In celebration of the historic June 26 ruling from the Supreme Court finding a Constitutional right to marriage for same-sex couples, we’re posting stories and photos from our Spring wedding issue. Clay Rodgers spent one of his most memorable dates in a car. He and then boyfriend Ryan decided to drive to Las Vegas. The couple…
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Toasts from Anel y Erika’s wedding
In celebration of the historic June 26 ruling from the Supreme Court finding a Constitutional right to marriage for same-sex couples, we’re posting stories and photos from our Spring wedding issue, starting with this series of toasts that were given last year at the Isla Mujeres ceremony of Erika Casasola and Anel Flores: As scientists try…
Don Coyote: Flores’s ‘Sex as a Political Condition’
Carlos Nicolas Flores’s new novel, Sex as a Political Condition, bears the subtitle “a Border novel” and has a distinctly Mexican-American flavor, but its observations are universal. It sees the world through the perspective of Honoré, a former drug trafficker trying to survive selling knickknacks to tourists. Among the knickknacks are some old tin soldiers–a…
Phantom Room offers new spot for ladies to come out
“We’re letting people know that SA is queer-friendly.” Lady-loving ladies and queer folk have a new bar option Thursday nights. Phantom Room opened this April, and is open every night of the week except Monday. Thursdays, however, are reserved for the aptly named Cock Block: a dedicated lesbian and queer night (though all are welcome.) Cock…
Jose Torres-Tama’s One Man Sci Fi Latino Noir Show
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…
Burgers and Jazz with Ken Slavin at Sam’s Burger Joint
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…
Love, Music, and Nosferatu (the rock opera)
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…
Gene Elder’s June Pride Deep Thoughts from the HAPPY Foundation
Gene Elder’s June Pride Deep Thoughts from the HAPPY Foundation (Dog-gone-it! Because people like me.) 1) What happens when the unmovable meets the unstoppable? I predict it’s not a pretty picture. That is how I view the conflict between the religious fundamentalists and the GayBLT community. The rest of us are in the path of…