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█ NEWS 8 Pride across Texas begins this weekend with celebrations in Tyler and Wimberly and Southern Pride beginning Wednesday. 9 AIN, AHF announce affiliation

17 █ LIFE+STYLE 14 Marina speaks on art, music, activism 17 REVIEW: ‘Ad Astra’ 18 REVIEW: ‘Downton Abbey’

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09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 3 DallasVoice.com/Category/Instant-Tea instan moment. While her life today is very different Cedar Rapids, TEA from the life she led and the goals she had 30 Iowa. The forum years ago, she said she felt “really honored” to will stream live. Mica England honored working as a chef in Tulsa, first applied to be a have been included in the Dallas Holocaust and Ross — star Dallas police officer. She had met with recruit- Human Rights Museum, and “happy to know of Pose and at Holocaust museum, ers in Tulsa who had told her at the time that that what I did was important for the city of Dal- American Horror the fact she was a lesbian would not disqualify visits Dallas PD las and for the LGBT community. It’s gratifying Story 1984 — is her as an applicant. But when she came to to know that [the Dallas police] recruit from the the first trans- Dallas and applied, one of those same recruit- LGBT community now. That’s important. I think gender person to ers refused to allow her to even finish the appli- a police force should be representational of the host a presiden- cation process when England acknowledged communities they serve.” tial candidate during an interview that she was a lesbian. And although her battle was fought and forum. Wednesday, Sept. 18, the day that the won so long ago, England said she knows that The forum is Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum the LGBT community’s work — and hers — presented by officially opened to the public — was “Up- continues. “When I looked around the museum GLAAD, One Iowa, The Gazette and The Advo- stander Day” in Dallas, recognizing the human [Tuesday] and then compared it what’s going cate, and Zach Stafford, editor in chief of The rights heroes who defend the powerless and on out in the world today, it was really fright- Advocate, confirmed Ross’ participation today stand up to injustice. England is one of the ening,” she said. “We are going backwards in (Monday, Sept. 16). Candidates confirmed museum’s “upstanders.” so many ways. Trump and Pence keep taking to be participating so far are Joe Biden, Cory “It really felt like I had come full circle.” That But Tuesday, the day that England and oth- rights away from transgender people and Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Julián Castro, Tulsi was how Mica England described how it felt ers had a chance to tour the museum before it others. The LGBT community as a whole, we Gabbard, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Joe to get a personal invitation to visit the Dallas opened to the public, was an especially memo- have a target on our backs. We have to keep Sestak, Elizabeth Warren and Marianne Wil- Police Department headquarters to meet the rable day for the woman who, basically, fought fighting.” liamson, according to Deadline.com. The site department’s LGBT liaison officer and to speak the law and won. Because Tuesday was the (Read the full story at DallasVoice.com/com- also reports that country singer and season 11 at a meeting with Chief U. Renee Hall and the day that England was invited to visit the DPD ing-full-circle-2/) The Voice contestant Bill Gilman will sing The department’s deputy chiefs — 30 years after headquarters and speak to officers there. — Tammye Nash National Anthem to open the forum. she first walked into the DPD offices to apply England was invited into a chiefs meeting GLAAD has also invited Beto O’Rourke, Ber- as an officer. where she had the chance to tell her story to Angelica Ross to host nie Sanders and Andrew Yang to participate. England was in Dallas this week to attend and answer questions from Dallas Police Chief Ross and GLAAD President and CEO Sarah the grand opening of the new Dallas Holocaust U. Renee Hall and a number of the depart- presidential candidate forum Kate Ellis will discuss with the candidates their and Human Rights Museum, which includes a ment’s deputy chiefs, putting a human face to Transgender activist and actress Angelica plans for improving acceptance of the LGBT tribute to England and her role in the fight for the stories those officers had heard and the Ross will host the 2020 Presidential Candidate community if elected President in 2020. LGBT civil rights in Dallas. policies the department now follows. Forum on LGBTQ Issues set for Friday, Sept. — Tammye Nash It was July 1989 that England, then It was, England said, a most gratifying 20, in Coe College’s Sinclair Auditorium in

