All About Pride: Pride Calendar, Pride marshals Frank Billingsley, Robin Brown, John Nechman, Januari Leo, Pride Strippers. Sure, you’re going to stake out seating for the Pride Parade June 29 — but you can celebrate Pride all month long. Check out this list of events and get ready to par-tay.
On Father’s Day, five-month-old Magen Sophia Luiz-Kabani will attend her first Miss USA pageant. Not surprisingly, since her fathers are a pair of aces in the beauty industry. But the road to fatherhood has been long and difficult.
More than a decade after the passage of DOMA, an unlikely 83-year-old former top IBM programmer and openly lesbian woman is standing up to the Supreme Court of the United States and saying, “No more.”
Kris Sharp had a tough trailer park childhood, with a raging drug-addicted mother, and foster homes. When he ran for student body office at UH-Downtown, his HIV was outed. He’s fighting back with an AIDS education campaign, and activism on diversity and inclusion.
Talking to the STILL so unusual Cyndi Lauper. Also Lauper brings true colors to Broadway with ‘Kinky Boots.’ And a gay romp at the Tonys.
“I’ll spare everyone the lengthy details of my coming-out story, but to sum it up, being a gay man in my family is no cakewalk.” A man’s struggle to unite Islam and homosexuality.
Trey McIntyre, the lanky former Houston Ballet student, dancer, and choreographer, returns to the city this month as the company revives his first full-length ballet, Peter Pan.
Eric Berkowitz researched cases from pagan times to today in which people were punished for their sexual choices. An interview with the author.
Two new documentaries: a schoolteacher new to Houston is shocked by her students’ anti-gay bullying and makes a film to address it. And openly LGBT elected officials share their stories, including Mayor Annise Parker, Judge Phyllis Randolph Frye, as well as Senator Tammy Baldwin, and former rep Barney Frank.
Jaston Williams, the man most closely associated with such mythical locales as Tuna, Texas, Didi’s Used Weapons Store (“If we can’t kill it, it’s immortal”), and the Tastee Kreme Diner, returns to Galveston’s Grand 1894 Opera House for his new solo show, “Blame It on Valentine, Texas.”
“Dixie’s Tupperware Party” rolls into the Hobby Center with all the class of an Alabama trailer park, which is where Dixie Longate hails from. And she’s actually a he—show writer Kris Andersson—in a big red wig and skintight dress.
“I have tricks in my pocket—I have things up my sleeve—but I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
Tim Brookover, longtime Houston resident, former editor of OutSmart magazine, past president of the Houston GLBT Community Center, and activist for numerous LGBT political and social issues, died on June 10 from complications of a recent cancer diagnosis. He was 52 years old.
Media coverage around the time the U.S. Supreme Court was considering the same-sex marriage issue shows news reports had much more from supporters than opponents, a study released Monday concluded.
No students have asked to exercise a policy approved in December by the Nebraska School Activities Association that allows participation in high school athletics by transgender students, the association says.
Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was one of the world’s most eligible bachelors when a teenage Todd Waite met him in Canada.
Vito Russo had a short life, but one filled with great accomplishments, most notably as author of The Celluloid Closet, the seminal history of LGBTs in the cinema. Jeffrey Schwarz’s HBO documentary Vito, pays tribute.
Hot new collections, just in time for Pride month, from gay poet Jeremy Reed’s collaborations, to the prolific Melissa Ferrick’s latest, The Truth Is, to an 80th birthday tribute album for Rod McKuen (yes, he’s gay!).
“The next time someone asks you why LGBT Pride marches exist or why Gay Pride Month is June, tell them ‘A bisexual woman named Brenda Howard thought it should be.’”
Photos from Out at TUTS presents Spamalot (sponsored by OutSmart), May 16, 2013. Photos by Dalton DeHart.
Photos from the Bayou City Performing Arts presents On Our Way to Carnegie Hall with the Texas Medical Center Orchestra and Kipp Sharp Singers, May 11, 2013. Photos by Dalton DeHart.
Photos from the Annise Parker grassroots kickoff at Stude Park, May 11, 2013. Photos by Dalton DeHart.
Britain’s heir to the throne, Prince Charles, was one of the world’s most eligible bachelors when a teenage Todd Waite met him in Canada.
All About Pride: Pride Calendar, Pride marshals Frank Billingsley, Robin Brown, John Nechman, Januari Leo, Pride Strippers. Sure, you’re going to stake out seating for the Pride Parade June 29 — but you can celebrate Pride all month long. Check out this list of events and get ready to par-tay.
KPRC-TV Channel 2’s chief meteorologist is Honorary Grand Marshal of this year’s Pride Parade.
WASHINGTON—In a historic move, 1,400 leaders from the nation’s local Boy Scouts of America Councils gave the green light to equality for gay Scouts, voting to end the organization’s long standing ban on gay youth. Unfortunately the new policy does not go far enough, leaving adult Eagle Scouts, scout leaders, and parents behind. The resolution passed today reads in part, “no youth may be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.”
Peace Corps Deputy Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet today announced that the agency will begin accepting applications from same-sex domestic partners who want to serve together as volunteers overseas. Same-sex couples may begin the application process starting Monday, June 3.
Today, President Barack Obama announced he will award a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dr. Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut to travel to space. The Medal of Freedom is the Nation’s highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
Republican Party leaders are urging the Idaho Legislature to put a stop to local communities’ efforts to provide discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.
Although she had been living as a woman for months and easily obtained a license with her new name and a picture reflecting her feminine appearance, Grey’s ID still identified her as male, puzzling the salesmen and prompting uncomfortable questions.
A lesbian student was expelled–then sent a bill for $6,000 to reimburse what the school said were federal loans and grants that needed to be repaid because she didn’t finish the semester.
President Barack Obama on Thursday marked Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month by calling on Congress to pass legislation banning workplace discrimination against gays, lesbians and others.
Even as they acknowledge greater acceptance by society, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans are, on average, less happy than other U.S. adults, and many report instances of rejection and harassment, according to a sweeping new survey.
The fight for the soul of the Republican Party intensifies this week as Republican leaders gather in Washington to court religious conservatives.
The Southern Baptist Convention approved a resolution Wednesday expressing its opposition to the Boy Scouts of America’s new policy allowing gay Scouts.
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