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04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 3 Mayor: Scott Griggs religious faith.” District 1: Chad West; District 2: Adam Me- But opponents said SB 17 is just bigotry DallasVoice.com/Category/Instant-Tea drano; District 3: Davante Peters; District 4: Asa poorly disguised as religious freedom. instan Woodberry; District 5: Jaime Resendez; District Sen. Royce West, a Dallas Democrat, said TEA 6: Omar Narvaez; District 7: Calvin Johnson; during Tuesday’s debate that “the practice of District 8: Erik Wilson; District 9: Erin Moore; faith has been tied to a lot of hideous practic- application from Turtle Creek Conser- District 10: DeDe Alexander; District 11: Lee es,” such as prohibiting interracial marriages. vancy, which runs the park, to name it Kleinman; District 12: Cara Mendelsohn; District He added, “The reality is that a lot of people Turtle Creek Park. 13: Laura Miller; District 14: Philip Kingston have done things that were not consistent While Take Back Oak Lawn — from staff reports with being a Christian” while claiming religious members argued that stripping away motivation. the Oak Lawn name was intended to — Tammye Nash make the LGBT community invisible, SB 17, allowing discrimination, black speakers pointed out that when passes Senate the park carried the Oak Lawn name The Texas Senate on Tuesday, April 2, Women’s Chorus of Dallas to in the early 1900s, only whites were passed Senate Bill 17, which would allow sing at Carnegie Hall allowed to use the park. professionals — including health professionals The Women’s Chorus of Dallas will be The name change came down — to discriminate based on their own “sincere- singing Saturday, May 25, at New York’s to marketability. Conservancy board ly-held religious beliefs.” The bill was authored Carnegie Hall as the “nucleus” of an ensemble members who spoke said they by Sens. Charles Perry, Paul Bettencourt, performing “music by women, for women’s believed they’d be able to market the Brian Birdwell, Donna Sue Campbell, Brandon voices, according to an announcement today park with the Turtle Creek name easier Creighton and Bob Hall, all Republicans, and by MidAmerica Productions. than with the Oak Lawn name. Democratic Sen. Eddie Lucio. The performance will be conducted by Oak Lawn Park becomes The name change is immediate and The final vote was 19-12. Lucio was the only Women’s Chorus of Dallas Director Melinda Turtle Creek Park can’t be reconsidered for 60 years. Democrat to vote for the measure, and Sen. Imthurn as part of MidAmerica Productions’ — David Taffet Kel Seliger of Amarillo was the only Republican 36th concert season. While WCD has already The Dallas Park and Recreation Board voted to vote against it. performed four times at Carnegie Hall “under 11-3 Thursday, April 4, to change the name of DGLA PAC issues mayor and Perry defended his bill as providing MidAmerica’s auspices,” this will be the chorus’ the former Lee Park/current Oak Lawn Park to city council endorsements “pre-emptive protection for religious employees first appearance there since Imthurn took over Turtle Creek Park. When the statue of Confed- The Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance PAC at a time when, he claimed, religion is under as director 13 years ago. erate Gen. Robert E. Lee was removed from the has issued endorsements in the Dallas mayor’s attack.” Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has put Perry’s bill Imthurn said, “I am delighted to be the first park in 2017, city officials decided to temporarily race and in all 14 Dallas City Council races. on his list of “top 30 priorities” for this session, conductor of The Women’s Chorus of Dallas to return to the park’s original name of Oak Lawn DGLA President Patti Fink, Erin Moore’s wife, and his spokesman, Alejandro Garcia told the lead them in an all-women’s-voices perfor- Park. Several groups submitted applications for recused herself from any participation in the Tribune last week that SB 17 “will ensure that mance from the podium at Carnegie Hall. This a permanent name. Two were considered — an endorsement process. anyone can practice their profession in Texas is truly a landmark event for all involved.” application from Take Back Oak Lawn to make Endorsed candidates are: without being forced to compromise their — Tammye Nash Oak Lawn Park the permanent name, and an

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• Weekly: Lambda Weekly at 1 p.m. on Monday evening except the last of the month Leadership Lambda Toastmasters practices Friday at 1919 Independence St., Room 19, Sunday on 89.3 KNON-FM with David at 8 p.m. at the Fuse space in the 3918 Harry and develops speaking and leadership Plano. 972-316-9188 for details; Leadership Taffet, Lerone Landis and the late Patti Hines Blvd.; FuseConnect every Wednesday skills from 6:30–8 p.m. on Tuesdays at First Lambda Toastmasters gay-identified Fink. This week’s guest is filmmaker Scott from 7 p.m. For more information call or e-mail Unitarian Church, third floor of the Hallman Toastmasters group meets from 6:30-8 p.m. Poggensee; Silver Pride Project Coffee and Jalenzski at 214-760-9718 ext. 3 or Jalenzski@ Building, 4012 St. Andrews; Thrive support every Monday at the First Unitarian Church, Conversation from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Monday myresourcecenter.org; LGBT square dancing group from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. followed by 4015 Normandy Road (does not meet on at Oak Lawn Library and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. on group Pegasus Squares meets the second mixer every Monday at Resource Center, 5750 Mondays that are holidays); United Black Wednesday at Grauwyler Library; Unwired and fourth Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at Grace Cedar Springs Road; Lambda AA meets at Ellument hosts discussion on HIV/AIDS in the Group of Crystal Meth Anonymous meets United Methodist Church, 4105 Junius St. 7 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. and black community (UBE Connected) at 7 p.m. Sunday at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and For more info, email pegasussquares@gmail. has a men’s meeting at 10 a.m. on Saturdays every fourth Tuesday of the month at 3918 Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 11:30 a.m. com; Dallas Frontrunners meet for a walk and meets at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Harry Hines Blvd.; DVtv in Spayse, news at Resource Center, 2701 Reagan St.; Core or run on the Katy Trail at Oak Lawn Park, Sunday at 1575 W. Mockingbird Lane #625. and entertainment discussion live streaming Group Meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of Turtle Creek and Hall Street, every Wednesday Call 214-267-0222 for details; LGBT Sex every Friday, 4–5 p.m., on the Spayse Station the month at 7 p.m.; Fuse game night every at 7:15 p.m. and every Saturday at 9 a.m.; Addicts Anonymous meets at 6 p.m. every YouTube channel.

6 dallasvoice.com █ 04.05.19 OBITUARY • April 13: Prime Timers Potluck hosted by Sean at 5 p.m. at 1521 Heidi Drive, Plano.

