In Movie Theaters: Sinners is excellent. I want to see The Wedding Banquet. Rocky Horror Picture Show is at River Oaks Theater May 9.
Streaming: Conclave (Prime, maybe elsewhere). Netflix Secret of the River. Soundtrack to a Revolution (Prime, maybe elsewhere. I want to see it with you.). Netflix The Residence. Netflix The Six Triple Eight. Netflix Black Barbie. Netflix They Cloned Tyrone. Netflix AJ and the Queen. Netflix Extraordinary Attorney Woo. A list of shows by Black creators.
Ongoing protests: weekly noon to one protest at the Social Security office at 13302 Westheimer at Westheimer & Eldridge. weekly protest at John Cornyn’s office which I think is at 5300 Memorial Drive has been going on for ~ 8 years. May 10 is the next 50501 protest in Houston.
May 1 Houston May Day Day of Action-Woori Juntos
May 1 Black Jewish Americans at the Center for the Healing of Racism
May 1-May 10 Moody Center Breath(e):Toward Climate and Social Justice
May 1-25 Holocaust Museum Houston Life and Death on the Texas Border
May 1 – April 2026 Mural Memoria by Vincent Valdez
May 2 Soul Flower Music Fest at Discovery Green
May 3 Lucha Libre
May 4 Deluxe Theater Smoke Screens
May 5 Memorial for Joe Campos Torres 6:00 PM 1301 Commerce St (Joe Campos Torres Plaza)
May 5 Cinco de Mayo with Pride 365 at Axelrad
May 5 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Day
May 7 Crying Game at River Oaks Theater
May 9 Volunteer set up for Community Baby Shower at Bread of Life
May 9 – 31 Ensemble Theater Coconut Cake
May 10 College Park Cemetery Cleanup
May 10 50501 protest? According to AI: The 50501 Houston Coalition is planning a protest at Houston City Hall on May 10, 2025. The protest, part of a nationwide movement, aims to raise awareness about the working class’s opposition to attacks on civil liberties and the rule of law. The event will also focus on raising money for Meals on Wheels, which is facing funding cuts
May 10 Braver Angels Houston: Who Decides What Our Children Learn?
May 12 Pure Justice General Meeting
May 13 virtual NAACP National webinar: Budget Power – Reconciliation, Revenue & FY26 Advocacy
May 13 Arc of White Womanhood Conversation with a Woke and Broke Black Woman
May 15 Diverseworks 12 Minutes Max
May 16 Ven the Valentine
May 17 Witness Series Drawn to Nature: Building Community through Observation
May 17 Rothko Chapel Family Day
May 17 Baker Ripley Citizenship Forum Volunteer Opportunity
May 20 6:00 Houston/Harris County budget workshop Acres Homes Multi Service Center
May 20 Indivisible Katy Huddle Elect Sara McGee
May 22 Asian American Pacific Islander Month – Center for the Healing of Racism
May 22, 23 and 24 Miller Outdoor Theater Dancin in the Street Motown Revue
May 24 50501 protest I think.
May 25 The Center for the Healing of Racism Remembers George Floyd 11:00am at Emerson Unitarian Church
May 29 Asia Society Past Present and Couture
May 30 Miller Outdoor Theater Kindred Soul: The Legacy of King and Gandhi
May 30 Transformation: An All Trans Speaker Panel with Ethan, Atlantis, Joelle and Giana. 6:30 Pearl Bar 4216 Washington Ave
May 30 – August 16 Moody Center Figurative Histories Exhibit
May 31 virtual Toward Right Relationships with Native Peoples
May 31 Inaugural Black Alphabet Film Festival Houston
May 31 Texas Organizing Project (TOP) People’s Disaster Recovery Forum
June 1 The T.R.U.T.H. Project presents the 5th Annual And Through Their Eyes Grow Thorns Art Exhibition: Joy Found Us, an exploration of storytelling through a Queer Lens of Color
June 1 Juneteenth Houston Pop Up Festival
June 3-9 virtual Global Premiere of Eternal Song: Ancestral Wisdom for Collective Healing
June 6 Baker Ripley Pride Paint
June 6-27 MFAH screening a lot of Jazz related films
June 7 Acres Homes Chamber Farmers Market
June 7 Sankofa Emancipation Project Juneteenth Photo Session
June 7 Karaoke Pride
June 7, 14, 21, 28 and 19 Juneteenth Tea Cakes and Tours
June 7, 14, 21, 28 and 19 From Plantation to Emancipation – The Freedom Experience”
June 7-8 Symposium: Town Meeting 1978-2028 A weekend of Panels, Workshops, Manifestos, Arts and Community exploring Houston’s LGBTQ history and visioning our shared queer future.
June 8 virtual Study of Deepa Iyer’s Social Change Network (6 sessions)
June 8 Fade to Black Arts Festival Community Day and Kickoff Ceremony at the Hobby Center
June 8-15 Houston Fade to Black Fest
June 10 Master Class with Phylicia Rashad – M.A.T.C.H. Fade to Black Festival
June 11 S.H.A.P.E Center Community Meeting
June 11 Whitelisted – Alley Theater – Fade to Black Festival
June 14 Indivisible Katy Kick Out the Clowns Protest in Katy
June 14 Fade to Black Arts Festival: Theater, Music, Poetry & Film. Hip Hop Talk Back Honoring K-Rino
June 15 Ebony Opera Guild Juneteenth Concert From the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter: The Journey to Freedom Continues…
June 15 Houston Pride Grand Marshall Reception
June 20 Rothko Chapel Summer Solstice concert Nameless Sound
June 20 Monica Roberts event about the price of trans visibility at Heritage Society of Houston
June 21 Center for the Healing of Racism 31st annual Juneteenth BBQ and Ally Award celebration.
June 21 Houston Pride Band at M.A.T.C.H.
June 21 Voices of Houston Rock My Soul
June 25 Rock The Runway® 2025 | Official Pride Fashion Show
June 27-July27 Ensemble Theater The Tap Dance Kid
June 27 Eden® 2025 | Official Pride Girl+ Party
June 27 Underground Pride Houston ’25
June 26-27 Ballet Trocadero
June 27 Houston Trans Pride
June 28 Pride 365 Houston Parade
June 28 ACLU Advocacy Summit at DeLuxe Theater
June 29 7th Annual Pride Houston Brunch benefitting the Montrose Center
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