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Is Le Colonial worth the splurge?
By Jim Ayres As I peer out the picture window lined in the splendor of giant banana leaves, I’m filled with the joy of a great day! The sun is
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Pete Buttigieg is a daddy
By Nancy Ford You’ve got to hand it to Pete Buttigieg. If ever there was an out-and-proud overachiever, it’s this guy. It wasn’t enough that he chose to be the
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You can’t ‘Pray Away’ the gay
By David-Elijah Nahmod As the new Ryan Murphy-produced documentary Pray Away begins, a young man with a thick Southern accent is driving his car through the rain. He’s Jeffrey McCall,
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‘The Peripheral’ moves into the cyberfuture with Alexandra Billings
By Romeo San Vicente We are huge fans of trans actor Alexandra Billings. She’s the reason we didn’t bail on “The Conners.†And it’s exciting to watch a performer come
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On the New ‘L Word,’ Everybody’s Invited to the Party
Series vets Hailey, Moennig, and Beals talk shining a light on a new LGBTQ+ generation with ‘Generation Q’ By Chris Azzopardi What did the first run of “The L Wordâ€
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SUMMER’S END | Despite pandemic, new spots and old faves entice visitors to Galveston
By Forest Riggs So far, so good: No hurricanes or storms have targeted Galveston and the upper Texas Coast. Of course, the area is not out of the woods just
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Bitch, bitch, bitch, and other complaints
By Randall Jobe Gloom, despair, and agony on me. Deep, dark depression, excessive misery. If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. Gloom, despair, and agony
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Pushing for Black ‘Femuline’ Acceptance
| Todrick Hall talks about reinvention, industry bias, and what drives his advocacy By Eve Kucharski Todrick Hall is serving bitch but making it, as he says on his latest
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Chachie Pedraza Van Wales’ long road to happiness
By Johnny Trlica If “that which does not kill us makes us stronger,†there is a drag performer across the Galveston causeway who should have the strength of Superman and
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Democrats pressured to deliver on infrastructure
By Colby Etherton It’s been a frustrating time for congressional Democrats, who are becoming increasingly pressured to deliver on a major part of President Joe Biden’s agenda: a sweeping infrastructure