Seven years ago, Dancing With the Stars aired its first ever same-sex dance routine. After the celebrity’s dance partner had been injured, a male dancer stepped in during rehearsals so that time wouldn’t be lost waiting on the celebrity’s original partner, and somehow it was decided that the men would perform the dance they practiced together on air. They…
Arts & Culture
When a longtime partner dies
A San Antonio man mourned the death of his loving companion of 25 years while simultaneously seeking the legal recognition needed to plan the burial. Russell Colombo and Anthony Medina met and fell in love in San Francisco in 1990. They were so committed to each other that in 1993, they entered into a formal…
Country days and drag nights on the South Side
They would eat tuna-fish sandwiches with watermelon by the river until it was time to go into the bar and get dressed for the evening. John McBurney and I sit down at the table to look at just a handful of the hundreds of Polaroid pictures he has stashed away from the Ponderosa. He’s…
Summer road trip daze: Head west
It’s a lazy Sunday afternoon in late July and we’re sitting in a steaming hot apartment. We moved in a few months ago so we could save enough money to buy our first home, and in the meantime we’re dripping our body weight in sweat. The window unit in the living room fights hard to…
The Queer Queens of Comedy are coming back to San Antonio
Pride may be over, but the LGBT community and its allies can rest assured that the focus on LGBT events isn’t over just yet: the Queer Queens of Comedy (Poppy Champlin, Vickie Shaw, and Sandra Valls) are gracing San Antonio with their presence this Wednesday and Thursday at the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club. It’s the…
Independence Day weddings at Unity Church
It may seem odd to some to have a wedding on the Fourth of July; it’s Independence Day after all and marriage is often the end of independence. But it makes sense this day, this year–because ever since the June 26 Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, the LGBTQ community now has the freedom…
Tyler Oakley, the internet’s sure shot
“By being myself, it might impact someone else in a positive way.” In the dawn of a new golden age for LGBTQ people, YouTube vlogger Tyler Oakley has the distinction of being in the right place at the perfect time. Excitement is brewing over the Teen Choice Award-winner’s upcoming live variety show, Tyler Oakley’s Slumber…
