Month: March 2009

The Houston connection in this zany, quip-filled romp set in New York City in 1986 is a transplanted “Gaysian” named Hung Manh who dresses in a copy of the outfit…

With a switch of just two percent of the votes, the leaders of the “No on 8” campaign would today be heroes. We'd be lauding their powerful advertising campaign. We'd…

Someone had to be first. In the case of openly gay judges in Houston, the first was John Paul Barnich.

It's not an easy task to trump a president-elect during pre-inaugural media feeding frenzies. But when Barack Obama announced the selection of Rev. Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at…

I'm still overwhelmed when I first enter a courtroom, and everyone rises,” says Houston Municipal Court Judge Barbara Hartle. The only out lesbian member of the Texas judiciary, 50-year-old Hartle…

To say that these are strange days we are living in is a vast understatement. Huge, molten objects are falling from the sky in Austin. Batwoman is a lesbian. And…

“Hope springs eternal” for lovelorn Peter Bauman, 45, a New England painter who admits he's “no prime rib on the gay meat rack.” His plunge into personal ads, hoping that…

A Penn State professor asks “Where have all the men gone?” in this look at the rise of “basement boys,” who've shunned marriage, work, and family to move back in…

Zebras and wildebeests and gazelles—oh my! Members of the Diana Foundation join the more than 4,500 non-human residents of the Houston Zoo.

"Lawyers find answers for clients, judges find answers for society,” says newly elected Judge Steven Kirkland. A ballot victory last November has now put Kirkland in a position to find…