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Love Knows No Status
| Beloved serodiscordant couple, recently wed in Venice, share their love story By David Artavia In March 2013, David Lester-Massey (then Massey) gave an interview that would change his life
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Galveston restaurant owner steps in it over racist, anti-gay posts
By Johnny Trlica Freedom of speech is an inherent right for all Americans. Along with rights come responsibilities and consequences. The owner of three Galveston restaurants is taking heat over
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His Black Queerness, Front and Center
| Love, Simon star Keiynan Lonsdale talks defiant solo album, social justice uprising and embracing his Black queer identity By Chris Azzopardi Once Keiynan Lonsdale made no apologies for who
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Trump and Abbott should learn from bar owners
By Johnny Trlica Commentary: You know we’re in trouble when bar owners are more responsible than the president and governor. It was a sad day on March 19 when Texas
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Criterion Films Celebrate Diversity in All Its Forms
By Chris Azzopardi ‘Paris Is Burning In Paris Is Burning, a strut is a defiant act, an exertion of suppressed power. In the mid-to-late 1980s, when the landmark documentary was
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Cooking through the COVID
By Paula Dream (AKA Kale Haygood) Greeting to everyone. Is it the Lone Ranger behind that mask? Who would ever have imagined the things we have to do right now? This whole
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Kristen Stewart will play Princess Diana in ‘Spencer’
By Romeo San Vicente Pablo LarraÃn (‘Jackie’) is set to direct and Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana in _Spencer_, a drama written by Steven Knight (‘Peaky Blinders’) about one critical weekend in the
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PART FOUR: A tale as old as time. The beauty was a beast
By Randall Jobe I’ll call the drag queen in this piece “Homo Siedel†for reasons that will become apparent. Homo was a beauty, a popular club emcee best known for
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‘MAGNOLIAS’ AND ‘GARDENIAS’
| Galveston’s Carly Davin Nation does it again By Forest Riggs No matter where you travel or what community you visit, everyone loves the play and movie Steel Magnolias. First
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ACLU reps ‘Zoom’ into July meeting
By Janice Anderson and Greg Lambert While most of us have been disappointed by what 2020 has brought to us so far, the Supreme Court of the United States brought