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Category: LGBT issues

April 27, 2018
Obituary archive honors lives lost to AIDS, the history of Houston’s gay community

Obituary archive honors lives lost to AIDS, the history of Houston’s gay community

The three paragraphs stopped her cold. There, in black and white, was the news Jacqueline Kiffe had both sought and dreaded for nearly 25 years. Kiffe reeled. As if she had been punched in the gut. She had long been searching for any trace of a boy she had first met in a Pasadena middle …

June 28, 2015
Houston mayor and her wife share love story

Houston mayor and her wife share love story

On a sultry Wednesday evening, Annise Parker stands in front of the Corinthian columns of her lemon-yellow house, clutching a retractable leash. She is gently coaxing Kitsune, a tiny grass-phobic Shiba Inu, to linger on the lawn a few minutes longer. Canine therapy, she explains. It’s been a busy day, following a hectic trip to …

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