4 dallasvoice.com █ 09.20.19 09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 5 THE AGENDA Have an event coming up? Email your • Sept. 21: Fairy Tale Gaybingo • Sept. 24: Family Night at 1 p.m. at Resource Center, 5750 GAY Durkins Pizza information to Managing Editor Tammye Gaybingo from 5-9 p.m. at the Rose Cedar Springs Road. Free. RSVP to Nash at [email protected] or Senior Room, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. Tickets GALA family night’s 10th year of [email protected]. Staff Writer David Taffet at taffet@ at MyResourceCenter.org. networking, socializing, happy hour, dallasvoice.com by Wednesday at 5 p.m. rock n’ roll and pizza, and 10 percent • Sept. 25: Prime Timers for that week’s issue. • Sept. 21: Queens that Bowl of proceeds benefits GALA Youth from Dinner at 7 p.m. at Spring Creek BBQ, GALA goes bowling from 11:30 a.m.- 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Durkins Pizza, 8930 3514 W. Airport Freeway, Irving. SEPTEMBER 1:30 p.m. at Super Bowl, 2521 K Ave. State Hwy 121, McKinney. For more • Sept. 20: Til Midnight at the Nasher Plano. Tickets at GALANorthTexas.org. information visit GalaNorthTexas.org. • Sept. 25: DPD LGBTQ Town Hall Music, movies and moonlight from Dallas Police officials including Chief 6 p.m.-midnight at the Nasher • Sept. 22: Prime Timers • Sept. 24: Grief group U. Renee Hall and D.A. LGBT Liaison Sculpture Center, 2001 Flora St. Games hosted by Nick in Rockwall. Call Grief group for persons who have lost a Philip Clark meet with the LGBT NasherSculptureCenter.org. 214-218-0912 for directions. same-sex spouse meets the second and community at 6:30-8 p.m. at fourth Tuesdays each month from 6:45-8 MLK Jr. Recreation Center, • Sept. 21: A Taste of Summer • Sept. 23: North Texas LGBT Chamber p.m. at Resource Center, 5750 Cedar 2901 Pennsylvania Ave. Bake-Plant-Art Sale of Commerce; Business & Community Springs Road. For more information LifeWalk Team AIDS Services Dallas Excellence Awards ’19 - luncheon visit MyResourceCenter.org. • Sept. 26: Shakespeare Dallas: hosts sale of resident art, plants and Recognizing LGBT business and Pride in the Park baked goods from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at community leaders from 11:30 a.m.-1 • Sept. 24: Vision of Mention your favorite LGBT Hillcrest House, 834 N. Marsalis Ave. p.m. at Renaissance Dallas Hotel. Info at Equality luncheon organization at the gate for free entry to GLBTChamber.com. Resource Center’s Vision of Equality Shakespeare in the Park’s production Fundraising Luncheon from noon- of Macbeth at 8 p.m. at Samuell Grand

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09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 7 in Fall means PRIDE

first Pride. This is the first time we are actual- ly calling it Pride.” TEXASThe TAG Pride in the Park picnic is set for Saturday, Sept. 21, from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at Southside Park, More Pride on tap 531 W. Chestnut St. in 455 Shiloh Road in Tyler. Sanchez said Denison. Facebook.com/ that TAG is providing free burgers Dallas Lesbian Pride pg/Grayson Pride. and hot dogs with all the trimmings Dallas legend Betty Neal presents “Wett: • Texas Latino Pride Live Music Festival, — while supplies last — and TAG The Official Dallas Lesbian Pride” Friday, Sept. 27, beginning at 10 p.m. at Sue Ellen’s. The Saturday, Oct. 5, from members will be bringing side dishes party will include a show featuring Kennedy 2-10 p.m. at the Longhorn to share. Everyone attending is encour- Davenport, RP, Shemar Gracon, Karla KP Ballroom, 216 Corinth St. aged to bring their own side dishes, and Glam Davenport, along with DJ 008 and in Dallas. Facebook.com/ desserts and beverages. MC Tyra Ra Ra. Reservations are available. TexasLatinoPride. Facebook.com/TheRealBettyNeal • Tarrant County Gay Pride, with the parade Early this week Sanchez said more and festival on Saturday, Oct. 5, in downtown ride is breaking out than 40 vendors had already registered Other upcoming Pride events: Fort Worth and at the Fort Worth Water all over Texas this to participate in the Pride picnic, with • Wimberly Pride: Sept. 20-21. Includes Gardens, and the Gay Pride Picnic on Sunday, fall, with first-ever more applications coming in each day. a Pre-Pride Kick-off Party on Friday, a Pride Cot. 6, at the 7th Street Pavillion at Trinity Park. Pride celebrations this “We have everything from HIV testing March Pre-Party on Saturday from 5-7 p.m., TCGPWA.org. • Grayson Pride Comedy Benefit, Friday, weekend in Tyler and to yogurt to puppies looking for a for- the Pride March at 7:30 p.m. and the After Party from 7:30-11:59 p.m. Get all the details Oct. 18, at Tupelo Honey Bar and Grill, 130 E. Wimberly, and Dallas ever home,” she said. “I think we will at Facebook.com/WimberlyPride. Woodward St. in Denison. Facebook.com/pg/ Southern Pride get- reach at least 50 vendors by the week- • Grayson Pride Public Forum, Saturday, Grayson Pride. ting underway next end. That’s important because it shows Sept. 28, at 6 p.m. at the Denison Snap Center, — Tammye Nash Wednesday, Sept. 25. Tarrant County how much support the community has Pride offers two days’ worth of events for us. And we’ve got a great conglom- Oct. 5-6, and in Dallas, Texas Latino eration of vendors, too. A great variety.” able to the vendor. There will be a Kids Dallas Southern Pride Pride is set from Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Vendors will include the Boy Scouts Zone, and The Tyler Loop, an online About 2,500 people are expected to

Longhorn Ballroom. █ of America, the East Texas Crisis Cen- newspaper serving the Tyler area, will converge on Dallas from Sept. 25-29 for — Tammye Nash ter, organizers for Tyler’s upcoming have representatives there “getting sto- Dallas Southern Pride/Black Pride 2019, Out of the Darkness suicide awareness ries from people about coming out in according to Ahmad Goree, one of the Pride in the Park walk, wedding planners, artists “and East Texas,” she added. “Basically, we organizers. even Walmart/Marshall is coming. are bringing the community together — “We are expecting people from all over Tyler Area Gays — TAG — has been We’ve got everybody,” Sanchez said. all different parts of the community — the country to come for Black Pride week- around since 2008, explained Caroline Jumping Party rental will be there to see how we can help each other out.” end,” Goree said, noting that Dallas’ an- Sanchez, the organization’s chair and “with seven humongous inflatables,” “We are all part of this community, so nual celebration is rated as the fifth-larg- volunteer coordinator, and has been Sanchez said, including a 71--long let’s work together to make it better for est black Pride celebration in the country, staging picnics in the park for several obstacle course and a couple of bounce all of us.” behind Atlanta, Washington, D.C., Miami years now. “But,” she said, “this is our houses, available for a small fee pay- TylerAreaGays.com PRIDE, Page 10

