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SA Same-Sex Couples Waiting To Wed After Supreme Court Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court will make history in late June, and change the lives of every same-sex couple — for better or for worse. The court will rule later this month on two key questions: whether bans on gay marriage are legal and whether states which do not allow the practice must recognize marriages from…
Bexar County Clerk Ready To Marry Same-Sex Couples
Bexar County Clerk Gerard “Gerry” Rickhoff has already de-gendered language on marriage licenses. And if the Supreme Court rules that Texas’ same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, he’ll keep his doors opened until couples eager to get married keep lining up. “We’ve made preparations to stay open late until there are no lines so that we…
Love Is All You Need: Inclusive Churches Welcome Same-Sex Couples
Same-sex couples’ right to marry is now closer than ever. But in Texas — like in other conservative states — religious officials like to warn their flocks of the danger, calamity and brimstone legal marriage for gays and lesbians is likely to rain down on the God-fearing masses because of the sinners. San Antonio is…
Conservative Millennials Want GOP Reversal On Same-Sex Marriage
David Puentes seems to have impeccable credentials for the type of political activist the Republican Party would want to take under its wings. The 26-year-old from Round Rock is a first-generation Mexican-American. He’s well educated and embraces conservative politics. He’s also gay. And he just does not get why his party is so off-target on…
Activist Gene Elder On Preserving SA’s LGBT History
Named in honor of developer, entrepreneur and arts advocate Arthur “Hap” Veltman and housed in the same historic building as The Bonham Exchange, The Happy Foundation is a non-profit archive dedicated to the preservation of LGBT history. Focused on, but not limited to, San Antonio and Texas, the foundation is funded by the Bonham and…
The Art And Odyssey Of Nina Donley And Zac Cimi Arte
Nina Donley, prolific artist and owner of the Zac Cimi Arte gallery, creates art on various hard surfaces that makes you feel like you’ve been teleported to a primal rave in the neon-haunted blackness of an ancient Mayan ruin. Her work begins in raw emotional and cultural inspiration and ends in vibrant abstraction. Donley arrived…
Has The Bonham Exchange, SA’s LGBT Mainstay Nightclub, Lost Its Way?
Since its inception in 1891, it has served as a gymnasium, a USO office and a storage facility for the U.S. Postal Service. But the building at 411 Bonham Street is probably best known as one of San Antonio’s oldest gay and lesbian social hotspots. Inspired by Alamo Hero James Bonham, the Bonham Exchange opened…
Bisexuals Still Trying To Find Their Place Within LGBT Family
Perennially cast in the background of the annual Pride family tableau and arguably the most quietly misunderstood of the four-lettered acronym wavers, there stands the self-identified American bisexual. Caught between a long history of Eurocentric and national heterosexism and the growing might of Bravo TV-infused lesbian and gay influence, contemporary members of this tribe have…
Is Pansexuality The Next Big Thing In LGBT Circles?
When 33-year-old Monique Martin attends a Pride event, she does so as an out and proud pansexual. Right on queue, the questions start pouring in the moment she utters the word. Not that she’s got a ready-to-go, concise answer. “It means I fall for all kinds of people and that’s a hard concept for people…
SA’s Robert Salcido Helps Push LGBT Candidates Into Office
San Antonio LGBT advocate Robert Salcido went back to school in May. He attended a four-day Candidate and Campaign Training workshop in Florida, part of the yearlong training and mentoring program organized by the Victory Fund and Institute. Salcido joins other fellowship recipients forming part of the institute’s inaugural fellow program class. Salcido is currently…
