As a playwright, Susan Hussey used her characters as prisms to cast an intimate light on global issues such as environmental disasters and AIDS. ...more

February 20, 2009

As a playwright, Susan Hussey used her characters as prisms to cast an intimate light on global issues such as environmental disasters and AIDS. ...more

February 19, 2009

There was a squealing drag queen from Telemundo. There were beefy football players who twirled a sequin-clad dancer in a Super Bowl version of "Dancing with the Stars." And a "journalist" measured the arm muscles of players as she cooed into the camera. ...more

January 28, 2009

Chicago, Philadelphia. Tampa? Carrie West, who helped start the GaYbor District in Ybor City, wants to turn his community into one of the nation's top gay and lesbian destinations. ...more

November 30, 2008

Gay men and lesbians have had their share of setbacks in the Bay area. But amid all the high-profile heartbreak, there are signs large and small that the Tampa Bay area is growing more supportive of gay men, lesbians and their families. ...more

November 28, 2008

SARASOTA - They want to see what all the hype is about. But the 150 people who reserved a seat at tonight's drag queen bingo might not get a chance to see the drag queens call the first bingo number. ...more

December 17, 2007

They want to see what all the hype is about, but the 150 people who reserved a seat at tonight's Drag Queen Bingo might not get to see the drag queens call the first bingo number. ...more

December 17, 2007

SARASOTA - Skip Dyrda is fed up with Drag Queen Bingo at the neighboring Canvas Cafe, a weekly event that highlights drag queens hollering bingo numbers and off-color jokes into a megaphone less than 20 feet from Dyrda's home. ...more

December 13, 2007