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Pride Journey: Philadelphia
By Joey Amato The first time I visited Philadelphia was for last year’s NLGJA conference and to be perfectly honest, I really didn’t think much of the city. The main
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Cowboys, mortality and a nun
By Randall Jobe Theatre Suburbia presents She Was Only Marginally Modest or Have You No Shame?, a summer mellerdrammer by Vern Harden. Elvin Moriarty directs. Friday through Sunday, through August
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Love, marriage and going the distance
By Nancy Ford Because we same gender-loving folks were denied the right to marry each other for far too long, our relationships sometimes didn’t last as long as we original
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Anna Kendrick takes over Santa’s workshop in ‘Noelle’
By Romeo San Vicente It’s a sign of the times that films initially slated for theatrical release wind up moving to streaming platforms instead. It’s been a winning model for
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Brody Ray, Transgender Artist, Auditions for America’s Got Talent
Becomes First Out Transgender Musician to Progress to Judges’ Cuts The third time is a charm for Brody Ray, a transgender singer/songwriter. After auditioning for American Idol and The Voice, the outgoing country
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Revamping the Krewe of Bacchus
By Forest Riggs Three cheers for the Galveston Krewe of Bacchus! Like the legendary Phoenix, the Krewe is rising from the ashes and planning to fly high again. Over the
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Tony Award-winner Priscilla Lopez leads the cast of TUTS’ ‘Oklahoma!’
Tony Award winner Priscilla Lopez will lead the cast in the role of “Aunt Eller†in Theatre Under The Stars’ (TUTS) production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, the first show in the musical theatre company’s
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Viral Basics
Understanding the importance of basic HIV research and clinical trials – and the benefits of being undetectable By Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. Carl W. Dieffenbach, PhD, is director of the Division
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Latonya deserves to live pain-free
By Rena McCain Happy Weedsday to all of you awesome people out there! How many of you beautiful people know what trigeminal neuralgia is? Well, I do. I don’t have
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Kameron Michaels Werqs Out Houston
| RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Muscle Queen Shapes Up the City as Part of the Werq The World USA Tour By Tom Tietjen Kameron Michaels’ rise to the top three on