June 25, 6-8pm Free Luther’s Café, 1503 N. Main Ave. business.sagaychamber.com The San Antonio LGBT Chamber of Commerce hosts a Business After Hours Networking Mixer at Luther’s Café as part of the city’s month long Pride celebrations. Whether you are looking for new opportunities or just want to spread the word about your business, the…
By Christine Bishop I have always paid attention to politics and I have always voted. It’s important to me to stay informed and involved. Over the past several months I spent a significant amount of time on the sidelines of the Leticia Van de Putte campaign as the girlfriend of someone working for Leticia. In…
Learn how to become an effective ally with Pride Center San Antonio Pride Center San Antonio, which has promoted the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and intersex community in San Antonio since 2011, is holding an anti-bullying LGBTQQI allies Safe Zone training class this Saturday at the Westfall Branch Public Library. The training classes,…
Come one, come all to Jose Torres-Tama’s Aliens, Immigrants, and Other Evildoers! The Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center is currently hosting performance artist Jose Torres-Tama as its artist in residence. His upcoming show, Aliens, Immigrants, and Other Evildoers, has been labeled sci-fi Latino noir for its satirization of illegal immigrants as aliens from another planet. The…
Jazz vocalist Ken Slavin will be putting on a special performance Wednesday, June 17 at Sam’s Burger Joint Music Hall. The San Antonio based artist is excited to make his first headline appearance at the music hall. “It will be a family friendly night and will mark the halfway point of my 25th anniversary in…
Dear Intimacy Doctor: So, have you figured out a way to tell someone they’re rubbish in bed … meanwhile the other halves of the couples are banging like a house on fire? #swingerprobs (This is the point where the Intimacy Doctor strokes her imaginary Freudian beard and says “tell me more.”) His problem seems to…
Bernard J. Taylor is the San Antonio based composer and writer behind Performing Arts San Antonio’s upcoming production of “Nosferatu” the Rock Opera. He has written and composed twelve musicals performed around the world, but his stage productions aren’t the only sources of drama in his life. Taylor’s love life is perhaps just as interesting as…
Former U.S. Attorney Robert Lee Pitman was invested as federal judge for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio on April 17. He is the first openly gay federal district judge from Texas and one of 10 LGBT federal judges in the U.S. Pitman’s career includes time spent as a federal prosecutor and a…
“When I was in Chiapas a couple of years ago, a woman came up to me in the market with samples of her home-produced chocolate roasted with peanuts and cinnamon.” “I usually run toward threats, not away,” offered Ferra Coffee’s owner Susan Jaime. She was talking about the fact that in her dealings with growers…
The LGBT and allied community in San Antonio is busy preparing for the decision from the Supreme Court on whether same-sex marriage is protected by the Constitution. The eventual ruling could be a landmark moment for LGBT civil rights. The court accepted cases from four states — Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee — where restrictions…
