While me and my BTAC trans family were gathering in Dallas for our event, our trans cousins in Europe were gathering in Budapest, Hungary...

Today is the 9th annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.   It has become one of the largest international solidarity ...

Today is Houston Mayor Annise D. Parker's birthday!   She was born on this date in H-town in 1956 and is serving her third and final t...

Tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the unanimous May 17, 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case that outlawe...

This is an example of some of the jaw dropping ignorance I and our HERO passage team have had to deal with and endure over the last severa...

I did want to take some time to highlight today is the last day to donate to the indiegogo campaign to help raise funds for Gender Proud, t...

Today is the 51st birthday for who I hope will become in six months the next governor of the Lone Star State in Texas state Senator Wendy Da...

As some of you in H-town and elsewhere are more than aware of, we are in a battle with the Forces of Intolerance to pass the HERO and get lo...

Back when I lived in Louisville as a Texan in exile, one of the fights I was involved in was a 2007 battle with the JCPS school board to a...

Pretty much sums up the attitudes of the opponents on the other side and a nauseating talking point we have heard repeatedly cited over th...

After a late Tuesday night at 901 Bagby St. went back to City Hall Wednesday morning at 9:00 AM to watch what I hoped would be history being...

My Houston area (Hitchcock, TX near Galveston) homeboy Michael Sam was the subject of another recent Dale Hansen commentary on WFAA-TV in ...

It was a long tough day at City Hall, and I'm getting my beauty sleep in preparation to go back to City Hall to hopefully witness histor...

I'm at City Hall preparing to do battle with the Forces of Intolerance in our last public comment session before the vote happens tomorr...

KMJQ-FM aka Majic102 has been the longtime R&B station on our local FM radio dial since 1978. It is owned by the African-American owne...

Those of us advocating the long overdue passing of the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance have had a pretty good run of success.  When it was...

Today marks the second anniversary of the death of 25 year old New York girl like us Lorena Escalera. The model and member of the House ...

You know I've had the pleasure of having novelist Denny Upkins as a guest poster here at TransGriot from time to time. But Denny's...

I wasn't even back in Harris County 24 hours from my empowering BTAC 2014 convention birthday weekend excursion to Dallas last week when...

June 25, 2014. That is the day that Tona Brown makes history when she plays Carnegie Hall.   If you're in the New York area, I hop...