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The Biggest Little Gay Rights Battle in Texasnew

The unexpected battle to protect San Antonio's LGBT citizens from discrimination.

San Antonio Current | Callie Enlow and Mary Tuma | 09-06-2013 | LGBT

LIFE AFTER THE NDO: A PRIMER FOR LOCAL LGBT ACTIVISTSnew

Let’s be real. For supporters, the long road towards the passage of the Non-Discrimination Ordinance (NDO) has been exhausting. Scratch that.

San Antonio Current | Richard Farias | 09-04-2013 | LGBT

San Antonio's Glacial Progress on LBGTQ Rightsnew

One by one, activists, family members, and allies of LGBT San Antonians stood before their councilmembers, demanding the gay community be treated as more than second-class citizens. Recounting emotional, first-person stories of victimization and intolerance, testifiers urged council to pass a measure that codifies their societal equity by granting them the same protections as their counterparts.

San Antonio Current | Mary Tuma | 06-26-2013 | LGBT

Tags: LGBTQ

Drag's New Dawn in San Antonionew

At first, it’s the bone structure that tips me off. Then, the thick, full lips. But ultimately, it’s the way he walks with unmistakable precision through Lulu’s crowded restaurant on Main that finally confirms that this man in a Spurs t-shirt could be none other than the singular Tencha La Jefa.

San Antonio Current | Jade Esteban Estrada | 06-26-2013 | LGBT

Tags: Tencha La Jefa

Can San Antonio's "Gay Dollar" Make Policy Impact?new

Money talks, but does it make a sound if no one is listening? San Antonio LGBT consumers pack enough buying power to bankroll the entire city budget for a year and a half. Yet in many cases here, they’re still fighting for full citizenship in both the workplace and public policy.

San Antonio Current | Jeffrey Wright | 06-26-2013 | LGBT

Tags: Pride

LGBT Liaison in Julian Castro's cornernew

When the Human Rights Campaign released its 2012 Municipal Equality Index, San Antonio scored a 48 out of 100, compared to Austin's and Dallas' scores of 91 and 76, respectively.

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 01-23-2013 | LGBT

Tags: Julián Castro

Bad LGBT Parents? Bad UT study, audit findsnew

Are kids raised by gay and lesbian couples bound to struggle more in life than those raised by straight parents?

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 08-02-2012 | LGBT

Artist Wesley Harvey on Homoeroticism, Dinnerware, and Bunniesnew

In the last two years, locally-based ceramic artist Wesley Harvey — who hails from Van Buren, Ind., the “popcorn capital of the world,” and has work in the permanent collections of the Shanghai Museum of Arts & Crafts and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction — has made a splash by exhibiting (and selling quite a bit of) china and porcelain adorned with decals made by appropriating raunchy drawings by Touko Laaksonen (better known as Tom of Finland) that take gay male sex fantasies to a place that’s larger-than-life, giving the gay art collector the perfect excuse to throw a dinner party with a happy ending.

San Antonio Current | Bryan Rindfuss | 06-29-2011 | LGBT

Tags: Wesley Harvey

Preteen Lightning Rod to Lead San Antonio’s Gay Pride Paradenew

A simple act of classroom disobedience turned 11-year-old Will Phillips into one of the country’s youngest — and targeted — gay-rights advocates.

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas | 06-29-2011 | LGBT

Tags: Gay Rights, Will Phillips

Time (and Public Opinion) is on the Side of Equality in Texasnew

At the start of this year’s legislative session, LGBT groups braced themselves for a bumpy ride. With an overwhelming Republican majority in the House and the Senate’s conservative edge, advocates knew prospects weren’t rosy.

San Antonio Current | Michael Barajas & Greg Harman | 06-29-2011 | LGBT

Tags: Gay Rights in Texas

On Coming Out and Staying Strong in a Not-Always-Welcoming Culturenew

The queer subculture that exists within San Antonio and other heavily concentrated Latino communities maintains itself despite cultural stigmas associated with being gay.

San Antonio Current | Christine Garza | 06-29-2011 | LGBT

Tags: Gay, Danny Olvero, xQsí Magazine

The Gay Place: We've Come a Long Way, But Where Are We Exactly?new

Now that everyone in America knows, lives next door to, is related to/married to/divorced from, or gave birth to an actual gay person, isn’t it time for a long, collective sigh of relief that we didn’t turn into pillars of salt for dancing with wild abandon to the Village People?

San Antonio Current | William Jack Sibley | 12-30-2009 | LGBT

Tags: gay and lesbian issues, homosexuality, Gay Rights