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04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 7 No tie? No problem

ASD’s signature fundraiser about $100,000, Kershner recalled. He also noticed that around the com- started as — and still is — munity big events had big sponsor par- a casual way to have fun and ties. He hosted those for the first seven help a good cause years. At the end of 10 years, Kershner said, he told the board, “I’m out of friends DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer and out of ideas.” But he still enjoys [email protected] having friends over for dinner before heading over to the No Tie Dinner he 15th annual grand finale. No Tie Dinner, Maison said Frontiers of Flight one of AIDS Ser- Museum is a fun venue with exhibits vices of Dallas’ that change all the time. The airplanes largest annu- hanging from the ceiling just give the al fundraising evening an interesting vibe. He also events, takes place said it was accommodating to an event on Saturday, April like No Tie. 6, with participants gathering at the The Frontiers of Flight Museum is one Frontiers of Flight Museum following of the few venues in town that allows an dinners at individual homes. organization to bring in its own cater- No Tie began as the casual alterna- ing and alcohol, helping the event to be tive to Black Tie Dinner, according to profitable for ASD. its founders. “Have dinner with friends Traswell Livingston, interim president then join us for dessert” has long been and CEO of ASD since Maison’s retire- the theme, stressing the informal atmo- ment in February, said this year there sphere of the event. are 28 official dinners — including his Groups of people go to social gather- second or third No Tie As Kershner remem- own. He lives in the Fair Park historical ings before No Tie — anything from a Dinner and had a good time. bers it, Maison threw the name district, and his party begins in the after- seated dinner in someone’s house to a Maison said ASD was already partic- No Tie Dinner out before they even for- noon with a DJ in the backyard. A neigh- barbecue in a backyard to a casual pot- ipating in LifeWalk and Black Tie Din- malized what the event would be. bor does one as well and the guests run luck. The groups may be small or as ner, but they were looking for their own Kershner said the formula they came back and forth between parties. large as 30 people. signature event. “We were looking for up with was “the easiest thing to do. Livingston said he’s heard some of the After dinner, the groups head over to something that was ours,” he said. We’d drag in family and friends. We’re dinners are on Friday night, and a cou- the Frontiers of Flight Museum on Lem- One staff member began looking at going to have dinner parties and then ple were held last weekend. That way mon Avenue at Love Field for dessert, what other AIDS organizations around converge.” the individual dinner parties aren’t cut drinks, entertainment and a silent auc- the country were doing. An HIV The first year, No Tie was held at short, and on No Tie Dinner night, no tion. Admission is a $75 per person do- non-profit in the Carolinas was doing Southside on Lamar. The problem with one is rushed to get to the museum. nation to AIDS Services of Dallas. what Maison described as “Guess who’s the space was that the silent auction was Volunteers are especially needed af- When former ASD CEO Don Maison coming to dinner. You didn’t know held on the opposite side of the building ter the dinner is over. Because the party referred to No Tie as the casual alterna- where you were going to have dinner.” from the main party. takes place on the floor of the museum, tive to Black Tie, he said the name was Starting with that concept, AID Ser- “There was little signage,” Maison desert and silent auction tables, bars, never meant as a slap in the face to the vices tweaked the idea so that people said. About 250 people attended, but stage, sound equipment and everything large, seated dinner that benefits a va- would go to dinner at someone’s house that first event didn’t make much mon- else has to be set up the day of the event. riety of organizations throughout the and then end up at one big event. ey. Kershner said it raised about $18,000. After the event, everything must be torn LGBT community. The name was meant Board member Dennis Kershner re- The second year No Tie Dinner moved down before organizers leave. to be fun, and ASD was targeting a dif- called, “We were looking for something to the Frontiers of Flight Museum, and Livingston said many ASD residents ferent audience, Maison explained. to do,” and when Maison shared they the event began to take off. That year, help with tear down, but other volun-

But he was glad when the entire Black were looking for that signature event, they raised about $36,000. The third year teers are always welcome to help. █ Tie board of directors showed up to the Kershner said, “I can do that.” brought in $50,000, and the fourth raised For information visit NoTieDinner.org.

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04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 9 Huge change: Everything’s the same

Dr. David M. Lee, left and Dr. John Carlo

Uptown Physicians and Prism Southeast Texas. Dr. David M. Lee, founder and presi- Health NTX form a partnership dent of Uptown Physicians Group, said the idea of working together developed DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer over years of [representatives from both [email protected] organizations] knowing each other and Come experience having the same vision. fficials with Up- Prism Health CEO John Carlo said, town Physicians “We’ve known each other many years the love inside Group and the and talked about the challenges of pa- non-profit Prism tient care. Patients are having trouble Born in the LGBTQ Community, Health North affording medications.” Texas this week Prism Health NTX cares for peo- Constant in sharing God’s love announced that ple with HIV and has a PrEP clinic for for almost 30 years they are forming HIV-negative clients. Uptown Physi- a partnership, but for patients and em- cians does general primary care with ployees, nothing will change. a specialty in HIV. As Prism has done Doctors and physicians’ assistants more preventive care and as Uptown has from both organizations will continue to gained experience with changing insur- SUNDAY SERVICE: work at the same offices in which they’ve ance coverage, their offices and medical 10:45 AM worked all along. No names will change. specialties have crossed. And patients should call the same num- “What’s expected of our patients has 1451 John West Road ber they have always called and will see increased over the years,” Lee said. Dallas, Texas 75228 the same healthcare provider they have “What used to be a $20 co-pay has in- been seeing. creased in some cases to $6,000 out-of- FOR MORE INFO: While this combination of a non-prof- pocket.” whiterockchurch.info it and for-profit to provide community Lee gave an example of how the syn- 214-320-0043 healthcare is a first for Dallas, Legacy ergy of the two organizations will benefit 214-623-7209 Community Health in formed clients. He said he’s seen a number of pa- with a similar collaboration between the tients who were on PrEP but couldn’t af- Montrose Clinic and a general medical ford the preventative medications when Find us on Facebook! practice and now has at least nine clin- they lost their jobs and their insurance. ics across the city and another five across CHANGE, Page 12

