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Ian Astbury Talks The Cult's Upcoming Tour With Against Me! & Laura Jane Grace

This afternoon, Rocks Off talked to The Cult's Ian Astbury as his band readies to go on tour with Against Me! and the Icarus Line at the end of the month. The month-long summer jaunt that stops at House of Blues June 19 was seen as a masterful juxtaposition of disparate sounding groups. Rocks Off th ... More >>

Pop Rocks: Chaz Bono Is Far from the Worst DWTS Contestant

Worse than her? Really?​As someone who doesn't watch Dancing with the Stars (note to self: watch DWTS for upcoming "Sight Unseen" blog), I'm not sure if I'm supposed to care about the announcement that Chaz Bono was added to the cast: Transgender activist Chaz Bono is speaking out for the fir ... More >>

Men, Nail Polish and Gender Identity: Did You Know This Was a Thing?

fashionbombdaily.comDave Navarro: Indoctrinating young boys into a cult of nail polish?​Just as I was wrapping up researching and writing a lighthearted piece about what a man's nail polish color says about him, I happened to tune in to an episode of ABC's Primetime Nightline entitled "My (Ext ... More >>

HISD Adds Transgender Category To Its Anti-Discrimination Policy

HISD specifies transgenders as protected​The Houston school district has added categories for transgendered individuals to its policy against discrimination. In addition to the already existing "sexual orientation," HISD has added "gender identity, and/or gender expression" to its list of cat ... More >>

Aggies Not Hospitable to Transgender Conference, So It's Coming to UH

UH seems more welcoming, group says.​The third annual Texas Transgender Nondiscrimination Summit had been scheduled to take place at Texas A&M this summer, but organizers now say, "In the interest of safety for the participants" it will be moved to the University of Houston. A conservative gr ... More >>

Annise Parker: Lamest "Gay Agenda" Ever

Shockingly, Dave Wilson is outraged.​Dave Wilson, the homophobe who did everything he could to derail Annise Parker's mayoral race, is at it again, mass-mailing people to try to drum up a candidate to oppose her re-election, the Houston Chronicle reports. Wilson says Parker has promoted a "g ... More >>

Wanna Date Nikki Araguz? AND Be on a Reality Show?

Nikki Araguz: Reality star​If you've been dying for the chance to date Nikki Araguz, transgender widow of a fallen Wharton firefighter, wait no longer: Local filmmaker Cressandra Thibodeaux is working on a reality series called Being Nikki that will include Araguz's quest for a new man. "We a ... More >>

Texas Repubs Say Allowing Transgender Marriages Was a Terrible Oversight And They Promise Never To Do It Again

Lois Kolkhorst wants to take it all back​Republican state legislators are seeking to correct a historic mistake they say should never, ever have happened: Allowing Texans who are transgendered to marry, like they can in almost every other state in the union. How this diabolical heresy first g ... More >>

Lucky Ward: HPD Says He Was a Serial Killer

HPDLucky Ward: HPD says he's strangled five victims​Houston police are saying a man they have charged with one murder is linked to four others, all strangulations. Lucky Ward, 46, had been charged with murdering a homeless woman near the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in September; today he ... More >>

Transgendered Woman Jenifer Rene Pool Announces Her City Council Candidacy

Mandy OaklanderJenifer Rene Pool announced her city council candidacy.​City council hopeful Jenifer Rene Pool, clad in a black blazer with a hint of a hot pink blouse peeking out from under it, conversed with a supporter upstairs at One's A Meal in Montrose yesterday afternoon. The subject: how mu ... More >>

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Tyjanae Moore: Mayor's Office Makes Clear Transgendered Woman Should Not Have Been Arrested For Using Women's Bathroom

Annise Parker clarifies things for HPD​Concerning Tyjanae Morre, the transgendered woman whose attempt to use a women's restroom in the downtown library got her tossed into the men's jail, and briefly threw city government into confusion, Mayor Annise Parker's office says the "misunderstanding ... More >>

Tyjanae Moore: Houston Still Struggling With Transgender/Bathroom Issues

We thought this had been ironed out​Two weeks after a transgendered woman tried to use the restroom in a city building, she and the city seem still to be recovering. A security guard at the downtown municipal library told police it was a man dressed in women's clothes that he saw entering the ... More >>

Phyllis Frye: Annise Parker Appoints Houston's First Transgender Judge (That We Know Of)

Lawyer Phyllis Frye, the transgender champion of Houston, has been appointed by Mayor Annise Parker to be a municipal judge. She would be the first transgendered judge in Houston, or Harris County, or maybe Texas, unless someone's been hiding secrets underneath their judicial robes. The announcemen ... More >>

Ang Lee Film Series

University of Houston-Downtown features early work by the director of Brokeback Mountain

The Fireman's Wife

Nikki Araguz, formerly Justin Purdue, clashes with family over her late husband's legacy.

Nikki Araguz: She Says E-Mails Prove Husband Knew She Was Born A Man

Nikki Araguz: Now with e-mail proof, she says​The fallen Wharton firefighter whose transgender widow is at the center of a nasty probate lawsuit knew about his wife's sexual reassignment surgery as early as October 2008, two months after their wedding, according to an e-mail exchange released toda ... More >>

Nikki Araguz: Lawyer Representing Her Husband's Ex-Wife Faces State Bar Investigation

Nikki Araguz's former lawyer publicized her history​The case of whether a fallen Wharton firefighter's benefits should go to his transgender widow< just gets exponentially weirder: Frank Mann, the lawyer representing Thomas Araguz's ex-wife, is facing investigation by the State Bar of ... More >>

Nikki Araguz Gives Statement, Doesn't Answer Questions

Photo via FacebookNikki and Thomas Araguz​Nikki Araguz, the widow of the Wharton firefighter who is being sued by his ex-wife and mother over allegations the marriage was invalid because she was born a man, had an unenlightening press conference yesterday.We didn't get the invite, but video shows ... More >>

Cross-Dressing In The Women's Room? You'll Need These Songs

​ God-fearing men of Houston: Mayor Annise Parker wants to banish your micturitions back to the Stone Age: "Houston's first openly gay mayor is now being accused of opening up the women's restroom to cross-dressing men. On Tuesday morning, the Houston Area Pastors Council issued a blistering ... More >>

Pastors Warn Houstonians: Ladies, Get Ready For All Those Men In Your Restrooms

Photo by mrkathika​An "inter-racial, inter-denominational" coalition of Houston-area pastors is sounding the alarm that Houston women will soon be facing a barrage of penises in their public restrooms.The culprit, of course, is Mayor Annise Parker, who they say they just knew would do this kind of ... More >>

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Soldier's Girl

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Houston Fringe Festival

Check out the latest from local underground playwrights, filmmakers, improv and theater troupes

Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps

Gender blender Scott Turner Schofield is “a man who was a woman, a lesbian turned straight guy, who is often called a fag.”

Transgender Day of Remembrance

Today’s event gives supporters an opportunity to mourn lost friends

The Vagina Monologues

Take a new look at what’s going on down there

Best of Dallas Video Festival

The coolest thing about our northern neighbors may be on video

XX Marks the Spot

Christie Lee Littleton's chromosomes nullified her marriage, but paved the way for a groundbreaking one

Absent a Mother

A judge says Karen Shrader can't see or talk to her children because she's a bad influence. Shrader says any “bad influence” comes from the application of her ex-husband's deep pockets to the East Texas legal system.

What's in a Name (and Sex) Change?

A preacher accuses the judiciary of allowing same-sex marriage fraud