Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Moulin Rouge

Miracle Faker

Rick Perry is right: America can learn from Texas. He's just wrong about what the lesson is.

The Most Ridiculous Houston Rap Rumors Ever

​Earlier this week, Houston rapper Propain signed a deal with No Limit Records. Cool, except that he really didn't. See, and you likely didn't notice this because it's such a subversive part of the culture, but the environs of rap, themselves tedious and occasionally barbaric, are prime grou ... More >>

Five Texas Sluts Worth Admiring

SlutWalk Houston is right around the corner, and we've decided to celebrate, (Hair) Balls out. In case you're not familiar with the march, SlutWalk was born of a Toronto police officer's comment that women should avoid "dressing like sluts" in order not to be raped. It's a chance to stop the cycle o ... More >>

German Measles Break Non-Metal "No Disease Names" Rule

Todd Purple​ You know, if we had to sum up The German Measles' music, we'd have to just stick with saying, "They're from New York." It's a very, very Velvet Underground, East Coast approach to rocking you and mocking you. They're so obscure they haven't even heard of themselves, you motherlovi ... More >>

Today Only: Dine Out for Life

​Wondering where to go for lunch or dinner today? Let me make that choice exceptionally easy for you: Dine out for life, and support AIDS research by eating at one of these restaurants. They're all supporting Dining Out For Life, an annual charity event whereby restaurants donate 33 percent - ... More >>

Budget Cuts May End State HIV Program

Not that much of an exaggeration​In the maelstrom of suckage that is the state's $15 billion budget deficit, potential cuts to one program might literally be a death-blow. The Texas HIV Medication Program, which covers treatment for approximately 15,000 people with HIV/AIDS, is facing cuts th ... More >>

Hip-Hop for HIV Awareness Concert

Not that much of an exaggeration​In the maelstrom of suckage that is the state's $15 billion budget deficit, potential cuts to one program might literally be a death-blow. The Texas HIV Medication Program, which covers treatment for approximately 15,000 people with HIV/AIDS, is facing cuts th ... More >>

Tony Yayo Talks Sex, Patron And The Future Of G-Unit

​G-Unit soldiers Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo have signed on to headline Saturday's 4th Annual Hip-Hop For HIV Awareness concert at Reliant Center. Tickets are free, but only with an HIV test at one of the City of Houston Department of Health & Human Services' designated testing locations. A list ... More >>

A Twisted Holiday

The Gay Men's Chorus of Houston sings holiday tunes in a whole new way

Dengue Fever

The Gay Men's Chorus of Houston sings holiday tunes in a whole new way

Obama's Screwing Texas Out Of Swine Flu Vaccine!!!! Or Maybe Not

​Is Obama trying to kill Texans as revenge for not voting for him?Quite possibly, if you believe a list of swine-flu vaccine information getting e-mailed around. (And yeah, we're calling it swine flu, you H1N1 snobs.)What's being e-mailed is a list of vaccine doses shipped, broken down by state. C ... More >>

Houstonians Helping AIDS Victims In Big Media Push That Will Include Oprah

​What do Oprah, the TV show 20/20, Houston crime victim advocate Andy Kahan and Houston lawyer Kim Ogg have in common? They're all involved in the sordid tale of Philippe Padieu, a Dallas-area man who is in prison for knowingly having unprotected sex with dozens of women without telling them he w ... More >>

BARC Wants More City Money Now, Or Dogs And Staffers Will Die

The Bureau of Animal Regulation and Control vaccinated only eight percent of animals on entry between July 2008 and January 2009, according to a BARC supplement asking for additional funding from the city. "Best industry standard is to vaccinate all animals entering a shelter, to minimize ... More >>

Swine Flu Is A Pandemic Now!!! Panic!! Or, In Houston, Don't

The World Health Organization has declared swine flu to be a pandemic, the first in over 40 years.It's doing it mostly on the basis of a sharp growth in cases in Australia, Japan and Chile, but just about every story on the subject -- at least in America -- mentions Houston.We were, of course, the f ... More >>

