Rich Arenschieldt

Rich has written for OutSmart for more than 25 years, chronicling various events impacting Houston’s queer community. His areas of interest and influence include all aspects of HIV treatment and education as well as the milieu of creative endeavors Houston affords its citizenry, including the performing, visual and fine arts. Rich loves interviewing and discovering people, be they living, or, in his capacity as a member of the Society of Professional Obituary Writers, deceased.
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Making Out Like a Virgin: Revelatory Writings on Finding Love After Darkness

'While Like a Virgin' contains some difficult segments, it is filled with humor, wisdom, candor, and affirmations of all sorts.

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Project LEAP: The Nation’s Premier HIV Advocacy Training Program is Now Recruiting Participants

Since its inception, this 17-week program has trained numerous advocates, many of whom live with HIV and participate in Houston’s…

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Legacy Launches Capital Campaign to Expand Services

Legacy Community Health, a fixture on Houston’s healthcare landscape since 1978, is in the midst of its latest expansion, fueled…

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Longtime Activist Sean Strub Tackles Stigma at this Year’s World AIDS Day Luncheon

Activist Sean Strub has spent three decades at the center of the HIV epidemic.

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Restoring a Montrose Landmark: Bering UMC Launches a Campaign to Help Repair the Wear and Tear of its Rich 90-year History

More than a religious institution, Bering Memorial United Methodist Church has a remarkable history that is closely associated with social…

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Broadway Legend Ben Vereen Comes to The Grand in Galveston

Ben Vereen, star of Broadway, stage, and television, returns to Galveston on Saturday, September 24, at 8 p.m., touring with…

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Making ‘Overtures’: Houston Grand Opera Raises the Curtain on its New LGBT-friendly Affinity Group

“We wanted to focus our efforts on people who weren’t already attending opera—those new to this music.”

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To Parade or Not to Parade? That Is the Question.

Having been absent from the Pride festivities for a few years, on June 25 I’ll be back…well protected by a…

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One Helps the Young, One Hosts the Old, and One Films It All: Celebrating Three of Houston’s Diverse LGBTQ Volunteers

At first glance, Brandon Wilke, Bob Briddick, and Melelani Petersen couldn’t be more dissimilar.

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Harold Bekker, a Local Entrepreneur, Leaves a “Bright” Legacy

On January 24 Montrose became just a bit dimmer—Harold Bekker, longtime proprietor of the perpetually luminescent “Light Bulbs Unlimited,” died…

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