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Features
Barton Brooks Builds the Global Family
Barton Brooks calls everyone to help another. You can crisscross the globe, aiding him and his organization Global Colors, build up broken-down communities or simply take out your neighbor’s trash.
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The Cancer-Causing STD
Anal cancer kills thousands each year . . . because no one wants to talk about it. by Leigh Bell
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Yearning to Breathe Free
Roland listened helplessly as his partner Joseph called—frantic and crying—from the airport. Joseph, a Canadian citizen, was flying home to Houston after visiting family when immigration officials denied him entry…
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Local Luxury
We're all tightening our belts, cutting out one luxury or another as pundits warn the economic sky is falling. So, maybe it's poor timing for a luxury resort to open—unless…
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Mother’s Knock-Kneed Cowboy
Decades before Billie Willmon Jenkin learned one of her two sons was gay, she often told them a tale of “The Knock-Kneed Cowboy.” It's a yarn the mother/schoolteacher had been…
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Make Love, Not Jihad
Editor's note: Parvez Sharma sat down with OutSmart's Leigh Bell for this interview in June 2008, when he was in Houston for a screening and discussion of A Jihad for…
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Unfinished Business
Lennon imagined no possessions, no need for greed or hunger. We imagine no prejudice, no need for advocacy or affirmation. Like a world without war needs no army and a…
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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 presidential election will be decided by us, the voters. But…
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A Piece of Island Paradise
Seems like Galveston is the city with nine lives. The strip of island known as the Jewel of Texas before being ripped apart, first by a series of hurricanes in…
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Above All Fathers First
The number of openly gay-dad families increases as public opinion of gays improves, and men who denied their sexuality with marriage are coming out.
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