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Jon Matthews, Conservative Talk-Show Host & Sex Offender, Pulled From KPFT's Prison Show

We'd almost forgotten about Jon Matthews, one of the worst, if popular, right-wing blowhards to inhabit the Houston talk-radio universe. He was convicted of exposing himself to an 11-year-old girl which, given his monotonous blubberings about Bill Clinton's lack of morals, seemed to be odd. He was ... More >>

Notsuoh Wins Injury Suit

Jury rejects $12 million claim

Comment of the Day: Always With The Negativity

​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

Ray Hill's Arrest Video Tells Different Story Than What Cops Say

Don't Get in the Way of Our Titty Bar Raids, Yo! ​ Security camera footage taken during a raid at the Treasures strip club shows a Houston Police Department officer shoving gay activist Ray Hill in the chest before other officers surround the 71-year-old, handcuff him, and escort him from the ... More >>

Is Glee Too Gay? Fox 26 (Actually) Debates It

How could Glee be too gay?​The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is demanding an apology from MyFox Houston for a debate segment called "Is TV Too Gay?" that was shown after TV's Gayest Show Ever, Glee. The debate pit anti-gay buffoon and head of the American Family Association, Brya ... More >>

Prison Reform Film Festival

Hatchet Job

Activist Ray Hill responds to "Montrose Murder."

Montrose Murder

Paul Broussard's killer, up for parole, may not be model prisoner.

3rd Annual Houston Fringe Festival

FrenetiCore puts experimental arts on fast-forward

Ray Hill Can't Get Arrested In This Town (Really)

What's a guy got to do to get arrested in this town?​Longtime gay activist Ray Hill knows the law, and he knows how to push buttons. We thought he knew how to get arrested to make a point, but several Houston police officers proved up to the task of not falling for it.Maybe it was due to the fact ... More >>

Gay-Basher Denied Parole Again

Plus: Houston's past, all boxed up and nowhere to go.

Last Of The Incarcerated Gay-Bashing Woodlands Ten To Stay In Prison At Least One More Year

​The parole of Jon Buice, the last incarcerated member of the so-called Woodlands 10, was denied earlier this month. Buice is currently serving a 45-year sentence for his role in the Montrose murder of 27-year-old banker Paul Broussard on the Fourth of July in 1991.In a nationally notorious precur ... More >>

Houston 101: The Lesbian Bar That Shut Up HPD

​The 1960s weren't a very pleasant time to be gay or lesbian for most people, but especially in Houston. Somehow the Bayou City wasn't as accepting of alternative lifestyles as it is today (and we're not saying it's Nirvana today.)Police raids of gay bars were common. Common but bizarre, in the ca ... More >>

Gay Panic in Cowtown: Houston Pride

This city's gay community pushed back hard.

Five Great Moments In Houston's Gay History

Gays, lesbians, transgenders, bisexuals, transsexuals and their friends will be marching in the 2009 Houston Pride parade Saturday night (this year's theme is "Out for Justice").To add to the festivities, we thought we'd recap some of the highlights of Houston's GLBT history. 1958: Ray Hill came ou ... More >>

The Rally at City Hall to Protest Proposition 8

Hundreds of people gathered on the steps of Houston City Hall this afternoon to protest the passing of Proposition 8, California's constitutional amendment taking away the right to marry for same-sex couples. Along with the passing of other anti-gay measures across the nation, Prop. 8 made Novembe ... More >>

Rock the Lockup: 2008 Prison Reform Film Festival

Tales from the big house get on the big screen

Mean Streets

NASCAR has nothing on Houston freeways

Letters

No Way Out

How can homeless sex offenders comply with the registration laws?

Hard Time

Ray Hill's tips for surviving prison

Bonding with the Community

A Sixth Ward lesson in adapting to a changing environment

Prison Break?

Critics wonder if massive TDCJ cuts will be a prelude to privatization

Mail Sacked

The state says Texas prison inmates can't write to one another

Zipping Up Mary's

A local landmark for gay sex and social activism closes after 32 years

Justice for Some

Just who is a victim? After flexing its muscles to reform the justice system, the victims’ rights movement suffers growing pains over divisive issues.

Quarter Masters

A bill changer is only the latest example of profiteering at the county jail

The Saga Continues

The fat lady has yet to sing at KPFT

Not Over the Hill

Friends salute the man who still rails against the silence

Best New Theater

Ashland Street Theatre Co.,

Best Rant

Ray Hill

CanCell That Subscription

Texas Monthly locks out inmate readers

Making Things Perfectly Queer

Ray Hill's tattling one-man show is a microcosm of gay rights in Houston

Stand Up and Holler

A Huntsville execution draws a strange crowd

Captive Market

Robbery suspects may call from jail, but the county and Ma Bell are the ones making out like bandits

Media Row on Death Row

Will proposed media rules stifle coverage of convicts facing execution?

Tricky Dick

Nixon's Nixon gets political satire down pat

Night & Day

January 14 - 20, 1999

Night & Day

August 13 - 19, 1998

Night & Day

July 2 - 8, 1998

Night & Day

June 25 - July 1, 1998

Night & Day

May 14 - 20, 1998

The Insider

Killer Art

Elmer Wayne Henley has some pictures he wants you to see

Two for the Road

In which our man in Dallas joins Sofia Staks, Kayla Kleevage and other noted First Amendment activists on a mission to rescue Houston from the pashas of prudery. Or something like that.

Gayland's Choice

Gayland Randle was there the night Paul Broussard was murdered, but he never laid a hand on the victim. So why is Randle doing 15 years in prison?

Caught Dead In an Opera

Houston's beleaguered arts community talks to itself about Harvey Milk

A Gay Old Time at Fuzzy's

In a turnabout, homosexuals raid a police bar

Rudy T's Spin Move