EDGE Dallas

Call it benevolence through beer or generosity by gin and tonic, a new Houston bar is offering its customers a pledge that 100 percent of its profits will be donated to a local charity or social cause each month.

On New Year’s Day, Houston lesbian Belinda Espinoza shot her partner of three years, Ana Flores, and then turned the weapon on herself, in a case that highlights the issue of domestic violence in the LGBT community.

Lesbians are heading nonprofits, winning high public office and getting national media. Here are some outstanding examples of those who have succeeded in a (straight) man’s world.

From a full-out Bette Midler tribute to a real-life dance diva, from fine dining to all-night dancing, the Bayou City is going all out for a Texas-sized Pride June 16-23. Join the out-gay mayor & several thousand of her pals for a sizzling hot time.

Equality Forum on May 5 presented Houston Mayor Annise Parker with its International Role Model Award during its annual dinner in Philadelphia. She spoke with EDGE about her tenure, her marriage equality activism and her future plans.

Easter will hatch many hundreds of hot men when Bunnies on the Bayou once again takes over Houston to celebrate, schmooze & party.

Conservative Houston radio talk show host Michael Berry was reportedly spotted leaving a local gay bar before he allegedly crashed into the bouncer’s car and left the scene.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker hosted the annual International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference last weekend that brought nearly 500 LGBT elected officials, candidates and former candidates to the Space City.

Houston on Tuesday, Nov. 8, became the first major American city to re-elect an LGBT mayor. Mayor Annise Parker narrowly avoided a run-off with 51 percent of the vote.

"Houston’s vibrant culinary scene is constantly changing, which makes reporting on it both interesting and a challenge - and a danger to the waistline," jokes editor/publisher Teresa Byrne-Dodge.