Did you know that Houston’s transgender community is leading the way for the country in TG rights and inclusion?

April 2002

Our Transgender Town

• O Pioneers! Houston’s amazing transgender community. By D.L. Groover
• Everything you always wanted to know about your transgender friends Talking with Lilly Roddy. By Ann Walton Sieber
• The Mother of Us All Phyllis Frye. By Ann Walton Sieber
• Speaking Truth to the Powerful HRC By Sarah DePalma
• TG Alphabet Soup A guide to local transgender groups.
• The Good Doctor By D.L. Groover
• TG Homeless Shelter By Tim Brookover

News & Comment

• Letters
• The CEO That Could Talking with Shell chief exec Steve Miller. By Coy Tow
• InsideOut at City Hall Introducing my life partner... By Annise Parker
• LeftOut The madness of King George ... Bush.
• OutRight The myth of transgender Stonewall. By Dale Carpenter
• News Briefs A lamp of a DIFFA-rent color, and Q Patrol’s patron.
• Business News

Arts & Entertainment

• Queer as (Black) Folk Is gay identity a "white thing"? Talking with writer James Earl Hardy. By Mekado Murphy
• GrooveOut Two non-conforming gay musicians, Scott Free and Mark Weigle. By Chris Sill
• Movies/TV on DVD/VHS Oz, The Truth About Jane, The Big Eden. Compiled by Blase DiStefano
• Jimmy James The voice that launched a thousand women... By Eric A.T. Dieckman
• Suzanne Westenhoefer The freedom and the power of standup comedy. By
• Art Cars Perhaps the second gayest parade in Hou-town. By Philip Mayard
• Humor No men? No problem. By Sally Sheklow

Out & About

• Calendar Dean James’s gay vampire, John Leguizamo, more. Compiled by Blase DiStefano
• DineOut Cole’s Restaurant does it family style–Montrose family style, that is. By Eric A.T. Dieckman
• SignOut By Lilly Roddy
• Bar & Club Guide

About the cover:

Photographs in our cover grid are of the members of the Unity Committee, taken at their weekly meeting, March 18. In the grid above: (Top row) Brandi Williams, Dionne Redmond, Wendy Russell, (middle row) Jo Paully Tittsworth, Brenda Thomas, Sara Rook, (bottom row) Tamara Frankowski, Jackie Thorne, Lilly Roddy. The committee is organizing the 10th Annual Transgender Unity Banquet on April 20. In addition, they organized Unity Month, four weeks of open-house meetings of all the transgender groups leading up to the banquet.