8 dallasvoice.com █ 09.20.19 ated with AIDS Healthcare Foundation. AIN will continue to operate its pro- AIN announces “The landscape of HIV/AIDS is grams under its own name with the changing,” said AIN CEO and President same staff and leadership as before the Steven Pace, noting that AIN worked for affiliation, Pace said. But now, AHF will two years to make the decision to affili- open a clinic in AIN’s offices on Stem- affiliation with AHF ate and that he had spoken to most of the mons Freeway behind Children’s Hospi- nine other agencies in other cities that tal and Parkland. have formed this sort of affiliation. Those clients using any of AIN’s ser- “All said it was the best thing they vices but currently receiving medical could have done,” Pace said, while care from Parkland’s Amelia Court HIV stressing that the two organizations are clinic, Prism Health North Texas, Health not merging. Services of North Texas, Partners Clinic AIN provides a variety of services — at Methodist Hospital or AHF’s clinic at including meals, transportation and case Medical City are welcome to continue management — for low-income individ- seeing their doctor, Pace said. And AIN uals living with HIV and other vulner- will continue providing transportation able populations. In addition to meals, to those clinics for their clients. AIN’s Daire Center provides non-med- But clients out of care and those that ical support, including art therapy and find it more convenient will be able to stabilization in a safe space as well as get their medical care at the new on-site respite care. clinic that should open within the next Steven Pace Bret Camp AHF is the largest non-profit HIV/ six months, Pace said. AHF will also AIDS healthcare provider in the U.S., open a pharmacy in AIN’s office, making AIN to continue services fficials at AIN, providing medical care to 1.2 million it easier for its clients, whether they use under its own name and staff; a 30-year-old people in 43 countries. In Texas, AHF op- the clinic or not, to pick up their medi- Dallas AIDS erates clinics in North Dallas, Fort Worth cations. AHF to add a clinic service provid- at the AIDS Outreach Center office and Pace said in addition to the clinic, fi- er, announced in Houston. In addition, AHF’s Out of nancial considerations were a part of the DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer this week that the Closet resale store on Cedar Springs decision to affiliate. [email protected] their organiza- Road does HIV testing and houses a 531 W. Chestnut St. in tion has affili- pharmacy. AIN, Page 12 Denison. Facebook.com/ pg/Grayson Pride. • Texas Latino Pride Live Music Festival, Saturday, Oct. 5, from 2-10 p.m. at the Longhorn Ballroom, 216 Corinth St. in Dallas. Facebook.com/ TexasLatinoPride. • Tarrant County Gay Pride, with the parade and festival on Saturday, Oct. 5, in downtown Fort Worth and at the Fort Worth Water Gardens, and the Gay Pride Picnic on Sunday, Cot. 6, at the 7th Street Pavillion at Trinity Park. TCGPWA.org. • Grayson Pride Comedy Benefit, Friday, Oct. 18, at Tupelo Honey Bar and Grill, 130 E. Woodward St. in Denison. Facebook.com/pg/ Grayson Pride. — Tammye Nash

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09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 9 PRIDE, From Page 8 will focus on “all the various issues that affect our lives, from politics to domes- ficer, tic violence and more, with about Cpl. Am- different sessions during the day.” And ber Washing- the Gala that evening will honor those ton, will be there, individuals who “have made a signifi- as well as the DA’s cant impact on the BHAP community,” LGBT liaison, Phillip Clark. and will include the presentation of the “We’ll be talking about all the Community Advocate Award as well as issues and topics important to our awards for those who have excelled in community,” Goree said. their categories at the balls throughout and The HIV Prevention Trials Network the year, “life Face of the Year, Body of Los 092 Stakeholders Engagement Conven- the Year and so on.” Angeles. ing takes place Thursday, Sept. 26, from 8 The main event for the weekend is “We go back a.m.-4 p.m. at the Sheraton Suites Market the Pool Party from 4-8:30 p.m. at the and forth with LA, Center, 2101 N. Stemmons Freeway, and Cedar Canyon Dude Ranch, 4523 Uni- though, for the number the Miss Dallas Southern Pride Pageant versity Hills Blvd. in Lancaster, featur- four spot. begins at 8:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom ing nationally-know R&B artists Light- “We’ve got a lot going on this at the host hotel, the Doubletree by Hilton Skinned Keisha, Asian Doll and more. year,” Goree continued. “We are really Market Center, 2015 Market Center Blvd. The evening continues with the Mega excited to be partnering with the Dallas Friday features the Ball House and Party at the Gas Monkey, 10110 Technol- Police Department and the Dallas Coun- Pageant Conference from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at ogy Blvd. in Dallas. Tony Haas, owner of Magnum Dallas ty District Attorney’s Office this year for the Doubletree, with a Lunch and Learn Dallas Southern Pride weekend winds nightclub, said his club will offer patrons an upscale environment to enjoy the best the first time to present the LGBTQ Town event from noon-2 p.m., presented by up Sunday with the Gulf Coast Unity live male entertainment when it opens on Hall Meeting” on Wednesday, Sept. 25, Gilead Sciences at the Sheraton. The eve- Ball, with competition in a variety of cat- Oct. 11. Construction on the new club, from 6:30-8 p.m. at the MLK Jr. Recre- ning continues with the BHAP Awards egories, from 4 p.m.-2 a.m. in the Grand located at 1820 Mockingbird Lane just ation Center, 2922 Martin Luther King Jr. Gala from 6-11:30 p.m. at the Doubletree. Ballroom at the Doubletree. west of Harry Hines Boulevard, is in its Blvd. in Dallas. DPD’s LGBT liaison of- The BHAP Conference, Goree said, DallasSouthernPride.com final stages now. (Tammye Nash/Dallas Voice)

