Cho-sen One
Margaret Cho has also managed to carve out an impressive career that’s as diverse and artistic as her famously tattooed skin. But with her latest CD release, Cho Dependent, she adds another role to the Cho roster: Chanteuse.
News
Community Center Hosts Awareness, Art, and Exercise Events
Preparing for its 15th anniversary in 2011, representatives of Houston’s GLBT Community Center say the Center is set to participate in the “Building Our Community from the Center” GLBT Center Awareness Day
Episcopal and Lutheran Policy Changes…One Year Later
In the summer of 2009, both the General Convention of the Episcopal Church and the Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America made historic changes in their polity. In both cases, possible roles and participation in these denominations expanded for LGBT people.
Houston Stonewall Young Democrats Seek New Members
“We forget that our life here in the city is very different from what life is like 10 or 15 miles down the freeway.”
Arts and Entertainment
‘25’ TO LIFE
An interview with out singer/songwriter Patty Larkin: Musicians have found a variety of ways to commemorate musical anniversaries, including massive concert tours and expanded reissues of hit albums. Out singer/songwriter Patty Larkin has taken a fascinating and rewarding approach with 25 (Signature Sounds), a double-disc set on which she revisits 25 love songs from the course of her prolific career….
‘Glee’: Wheeeee!
You’ve heard about it everywhere. Your friends follow it with cultish obsession. But unlike other pop-culture crazes that rule our country right now—like a certain soporific vampire saga involving depressed teenagers—Glee’s talent, creativity, and energy make it live up to the hype.
The Boys in the Barnyard
Josh Kilmer-Purcell and Brent Ridge tell about their urban-rural transformation in “The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers.”…
Columns
Confessions of a Funny Aunt
Hi Honey!
It was great to talk to you last night; thanks for calling your Aunt Nancy. Did you receive the birthday card I sent? A camp-out birthday party sounds like a fun way to celebrate—good idea! Wish I could be there with you; have a big, gooey s’more for me! I’ve been to a few camp-outs, myself. Someday I’ll tell you all about them….
SignOut
Some of the harsh alignments of the planets during the last four months are finally behind us. We should have some intense times during the third full week of September, but that will pass.
Houston, Human Trafficking, and HIV
At a recent AIDS Foundation Houston all-staff meeting, we heard a presentation on human trafficking that left me feeling stunned and horrified….
Photos
MSL Awards at House of Blues
Montrose Softball League Awards Banquet at The House of Blues, July 31, 2010. Photos by Dalton Dehart.
The Masquerade Theatre at Guava Lamp
Boa Sales for Rent with The Masquerade Theatre at Guava Lamp, July 28, 2010. Photos by Dalton Dehart.
BCPA Benefit at House of Blues
“House of Diva” Benefit for Bayou City Performing Arts at the House of Blues’ Fuse Sundays, August 1, 2010. Photos by Dalton Dehart.
Features
Cho-sen One
Margaret Cho has also managed to carve out an impressive career that’s as diverse and artistic as her famously tattooed skin. But with her latest CD release, Cho Dependent, she adds another role to the Cho roster: Chanteuse.
Culinary Care
Each year for the past decade, more than a couple of hundred altruistic nibblers gather to sample “decadent” desserts and hors d’oeuvres provided by local restaurants and caterers, all in the name of Assist-Hers “charity.”
Nate Berkus’ Grand Design
So why the big push to make certain the latest talk show host is positioned as the designated hunk to millions of middle-American housewives? It couldn’t be because Nate Berkus is gay.
Blog
On Katrina anniversary, Houston Center Raises Funds for New Orleans Center
On the fifth-year anniversary of the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Houston GLBT Community Center will raise funds for the LGBT Community Center of New Orleans at the Houston center’s monthly charitable bingo game. The funds will be raised through the sale of tickets for the raffle that is one of the features of First Saturday Queer Bingo, a Center program. This month’s bingo will will take place on Saturday, September 4, beginning at 4:30 p.m.
Republican Ploy for Redemption
Ken Mehlman, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and co-chair of President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, who ran what was arguably the most hate-filled homophobic campaign in American political history, came out last week in a slick public-relations campaign-type interview served up by The Atlantic magazine.
Last Week, A Quarter Million People Pledged to Boycott Target
Target Ain’t People In January … the Supreme Court ruled that corporations can spend unlimited $$ in our elections. In July … Target gave $150,000 to the anti-gay, anti-worker candidate for Gov. of MN. Last week … a quarter million people pledged to boycott Target In August … this happened …
