Author: Shawn Weston

At a ceremony in the Pentagon today (Jan. 18), Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning awarded AMPA President Ashley Broadway-Mack the Secretary of the Army Public Service Award.

During his acceptance speech after his reelection as Texas Speaker of the House, state Rep. Joe Straus laid out his priorities for the session. Obviously missing was any anti-LGBT legislation, especially Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick’s notorious bathroom bill.

The music and theater community is supporting Derek Whitener, who is in a coma at Baylor Hospital with a fractured skull. On Saturday night, he was attacked in the Target parking lot by two men.

President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who will be released in May 2017.

Can’t get to Washington, D.C., for the Women’s March on Saturday, Jan. 21? Then there’s the Austin...