Fans of the short-lived gay series Looking are in for a dog days of summer treat. Last year, HBO unceremoniously cancelled the show after its second season, leaving viewers hanging. The series focused on the lives of three gay friends living in San Francisco: Agustín (Frankie J. Alvarez), Dom (Murray Bartlett) and Patrick (Jonathan Groff).…
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‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Contestants Converge for Rey Lopez Birthday Bash
When RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR) premiered on the Logo network in 2009, no one could have predicted the type of cultural phenomenon it would become, thrusting gay culture into the mainstream, breathing new life into the world of drag and bringing the show’s namesake out of 1990s-era oblivion. Only two years later, local nightclub promoter…
Bill Maher Brings Political Satire to Majestic Theatre
Stand-up comedian, talk-show host and political commentator, Bill Maher, is bringing his live comedy tour to the Majestic Theatre. Maher, a staunch supporter of gay marriage, animal rights, and atheism, has made his career calling out bigots and hypocrites. His public feuds with so-called conservatives have pushed the boundaries of public decency, and he is unapologetic…
“San Antonio Four” Documentary Will Get National TV Audience
Originally published in the San Antonio Current The dramatic case of four San Antonio women who say they were wrongly accused of gang-raping two children in the mid-1990s will air before a national TV audience this fall. Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four premiered at the Tribeca film festival last year…
‘Women of Ill Repute: REFUTE!’ Returns to Guadalupe After 15 Years
On Saturday July 23, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center will present Women of Ill Repute: REFUTE!, a play consisting of prose and poetry performed by five women, each noted poets and authors in their own right. Several of the women identify as queer. The group, Women of Ill Repute, founded by Amalia Ortiz, originally came together to raise funds for…
Catching Up with Artist and Entrepreneur Ana Fernandez
With a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles, Corpus Christi-born artist Ana Fernandez could have settled into a secure academic career. She taught at San Antonio College after returning to her adopted hometown in 2009, but then an entrepreneurial urge…
Political Art Month on the Chartreuse Couch
Ask your doctor if political art is right for you. May cause hindsight, nausea, projectile vomiting, heart palpitations, sweaty palms, bowel irregularity, dry mouth, high blood pressure, blurred vision, violent laughter, and other uncontrollable irritations. But relax it is only art. With your host, Gene Elder It is impossible to ignore politics, especially now, and it will be…
Carmen Carrera Returns to SA
Although she first came to fame with stints on season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race and RuPaul’s Drag U, Carmen Carrera has expanded her brand by becoming an actress, model, burlesque dancer, and advocate for transgender rights. Since coming out as transgender in 2012, this Puerto Rican beauty has appeared on VH1’s Couples Therapy and even…
The Portrait of a Lady: A Conversation with Trans Latin@ Activist Bamby Salcedo
On a recent Saturday morning, I had the opportunity to speak one-on-one with legendary trans Latina activist Bamby Salcedo after she led a workshop on community organizing at the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. Salcedo was in town for a screening of the documentary Transvisible: The Bamby Salcedo Story, a film about her life and…
Gay Bar Mass Murder Documentary Slated for SA Film Fest
Forty-three years before the mass murders at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, there was another tragedy that left 32 people dead after an LGBT bar in New Orleans was set on fire by an arsonist. A documentary chronicling that event will be screened at the San Antonio Film Festival on July 28. The documentary, “Upstairs…