Revenge Of The Swine (And The Obsessive Hand-Washers)

A swine flu pandemic isn't a "foregone conclusion," according to the new alert level issued yesterday by the World Health Organization. But things are starting to get a little scary. Cue the travel warnings. The United States said not to head south of the border. The European Union said stay a ... More >>

Local Scientists Say The Superbugs Are Coming To Get Us

Listen up people - we have run out of options. At least when we come to superbugs, if University of Texas Medical School researchers Dr. Barbara E. Murray and Dr. Cesar Ariasare to be believed. The two study infectious diseases for a living, so they should know. Their article in a recent New England ... More >>

The Illuminations Project

Make the holiday season a time to give back

Last Night: Dengue Fever at the Orange Show

Make the holiday season a time to give back

Aeros Get Ready for the Rampage

Make the holiday season a time to give back

Big Shot: Tunnel Mole Watches Sheryl Swoopes Get Needled

Make the holiday season a time to give back

The Illumination Project

Local performers commemorate World AIDS Day

Four Corners Music from Asia, Europe, North and South America

Mukuru raises awareness by bringing the ends of the earth to Houston

J Xavier

Mukuru raises awareness by bringing the ends of the earth to Houston

Peter Gallagher (and his eyebrows) Want to Save You from the Flu

Mukuru raises awareness by bringing the ends of the earth to Houston

Heart Stopper

Theatre New West presents Larry Kramer's revenge -- and his testament

Walk It Out

Theatre New West presents Larry Kramer's revenge -- and his testament

Colored Classics

Theatre New West presents Larry Kramer's revenge -- and his testament

Home Style

Theatre New West presents Larry Kramer's revenge -- and his testament

Caught on Camera

Photographer Adrain Chesser has "Something to Tell You"

Birthday Surprise

Preservationists get help in the oddest way

Viva la Causa

Strap on a red ribbon and walk for AIDS awareness

Call Holding

Jerker still yanks at AIDS with abandon

Death Is in the Details

Actors Theatre tries to raise our AIDS awareness -- a decade too late

AVES Clinic DOA

Questions linger in the aftermath of the clinic's closing

AIDS Activist

A comical Waltz delicately reflects the early days of the AIDS epidemic

Out of the Closets

Archiving Houston's queer history, one T-shirt at a time

The Man Who Knew Too Soon?

Eight years ago Tom Curtis reported that AIDS could have been spread by an experimental polio vaccine grown on monkey kidneys. Scientists sniffed. Journalists scoffed. The story died. Now, a new book says the theory wasn't so stupid after all.

Taken for a Ride?

An AIDS charity event's enormous expenses are alienating some activists

Widening the Waldhauser Net

An AIDS charity event's enormous expenses are alienating some activists

Letters

An AIDS charity event's enormous expenses are alienating some activists

Letters

An AIDS charity event's enormous expenses are alienating some activists

Crushing the Opposition

Baylor and Fulbright & Jaworski -- with the help of a lame duck judge -- see to it that Bonnie Dunbar won't get a chance to tell all in court

Story Time

Elia Arce's performance art has a simple theme: The real lives of real people

Life in Motion

A fatal diagnosis leads Bill T. Jones to ask: What's the best way to live?

Cliche Positive

Do good intentions make for good plays? Not necessarily.

The SAs a girl, she tried to break the color barrier in Houston schools. As an adult, she worked in the African liberation movement and against apartheid.

Now, back in Houston, she's in the fight of her life. Struggles of Beneva Williams Nyamu

Royal and Righteous

Queen for a Day benefits a good cause and gives local bands a chance to rock you

The Private Life and Public Death of Frank Koury

Frank Koury wanted to keep his gay life at home and his legal life at Fulbright & Jaworski separated. But when he died, everything was revealed.

Boys' Shorts: The New Queer Cinema

Frank Koury wanted to keep his gay life at home and his legal life at Fulbright & Jaworski separated. But when he died, everything was revealed.