10 dallasvoice.com █ 04.05.19 Huge change: Calling all visionaries

Creating Change staff and co-chairs from the 2019 conference attended Detroit Pride last year to generate interest in the event. (Photo courtesy of Creating Change) Creating Change host “It is important to us to highlight the work that is happening in the commu- committee launch party nity and the people who are doing that is Monday work,” she added. “We can do that through plenary sessions focusing on lo- TAMMYE NASH | cal issues and by recognizing local peo- 50th Managing Editor 50th [email protected] ple with awards at the conference. We need to the host committee’s input to be he National LGBTQ able to do that.” Anniversary!Anniversary! Task Force’s 2020 The first Creating Change Conference Creating Change was held in 1988, organized to help build Conference is set on the momentum of the national march for Jan. 15-19 at the on Washington, D.C., for LGBT equality Sheraton Dallas ho- held the previous year in October. Andy tel, and Task Force Garcia, director of the Creating Change WEDNESDAY organizers are ask- department at the Task Force the purpose ing local advocates to get involved with remains to build community and keep the April 17th the planning process by becoming part LGBTQ community’s momentum mov- of the conference host committee. ing forward, nationally and in local com- Planning begins in earnest with an munities. That’s why, he said, the confer- event to launch the host committee on ence is held in a different city each year. Monday, April 8, at Resource Center, “We could hold the conference In D.C. 5750 Cedar Springs Road. The event be- every year. That would be easy for us gins with dinner at 6 p.m., followed by a since that is where we are headquartered. meeting at 6:30 p.m. But we very consciously don’t do that,” Evangeline Weiss, director of leader- Garcia said. “A large part of the magic [of ship programs for the Task Force, that a the conference] is working with people team of four Creating Change staff mem- locally, learning the issues that impacting bers, including her, will be at the meeting these communities and the people who to explain the role the host committee are working to address the issues. will play in organizing the conference. Weiss said that requests for workshop “We are calling all queers and all al- and plenary panels for Creating Change $5 Enchilada dinners lies and all people who care about social 2020 will be issued in July, with the $5 Margarita mugs justice,” Weiss said. “The whole process deadline for submitting proposals “right and tequila shots begins Monday, and we are looking four around Labor Day. One of the functions .50 cent Sopapillas. co-chairs for the host committee.” of the host committee is to help identify Deals are good at all three She said each of the co-chairs will take fantastic workshop proposals. In early locations, dine-in only. responsibility for one portion of the plan- November, we will notify people wheth- ning process — hospitality, special events, er their workshops were accepted.” 10am to 9:30pm at the fundraising and recruiting and marketing. Garcia added that organizers will give Dallas location (4617 Maple Ave.) “Host committee members will be our deference to locally-driven content in with promotional giveaways and ambassadors” to the North Texas com- choosing workshops. “The range of top- live Mariachi music from 5pm-9pm. munity, she said. ics is whatever people want to submit “Members of the host committee are re- to us. What drives Dallas? What are the DALLAS DESOTO PLANO 4617 Maple Avenue 2109 N. Hampton 2001 Coit Road. Ste. 102 ally an outreach branch of [the Task Force], challenges and the opportunities there? Dallas, TX 75219 Dallas, TX 75115 Plano, TX 75075 and at the same time they bring with them In submitting proposals, think about (214) 528.8383 (214) 709.0005 (972) 599.1300 to us knowledge of the community and what Dallas — and Texas, more broadly

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04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 11 CHANGE, From Page 10 “We don’t want to fall out of network tients may benefit from the psychiatry lo said they’re adding a pharmacy to the

Prism Health NTX has a solution that for a patient,” Lee said. “There are no component at Prism, and a Prism patient South Dallas Clinic where there’s not a Phone 214-754-8710 █ Fax 214-969-7271 will keep someone on the HIV-preven- changes in current networks.” may benefit from a specialty of an Up- pharmacy for miles. 1825 Market Center Blvd., Ste. 240, Dallas, Texas 75207 tive treatment, even during periods of Carlo called the combination a matter of town doctor. While Prism Health NTX has been a Hours: Weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. • dallasvoice.com lapses in insurance. patient choice, although he doesn’t want But both agreed: More doesn’t change community health center for people with Carlo said his organization has only patients to change from exactly the same for patients than does change. Most HIV, the LGBT community in Dallas has no administration taken insurance since 2012, while “Up- clinic and provider they now use. But as importantly, patients will see the same community health center. Uptown Physi- Leo Cusimano Publisher █ 114 town is health insurance savvy.” the two groups begin to work together, doctor at the same location, and the loca- cians Group hopes to become that resource. editorial Carlo and Lee said they’ve been in dis- “we may find better options for certain tions will retain their same names. “Transgender care — together we can Tammye Nash Managing Editor █ 113 cussions on coming together in a partner- patients with more complex needs.” With the partnership, new services tackle that issue,” Lee said, calling the Arnold Wayne Jones Executive Editor Life+Style l 129 ship for more than a year. And making Uptown has nine providers, and Prism will be added. While North Dallas has trans community an underserved pop- David Taffet Senior Staff Writer █ 125 sure there was no disruption in patient has eight plus psychiatry services. Lee at least one CVS or Walgreens on every ulation. “Trans people drive to us from Philip Burton Proofreader Contributors: Chris Azzopardi, Jenny Block, care has been their primary concern. suggested in some cases, Uptown pa- major corner, South Dallas doesn’t. Car- out-of-state for care.” J. Denton Bricker, Alicia Chang, Lawrence Ferber, Together, Uptown Physicians and Hardy Haberman, Scott Huffman, Lisa Keen, Cassie Nova, Prism Health NTX are building a new Mikey Rox, Howard Lewis Russell, James Russell, prevention clinic on Lemmon Avenue Terri Schlichenmeyer, Leslie McMurray, Mathew Shaw, Brandi Amara Skyy, Mark Stokes, Jef Tingley, Casey Williams near Central Expressway. People on Photographers: Kat Haygood, Chuck Marcelo, Cassie Quinn PrEP need to have a quick check up four times a year; rather than a long wait at advertising Chad Mantooth Advertising Director █ 131 a doctor’s office from either side of the Nicholas Gonzalez Advertising Account Rep. █ 115 new partnership, they can stop by the Stephen Mobley MarketPlace Sales █ 123 new prevention clinic for a fast blood National Advertising Representative draw to check for HIV and other STDs, Rivendell Media Inc. 908-232-2021 get any questions answered and then be on their way. art Kevin Thomas Art Director █ 119 Lee and Carlo expect more business Shawn Weston Graphic Designer █ 132 from the prevention clinic to be coming from Dallas County, whose STD clinic multimedia Stephen Mobley Social Media Manager █ 123 on Stemmons Freeway is so busy, they’re Brian Kennedy Video Producer turning away 200-300 people a week. Israel Luna Video Producer/DVtv host Carlo said clients would be assured Brad Pritchett DVtv Host Brandi Amara Skyy DVtv Host of a “quick, efficient visit” with “a good affirming team” they’re putting in place. circulation Development director Tori Hobbs Linda Depriter Circulation Director █ 120 stressed that the new partners “still need founders community support.” Although she ex- Robert Moore █ Don Ritz pects more visits will be covered by insur- affiliations/memberships ance, she said that contributions help keep Associated Press - Associate Member people in care. And more resources mean National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association Chad Crager, FNP | Steven M. Pounders, MD | Chad Nyland, DO bringing more uninsured people into care. Certified LGBT Business Enterprise Founding Member - North Texas GLBT Chamber D. 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12 dallasvoice.com █ 04.05.19 Phone 214-754-8710 █ Fax 214-969-7271 █ commUNITY 1825 Market Center Blvd., Ste. 240, Dallas, Texas 75207 voices Hours: Weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. • dallasvoice.com administration Leo Cusimano Publisher █ 114 Remembering to live in the Now editorial Tammye Nash Managing Editor █ 113 Arnold Wayne Jones Executive Editor Life+Style l 129 found a path of spirituality that res- Some- words. I am not built to have any other David Taffet Senior Staff Writer █ 125 onated with my understanding early thing/ reaction. Philip Burton Proofreader in my adult life. Reading the seminal some- I have also grown to understand how Contributors: Chris Azzopardi, Jenny Block, I J. Denton Bricker, Alicia Chang, Lawrence Ferber, writing Be Here Now, authored by Ram one was dangerous it is for me to sexually engage Hardy Haberman, Scott Huffman, Lisa Keen, Cassie Nova, Dass (Richard Alpert), was an awaken- always when there is no connection. By doing Mikey Rox, Howard Lewis Russell, James Russell, ing for me. It is the only spiritual expe- making so, I only contribute to my emotional and Terri Schlichenmeyer, Leslie McMurray, Mathew Shaw, rience I have known. It is the only one I me hap- spiritual destruction. In the same way, Brandi Amara Skyy, Mark Stokes, Jef Tingley, Casey Williams continuously connecting at that level yet Photographers: Kat Haygood, Chuck Marcelo, Cassie Quinn will ever need. py, and Many people would dismiss this as that hap- treating it as a casual encounter void of advertising some 1970s fad-du-jour that swept me piness any meaning becomes yet another small Chad Mantooth Advertising Director █ 131 away for a time. I understand the rea- would death inside of me. Nicholas Gonzalez Advertising Account Rep. █ 115 Stephen Mobley MarketPlace Sales █ 123 sons behind that assumption; it was surely At some point, it becomes clear to National Advertising Representative a time period that spiritual practices last for- most of us what drives our attraction to Rivendell Media Inc. 908-232-2021 promising enlightenment proliferated. I ever. others. For many it’s a specific person. no more expect a true skeptic to accept It takes Other individuals have a certain type art my belief than they would accept the a lot of effort to keep that illusion going. they pursue. I acknowledge that in my Kevin Thomas Art Director █ 119 Shawn Weston Graphic Designer █ 132 concept of a real God. At other times, people and things experience the individuals have been ex- In the book, Alpert narrates his very were often horrible. Misery and suffer- tremely important. They were all similar multimedia private search for meaning and his en- ing were all I could see. Life’s adrenalin in ways that clearly indicate my taste in Stephen Mobley Social Media Manager █ 123 Brian Kennedy Video Producer counter with an Eastern spiritual practi- is difficult to step back from. men. Israel Luna Video Producer/DVtv host tioner. That was his journey, one that he I forgot that staying present and wit- It is always the connection for me Brad Pritchett DVtv Host brilliantly shared. I was smart enough nessing everything that life threw at me above all else. These fleeting glances into Brandi Amara Skyy DVtv Host to understand the power of the written allowed me to feel each joy and each the god-souls that manifest into flesh as circulation word. Even then I possessed a healthy sorrow and not lose the sheer beauty of men are my sense of truth in this life. I Linda Depriter Circulation Director █ 120 sense of skepticism. it all. will respect that ideal today. founders That said, to this day, I am convinced It is no surprise that my expectations The desire to live in the now perme- Robert Moore █ Don Ritz that the message he gained from his ex- that involve sexual partners reflect this ates my experience. I may be seemingly affiliations/memberships perience somehow managed to pene- core spiritual belief. What matters to immersed in life’s challenges, but in that Associated Press - Associate Member trate the core of my own understanding me is the deep connection that derives inner realm, that sense of mindfulness, National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association of life’s meaning. Somehow, the knowl- from such intimacy. The sex is incredi- there continues some strangled progres- Certified LGBT Business Enterprise edge imparted by that teacher changed ble when two people are fully present in sion. Founding Member - North Texas GLBT Chamber I seem to move into the present mo- Founding Member - National LGBT Media Association me forever. the moment. Time stops; the world fades I am someone that teacher never met. away. ment, in spite of myself. The other day, I have no connection to him or Mr. Alp- While the reality of my sexual expe- I came across a long-held collection of ert. I have no explanation. But from that rience has included the full gamut, sex old photographs I had saved throughout moment on, I understood the naked for its own sake does little to enhance my earlier life. Without any planned in- beauty of inhabiting each moment. I am my life on any deep level. In my concept tention, I sorted through them. When I convinced that in the eternal NOW is of how to live as a whole person, each was done, I had thrown out 80 percent where happiness abides. encounter should be deeply felt. The of them. What was pictured in those dis- © 2018 Voice Publishing Company, Inc. 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04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 13 LIFE+STYLE music

