Elaine Palmer is a Democrat running for judge in the 215th Civil District Court in Houston. Her opponent is incumbent Judge Steven Kirkland, the first out LGBT judge elected in Texas. Palmer is very proud of her broad community support. So proud that she has sent out an email with snapshots of her supporters. At [...]
While it may sound like the worst lesbian sex position ever Switchblade Sisters is a classic exploitation film from 1975. The film tells the story of Maggie, the new girl at school who accidentally gets mixed up with the “Dagger Debs,” the meanest, toughest gang of double-D-endowed dames at school. Poor Maggie finds herself in [...]
Metro Weekly reports that in 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama told the Houston GLBT Political Caucus that as president he would support requiring companies doing business with the government to implement non-discrimination policies that would protect LGBT people. Obama, as a candidate seeking the Democratic nomination to run for president in 2008, was asked by the [...]
Poor State Rep. Wayne Christian, the Republican from Center, is doing his damnedest to ensure that anyone who looks or thinks or loves differently than he doesn’t have the resources to get a college education, but it seems he can’t win for losing. You may remember Christian as the architect of last year’s attempts to [...]
If you’ve got a few million dollars laying around this is your opportunity to own an entire city block in the heart of Montrose. The Tower Center on Westheimer between Montrose and Waugh is for sale, along with the Jack in the Box on the same block. The 75-year-old complex was designed by Joseph Finger, [...]
It’s spring in Houston, that delightful two-to-three weeks a year when it’s warm enough to wear a T-shirt out of doors, but not so warm your face melts off. With spring comes the traditional Houston spring events: the Rodeo, flooding and the annual AIDS Walk Houston. The walk steps off this Sunday, March 11 at [...]
Tumblr: depending on who you follow the image-based blogging site it can be a nerd’s delight of data mining, or history’s greatest repository of porn. If, like me, you follow a number of political hacks then you’ve probably seen this delightful map from from Dan K mapping the vocabulary of the 435 members of Congress. [...]
The United States military began actively screening recruits for homosexuality in 1941. In 1993 that policy was replaced by the Clinton administration with “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” — recruits were no longer actively screened, but any hint on being gay, lesbian or bisexual and they were out on their ear. Finally, on September 20, 2011 [...]
John Waters, the man filmmaker William Burroughs called the “Pope of Trash,” will be in Houston March 14 to help raise funds for DiverseWorks Art Space (1117 E. Freeway). It’s difficult to describe a Waters film to someone who’s never seen one. Even his most mainstream fair like Serial Mom and Hairspray displays a maniacally [...]
