Originally published in the San Antonio Current. Last month, a flurry of reports from online and print media revealed potential Trump administration rule changes that would permit discrimination in housing, health care and adoption assistance against LGBTQ people. But television news largely ignored those apparent reversals of federal policy, according to recent analysis by the…
Caitlyn Jenner: Misguided naysayers and meme-sharing irony
The Ashe Award is given to those “whose contributions transcend sports.” If we can’t see eye to eye on this, then we can’t be friends. I’m sorry. Now, seeing eye to eye doesn’t mean we have to agree. We simply understand each other and recognize and value one another’s opinion, different though they may be.…
Net Neutrality: SA needs to lobby its reps for an open internet
If you could go back in time, on this day, to decide how homes would be connected to water, what would you change? If you could rewind time back to those city planning meetings when decisions where being made about our roads and sidewalks, what would you tell them about our needs today? Out of…
In defense of a second season for ‘Looking’
The second season of Looking premieres January 11, 2015. HBO’s Looking is worth a second look, particularly if you’ve heard the buzz about last year’s terrible first episodes—the epitome of Bad Gay Art. Roughly modeled on such socio-sexual buddy series as Sex and the City and Entourage, Andrew Haigh and Michael Lannan’s project puts an…
How to get your hands on the Out In SA print issue …
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A brief history of SA’s queer media
San Antonio has had many queer publications over the decades, some lasting only a few months, others having remarkably long runs. 1970s This 1974 issue of Together Gay, a publication of the San Antonio Gay Community Center, provides an interesting example of how some queer San Antonians creatively responded to the challenges they faced. Gene…