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Katy ISD's Gender Fluidity Policy Forces Some Students Back In The Closet

By Faith Bugenhagen
Sep 24, 2024

Over a year into enacting a policy requiring instructors to tell parents if their children request to go by a different name or pronouns, Katy ISD officials report that there have been 36 instances where officials have made such notifications. This number is an increase compared to the 19 notifications...
GOT's Kristian Nairn Has More to Say Than Just "Hodor" in New Memoir

By Bob Ruggiero
Sep 16, 2024

If you think about it, perhaps no actor in the history of acting has gotten as much of a career and lasting pop culture legacy from one line of dialogue—actually just a single word—as Kristian Nairn. For five seasons on HBO’s massively successful series Game of Thrones, Nairn played Hodor...
Transgender Texans Parse Through Another Policy That Prohibits Gender Changes On Birth Certificates

By Faith Bugenhagen
Sep 5, 2024

LGBTQ advocacy and civil rights organizations are evaluating what procedures were bypassed by the Department of State Health Services after the agency quietly rolled out a policy change that blocks the ability for transgender Texans to change their gender on birth certificates. “We’re trying to create solutions,” Andrea Segovia, policy...
Transgender Texans Are Left In Limbo As The Texas DPS Enforces New Policy

By Faith Bugenhagen
Aug 29, 2024

LGBTQ advocacy and civil rights organizations have found that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was behind the Texas Department of Public Safety’s recent policy change that blocks transgender Texans from altering their gender markers on state-issued IDs and driver’s licenses. The change, which effectively halts the department from accepting court...
Gender Fluidity Back On The Docket For Katy ISD Trustees, But This Time It's All About The Books

By Faith Bugenhagen
Aug 20, 2024

On Tuesday, Katy ISD trustees discussed a revision to the district’s library book policy that would ban titles that feature “gender fluidity” at the elementary and junior high school levels. Under the proposed changes, high school parents would have the choice to decide whether or not they want their children...
Putting the B in LGBTQ: Molly Cook has the recipe for success

By Sam Byrd
Jun 28, 2024

Houston Press met with members of the LGBTQ community to learn more about their experiences belonging to this group. These are their stories. Meet Molly Cook, the newest openly LGBTQ+ member of the Texas legislature.
Putting the L in LGBTQ: Tammi Wallace Means Business

By Sam Byrd
Jun 27, 2024

As head of the Greater Houston LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, Tammi Wallace is a fierce advocate for the growing group of LGBTQ-owned business and allies of the queer community in H-town.
The Woodlands Pride Will Open A Community Library Featuring LGBTQ & Other Narratives

By Faith Bugenhagen
Jun 25, 2024

What does one organization do when pro-censorship advocates and special interest groups spearheading widespread book removals in local-area school districts permeate into public libraries? It opens its own library. The Woodlands Pride, a nonprofit pride organization based in The Woodlands, will host its grand opening of The Woodlands Pride Community...
Putting the G in LGBTQ: Meet The 'Mayor Of Montrose'

By Sam Byrd
Jun 21, 2024

Houston Press met with members of the LGBTQ community to learn more about their experiences belonging to this group. These are their stories. Meet Dennis Beedon, the "Mayor of Montrose."
Conroe ISD Trustees Table Discussions About A Potentially Copycat Gender Identity Policy

By Faith Bugenhagen
May 15, 2024

At Tuesday's board meeting, Conroe ISD trustees declined to consider drafting a policy that resembled a controversial gender identity measure in Katy ISD that is undergoing federal investigation. Trustee Misty Odenweller proposed that the board write its version of this policy to dictate what bathroom facilities students could use. Notably,...
Librarians Under Siege in Montgomery County?

By Faith Bugenhagen
May 8, 2024

The war on libraries is raging. There is no doubt about it. A growing network of increasingly conservative school board candidates running on book-banning platforms is attempting to overtake public school librarians’ judgment calls. Public libraries, run by their respective jurisdictions — whether that be a city, county or state —...
How Love Survives in the Most Grotesque of Circumstancesin Cleansed

By Margaret Downing
Apr 2, 2024

His head just inches away from the overhead lights, Raymond Compton as Woman sits in rehearsal in a crouched over position, at the highest part of the stage making his debut in the Catastrophic Theatre production of Cleansed. This regional premiere, the production of the fertile, avant garde imagination of...
National LGBTQ+ Advocacy Group Sues Texas AG Ken Paxton To Protect Trans Families [UPDATED]

By Faith Bugenhagen
Mar 1, 2024

PFLAG National, a LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after receiving a request to turn over information regarding the work that the group does to assist families with transgender children and adolescents. According to the lawsuit filed in Travis County District Court on Wednesday, the Texas...
Oral Arguments Begin in Efforts To Overturn Ban on Gender-Affirming Care For Minors [UPDATED]

By Faith Bugenhagen
Jan 30, 2024

The Supreme Court of Texas will hear oral arguments on Tuesday in a case challenging a law that went into effect last September that prohibits transgender children and adolescents from receiving gender-affirming care. Senate Bill 14 bans access to treatments, such as puberty blockers and hormone therapy, for transgender youth...
Houston Performing Arts Goes On Pointe with The Trocks

By Sam Byrd
Jan 19, 2024

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo will return to Jones Hall on January 23 with skillful dance work and hilarious takes on beloved ballets.
Mom, Teen Turned Away From Rocky Horror Because of Anti-Drag Law

By Jef Rouner
Dec 1, 2023

Senate Bill 12 isn’t being enforced right now, but it’s already having an effect. A Dallas woman who wanted to take her two children to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show was turned away at the box office this past Saturday. “I bought the tickets online, and there was nothing...
Woman Who Claims Scholastic Book Fairs Gave Her Porn Addiction Works for Right Wing Children’s Publisher

By Jef Rouner
Dec 1, 2023

Lanah Burkhardt, 20, had quite a tale to tell the Conroe Independent School District board at a public hearing this November. My story started when I was 11, and I was introduced to a single kiss in a Scholastic book,” she said. “I didn’t understand why I liked it. This...
Conductor Bernstein's Daughter Joins Houston Chamber Choir for Screening of Maestro

By Sam Byrd
Dec 1, 2023

Jamie Bernstein, daughter of Leonard Bernstein, will join forces for a one-night-only event to celebrate the screening of Maestro, the Bradley Cooper biopic about the Bernstein family. The film is in limited release and will be available on Netflix starting December 20.
Conroe ISD Follows Suit Of Other Local District And Passes Revised Book Review Policy

By Faith Bugenhagen
Nov 15, 2023

Following in the footsteps of nearby school districts, Conroe Independent School District implemented changes to its book review process on Tuesday night – placing further restrictions on what can and cannot stay on the shelves. After re-evaluating the proposal initially introduced by Trustee Tiffany Baumon Nelson last month, it passed...
Best Of Houston® 2023: Gay Bar

By Sam Byrd and Houston Press
Nov 6, 2023

In this year's Best Of Houston®, the Houston Press selected Michael's Outpost as the Best Gay Bar.
Best Of Houston® 2023: Drag Performer

By Houston Press
Nov 1, 2023

In this year's Best Of Houston®, the Houston Press selected Kofi as the Best Drag Performer.
When the Rainbow Isn't Enough: Local LGBTQ+ Students Feel the Walls Closing In

By Faith Bugenhagen
Oct 30, 2023

Like most high school students, James Onambele watched his peers constantly change, trying different versions of themselves to see which fit best. All the while, Onambele, a now 19-year-old transgender male, navigated a change of his own. “I would constantly feel too feminine, but at the same time, I was transitioning...