Letters

NEXT STOP, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE? What a great and insightful profile on hopefully Houston's next mayor—Annise Parker—in the June Pride issue of OutSmart [“Annise Parker Aims High,” by Brandon Wolf].

I loved OutSmart 's May issue and wish to commend Leigh Bell for the excellent job she did in piecing together bits and pieces (plus important slivers) of information I gave her [“Mother's Knock-Kneed Cowboy,”…

I have to be honest. This issue is very special to me, as it is to all of us here at OutSmart . We've always had a unique connection to Pride, as most members of…

Please note that California's first domestic partnership law took effect in 2000. [Re: “Gay Rights Timeline,” in "Unfinished Business: Middle-America PFLAG waxes as urban PFLAG wanes," April.] In subsequent years, the law was updated and…

Thank you for the great article on Lt. Mark Timmers [“To Protect and Defend: Houston's Animal Cop” by Brandon Wolf, November 2008]. It is well-deserved. I can tell you from personal experience that Mark Timmers…

I don't usually write in to newspapers and magazines, but felt that this occasion warranted breaking that silence. I wanted to thank you for printing the rebuttal information regarding Mark Timmers along with the complaining…

Questioning OutRight, questioning religious tax breaks, questioning LeftOut, questioning OutSmart, questioning Obama.

I think it's unfortunate when a gay media source such as OutSmart becomes so wanton for a story about a positive role model that the past of said individual is never discovered. Ask Mark [Timmers,…

Thank you for printing my thoughts about the upcoming Milk film [“You Gotta Give Them Hope” by Buddy Johnston, November] and my hope that everyone views The Times of Harvey Milk DVD before seeing Milk…

As some readers are aware, writers rarely write headlines for their columns. That certainly was the case with my October OutSmart column about the Controller’s Office audit of Houston Police Department’s use of tasers. It…