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Creep of the Week: Donald Trump…Again. (Surprise)
By D’Anne Witkowski Houston’s under water right now, but don’t worry, Donald Trump is feverishly working to ferret out transgender service members. I’m going to guess that when National Guard
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People Will Talk: The ABH Edition (anything but Harvey)
By Nancy Ford “‘We’re less threatening, I think,’ Annise Parker, the mayor of Houston from 2010 to 2016, told me in a recent telephone interview. She said lesbians don’t deal
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Gay Bars Open During Hurricane Harvey Created a Different Kind of Storm
By Johnny Trlica The biggest story of the past two weeks is, by far, Hurricane Harvey, and the most read column at Houston Rainbow Herald involves the aftermath of the
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Osso & Kristalla: A new downtown bright spot
By Jim Ayres I rarely go downtown. Pride—of course, I’m there. Otherwise, it takes a very special event to put me among the skyscrapers, where I invariably get lost. Sometimes,
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Galveston: Standing strong in the face of disaster
By Forest Riggs One-hundred seventeen years ago, the Great Storm of 1900 rose out of the Gulf of Mexico and wreaked havoc on the small, bar island of Galveston. Thousands
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Prove How Jacked You Are (Even If You Don’t Look Like It) At These 7 Fitness Challenges
By Mikey Rox Summer bod will be hard to maintain as the sun sets on these final few dog days and the brisk breeze of autumn ushers in a serious
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Lesbian sci-fi’s Octavia Butler heads to TV
By Romeo San Vicente Lesbian sci-fi’s Octavia Butler heads to TV She died in 2006, but Octavia Butler’s work lives on. The late lesbian sci-fi author was critically acclaimed during
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People Will Talk: The trans, tweets and twits edition
By Nancy Ford “ After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow Transgender individuals to serve in
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Crowning Glory, the President’s Full Throttle Attack on LGBTs and Other Top Stories
By Johnny Trlica Our President took a little flak recently when he was quoted in Golf Magazine referring to the White House as a “ real dump.†That could explain
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Sasha Velour! Lip sync and more!
By Mark Kariel Sasha Velour’s unique drag aesthetic (amazingly intellectual and bald!) and high sense of fashion were too much for the other queens to overcome in the Season 9