Billed as “San Antonio’s newest monthly alternative drag show,” Shawn Benét’s MadHouse returns to Web House for a Retro Bloodbath — a gory affair headlined by James Majesty, the controversial runner-up on season two of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Search for the World’s Next Drag Supermonster (a series that’s been likened to a “rowdy, filthy…
Arts & Culture
SA Drag Queens to Walk Runway at ‘Horrible Thrift-Store’ Fashion Show
Originally published in the San Antonio Current. As the excellent title suggests, “horrible thrift-store fashion attire is required” at South Texas Museum of Popular Culture’s (aka Texpop) latest — a multifaceted offering benefiting Thrive Youth Center, one of only four shelters in the country specifically geared toward housing and assisting LGBTQ youth who would otherwise…
LGBT Picks Included in Current’s ‘Best Of San Antonio’ List
Every year, our sister publication, the San Antonio Current, publishes its Best of San Antonio List, a lineup of over 100 categories where readers vote on what they feel are the best restaurants, bars, people and attractions in our fair city. This year’s list was revealed today and, as always, includes LGBT businesses and people…
‘Cornyation, the Short Film’ to be Screened at San Antonio Film Festival
Filmmaker David Sims’ 20-minute documentary about Fiesta Cornyation, which follows the behind-the scenes staging of the show in 2017, will be screened at the San Antonio Film Festival on August 3 as part of a block of short films under the category Hometown Heroes. Cornyation, the Short Film was completed in September 2017. It chronicles…
Bihl Haus Exhibit ‘10,000 Years of Love and Resistance’ Features Work by LGBTQ Artists
Bihl Haus Arts is opening a new exhibit on July 21 titled, 10,000 Years of Love and Resistance: A Celebration of the Arts and Spiritual Union, a show whose core concept is billed as an effort to create “an intergenerational dialogue about the LGBTQ realities in a maturing, evolving and empathetic world.” Exhibition curator David…
Commentary: Wedding Cake Debate Will Create a Backlash
This commentary was originally published in the San Antonio Express-News. It is reprinted here with the permission of the author. “To cake! or not to cake!” that is the question. The judges’ decision is final. And the winner is? Who knew that cake decorating could be so confrontational? And, as I like to say from…
PLASTIK Collective Parties Are a Haven for the Alternative Queer
When some friends invited me to check out this party called Glitter Baby, I thought, “My old gay ass don’t really go to parties anymore.” However, I was curious because of where they were throwing the event – The Gallery, formerly Hardbodies on North St. Mary’s Street. Founder/promoter Oliv Ryan, a local multi-disciplinary artist, explained…
Sitting Down with Unerasable Graciela Sanchez
Originally published in the San Antonio Current. I’m sitting at Sweet Yams Café on the city’s East Side with Graciela Sanchez, director of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. The sunlight cascades down the right side of her face through the adjacent window, giving her a resplendent glow. Sanchez, who has devoted her life to…
Frida Kahlo Birthday Celebrations Abound in San Antonio
Originally published in the San Antonio Current. You don’t have to look far to see Frida Kahlo’s signature brows stitched across a tote bag, dangling from earrings or painted on a prayer candle like the Virgin De Guadalupe. These days, it seems that there is something pressingly important about the commercial urgency to reproduce her…
Raúl Castillo of HBO’s ‘Looking’ is Featured in Three Films at SA’s CineFestival
Raúl Castillo, who rose to prominence with gay audiences after appearing in the Home Box Office series, Looking, will be in San Antonio for the opening of CineFestival where he will be featured in three films. Castillo, who hails from McAllen, Texas, was mostly a stage actor prior to appearing in films and starring in…