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Like a Bite? Sink Your Teeth into OutSmart’s Gayest & Greatest By Steven Foster People • Community • Businesses/Services • Dining • After Dark • Galveston Since Bram Stoker first hit coffin-covering paydirt over a hundred years ago, vampires have never lost their doomed, immortal appeal. But lately the hemoglobin-gobbling ciphers have never been hotter—or sexier. Gay Oscar-winner and hit-maker Alan Ball returns to his Six Feet Under home HBO to grant the cable net som... READ MORE >>>

FEATURES

The Magic’s Back! Halloween magic returns for one final curtain call. By Marene Gustin It's a Holiday! The origins of black gay history. Plus a month of gay history heroes. By Kevin Mumford, Gay History Project Obama Talks, McCain Balks It is important for both presidential candidates to share their plans for gay America. Only one agrees. In his first interview with gay press since he officially took the Democratic nomination, here's what Obama had to say. By Mark Segal, Gay History Project The Dao Dynesty Television was only the beginning for our favorite ‘Project Runway’ champ. Interview and photo by David Goldberg Ike Who? Halloween howls on in Houston By Nancy Ford FROM THE ARCHIVES Our Heroes An interview with pioneering lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. By Deb Murphy Photos by Liz Mangelsdorf, courtesy National Center for Lesbian Rights

NEWS & COMMENT

LETTERS From Our Readers Chad Allen's buttery-butch voice — and about those gay Republicans... NEWS BRIEFS News Briefs Del Martin dies; Houston student joins Equality tour of Christian Colleges; celebrity couples wed; and Barney Frank hails TG court decision. By Nancy Ford WHAT A WORLD Palin Comparison There’s nothing scarier than the wrong person for the wrong job. By Nancy Ford LEFTOUT What About Larry? One more inequity to think about in the voting booth. By Brandon Wolf OUTRIGHT Beating Prop 8 California’s same-sex marriage decision is everybody’s business. By Dale Carpenter INSIDEOUT AT CITY HALL 'Don't Tase Me, Bro!' Study examines the specifics of the Houston Police Department’s stun guns. AIDS WATCH One More Pain in the Butt HPV can lead to anal cancer? You bet your ass. By Kelly McCann OUTLOUD Bumpy Night Or Sleepless in Centralia. By Sally Sheklaw

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

DVD A Hostess with Heart ‘Queens of Heart: Community Therapists in Drag’ delves beyond the makeup and duct tape. Plus DVD shorts. By John Stiles. DVD shorts by Nancy Ford MOVIES A Cabaret Indeed Old Chum Chronicling the marital bliss of ‘Chris & Don: A Love Story.’ Plus movie shorts. By John Stiles Movie shorts by Nancy Ford TV Man Oh Manouse Frequent ‘Best TV Guy’ returns for a sixth season with ‘InnerVIEWS.’ By Nancy Ford GROOVEOUT 'Sweet' Sounds An interview with out singer/songwriter Catie Curtis. By Gregg Shapiro GROOVEOUT GrooveOut Shorts Catie Curtis, Ani DiFranco, Gypsy, Bette Midler, Wayne Brady, Ultra Naté, Waves on Waves, New Arrivals, Solange, No Lip Vol. 1, Jem, Sex and the City Volume 2, Little Fish. By Nancy Ford, Troy Carrington, and Suzie Lynde READOUT Fire in the Hole Laughing at life with humorist David Sedaris. By Lawrence Ferber READOUT ReadOut Shorts The Q Guide to Charlie's Angels, Out and Proud in Chicago, and more By Angel Curtis

OUT & ABOUT

CALENDAR October Events Day-By-Day Events, Performance, Performance for Young People, Radio, Art/Photography, HIV Testing. By Sheri Taylor Bockelman CALENDAR LookOut GoGirlsMusicFest By Nancy Ford SIGNOUT Lilly's Starship Everybody get ready for a super big fabulous Libra birthday party, as Mercury goes direct on the 15th! By Lilly Roddy BAR AND CLUB GUIDE Listings for Houston, Galveston, Spring, Beaumont, Bryan and College Station Plus behind the bar with Eric Furman at Crocker. BUSINESS NEWS Businessness in the Community that Support the Community Cristina Martinez, HRC’s Corporate Equality Index, Chic Warehouse, On The Gay Horizon for gay seniors, Legacy Resale closes. By Nancy Ford

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