In this month’s episode of the Asking for a Friend podcast, host Dr. Laura McGuire chats with Bonnie Violet, a trans genderqueer chaplain, spiritual drag artist living with HIV, and recovering addict, about her experiences with queerness, religion, sobriety, HIV, and being "a chaplain of another sort."…
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Taking Things ‘One Gay at a Time’: Houstonian Mycah Angelou Taylor’s New Podcast is All Things LGBTQ
Posted on February 2, 2021Mycah Angelou Taylor's podcast, One Gay at a Time, feels like listening to a good friend talk about anything and everything. Every other Wednesday evening marks the launch of a new episode, in which Taylor dives into topics ranging from their own coming out tale, to the “lavender tax,” to the intersection of Blackness and queerness. Whatever the discussion of the week may be, Taylor both educates and entertains their audience.…
Hacking the Binary: Gender Through the Lens of Technology
Posted on August 13, 2020Dallas-based artist S Rodriguez sees “gender as a technology, both in a precolonial, colonial and postcolonial state. Gender plays a role in the way you operate in society. It is very much a tool, just like any technology, that you can choose or is chosen for you. And you can choose to continue working with that tool or change that tool.” While for some, the “goal” of gender as a tool might be “passing,” for Rodriguez and many others who…
Genderqueer Artist Stoo’s New Album ‘Supersuit’ Is A Real Catch
Posted on July 19, 2019In 2018, Houston-based genderqueer artist Stoo was ruminating over their intentions as a solo artist. Stoo’s music career had jumpstated with Bling St., a musical duo collaboration between Stoo and Luis Cerda. The duo’s EP, Costume, was unanimously well received, but the band eventually split, leaving Stoo with the freedom to develop their own voice and aesthetic. …
Veer Queer Episode 29: Making Non-Binary History
Posted on June 7, 2019The Veer Queer team sits down with Mike Webb, first-ever Pride Houston Non-Binary Grand Marshal, to talk grassroots political change, their journey coming out as genderqueer, and Pride inclusivity.…
Transouthern Youth: Meet Nicholas Hooten
Posted on November 23, 2018One thousand miles—that’s how far Nicholas Hooten journeyed to find his identity. Three years ago, the now 18-year-old genderqueer college student left his childhood home in Indianapolis to plant new roots on southern soil, deep within the Sunshine State. The move, Hooten says, felt like a homecoming. “Indiana is such a small state, everyone knows everyone there,” he explains. “I wasn’t out while I was there, and then I moved [to Orlando] and met so many different queer friends. It…
Houston Transgender Unity Banquet Celebrates 26 Years
Posted on September 11, 2018The Houston Transgender Unity Banquet, the largest annual transgender community event in the city, is celebrating its 26th anniversary on Saturday, September 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Doubletree by Hilton Houston Intercontinental Airport.…
Healthcare is a Human Right: Houston Secures Transition-Related Healthcare Benefits for City Employees
Posted on August 29, 2018Senior police officer Jackie Boniaby is a staple within the Houston Police Department. For the past 26 years, she’s dedicated her life to service, holding various positions throughout the department. The last few months, however, have been a transition—Boniaby recently came out as a transgender woman and is taking steps to live publicly as her authentic self. “I just recently transitioned,” Boniaby tells Spectrum South. “I had to conceal who I was for years. It’s a journey, but I’m simply…
Out of the Ashes: A Journey of Mental Health and Self-Care
Posted on December 29, 2017Mike Webb simply could not get up. Two years of trauma had manifested into a mental and emotional breakdown. What followed was a short stay in a local behavioral hospital, three months of home care and outpatient recovery, and a healing journey that continues to this day.…
Landline: An Introduction to Gay Porn
Posted on November 17, 2017The door slides open, and I hop down the steps and onto the street. The school bus drops me and a few other kids off at the entry to our neighborhood. The cement feels soft beneath my new Sketchers. Mother bought them for me last weekend. After pay day, she took me to the Payless and let me pick out a new pair. She said my last ones needed to be replaced because they had gone to hell. The other…