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NFL PREDICTIONS: This could be the Texans’ year
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Another football season is upon us and Houston Texans fans have never been this anxious to begin a new season. Last year’s surprising division championship team
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Creep of the week: U.S. Supreme Court
By D’Anne Witkowski What if I told you that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Biden Administration’s rule protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination in schools must be enforced
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WTH is wrong with these people? (Part 1)
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: Ever talk to someone who is espousing their reasoning for believing something obviously false or completely disproven by any rational person and want to look them
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How Hello Mr. Revolutionized Queer Storytelling
With his new anthology, ‘A Great Gay Book,’ Ryan Fitzgibbon reflects on LGBTQ+ writers who shaped our world — and his own By Chris Azzopardi Before the current media landscape
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From ACT UP to Q Patrol, we are the cavalry
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: During the peak of the AIDS epidemic, the LGBTQ+ community realized that the government did not care about how many queers were dying from the disease
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Shaping our World and Ourselves through Consciousness
WORDS HAVE POWER By Dr. Julie Hollingsworth, PhD, LCDC, ICADC and Sarah Hollingsworth Words have power. Think back to the words that were used around you when you were young
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Kamala Harris’s ‘The Truths We Hold: An American Journey’ is refreshingly honest
It starts early on. At first, it seems spontaneous: parents who enjoy their interests naturally display those passions to small children who are dragged along for the ride. The child
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I Was Invited to the White House for Pride. Here’s Everything I Saw and Everyone I Spoke With
Exclusive insights from the President’s home for Pride By Chris Azzopardi One sentiment shared among some LGBTQ+ people at the White House on June 26 for its Pride picnic: My
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The Flannel Bear launches Pride 365 Candle benefiting Q+ Equality Foundation
The Flannel Bear is thrilled to announce the launch of the Pride 365 candle, with proceeds benefiting Q+ Equality Foundation, a 501(c)(3) organization. This unique collaboration aims to celebrate and
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Barbecue Inn: Retro food done right
By Jim Ayres When I’m hungry for nostalgia, I like my retro food to be cooked as intended. And nostalgia is alive and well, tasting better than ever, at Barbecue
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Beryling toward disaster
By SA Tripi As I sit in my dark kitchen with three windows open hoping desperately for any kind of breeze, I think of Hurricane Beryl, that knocked down our
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TRUMP TV | Coming soon to a small screen near you
By Nancy Ford The sanitary pad taped to his ear. The train wreck of a forum with the National Association of Black Journalists. His faux-hillbilly running mate. Given the