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Withher the release ofhand her first album in 6 years, Dido reflects on gay fans, genre-hopping and realizing she’ll never be Madonna (that job is already taken)

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14 dallasvoice.com █ 04.05.19 f you want Dido to tell you a story, ing to my husband, I still do! I came down don’t be weird. It helps if you’re a the other day and he was just like, “You fan. It especially helps if you’re a know, you’re dressed as the ‘Papa Don’t I Preach’ video right now?” And he was just fan in a sea of other fans, “White Flag” laughing because my hair is really white- sweeping you away to that soothingly blonde at the moment. introspective Dido place at one of her shows. Just don’t be some nosy journal- My next question was gonna be: When did you realize that being Madonna ist out to get a good Dido story — you wasn’t possible? I can still dream. won’t get a good Dido story. And don’t ask her to say her full, iconic birth What song of yours do gay fans tell you they connect with most? Originally it name. She’ll playfully decline because might’ve been “Take My Hand.” That was the name — Dido Florian Cloud de the first song I wrote, I think, that ever got Bounevialle O’Malley Armstrong — is recorded, and I remember that always “terrifying,” she says. used to connect. But when I recently jumped on the After 20 years, how do you end up com- phone to discuss the British chill- ing back to a sound that is quintessen- queen’s first album in six years, Still on tial Dido? I don’t really know. I did this My Mind, Dido did tell stories (“Sand in album in a very instinctive way. I didn’t My Shoes,” from her 2004 album Life for really overthink anything. Because when Rent, is literally about sand in her shoes!). I was making the record, I didn’t have a In fact, according to a rep for the artist record deal. When I was doing this album, who called me after with some feed- and I wasn’t even sure I was gonna put back, she apparently broke through her this out, I just thought, “We’re just gonna usual press-shyness, laughing her way do it.” It inadvertently ended up very through our talk about dressing like similar to when I made No Angel, and I didn’t think anyone was going to hear that Madonna, getting over stage fright and record. I think a lot of the feeling of start- being a “messy” producer. █ ing again and that feeling around that time — Chris Azzopardi 20 years ago sort of crept into this record, just because I felt like what I’m having is Dallas Voice: Has a gay man ever told you a good time here, and I might put it out; your full name would make a good drag there was a point I even thought I’d give name? Dido: [Laughs] Oh, I love that. these songs to someone else. I just didn’t If I asked you to say your full name, would know. you? Do I have to? [Laughs] It’s just terri- I was learning all sorts of stuff about produc- fying. I love getting other people to say it, tion, so a lot of them, I was producing and and it’s actually really funny because they doing the beats more so than I’d done always say it slightly differently, but I’ve before on songs like “Hell After This” and never thought about it like that. But I feel “Mad Love.” I was experimenting, and better about it now! people started really enjoying that sound You grew up as a Madonna fan, like many because it was a bit less professional than gay boys. Yeah, like most everyone! my brother [laughs] — he’s much more She’s just amazing. professional with his productions; mine are way more haphazard. I have such low Was your interest in her something you patience, and everything I do has to be shared with your gay friends? With in one take because I’m just like, “I don’t everybody. I was trying to dress like her know, this edit button is just driving me in the “Papa Don’t Preach” video as soon mad,” and I’m always deleting stuff. I ba- as I could, as soon as I was allowed to sically record everything in one take, every cut my hair off and dye it blonde. But I re- beat and every bassline, so it’s a mess. member going to see Desperately Seeking But I think it’s created a bit of fun on this Susan with my mom, and I think even my record as well. dad came, and we were all just complete- ly enamored with her. She was just the Are the long breaks you take between al- most awesome thing ever. bum releases a necessary part of your creative process? I think it is. It just sort What about Madonna appealed to you of happens. I don’t know how to write any at that age? She just felt so strong and differently because I’m writing from such could sort of do everything and was so a personal point of view, like I have to unique and so confident. She just has this go through the experiences to be able to confidence that as a teenage girl I was write them. I’ve never approached making looking at like, “Wow.” Everything she wore records in any sort of methodical way; it in the video, when you’re a teenage girl, just happened. I go through life and I write and you’re just feeling really insecure and songs because that’s how I see the world, anxious and not comfortable in your own and it’s what I see when I look around skin, you see this woman being so proud to the world and how I process any thought be herself. I think she’s so inspiring. I have, and then it sort of builds up into And you dressed like her for a period of time, didn’t you? I did! Allegedly, accord- DIDO, Page 17

