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A French Quarter Favorite
Acme Oyster House opens in Montrose By Jim Ayres We finally got a table on Wednesday, May 12, a month and two days after Acme Oyster House opened in Montrose.
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The Room Where It Happens
Pandemic sex-cam browsing led one photographer to an art project involving Grindr guys, their homes, and one very stinky situation By Lawrence Ferber A couple of blocks east from Manhattan’s
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I Had to Get Past the Stigma of Having HIV
Then I Had to Do the Same for Mental Illness. By Mariah Wilberg I was 19 years old and pregnant when I received my HIV diagnosis in 2006. “This is
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It’s Pride all over again
By Forest Riggs June is here and busting out all over with pride — Gay Pride, that is! Once again, in every hamlet, village, city, and empire “where two or
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Cereal is so gay
By Nancy Ford Every year, just like clockwork, when June rolls around, there is a feeding frenzy among manufacturers of consumer goods to slap a rainbow on their merchandise to
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PFLAG Houston hosts ACLU for GSA guidance
By Janice Anderson The summer is a great time to prepare for the upcoming school year. As a teacher, I spend my “time off†preparing or improving lessons for the
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Mannerless millennials
Millennial (n) mil-len-ee- uhl: a person born in the 1980s or 1990s, especially in the U.S. By Randall Jobe Of the 72.1 million Millennials living in the United States, I
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Tig Notaro is now a cartoon
By Romeo San Vicente She wrote and starred in the sitcom “One Mississippi.†She’s about to be streaming in Zack Snyder’s Netflix film “Army of the Dead.†She visited “Star
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Justice For All
The out ‘Genera+ion’ star wants to be an example of Black queer joy By Chris Azzopardi Last summer, Justice Smith wasn’t coming out but, instead, making a statement in solidarity
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A NEW SERIES | In My (Judgmental) Opinion
By Randall Jobe Judg-ment/ jaj-ment (noun): an opinion or evaluation by discerning and comparison O-pin-ion (noun): a view or judgment not necessarily based on fact or knowledge “There is brutality andthere is honesty,but