Month: November 2008

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Twisting Her Way Out

To celebrate National Coming Out Day, OutSmart collaborated with the University of Houston students, asking them last month to share…

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Red Ribbons and Gold Ribbons

Elton John’s friendship with young Ryan White, who succumbed to AIDS in 1990, was only the beginning. Eighteen World AIDS…

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‘You Gotta Give Them Hope’

Twenty-one years ago, I heard a radio broadcast on Pacifica radio (KPFT 90.1 FM) about the Houston Police Department harassing…

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Milk, Spilled

Harvey Milk, one of the pivotal figures in the gay-rights movement, now has his brilliant-but-too-short life and career depicted on…

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Your Vote Counts . . . But Was It Counted?

Assuming we don’t have another Bush-Gore debacle, in which wrinkled dotards in equally wrinkled black robes called the fight, the…

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Dog Years

Mark Doty, poet and memoirist, the first American to win Britain’s prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry (among a number…

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Doggie Do-Gooder

Cheryl Felps didn’t set out to be a doggie do-gooder, but she took to the task like a dog to…

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Prince of Puppies

Donald Puryear sold a lucrative court reporting company and is a top realtor with Re/Max Metro. He doesn’t really have…

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Pets and More Pets

For the first time in its history, the Humane Society of the United States has endorsed a presidential candidate, throwing…

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Houston’s Animal Cop

‘It is the weak who are cruel; gentleness can only be expected from the strong.’ —Leo F. Buscaglia A nation’s…

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