At the recent Houston Galleria Primavera Fashion Show, all three major floral and garden awards were won by members of Houston’s LGBT community. We present tips for your home and garden from Glenwood Weber, A.J.’s Urban Petals, and Erin Spencer and Marjory Hawkins of Theme Designs Studios.
A lesbian couple in Houston celebrates Mother’s Day.
An interview with singer/ songwriter Spencer Day about his new disc The Mystery of You, a powerful and accessible song cycle about love and loss.
When trans-man Jason Robert Ballard smiles, bright blue eyes gleaming (and more than a little resemblance to Justin Timberlake), he exudes a level of confidence that makes you realize just how successful he’s going to be in life. Expanded version for the web.
Director/photographer Robert Trachtenberg talks about his new Mel Brooks documentary, and how he got Paul Rudd to drop his boxers.
There are loud, politically provocative comedians, and then there’s this comedian. When it comes to pushing the envelope of political correctness in America, it doesn’t get much more vicious (or delicious) than Lisa Lampanelli.
In last year’s Broadway Bares/Equity Fights AIDS calendar, Spamalot star Michaeljon Slinger stripped down to just a red velvet ribbon tied in a bow, displaying the chiseled physique he’s earned since beginning his dance training at age five in Queensland, Australia.
The Secular Coalition for America today said the Boy Scouts’ recent decision to allow openly gay boys is a positive step in the right direction, but does not go far enough. The SCA expressed disappointment that the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) has decided to continue its policy of discrimination against atheists and gay Scout leaders.
Openly gay youths will be allowed to join scouting, delegates to the annual meeting of the Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday.
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.”
A decade ago, openly gay Israeli film director Eytan Fox burst upon the international film scene with Yossi and Jagger.
An edgy anthology of four decades of gay comics drawn from the “wide range of subjects, themes, and styles in this unique and vibrant artistic underground.”
Best I can tell, the Second Amendment up and shot the First Amendment with an assault rifle
Photos from the Montrose Softball League game day, April 21, 2013. Photos by Dalton DeHart.
Photos from the PRIDE Houston presentation of “PRIDE Uncorked”, April 13, 2013. Photos by Dalton DeHart.
Photos from the Montrose Softball League game day, April 14, 2013. Photos by Dalton DeHart.
At the recent Houston Galleria Primavera Fashion Show, all three major floral and garden awards were won by members of Houston’s LGBT community. We present tips for your home and garden from Glenwood Weber, A.J.’s Urban Petals, and Erin Spencer and Marjory Hawkins of Theme Designs Studios.
An interview with singer/ songwriter Spencer Day about his new disc The Mystery of You, a powerful and accessible song cycle about love and loss.
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.
Thousands of people marched through the streets of Manhattan Monday to protest the killing of a gay man allegedly taunted with homophobic slurs _ the most recent in a spate of bias attacks stirring up anxiety, disbelief and outrage in a famously gay-friendly neighborhood.
A judge has ruled that a North Texas lesbian couple can’t live together because of a morality clause in one of the women’s divorce papers.
One after another, major U.S. corporations have updated anti-discrimination policies to protect gay, lesbian and transgender workers, drawing plaudits from gay-rights groups. There’s one prominent exception: Exxon Mobil Corp.
The eyes of the country are upon Texas today. That’s where 1,400 members of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council are voting on whether to end the 103-year-old group’s outright ban on gay youths.
E.W. Jackson, Virginia’s new Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, said he has nothing to apologize for regarding his startling past comments about abortion, race and homosexuality.
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