New Year, everyone. What a year 2018 was! So may things got in the way of my pot-and-pan rattling. It interrupted my bi-annual visit
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Even Fried Chicken? Al Aseel’s Mediterranean delights
By Jim Ayres Over the last couple of years, Houston “bear-tender†Aaron LaTour has been pleading with me to try Al Aseel, a Mediterranean restaurant at Richmond and Dunvale. LaTour
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A Year in Review: What the Celebs Said
Interviews by Chris Azzopardi Cher once jumped out of a bathroom window with her gay friend to escape the police. And if you also didn’t know that you mean as
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I wish you a Happy New Year
By Nancy Ford Well gang, here we are, less than a month into the new year, and what a year it’s been already. I hope everyone’s Lang Syne hasn’t been
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One Team, One Dream: Free Lance Gloor because freedom matters
By Rena McCain Happy Weedsday, all you beautiful people! I want to share with y’all today a story about a mother’s pain. A mother’s pain is a pain like no
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Getting over the mess
By Forest Riggs Finally the holidays are over! The turkeys that were stuffed have been eaten, the beautiful packages that were meticulously wrapped have been shredded and opened, and the
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The Human Spirit Strikes Back
It’s been another tumultuous year, but at least in 2018 we started talking about HIV again By Desirée Guerrero Let’s face it, it’s been a rough one. More senseless shootings,
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5 Tips to Becoming His Go-To Booty Call
By Mikey Rox We’ve all had a random hookup we hope comes back for more. Maybe they look yum naked or throw down the good-good like Thor’s magic hammer. Perhaps