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09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 11 AIN, From Page 9 Phone 214-754-8710 █ Fax 214-969-7271 1825 Market Center Blvd., Ste. 240, Dallas, Texas 75207 “Funding is being pushed toward or- ued funding for its programs. The affili- Pace said he isn’t concerned that Dallas and Oak Cliff clinics as well as Hours: Weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. • dallasvoice.com ganizations that can provide a compre- ation, Pace said, gives AIN a more sus- adding a clinic would mean his agency Uptown’s offices. hensive range of services and get new- tainable future, adding, “The affiliation would be taking clients from another Pace said AIN and AHF plan to redou- administration ly-diagnosed people into care,” Pace also gives us a safety net we never had clinic. He pointed to Prism Health NTX ble their efforts to do HIV testing and Leo Cusimano Publisher █ 114 said. As an example, he said, “If you before.” which merged with Uptown Physicians bring more people into care. don’t have medical services, you can’t While AIN will continue to fundraise earlier this year, saying that merger has Pace said his organization has part- editorial Tammye Nash Managing Editor █ 113 get funding for medical case manage- and write its own grants, the arrange- resulted in more business. Rather than nered with others in the past, and that Arnold Wayne Jones Executive Editor Life+Style █ 129 ment.” ment assures the continuation of pro- consolidating services, Prism has since experience should make it easier to af- David Taffet Senior Staff Writer █ 125 Much of AIN’s support comes from grams that might lose their funding at opened a clinic in Oak Lawn — on Lem- filiate with AHF. In 2000, AIN absorbed Philip Burton Proofreader government grants, so having the clinic some point. Pace said that was good for mon Avenue near Central Expressway several of the programs of Oak Lawn Contributors: Chris Azzopardi, Gary Bellomy, Jenny Block, in AIN’s offices will help ensure contin- his staff and his agency’s clients. — while continuing to operate its South Community Services as that agency ran J. Denton Bricker, Alicia Chang, D’Anne Witowski, Lawrence Ferber, Hardy Haberman, Scott Huffman, Lisa Keen, Mark into financial difficulty and closed. Pace Lowry, Joey Moreno, Cassie Nova, Josh Robbins, Mikey Rox, said that was a period of rapid growth Howard Lewis Russell, James Russell, for his agency, and he expects similar Terri Schlichenmeyer, Leslie McMurray, Mathew Shaw, growth through this affiliation. Brandi Amara Skyy, Mark Stokes, Jef Tingley, Casey Williams Photographers: Kat Haygood, Chuck Marcelo, Cassie Quinn AHF also benefits from the affiliation: Interns: Jacob Kelley, Joshua Kelley, John McClanahan, After more than three decades of service, Lily Philips AIN is well known in the community. The agency has a level of trust in the advertising Chad Mantooth Advertising Director █ 131 community and among its supporters. Nicholas Gonzalez Advertising Account Rep. █ 115 Although AHF began providing care in Stephen Mobley MarketPlace Sales █ 123 1987, it has only been operating in Dallas National Advertising Representative Providing comprehensive and compassionate medical care and Fort Worth since 2012. Rivendell Media Inc. 908-232-2021 Pace said both agencies have a similar art to the LGBT community for more than 35 Years! mission. AHF Texas Regional Director Kevin Thomas Art Director █ 119 Bret Camp agreed. Shawn Weston Graphic Designer █ 132 Camp called it a “mission decision” of multimedia bringing care to those who need it most. Stephen Mobley Social Media Director █ 123 But he said AIN brings his organization Brian Kennedy Video Producer some of the best case management and Israel Luna Video Producer/DVtv host Brad Pritchett DVtv Host medical case management he’s seen. Brandi Amara Skyy DVtv Host “Both AHF and AIN share a com- Regina Lyn mon mission to stop the spread of HIV and improve the lives of all people liv- circulation Linda Depriter Circulation Director █ 120 ing with HIV/AIDS, and we believe this relationship will be mutually beneficial founders Robert Moore █ Don Ritz for our clients, patients and our organi- zations,” Camp said. affiliations/memberships Both organizations were founded to Associated Press - Associate Member National Gay and Lesbian Journalists Association provide HIV-related services to under- Certified LGBT Business Enterprise served, low-income, multicultural com- Founding Member - North Texas GLBT Chamber David M. Lee, M.D. munities. Founding Member - National LGBT Media Association BEST General Practitioner Comprehensive “This new partnership allows both Marc A. Tribble, M.D. 6 Years in a Row! HIV/AIDS management organizations to continue to leverage Donald A. 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And then, Russian Witch Hunt Hoax, National Advertising Representative president rapist appointed Brett Kava- which is just as phony!” Rivendell Media Inc. 908-232-2021 naugh to the Supreme Court, and the That’s journalism in art Republicans enthusiastically supported America, folks. The god- wasn’t a good person before his confir- Kevin Thomas Art Director █ 119 him despite very credible testimony by damn president calls for the resignation mation hearing. It’s also clear that he Shawn Weston Graphic Designer █ 132 Christine Blasey Ford that he’d sexually of reporters he doesn’t agree with. wasn’t a good person during his confir- multimedia assaulted her in high school. Other, much smarter, people (Sens. mation hearing. And that means he isn’t Stephen Mobley Social Media Director █ 123 And lo and behold, what’s this trend- Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris for a good person now that he’s a sitting Su- Brian Kennedy Video Producer ing now on ? 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09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 13 LIFE+STYLE concerts

