Just in case you're wondering, I celebrated my birthday a month ago. The Monica I'm wishing a Happy Birthday to is one who is no lon...

photos-Duke Ellington, Denyce Graves, 'Jimmy Jam' Harris and Terry Lewis Since 1979 the month of June has been celebrated as Black ...

Chuck Knipp + SQL + Minstrel Show = Racism Copyright 2007, THE LETTER Just in time for pride I’m calling out all you GLBT racism enablers. R...

In this post I'm going to concentrate on transwomen inhabiting Europe. We transpeeps need to give the Europeans major shout-outs. They...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as the old saying goes. What I'm doing in this series of posts is trying to objectively ascertain...

The Miss Tiffany Universe pageant that occurred earlier this month got me thinking about this question: Who does have the most beautiful tra...

One of the things I've been thinking about recently is why some people get so bent out of shape when someone is perceived as not being i...

I thoroughly enjoyed the Miss Universe broadcast last night. While I was disappointed that Miss USA Rachel Smith didn't win, it was ...

Since I mentioned the Miss International Queen Pageant in conjunction with the post I just composed about the 2007 Miss Tiffany Universe Pag...

- As a native Houstonian I've had a good-natured love-hate relationship with the third largest city in Texas. I can't hate on it tha...