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Comfort House staff — hands off

According to some staff members at the Comfort House, a 34-year-old nonprofit in McAllen that offers hospice care, some harassment has come their way after it was announced in early May that a June fundraiser was going to put on a drag-queen show.In fact, at least four drag queens were scheduled to perform at the June 4 fundraiser.When I first saw the social- media flyer advertising the event, it didn’t take a rocket scientist to know that the show was going to be a source of some controversy.The Advance carried a story (Observations Column) about the fundraiser in its May ...

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