Love, fear, freedom

Pop artist Marina on art, activism conceptually rooted solely in those two whose sales will benefit her AIDS Foun- Photo courtesy Zoey Grossman emotions. No “look,” no artifice. dation. It seems you have a lot in com- know about how much work she did for and gay fandom There didn’t need to be. At 33, Marina mon with what that foundation stands HIV and AIDS sufferers. ven though has a better grasp on who she is; she for. How did you land on that particular cut herself loose from grapples with her public and personal cause for the shirt? Well, I watercolor as How would you describe your relation- ship with your LGBTQ fans at this point after 2015’s to find the identity, a common theme in her past a hobby, and, actually, I’m doing a lot of E merch designs with watercolors this year in your career? I often get asked why version of herself she lost to an industry work that has resonated with many in for this tour. But the foundation, they just I think I do have such a solid LGBTQ touting artifice, the truth is, she’d been the LGBTQ community, is a thing of the approached me and said they were really fanbase, and I think it’s because a lot of feeling that way for a while. past. As she prepares for a performance interested in doing anything that they the things that I’ve sung about in the past During the promotional cycle for her at the Bomb Factory on Sept. 27, we could, and I just suggested that we could are connected to identity and a sense of 2012 , the Welsh artist, chatted her up. █ start with a limited-edition watercolor that being able to be yourself. When you grow who then went by the handle Marina and — Chris Azzopardi I would paint for them and that they can up with a feeling of discrimination, that’s the Diamonds (she has since sell for charity. something that you carry into your adult simplified her name — and MARINA: LOVE+FEAR TOUR Dallas Voice: Identity and I hope it’s a partnership that we can contin- life, so being my fourth album, it seems image — to just Marina) The Bomb Factory, acceptance have long been ue because I would like to. I think when that I’m still very lucky in that I have the 2713 Canton St. Sept. 27. 7 p.m. support of the LGBTQ community. I think was already shaken by a doors. TheBombFactory.com thematic mainstays in your you’re doing stuff for charity it’s easy to that’s the reason, because if you bond superficial perception of her music. With these new say yes to a lot of little things, but this with an artist early on with their lyrics, or that made her “uncomfortable.” Main- songs, how might the LGBTQ audience time around I’m looking for one or two identify? Marina: With Love + Fear, I partners across the next year which I can their lyrics speak to you, that tends to be stream press interviews at that time were, something you carry with you through she said in 2015, “complete shit,” the don’t think I’m really going through that work with and focus on doing some good or battling with that anymore, so there’s things with. your adult life. So, I kind of understand questioning one-note because journalists a real clarity and a simple, direct way of now why that has happened. didn’t seem to believe a pop artist could But yeah, that’s a really important one for communicating on the record; whereas, I was listening to Love + Fear when I read be complex and multi-dimensional. me, just because it’s got such a stigma both subjects on previous records still attached to it. It’s bad enough if you have something told The New York After FROOT, she continued to felt very tumultuous and undecided, like I to deal with the illness itself, without Times Magazine that I thought might demonstrate otherwise. She went was trying to get through something and having this really silly social stigma. And I resonate with you: “There’s always back to school, studying psychology I didn’t know how to feel about myself. really hope that things are still progressing a gap between how I see myself and at Birkbeck at the University of Lon- Now, a lot of the things that I’m inspired forward in that way. Actually, that’s why I how other people see me.” Can you don. She painted. She traveled. And by are not inside me; it’s more looking wanted to do it, because I think [we] still relate? Anyone who has a public job, then influenced by Swiss psychologist outside at the world around me. have to constantly work on social prob- there’s always going to be that. Actually, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, she recorded her Recently, you painted a stunning illus- lems with this, and she did this so much not even anyone who has a public job, but for anyone in life there is gonna be latest album, called Love + Fear, which is tration of Elizabeth Taylor for a T-shirt in her life, and I don’t think a lot of people

