Lost, hypothermic and nearing death, Rachel Lloyd found herself isolated in a New Zealand forest with no guarantee she would make it out alive.
Last April, the interpersonal communication graduate...
As a black member of the LGBT community, Xavier Livermon rarely saw anyone like him in his history books. But now, as an assistant professor, Livermon is teaching students the diverse curriculum he didn’t...
1908: First openly queer professors hired at UT
English professor Lisa Moore, whose concentration is in LGBT studies, said in an email that her department has concluded that the first openly gay professors...
Paloma Diaz and Raul Madrid were born countries apart, but it only took one Brazilian carnival in Bahia to bring them together.
“Sometimes you just know,” Madrid said. “I remember...
Wei-Hsiang Huang always dreamed of coming to the U.S., but the thought of leaving everything he knew scared him. There was only one person with whom he could think of beginning this new chapter of his...
Editor’s note: In 300 words or fewer, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold.
Every day, Allen Corley wakes at dawn, puts on his uniform and heads to...
As 17-year-old Jace Klein sat in his room sprinkling glitter onto a Batgirl T-shirt, his dad approached him with the question he’d been dreading for months: “Are you gay?”
Two years...
His voice is his camera. His visions are his movies. His motivation is his heritage.
Director Hector Galan’s made his most recent film, “Willie Velasquez: Your Vote is Your Voice,”...
Editor’s note: In 300 words or fewer, this series spotlights people in our community whose stories typically go untold.
Snooping around her father’s desk as a young girl, Andi Gustavson...
College students all over the country proudly mount their empty beer and liquor bottles atop shelves and cabinets in their apartments. UT alumni Virginia and Matt Benavidez and their friend Cameron Paxton...
Ripped from the headlines, brutal stories of drugs, war and murder on the border became the subjects of alumna Natalia Anciso’s series “Flora and Fauna.”
One of the pieces, “Madre...
She used to stand on a chair with corn husks in her hand and maza on a spoon, spreading the mixture around messily as her grandmother reassured her that she was doing well.
Now, radio-television-film...
