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Here’s Johnny!
With ‘Queer as Folk’ and ‘Hacks,’ Johnny Sibilly keeps ascending to new career heights By Chris Azzopardi If you think you’ve heard the name Johnny Sibilly, you have. Or at
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Houston’s Pride festival and parade are back!
By Johnny Trlica The beat goes on! The streets of downtown Houston will be fabulous once more. After two years of Covid-induced cancellations and restrictions, the Bayou City’s Pride Parade
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Celebrate Pride, but continue the fight
By Nancy Ford Ukraine. Uvalde. Monkey pox. What a year 2022 has been already, and it’s not even halfway over. Is it really time for Pride? Before we start blowing
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There’s no place like home
By Forest Riggs Recently I hosted houseguests, a BOI (born on island) brother and sister team. The siblings (now living in Phoenix, Arizona) grew up in Galveston and from all
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‘Roe v. Wade’ expected to be overturned
By Colby Etherton A leaked Politico report recently revealed that five of the nine sitting Supreme Court justices (Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett Cavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch) privately
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Take pride in your sweet tooth
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Well friends, May is gone and, from the feel of the heat, early summer is here. And, the newspaper articles are telling us that
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MARMO | A rising star in the Montrose Collective
By Jim Ayres Marmo, in the new Montrose Collective mixed-use development on Lower Westheimer at Grant, is quite a pleasant, sunny L.A.-style restaurant. Once they tighten a few screws, it
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A Friend of Dorothy Forever
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: It was a hot Sunday afternoon in Rosenberg, Texas on June 22, 1969. I, along with my four siblings and some neighborhood kids gathered in the
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It’s another Celine Dion movie!
By Romeo San Vicente It’s a scientific fact that everyone loves Celine Dion (and if it’s not then it should be). Her repeated Las Vegas residencies pack in audiences and
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‘Three Months’: An AIDS drama for the millennial generation
By David-Elijah Nahmod Three Months, a new film by Jared Frieder now streaming at Paramount+, is an AIDS drama for the millennial generation. Set in Hollywood Florida in 2011, the