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Houston Ballet demi soloist Jack Wolff was nine when he danced in Pecos Bill in 2010. This September he's back in Stanton Welch's Wild West ballet — this time as the Snake Oil Salesman.

Houston's Mildred's Umbrella turns 25 with an all-women season featuring Jen Silverman's Collective Rage and Lauren Gunderson's Anthropology — and, for the first time, no men on stage.

The T.R.U.T.H. Project founder Kevin Anderson receives the Montrose Center's 2026 LGBTQ+ Innovator Award, honoring 15 years of healing spaces for queer and trans communities of color.

A plaque at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument no longer mentions that suffragists were beaten and force-fed. The Stonewall website now says "LGB." Under a Trump administration directive to strip "disparaging" material from national…

Former New Braunfels ISD lead librarian Amanda Hunt says AI screening under SB13 stripped hundreds of LGBTQ and inclusive titles from shelves, and speaking out cost her a job she loved.

Houston performance artist and CHamoru entrepreneur Shylah Salas talks Butoh, business, and building belonging ahead of Indigenous Peoples' Day.

Performing Arts Houston gives singer-songwriter Ben Chavez the room to expand his 2025 New/Now piece Last Day, County Fair into a full-length concept musical premiering this September at the Wortham Center.

Tom Griffiths doesn't lead with statistics. The ACCT outreach coordinator leads with connection. And for the people he serves across Galveston's Gulf Coast, that makes all the difference.

Grand jury subpoenas. Medicare threats. FDA warnings over chest binders. The Trump administration isn't using one agency to restrict trans youth care — it's using all of them.

Uncloseted Media traces LGBTQ rights in America from colonial-era sodomy laws to the 2026 Supreme Court ruling on conversion therapy — a history that's anything but linear.