A performer from the fourth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race posted a YouTube video on March 15 in which he discusses his incarceration at the Bexar County Jail and the conditions inside the prison. Jaremi Carey, who performs under the name Phi Phi O’Hara, was arrested in Austin in February after arriving from Canada where…
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District 1 Councilman Roberto Treviño: I want to be inclusive
District 1 City Councilman Roberto C. Treviño was appointed by the City Council last December to fill the unexpired term of Diego Bernal, who left the office to run for the State Legislature. Treviño is now in the process of running for reelection in the May 9 municipal election. Treviño faces three opponents in the…
La Cage Aux Folles: Still timely (and fun) more than 30 years later
A drag queen and a gay club owner raise their son then face a crisis when the boy grows into a young man who wants to marry into a conservative politician’s family. It could be a story out of today’s headlines. However, it’s the basic plot line of the 32-year-old musical, La Cage Aux Folles,…
Tracking queer couples and gentrification
The relationship between the queer community and gentrification can be slippery to define, in part because the latter term is sometimes used loosely. But conventional wisdom assumes a causal relationship: “While GLBTQ people in general are participants in gentrification, gay men in particular are often at the vanguard of gentrifying neighborhoods,” writes sociologist Mikaila Mariel…
Councilman warns female opponent that job ‘takes a whole lot of your time’
City Councilman Mike Gallagher’s opponent in the upcoming municipal election says that after seeing her two children, he warned her that serving on the city council “takes a whole lot of your time.” In a campaign email sent out by District 10 candidate Celeste Montez Tidwell, she recalls her encounter with Gallagher on March 2…
Study: 4% of SA population is LGBT
A new Gallup study released on March 20 shows that the LGBT population of greater San Antonio is 4 percent. That number falls somewhere in the middle with San Francisco coming in the highest at 6.2 percent and Birmingham, Alabama the lowest at 2.6 percent. Census Bureau data for 2010 shows that the San Antonio-New…
Stonewall Dems endorse Villarreal for mayor
The Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio endorsed former state Rep. Mike Villarreal for Mayor of San Antonio during a vote at their candidate forum on March 22. According to sources who attended the closed-door caucus during which the endorsements were voted on, Villarreal got a majority of the votes. Former state Senator Leticia Van de…
Taylor will most likely snub Stonewall candidate forum
With less than 48 hours before the event, it appears that Interim Mayor Ivy Taylor will not be attending the Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio’s candidate endorsement forum slated for Sunday, March 22. Mark Porter, chairman of Stonewall’s endorsement committee, confirmed to Out In SA that of the four major candidates for mayor, Taylor is…
Sixth year for Project Fiesta fundraiser
Chad Nall and Brian Lopez-Rosa, proprietors of Suburban Spaces Real Estate, moved to San Antonio from Ohio almost 10 ago and immediately fell in love with the city. The couple says they had the good fortune to meet an extraordinary group of people who have become family. Now for the sixth year, the couple’s non-profit,…
Stonewall Democrats prepare for endorsement forum
Members of the Stonewall Democrats of San Antonio are busy planning for the group’s candidate endorsement forum slated for Sunday, March 22. The forum will be the first for newly-appointed co-chairs Carolee Moore and Vincent Enriquez. Moore is a retired licensed clinical social worker who went back to school and now teaches art history at…