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Fighting For Our Shot
How HIV activists won their fight for inclusion in a major COVID-19 vaccine study by Rick Guasco Victory came in the form of a tweet posted in the middle of
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Apples are the eye of these recipes
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Holiday greetings to everyone. Wow, what a year this has been! And where did the time go? Here we are into the holidays already. Hopefully you have
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DISH SOCIETY | Dishing up some good eats
By Jim Ayres Happy Holidays, MONTROSE STAR readers! I hope you all had a filling Thanksgiving and are looking forward to the year-end observances. We’ll be staying in and away
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Hailing the heroes of 2020
By Nancy Ford Nearly twelve months ago on New Year’s Eve, my partner and I stayed home and quietly toasted the exit of 2019, confident that 2020 would be a
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Part 9 | ‘Secret’ only applies to deodorant
By Randall Jobe Working in any business for 25 plus years, I suppose knowing more dirt on bosses and employees than you need or care to is inevitable. A lot
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A holiday wish come true
By Forest Riggs This year, perhaps more than any other, a majority of Americans wished for more than their two front teeth for Christmas! After four years of a failed
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New single from Morena Roas
Houston-based artist Morena Roas is rolling out of 2020 with the release of new music, starting with her latest single, “Next To Ya,†for which she also has released a
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Did God Die on His Way to Houston? A Queer Tale
By Alan Little, Guest Columnist In David B. Myers’ book, Did God Die on The Way to Houston? A Queer Tale, the reader is asked to “keep an open mindâ€
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‘Falling’ finds Viggo Mortensen behind the camera
By Romeo San Vicente The queer child having to deal with conservative parents is, at this point, a cliché in LGBTQ+ dramas about family conflict, but Viggo Mortensen’s new film,
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A Different Side of Jim Parsons
Boys in the Band actor on reviving the gay classic, his personal takeaway and playing bitchy queens By Chris Azzopardi A lot has happened this year, and that’s aside from