14 dallasvoice.com █ 09.20.19 that gap. But I think it’s bigger for people more just trying to express that confusion, if you have a public job, and I think being which I’ve written about a bit in “To Be an artist can really affect the way that you Human” and “Life Is Strange.” But it’s a feel about yourself, because you know really hard topic to try and verbalize, to who you are, but you may appear to be even try to condense for any of us. another thing, because that’s a popular Even though you’re still pursuing music, thing for pop artists to do. They’re experts how has pursuing other endeavors, at making you think they are a certain like studying psychology and painting, person when the reality is, they have a lot broadened your sense of identity? I of other parts that they’re not showing or think as adults we get less time to expand that they’re trying to hide, and that’s part other parts of ourselves. But because of being young. But I don’t feel like that at music was a hobby for me — I started all anymore. doing it professionally at 22, and then I hit Even with the name change, the reason I 30, 31 and I was like, “Well, what else is did it was because I knew it’d make me there in life?” — I didn’t have the normal feel comfortable enough to be able to do experiences a 20-something would have. I this job again. It’s totally worked. I feel was living quite a different type of life, and very comfortable and confident, and I that doesn’t allow a lot of space for being don’t feel like there’s any obstruction now detached from your music. Music is your between Marina and the Diamonds as an whole life. So then you just get stuck in artist as opposed to a person. It’s making being — you almost become like a brand that easier for the average person as to yourself, like in your own mind. It’s not opposed to putting this construct in front even something you build, it’s subcon- of it all the time. scious, I believe. So I think it was really Do you think nowadays there’s more of a necessary for me to just have a break in desire to want or need pop artists that order to focus on other things that are we can relate to? I think that’s just been equally important. a natural direction, because I think with As adults, we do forget to still live as kids and Twitter sometimes, don’t we? and other social media Yeah, and also just being platforms there was able to try different things. always gonna be a Or change careers if you time where people want to. I think adults would start to see become more nervous through the veneer as we get older about of staged or curated change, and maybe we feeds, and now I think should think about it less it’s gone beyond that a seriously. You’re not just bit, thank god, where a writer or a journalist you can be more — you could be a lot natural, and you don’t of different things you have to be this epic don’t even know. You can conceptual thing all the time. Pop artists experiment in life. are fascinating, but at the end of the day, What do you envision for yourself in the they are just normal people who are able future? I hope to be able to integrate to build a world around them that makes other parts of myself, like the fact that I them look quite exciting. But really it’s the love doing talks, and I love psychology ideas that they started out with — it’s not and philosophy. I still like painting. I think really about how you look — and I think those are things I can incorporate into that’s what fans are connecting with, the whatever role I’ve been able to build out- person himself [or herself]. side of music, but music has been a really Does Love + Fear reflect the heaviness wonderful platform to start with, because you’ve expressed that you feel in other that is my main passion. interviews when it comes to what is Even with this record so far, being able to happening to minority communities in do this talk recently with this organization the world right now? I think I’ve felt very called The School of Life, which is a phi- confused about it, because there’s just losophy- and psychology-based school, been, to all of us, such bombardment of that’s really thrilling to me, because I’m awful events in a very short period of time, able to contribute in a different way that’s and now, of course, with the internet we not just like, “Look at this pop video.” have access to all of this information, so Those are fun things, but they don’t deep- for the human brain, on a biological level, en my heart. They don’t feel life-affirming. it’s like, how many bad events can you Songwriting is. It’s just having a bit of a truly digest and be able to empathize? different perspective now, and I’m really So many bad things happened in the last enjoying that. I feel a lot freer. And yeah, four years that it’s really hard to compre- anything can happen! It’s exciting. Life is hend and know how to deal with it, so it’s exciting.

09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 15 L+S books Here’s to your (mental) health

Essays on getting right in your head

Headcase: LGBTQ Writers and Artists on Mental Health and Wellness, edited by Stephanie Schroeder and Teresa Theophano (Oxford University Press SOMETHING 2019) $29.95; 287 pp.

f someone on the street saw you to- day, he might think you were at the I peak of health. He can’t see what’s BIG inside, though. IS COMING “Real or perceived minority status IN OCTOBER! and… disenfranchisement make us vulnerable to being labeled as sick,” write Stephanie Schroeder and Tere- sa Theophano, editors of Headcase. In other words, living as a member of the

LGBTQ community may affect your “Mental illness can be scary for any- █ ASTRA Page 20 mental health. Furthermore, Christian one,” writes contributor Lance Hicks. Huygen, one of the contributors to this “You choose between asking for help, book, says, “Research shows that, while knowing you’re being judged, or suffer- LGBTQ people seek mental healthcare ing alone.” more often than our non-LGBTQ coun- That latter option doesn’t sound terparts, we are more likely to leave care like so much of an option, does it? No, prematurely…” and Headcase — a title that comes from Today, therapy is easier to get, if you reclamation of a negative word — takes feel hopeless or empty, but not all practi- a real-life look at the first parts of Hicks’ tioners understand LGBTQ health issues. sentiments: mental health, mental Mainstream healthcare has only relatively help and the history of it all within the recently decided that was LGBTQ community. not a disease in need of a “cure.” Too What you’ll learn won’t come easy, many healthcare practitioners don’t un- though. There are several distinct kinds derstand that insurance is sometimes iffy. of chapters inside Headcase, some easier Never mind those who believe conversion to read than others. Readers will find therapy is the right fix. arty things, poetry and drawings here. Have we evolved, when it comes to There are mini-memoirs of relevance. mental wellness for the LGBTQ commu- You’ll find short stories, too, many of nity? You might think so, after reading which have a disjointed feel, as though the chapters here: Of a lesbian who you just wandered into a half-conversa- received comfort from a therapist when tion. There are chapters that are plainly her long-time friend wouldn’t stop meant for physicians, which might not bringing religion up. Of veterans who appeal to laypersons. And you’ll find no longer have to conceal their sexual- history in this book, some of which — ity. On fitting in with the local Mom’s fair warning — will chill you. Group when you’re the only queer Overall, Headcase could offer comfort, mother, and, by the way, you’ve already but it’s not a substitute for a doctor. It’s conquered postpartum depression. On got subtle advice, but it’s not a thera- Follow our Socials being a lesbian daughter of a lesbian pist. It’s not even a good stand-in for To Keep Updated mother who was hospitalized against a sympathetic friend, but if you need On Our Official Opening Date MAGNUMDALLAS.COM her will decades ago, only because she direction, it’s worth a shot. █ dared love another woman. — Terri Schlichenmeyer