04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 15 L+S screen DIFF’s queer content Promising films, local and foreign add gay appeal to film festival

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he Dallas International Film Festival begins its 13th iteration T this week, with seven days of screenings of features, shorts and doc- umentaries of all kinds … and among them, several gay-themed entries. But while the festival — by its name — is “international,” some of the most prom- inent queerness is highly local. First, the Texas stuff: One queer short (which screens as part of the Narrative Shorts 3 program) is Chicle, which deals with a teenaged Latina and the unexpected visitor on

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16 dallasvoice.com █ 04.05.19 the day of her grandfather’s funeral. It spirited young man and finds hope just DIDO, From Page 15 is directed by DFW-based filmmaker as his diagnosis would indicate some- Lizette Barrera. (It debuted last month thing more dire. a record. It feels like they all sort of just something in a genre I haven’t done, I at SXSW.) Also of interest to local queer filmgo- appear. would do it because, in a way, it all works Mack Wrestles (which screens as part ers: Running with Beto (which I saw at Do you read reviews? I read some of as long as there’s a song at the core. For of the Documentary Shorts 2 program) SXSW) profiles El Paso Congressman them, yeah. I read a couple really lovely me, that’s always been the sort of princi- is about a trans boy from Euless who Beto O’Rourke’s campaign to become reviews. ple: to make whatever music you wanna make but have a good song. That’s what I struggles for acceptance despite his the first Democrat elected to state-wide I wondered what you thought of Uncut tried to do anyway. athletic prowess. office in Texas in more than a genera- referring to the dancier songs on this The Queen’s New Clothes (which tion, when he took on Canadian-born album as “mum at the .” [Laughs] What’s the most unusual place that has screens as part of the Documentary Sen. Rafael “Ted” Cruz…. International I love it. given you inspiration for a song? I wrote “Sand in my Shoes” literally on Shorts 1 program) profiles out 90-year- Falls, the film adaptation of North Tex- I mean, I’m here for “mum at the disco” a plane when I took my shoes off, and old costume designer Winn Morton, as-based writer-actor Thomas Ward’s music. Could be a whole new genre of they were full of sand. One of those really music! Can you imagine? I love it! I didn’t who prepares outrageous outfits for play International Falls, which debuted stupid moments. It was actually a really read that, but yeah, I do think that should small-town Texas pageants. Also in at WaterTower Theatre several years stressful flight because my dad had got be a new genre, basically. I just think on that program, but from farther away, is ago…. and Extremely Wicked, Shock- really ill, and I just arrived in L.A., and I this album I’m pretty unashamedly just Lasting Marks, a short about the effects ingly Evil and Vile, which profiles serial wanted to go straight home. While I was doing the music I like and also, a lot of of Thatcher’s Britain on her LGBT con- killer Ted Bundy (played by Zac Efron) on the plane, I was just writing, because people on this album — well, it’s basically stituents. from the perspective of his devoted it’s all I know how to do to get through. me and my brother — were on the first I sort of took my shoes off, and I literally Which leads us into some overseas girlfriend. The feature is directed by record as well. So, it’s sort of nice. I mean, had just run off the beach onto a plane, features with gay content. documentarian Joe Berlinger, whose I haven’t changed my friends much in the and all this sand went everywhere and Diamantino is a goofy sports fan- nonfiction series Conversations with a last 25 years, so I think there’s a familiarity sort of followed. Anyway, it was cool. It tasy from Portugal about the world’s Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes — which there. It’s so nice that that can just be who gave me the idea for the song. I wrote that greatest soccer player, who loses his gift prominently features Dallas journal- you work with through your whole career. whole song on the plane. only to discover the real meaning of life. ist Hugh Aynesworth — is currently Is there a genre of music you want to What about songs on Still on My Mind? (Look for a review next week.) streaming on Netflix. █ explore completely outside the musical The last song on the album, “Have to Sorry Angel, pictured, is a queer ro- The 13th Dallas International Film identity you’ve created for yourself? I Stay,” we recorded it as I was writing it, don’t know if I know how to. I think the mance from French filmmaker Christo- Festival runs April 11–18 at Landmark’s and that’s what’s on there, as in that’s all nice thing about what I do is I do so many pher Honoré. Set in Paris in 1993 during Magnolia Theater in the West Village. For just a first thought. [“Have to Stay’ was the height of the AIDS epidemic, it pro- more information and a complete lineup, different things on a record, so I can go from to more hip-hip stuff. files an HIV-positive writer who meets a visit DallasFilm.com. DIDO, Page 19 I don’t feel restricted. If I wanted to do

04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 17 L+S screen Naughty, knotty and not-y The conundrum that is ‘Shazam’

Zach Levi plays the muscular but still immature incarnation of teenager Billy Batson (alongside Jack Dylan Glazer) in the problematic ‘Shazam.

ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor a foster kid who has run away from too [email protected] many group homes to count, always in search of the mom who lost him at hazam is a “not” movie — one of a carnival a decade before. He finally those Hollywood studio produc- ends up with a new family, a warm Stions more defined by what it isn’t hodgepodge of good kids who seem to than what it is. It is not, for example, a have few troubles… and just ethnically kids’ movie — too gross, too sexual, too diverse enough to play to all demo- violent — but nor is it for adults — too graphics (they might as well have called childish, too banal, too cartoony. (It’s it United Colors of Foster Homes). Billy also too homoerotic for tweens, and not bonds with the other white boy about homoerotic enough for gayboys.) It isn’t his age, Freddy (Jack Dylan Grazer), just a comedy per se, though its light-heart- as Billy is “chosen” by a wizard’s spell edness removes it squarely from the to take on the attributes of Solomon, action category. (Imagine Deadpool Lite.) Hercules, Atlas, Zeus, Achilles and Mer- It’s not an outright magic movie like cury — whose acronym becomes his Harry Potter, or an outright superhero character and his war cry: Say “SHAZ- movie — it’s closer to spoofs like Super, AM,” and become a mid-30s superhero Mystery Men or The Tick, with lots of (Zachary Levi), clad in Spandex and a meta-references to other comic book white cape that must be a bitch to keep characters. clean. It’s not good. But it isn’t bad. Underneath padded muscles, though, Generating any real feelings for is still a 14-year-old kid, who seems Shazam is a huge problem for it. Though to have skipped over the “wisdom of technically part of the DC Extended Solomon” in his incantation. And so for Universe, it is being released by New most of its runtime, Shazam is just Big Line Cinema, a smaller imprint of Meets Superman. (The just-marginal- Warner Bros. That even glazes it with ly-competent director, David F. Sand- the patina of a red-headed stepchild… berg, even adds a scene in a toy store which, in terms of the plot, isn’t far from with a “dancing keyboard,” just to hit the truth. Billy Batson (Asher Angel) is home on the theme. This is not a movie

18 dallasvoice.com █ 04.05.19 that traffics in subtlety.) my god, why are you making me sing Before the days of having recording devices stories.” With fans, the feeling that I get The character of Shazam — originally these songs with other people [around]?” at shows, I remember journalists used to back is such a two-way thing and such a named Capt. Marvel, but let’s not cloud Like, they are so personal. I remember get so annoyed with me, like, “Why do magical thing. those skies right now — was a better my manager saying to me, after running you tell all these stories when you’re on Do you feel comfortable now? Yeah. Now version of the boy inside, not merely a on stage and running away as soon as stage that you would never tell us?” Like, I’m older so I’m like, “Yeah, whatever!” I’d sung, “It wouldn’t hurt for you to talk a “You tell stuff to your fans that you don’t stronger one. The plot basically betrays So you’ll tell me a story then? No. You’re little. You could say your name. You could ever say in an interview.” It’s not intention- the entire theme of the comic (even pos- gonna have to come to a show. I just think say what city you’re in. Anything, just the al. It just felt like a really friendly environ- ited in the movie) that only the purest I’ve always felt pretty comfortable singing basics. Like, ‘Hello, New York!’ Anything. ment, and I’m quite an instinctive person, the songs because I always have felt a lot soul can attain these powers. It seems Just say something because you just look and if I feel comfortable, I’m a very open of love coming from the fans, that they’ve like Billy just happened to be closest so scared right now.” And it was really person, so it was just really funny. Be- made the effort to come out and see you, when the telemarketer called. scary for me! Then I performed on stage cause they’d come to the show and they and you’re sharing an experience, and it That’s just the tiniest of the knotty for nine years, and I just have to say I gen- were like, “I just did an hour interview with just feels good to sing the songs live. It problems in this movie, which feels so uinely have such cool fans and they make you, and you didn’t tell me anything, and always feels different every night. divorced from reality that even when me feel we’re part of something together. then you get on stage and tell all these bullies run over a disabled kid with a truck, nobody — not a teacher, not a parent, not another student — seem to register the felony that just occurred. Tragedies befall, and disappear, like sand. The film aggressively avoids any conse- quences, like a story written by a first grader. At one point, the villain throws corporate executives out of the upper window of a skyscraper to their bloody deaths… and yet cops don’t seem to 888.226.0114 notice (they do, however, respond to an DALLAS | MESQUITE | ROCKWALL anonymous tip about drug dealing at a pawn shop, and track down truants like they are Pinkerton agents). But despite its appalling sloppiness, it’s also difficult to dislike Shazam with much enthusiasm. I can’t fathom the $250 Down target audience for the film, but I don’t feel it’s filled with ill-will, just misguid- ed detritus. The actors are appealing $250 A Month enough, and near the end, when super- hero versions of the foster kids appear, 250 Cars I did find myself marveling at the beef- cake… Sorry, DC’ing at the beefcake? to choose from

Shazaming? Whatever. █

DIDO, From Page 17

written about Dido’s son, Stanley Gavin.] That probably doesn’t happen very often, does it? No, and it was really cool: I had the idea for the song, and I knew what I was singing, and the guy I was writing with was literally feeling out the chords, and that’s why he doesn’t actually move chords for the first two verses, because he’s getting to grips with what I’m singing. So, it’s actually making it up as we go along. I just love the feel of it. When I 2018 KIA Soul 2018 KIA Stinger came to record it properly, it never felt the same, so I just kept that very original idea of it. Because you’re used to recording in an NOW HIRING intimate setting with your brother, I Non-Commissioned Sales Staff imagine taking songs from the record this close to you and performing them in front of massive crowds must feel a SouthwestKia.com little different. It does. $250 Down. $250/month. $15.99 for every $1000 excludes TTL. Example Forte: Finance a New 2018 Kia Forte - MSRP $18350 - $2500 Kia Rebate = How so? I sort of love it. When I first went $15,850 sales price for 72 months @ 4.9% apr at $250 per month for well qualified buyers thru Kmf. $250 down excludes ttl - $15.99 for every $1000 fi- nance. Several at this price and payment. Sales ends 05/31/18. See www.southwestkia.com for complete details. on tour with No Angel, I was just like, “Oh

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Gloria Estefan musical ‘On Your Feet’ makes Bass Hall debut

“I hope Gloria likes that song, cuz she’s gonna be singin’ it the rest of her life!” cracks a Friday 04.05 — record producer in On Your Feet, the jukebox musical based on the music of Sound Machine and its founders, Gloria and Emilio Saturday 04.06 Estefan. And when you are reminded of the catalogue of their catchy hits — “1-2-3,” Ever-favorite dance “,” “Turn the Beat Around” — you are company Pilobolus glad she was willing to sing them all a lot. After returns to the Arts District a run this time last year in Dallas, On Your Feet makes its Cowtown debut this week as part of TITAS has presented dance in Dallas the Broadway at the Bass Series. long enough to know exactly what local audiences’ favorites are, and DEETS: Bass Performance Hall, certainly Pilobolus is one of an elite 525 Commerce St., Fort Worth. BassHall.com. group of national touring companies that always deliver the goods. In fact, it’s so popular TITAS added a Friday 04.05 — Saturday matinee to the lineup. But if middle of a war zone. As she recounts her tragedy, she is you’ve seen Pilobolus before, it can Saturday 04.27 haunted by the series of men who exacted a terrible toll. still be new to you this time as the Second Thought Theatre takes the “Me Too” movement one troupe launches Shadowland: The step further in this contemporary play about the unspeak- New Adventure in this mixed media The horrors of war are made real in the able atrocities visited upon women the world over. Natalie quest with movement. modern drama ‘Lela & Co.’ Young and Garret Storms star in Lela & Co. DEETS: Moody Performance Hall, Lela is a young woman whose seemingly magical life is DEETS: Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphreys campus, 2520 Flora St. ATTPAC.org. transformed when she encounters horror after horror in the 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. 2TT.co.

