Divas of Diversity
“There are funny women out there, and we want to introduce them to the nation.”
Archive for June, 2011
A Long Road to Equality
Across the border from New Mexico along Interstate 10, the desert winds were blowing crossways against the group of walkers, whipping up the ever-present sand and dust that stung their eyes and skin.
Under Construction
Since its founding in 1993, LHI has grown from an all-volunteer organization that provided mammograms and basic wellness screenings, to a well-rounded, nationally respected organization serving hundreds of Houston-area lesbians each year.
Mattachine Men
“Gay life in the 1950s was a spy-like world of codes,” says 53-year-old award-winning playwright Jon Marans.
Nothing to Hide
It’s very in vogue now, this whole End-of-the-World business. Of course, there was a premature ejaculatory buzz from polemic whack job Harold Camping, but everyone and John Cusack’s mother knows the actual date—courtesy of that time-obsessed tribe of clockwatchers, the Mayans—is NEXT year.
Q&A with ‘A Happy Lesbian’
In the midst of all the political and media rancor about LGBT lives, we sometimes forget how important it is to connect one-on-one with the people we love the most
Pssst . . . Anything Goes
When Neil Patrick Harris hosted the Tony Awards in 2009, he earned his first Emmy Award. Now, he’s baaaack!
The Tonys? No, the Tommys
Did I mention that Logan Kessler presented an award in drag as Bitelle (his Cagelle character in Broadway’s current revival of La Cage aux Folles)?
Hail, Constantine
Houston theater fans were introduced to Constantine Maroulis two years before he appeared as American Idol’s romantic rocker. When Rent toured Houston in 2003, Maroulis starred as Roger.