16 dallasvoice.com █ 09.20.19 L+S screen When Terry met Stanley ‘Ad Astra’ cross-pollinates Malick and Kubrick, with middling success

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09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 17 L+S screen Dear ‘Abbey’ When you’re a lord and life is making you lonely, you can always go to ‘Downton’

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s much as you may have enjoyed the TV version of A Downton Abbey in the com- fort of your parlor, I doubt more than a handful of us watched it with more than a few friends at a time. It was a Sunday night show, a post-game-day palate cleanser consumed like an aper- itif in the privacy of one’s chambers. It was not, for all intents and purposes, a communal experience, except in the Monday morning recap around the wa- Maggie Smith, above left, makes an indelible ter cooler with like-minded aficionados. big screen impression reprising her role as the Dowager Countess in the film adaptation of All of which means its transfer to the ‘Downton Abbey;’ right, gay butler Barrows silver screen hardly promised a sure (Robert James-Collier) finally finds love. thing. It could feel merely bigger and longer, like a Christmas episode or a ing rooms and libraries, taking in the season finale, not a uniquely cinematic grandeur of the setting while reminding enterprise. us that the people occupying the spaces Then, when the familiar opening are of a very human scale. theme begins — the rush of violins, The plot concerns a visit to Downton conjuring servants scurrying behind the by King George V and Queen Mary, and scenes, paired with a stately, staccato the havoc it wreaks on the Granthams piano of the rigid gentry frittering away and the staff. The challenge is in finding above — you feel a rush of excitement adequate action for all the characters to ricochet through the theater, reminding do. Mr. Bates (Brendan Coyle), whose you of something comfortable but new. tentative courtship of Anna (Joanna And you know: Downton Abbey was Froggatt) formed a fulcrum of the se- made for the big screen. ries, barely registers in the film (though It has roots there anyway. The series Froggatt has a lot to do); Mary’s (Mi- creator, Julian Fellowes, had already chelle Dockery) new husband (Matthew penned the 2001 film Gosford Park, Goode) doesn’t even make an appear- But Maggie Smith’s Dowager to be a fan to fully “get” Downton; I which set up a similar dynamic. But we ance until the final scenes. Countess continues to be the droll am, so I might not have been able to know these characters more deeply (the But, as the saying goes, there’s not engine that propels the comedy. She, divorce myself fully from its history. scroll of 20-plus names in the opening much there, but what there is, is choice. parrying with rival Mrs. Crowley (Pe- But I suspect even newcomers will credits reminds you how massively), A side plot about a burgeoning romance nelope Wilton), is responsible for at find themselves enchanted by the but it retains an intimacy. between the closeted butler Barrow least the first half-dozen belly laughs, pageantry, the silliness and the real- The camerawork was always one of (Robert James-Collier) and a visiting if not all of them. But she also turns in ization that, less than a century ago, the secret weapons of Downton Abbey, royal attendant provides some of the a heartbreaking, stiff-upper-lippy turn the world was a very different place, as it fluidly scurries through the corri- most poignant moments while slyly at an unexpected moment, reminding though still quite modern. It makes dors of the servants, turning suddenly commenting on contemporary gay life; us that there ain’t nothing like this it possible to endure life a few years to follow a visitor upstairs, then later, an assassination plot, while clumsily dame. If she doesn’t coast to an Oscar more at least, as we stumble through pushing in from a low angle on the inserted, gives Allen Leech a few good nomination, I’d be surprised. the new millennium. Civility, we can decorous appointments of the draw- scenes. It’s possible that you already need hope, endures. █