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as the not-so-dumb dumb blonde in this ARTSWEEK sweet, smart comedy. Screens as part THEATER of the Tuesday Big Movie New Classic Series, Bubbling Brown Sugar. Lively musical revue which now includes a matinee. about the music of the Harlem Renaissance Landmark’s Magnolia Theatre in the West — Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday and more. Village, 3699 McKinney Ave. Jubilee Theatre, 506 Main St., Fort Worth. Screens at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Through April 28. JubileeTheatre.org.

Disaster! Seth Rudetsky and Jack Plotnick co- WEDNESDAY 04.10 wrote this musical spoof of 1970s-era disaster THEATER movies. Presented by Uptown Players. On Your Feet. Musical about the lives of Gloria Kalita Humphreys Theater, and Emilio Estefan and featuring the music of 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Through April 14. . Part of the Broadway UptownPlayers.org. at the Bass Series; presented by Performing A Few Good Men. The stage play (later Arts Fort Worth. Bass Performance Hall, a movie) about hazing in the military and 525 Commerce St., Fort Worth. April 10–14. the quest for justice. Presented by Theatre BassHall.com. Arlington, 305 W. Main St., Arlington. Through April 14. TheatreArlington.org. THURSDAY 04.11 Foxfire. A gritty play set in Appalachia, written THEATER by Hume Cronyn and Susan Cooper. Wolf at the Door. Marisela Trevino Orta’s Final weekend. Theatre 3, 2800 Routh St. new dark fairy tale about Isadora, who finds in the Quadrangle. Theatre3Dallas.com. the strength to stand up against her abusive Hamilton. A small musical you may have heard husband Septimo. Presented by Kitchen Dog of. Fair Park Music Hall, 909 First Ave. Theater. Trinity River Arts Center, Through My 5. DallasSummerMusicals.org. 2600 N. Stemmons Freeway. April 11–May 5. Once on this Island. Calypso-flavored KitchenDogTheeater.org. fantasy adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Presented by The Firehouse Theatre, FESTIVAL 2535 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch. 13th Annual Dallas International Film Through April 14. TheFirehouseTheatre.com. Festival. The week-long festival will screen 130 films and host numerous filmmakers and The Wolves. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, celebrities. Festivities are centered around this play deals with the cutthroat world of girl’s the Magnolia Theatre, 3699 McKinney Ave. high school soccer. Studio Theatre at the Consult the website for full details. Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St. Through April 14. April 11–18. DallasFilm.org. DallasTheaterCenter.org. BROADCAST DANCE Project Runway. The design competition Pilobolus. Return of the engaging and original returns, with two Dallas designers in the mix. modern dance troupe, presented by TITAS. Now back on Bravo. 7 p.m. Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. April 5–6. ATTPAC.org.

MAGIC Jason Bishop: The Illusionist. The magician performs. Presented by Casa Manana, 3101 W. Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth. Through Sunday. CasaManana.org. this week’s solution

FINE ART Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist. One of the most acclaimed of the Impressionists in her lifetime, Morisot fell into obscurity in the 20th century but has been rediscovered for her talent in this comprehensive exhibition. Dallas Museum of Art 1717 Harwood St. Through May 5. DMA.org.

Fortuny: Friends and Followers. Examination of the influence of the 19th century Spanish painter. Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus. Through June 3. MeadowsMuseumDallas.org.

TUESDAY 04.09 FILM Born Yesterday. Judy Holliday won a best █ browse █ submit actress Oscar (beating out competition For a more complete Community To submit an item for inclusion in that included Gloria Swanson in Sunset Calendar online, visit the Community Calendar, visit Boulevard and Bette Davis in All About Eve) Tinyurl.com/dvevents. Tinyurl.com/dvevents.

22 dallasvoice.com █ 04.05.19 04.05.19 █ dallasvoice 23 L+S scoop Ask Howard How to do the wrong thing right

