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From meet and greets with local candidates to the âWeird Mom Prom,â this Fort Worth nonprofit is building community and changing perceptions about the kinds of people who live in the DFW metroplex.
Under policies adopted last year, the VA now refuses to support newly transitioned veterans. Even accessing routine healthcare can be a challenge.
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In 1988, the city of Dallas filled in a hole. City council spent half a million dollars to fix a dangerous gap left on a vacant lot by a construction company. Seemingly good news, right? Well, to local LGBTQ+ activists, it was a sign of how little local politicians cared
In Austin, a city with an abundance of drag shows, one monthly showcase offers a unique platform â and launch pad â for emerging talent. âYou get to see future legends get their start, and other people just flourish and find their niche.â Thatâs how âBig Tits, Bigger Dreams,â or BTBD,
For many Christian women, a womanâs role in the churchâs ecosystem has long been fixed. But Beth Allison Barr, a historian and the wife of a pastor, felt compelled to challenge the prevailing narrative surrounding women in North American Christianity using history. This culminated in âThe Making of
Indigo Giles remembers the lonely feeling when they first came out as nonbinary in eighth grade: Neither teachers nor students made much effort to acknowledge their new identity. âI do think that would have made a big difference in my struggle with my mental health and with feeling secure in
A decade ago, getting on PrEP in Austin meant a consultation, a round of labs, and a follow-up. Kind Clinic's new Same Day program is trying to collapse all of that into a Friday afternoon walk-in.
EXCLUSIVE San Antonioâs Turner Hall was constructed more than a century ago as a gathering space to improve its community. Now home to a gay bar called the Bonham Exchange, the storied building survived the Civil War, both World Wars, the 1921 flood, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Today,
Artist Carter St. Hogan starts all of his performances with an unexpected bit: asking the audience to choose between two mustaches. âIâm a trans person who still cannot grow a mustache. Itâs not in me. I donât have the genetics,â Hogan explained during an unofficial SXSW showcase
In theory, being transgender shouldnât matter when it comes to voting. But when it comes to transgender rights in Texas, things often donât go the way they should. âThe way that it's supposed to work is that no one is supposed to be denied the opportunity
Itâs hard to ignore Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents when they come crashing into your neighborhood. Itâs become the topic of conversation in Austinâs North Loop, Reilly, a 42-year-old transgender resident, told The Barbed Wire one February evening from a graffiti-covered picnic table in