Be Sociable, Share! TweetReflection on St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church’s first ceremony for a same-sex couple. by Neil Ellis Orts In many ways, the most remarkable thing about the day was how ordinary it all seemed. On March 17, people gathered at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on West Alabama much as they do on any other [...]
Jonathan Charles, a native of Wharton, graduate of the University of Houston-Clear Lake, and a theater and dance faculty member at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, passed away suddenly after complications from a surgery. He was 64.
OutSmart chats with three out gay male dancers from Hope Stone Dance Company.
St. Stephen’s to be the first Episcopal Church in Houston to offer same-gender blessings.
Cartoonist Dylan Edwards is best known for his gay sports one-panel comic, The Outfield, and his series of mini-comics, Politically InQueerect. Now with his new graphic novel, Transposes, Edwards illustrates trans men’s lives.
Out in space, and elsewhere: George Takei, best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in Star Trek, tackles far weightier material with Allegiance, a new musical about the U.S. internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
In 2009, the Reverend Amy DeLong, a clergyperson of the United Methodist Church, performed a commitment ceremony for two women.
George Takei will be in Houston next weekend for the annual Comicpalooza convention, running May 25–27 at the George R Brown Convention Center. If you’re of a certain age, you may be following the adventures of three young ninjas on Nickelodeon’s show Supah Ninjas. They are advised by one character’s grandfather, a sensei who appears only as a hologram to his young charges. He’s known, endearingly, as Hologramps.
Hologramps is played by George Takei. If you’re of another certain age, you will, of course, think of him as Mr. Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise. Or maybe you’re his Facebook friend. He gets around.
Archie Comics’ gay character gets his own series. A conversation with Dan Parent, the creator of the new Archie Comics character Kevin Keller.
The Reverend Megan Rohrer, the first openly trans pastor to serve in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, will headline this year’s Unity Banquet. She will speak about her ministry to the homeless in San Francisco’s tough Tenderloin District.
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