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The DeLuxe Theater’s ‘Art for the People’ Celebrates History with a New Focus

Posted on September 29, 2021

Art for the People pays homage to The De Luxe Show, one of the country’s first-ever integrated art exhibitions, which took place 50 years ago in 1971 at the old DeLuxe Theater. The DeLuxe Theater originally opened in 1941 and served the city’s Black community. After the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964, segregated movie theaters were no longer needed, and the DeLuxe Theater closed in 1969. However, the building remained standing and, in 1971 when the De Menils tasked…

Leading While Black: Harrison Guy Opens Doors for New Leadership of Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board

Posted on May 28, 2020

When Harrison Guy assumed the role of co-chair of Mayor Turner’s LGBTQ Advisory Board in the summer of 2017, many of Houston’s LGBTQ community members saw him as the new kid on the block. Little did they know, he’d been on that same block for well over a decade—they’d just never walked on his side of the street.…

Black Like Us: A Candid Conversation About the LGBTQ Experience Comes to University of Houston

Posted on February 21, 2018

For some in the Black community, the LGBTQ experience is a touchy subject—for others, it’s an untouched issue. Our silence and suppression has taken a toll on both of our communities, leaving many of our people struggling in uncomfortable gray spaces or even completely in the dark when it comes to questions of identity. “Black Like Us: A Candid Conversation About the LGBTQ Experience,” an upcoming facilitated community dialogue that will be held in collaboration with the University of Houston…

Harrison Guy

The DeLuxe Theater’s ‘Art for the People’ Celebrates History with a New Focus

Leading While Black: Harrison Guy Opens Doors for New Leadership of Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board

Black Like Us: A Candid Conversation About the LGBTQ Experience Comes to University of Houston

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