Well, shove a straw into some sweet coco- baster and two cans of sweetened condensed nut milk, peel me a big banana and spank the coconut milk.” Talk about bursting balloons! pretty monkey on my back —April is here, and Anyhow, I’ll be happy to divulge for your already going apeshit. Apparently, you boys’ readers some currently still fuckable con- testosterone levels must have simultaneously quests of mine they could, wink-wink, enjoy emerged from a winter’s hibernation at once, for themselves a private-sampling of. So here, with your first blinking thought being, “I need in alphabetized order, is my full legendary list me some condom-free porn—NOW!” [fully deleted here by Howard]. — Super Ron And why the hell not? After all, some of us, Dear Super Con: I suppose it but loomed way back, crawled into a “Trump news-black- inevitable, this fun notion to collect vintage gay out den” and may, just now, finally be working porn stars in the same way once far-more-in- up the nerve to see what new and exciting has nocent boys traded baseball cards. However, happened since. Well guess what? Surprise, the near venal glee you take in, wink-wink, surprise, it’s just the same-old/tired-old ex- outing the privacy of these men’s current pected monkey business, conducted by the lives springs to my mind Gene Hackman’s same tired-old blustering, orange orangutan belly-splitting turn in The Birdcage, playing we all know and none love — a man who fair-weather Sen. Kevin Keeley of Ohio (of (sigh) learns nothing, sees nothing, hears course) — an anxiety-rattled, candy-gorging, nothing and does nothing but whump his ultra-right-wing moralist and vice president portly, puffed-out chest. Successfully maneu- of The Coalition for Moral Order, whose vering through the tar-sludge of TrumpWorld co-founder has just expired in a seedy hotel exacts nothing short of the nimble agilities of a room atop an underage black prostitute. flier monkey; The New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik Hackman’s disgust isn’t the hypocrisy; rather, recently “demystified” what makes the in- his stomach-churning horror is that the hooker ner-clockworks of this particular psychopathic lived to tell the tale. As the old political truism primate tick: “Back in 1980, Trump destroyed goes, the only thing worse than being caught the façade of the old Bonwit Teller building, in bed with a dead girl, would be a live boy. which he razed to make way for Trump Tower, Anecdotal tangents aside, the peak-perfor- after being told that he shouldn’t and when no mance of any given porn star’s career-longevi- one expected that he would. He has learned ty is about three years, maximum. Exceptions that, if you just do things, ordinary people with only prove the rule, naturally: “Hetero” per- and-for-all kick this clown out? On the one photo-bombed red glare, way atop the diving normal expectations about human behavior former, Peter North, for instance, now in his hand, he always pays his share of the rent board in midair. will have a hard time believing that you’re 60s and still in front of a camera, is not only promptly, and god knows, we all do enjoy his Sometimes, sweet readers, fame-ver- doing them.” the wealthiest male entertainer in the entire jizz antediluvian porn collection — those dudes sus-infamy needs to remain observed in the I’ve never heard it put better; so, let’s all us biz, but as many of you vintage porn enthu- were so much hotter back then! But he’s just same boxy era within which it originated: To sinless amongst the monkey bars here get siasts may know, North actually jumpstarted such a semen-spilt train wreck most the time. go opening up musty discoveries to the light right to it. his career back in the early ’80s performing as — DTS of present-day does nothing but accelerate a bottom, under the gaily-precious sobriquet, Dear Delirium Tremens: Kick him out? decay. Dear Howard: Ok, I’ll go ahead and be Matt Ramsey. Hell, he’s the ideal roommate: He’s never P.S.: Oh, and presuming any of your first to fess-up to what we allknow is the there… and even when he is, he’s never curiosities have been piqued regarding what’s solid truth: As every other man alive, gay and Dear Howard: Last Sunday night, my there. What I’m stuck on, upon reflection up with the pic of that monkey on my own straight, I am addicted to VOD porn… and the roommate vogued in like some wastrel here, is the very existence of over 16,000 grinning back: Well, coincidentally enough, I more fetish-friendly its “models,” the more I’m straight out of Dickens, having spent the entire pre-condom 1980s gay porn titles! It seems just returned from my honeymoon in Grenada: spanking my monkey right there along with weekend (per usual) squandering both his fine oddly flinch-worthy…especially consider- My betrothed and I took in a meandering, them. No drugs come even close to giving me health and good youth in pursuit of his life’s ing that as early as even 1983, word was day-excursion hitting the local highlights—my the kind of opioid-rush sensation I feel when- goal: To bed down every living veteran of a already out regarding just exactly how AIDS is personal favorite being the protected rain ever I’m able to coax a live, private webcam dead porn career whose worn out face, and transmitted. (Perhaps the ’70s comprises the forest in Grand Etang National Park, a verdant show out of some porn star, then follow it with penis, might still vaguely be recognizable from preponderance of those titles?) amalgamation of Kong Island meets The a free, one-on-one hookup. Others pay full his collection of pre-condom classic porn, Regardless, meeting the stars still alive Emerald City, dystopic of creeping mists and retail rates for their own favorite porn star’s courtesy the long-gone Bijou Productions’ today from these films, in any normal compar- monstrous ferns, amidst crystal waterfalls gur- companionship; I’ve learned to game it gratis. archives of 16,000 titles. ison, would be of the same breath-inhaling/ gling down mountains fragrant of wild nutmeg, Most, I know, would probably be stunned “Jackpot!” he yowled with fist-pumping tabloid-fodder equivalency to stumbling cinnamon, cacao, tamarinds, breadfruit and how someone like me — middle-aged, triumph. “Boys, you’ll never guess who I just across one of those rare photos of past eras’ bananas — especially bananas, which the under-developed and just a few extra pounds fucked!” Beaded sweat glistened even his entertainment/politics stars mundanely doing, park rangers enthusiastically hawk, assuring overweight — could score any sex, say noth- earlobes. “Uh huh, that’s right — even if a only in retrospection’s prism, what today every tourist a live monkey photo-op theirs ing of sex with porn stars, and iconic ones, little plumper, and grayer, for the wear since would incite picketing on The Capitol’s steps: for the taking. FYI, these “Mona monkeys” of too! Not to toot my own horn, but I’m talking his beefcake-blond halcyon days. But I’m the Jackie Kennedy serenely smoking atop the Grenada originally arrived as stowaways on the likes of even such super-legends as the man who just made Leo Ford’s toes curl!” deck of the Honey Fitz, flaunting an elegant, African slave ships back in the 1770s. There mighty Mr. Horse Cock himself (everybody Our other roommate rolled his eyes. “In your summery baby bump; Elizabeth Taylor flash- are no primates indigenous to The Caribbean, knows his name but respecting the deceased, G-fueled dreams did you just zombie-fuck ing crimson lipstick-smudged teeth, as she to which Howard here (call me Dr. Doolittle of I’ll halt there). In fact, Howard, here’s just one Leo? He’s been dead for decades — longer, descends the curved marble staircase of a The West Indies!) says, “Strand me on a des- juicy nugget that’ll whet your men’s hoochies: even than porn-partner Lance: A motorcycle 747’s First Class Lounge swathed in thigh- ert island half run amok with Mona monkeys I once asked one of those blessed Rockland accident in the early ’80s.” length leopard skin, its matching turban orna- from the 1770s and gay porn icons from the brothers (I can’t remember now whether it “Did I say Leo Ford?” he redounded. “I mentally adazzle of a flawless blood diamond 1970s — and I can I can guarantee you that was Vince, Hal or Shane) how many days they meant Rex Chandler… or was it, Cole Car- large as a damson; Greg Louganis’s 1984 it’ll be a monkey who’s getting my banana!” had to “save it up” to deliver such impressive penter? It’d be easier if the dude’s dick had diving preliminaries at the summer Olympics — Howard Lewis Russell money shots, and he just grinned, “That’s a gotten hard.” in Los Angeles, hysterically resultant of the Send your questions to AskHoward@ secret between me, one cleverly hidden turkey Question: Howard, should we just once- pool being drained following a blood droplet’s dallasvoice.com.

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Scarborough Renaissance Festival opens its 2019 season this weekend, opening at 10 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday. Making the SCENE the week of April 5–11: • 1851 Club: Chanel St. John, Dantel McKim and Kristie Davenport on Friday. Candi Carroll, Sapphire Davenport and Nia Courtland on Saturday. • Alexandre’s: Wayne Smith on Sunday. K-Marie on Tuesday. Vero Voz on Wednesday. Chris Chism on Thursday. • Cedar Springs Tap House: Geeks Who Drink and Taco Tuesday at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. RuPaul’s Drag Race Watch Party at 7 p.m. on Thursday. • Club Reflection: Drag Show at 11 p.m. on Tuesday. • Dallas Eagle: Discipline Corps Club Night at 10 p.m. on Friday. Dallas Diablos Cook- Out from 5-9 p.m. on Sunday. • JR.’s Bar & Grill: Raquel Blake and Bleach at 11 p.m. on Tuesday. Krystal Summers hosts RuPaul’s Drag Race Watch Party at 7 p.m. on Thursday. • Liquid Zoo: Kennedy Davenport hosts RuPaul’s Drag Race Watch Party at 7 p.m. on Thursday. • Marty’s Live: Sexcapade on Fridays. • Round-Up Saloon: Dance Competition at 9 p.m. on Tuesday. RuPaul’s Drag Race Watch Party at 7 p.m. on Thursday. Lip Synch Battle at 11 p.m. on Thursday. • Sue Ellen’s: The Queer-off Season Two at 10:30 p.m. on Wednesday. • The Rose Room: Krystal Summers hosts the Miss Red Pageant at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Mr. and Miss Gay Dallas USofA at 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. $10. • TMC: The Mining Company: Sasha Andrews hosts Fuego at 11:30 p.m. on Wednesday. • Urban Cowboy: Celebrating Brittney’s Dirty Thirty on Saturday with a Flashback to the ’80s and ’90s. • Woody’s Sports & Video Bar: Sign up for Varsity Gay League Kickball by Wednesday, April 10, for early bird pricing. Big after-parties at Woody’s. Scene Photographers: Kat Haygood and Chad Mantooth

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