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Within a decade, Star Wars came out Over that patina of scifi, apply the That probably makes the film sound and mired in its own weightiness. and space became fun again. lacquer of the recent films of Terrence more appealing that I found it ulti- As a linear experience, it has merits. But the Kurbickian template didn’t die, Malick, whose moody, experimental mately to be. We learn about the main In the foreseeable future (not too far, yet it just went into hypersleep. In the past films like The Tree of Life, To the Wonder character, astronaut Roy McBride (Pitt), contradictorily, far enough that many decade, filmmakers — faced with ad- and Knight of Cups have transformed im- in doleful diary entries. As a result, laws of physics have changed) a near- vances in technology — have allowed the ages of man and nature into elegies ru- we don’t really know, at least for the death experience caused by a massive “meaning” of man as a dot on a planet in minating on the nature of being. It’s the first half, what kind of film it’s going power surge alters Roy’s life. The an infinite universe to become central to New Existentialism … appropriate in an to be. This does create a fair amount of military keeps the real reason a secret the point of outer space movies: Sunshine, age when many of us are questioning tension: Are we waiting to see a thriller, from the masses: A bolt of antimatter, Moon, Interstellar, Arrival, First Man. Once the legitimacy of our own institutions. a mystery, an actioner, pure scifi? That apparently emitting from Neptune… again, the implication of whether we are Ad Astra, the new film starring Brad uncertainty engenders as much discom- and possibly originating from a failed alone in the cosmos, and what that even Pitt, feels a progression of these themes fort as fear. But like a neutron, it seems mission to the outer edge of the solar means, has renewed poignancy. — The Shining in space. to collapse in on itself, becoming dense system led, decades ago, by Roy’s father (Tommy Lee Jones). Roy is sent to Mars to attempt to communicate with dad, and the notoriously calm astronaut is put through an emotional ringer on his journey discovering facts about his own history he never knew… or dealt with. 888.226.0114 But in retrospect, too much of Ad Astra comes off as random and unnec- DALLAS | MESQUITE | ROCKWALL essary: Terrorist attacks; bureaucratic protocols; a horrific murder on a space craft that is never really explained. Is this all a metaphor for the end times or a psychological profile? I could never fully resolve the contra- dictions, especially on the walk home, though I did appreciate some of the YOUR SOURCE HOME OF THE ride. Pitt has matured into an actor of FOR LUXURY Gary Cooper-like restraint, whose face PRE-OWNED CARS, $250 Down is interesting but inscrutable, so we can project onto him. He doesn’t come SUV’S AND TRUCKS $250 A Month across as pensive, but as emotionally turbid. That said, he and Jones both seem at least a decade too old for their roles. (Even in the flashbacks, Jones appears too haggard for space flight.) Add to that there’s more fi than sci, and I constantly found myself at war with the premises. Director James Gray tends to accentu- ate these hurdles rather than minimize them. He’s always been the most dour of directors, someone for whom slug- gish pacing is a default condition. The film’s opening chyron only emphasized its portentousness, then darts down rabbit holes that don’t illuminate plot or character, merely theme. Still, I wouldn’t write off Ad Astra… not yet. I have a sense that my appreci- Give Your ation for it might — might — grow on Community Representative subsequent viewings, especially were I able to wrap my mind around some Majesta a Call Today! of the more Kafka-esque moments. Malick’s films do that; so do Kubrick’s. 972-822-6760 Gray isn’t in their league, but there’s the chance something more is out there, $250 Down. $250/month. $15.99 for every $1000 excludes TTL. Example Forte: Finance a New 2018 Kia Forte - MSRP $18350 - $2500 Kia Rebate = orbiting the soul of this movie, invisible $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. in the dark vacuum of space. We can always keep looking. █

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‘Phantom,’ once again, haunts Bass Hall Thursday 09.26 The shadowy figure who manipulates a young singer returns to Cowtown to lurk Spend an evening with Michelle Obama about the Bass in out producer Cameron Mackintosh’s production of The Phantom Former First Lady Michelle Obama spent eight years in the White House, of the Opera. This take on Andrew Lloyd but that hardly represents the sum total of her achievements. Last year, Webber’s eerily romantic masterpiece her memoir Becoming which jumped to the top of New York Times’ features new spellbinding special effects, best-sellers list, sold more copies than any other book published in the brilliant stage design and choreography, U.S. that year. One of the most influential women of the 21st century, all set to the famous sullen score that Mrs. Obama addressed childhood obesity, supported veterans and en- epitomizes spooky organ music. couraged children and women to seek higher education during her time in the White House. She’s now touring the nation to reflect on her life and Wednesday 09.24 DEETS: , career, including a stop in Dallas this week. Thanks, Obamas! 525 Commerce St., Fort Worth. BassHall.com. DEETS: Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. ATTPAC.org. – Sunday 10.06

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FINE ART Dior: From Paris to the World. Retrospective THE PLEASURE IS ALL YOURS of 70 years of the famed French design house. Dallas Museum of Art 1717 Harwood St. Through Oct. 27 (extended). DMA.org.

A Sampling of Contemporary Portraiture. An exhibition of the work of five photographers producing compelling new examples of portraiture. Afterimage Gallery, 2613B Fairmount St. Through Nov. 4. AfterimageGallery.com.

Caravaggio: Martha and Mary Magdalene. this week’s solution A stunning work from 1598, on loan to the DMA through the summer. Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 Harwood St. Free. Through Sunday. DMA.org. FRIDAY 09.20 DANCE Ronald Brown/Evidence. The acclaimed dance company performs, courtesy of TITAS/ Dance Unbound. Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. ATTPAC.org.

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09.20.19 █ dallasvoice 23 L+S scoop Bottom line, Deviantella: Three measly can’t Roj instead see me more as his very sex — neither the bottom bunk nor the top, months does not a “long-term relationship” own Saturday night, private love machine if I’m being totally honest: The human anus Ask Howard make, remotely: Fully two years, in Howard’s maniac? — Rory Upchurch just doesn’t turn me on. At all. Never has.” estimation, meet only the bare minimal Dear Whore In Church: Fortuitously It took a few moments for the effects How to do the wrong thing right qualifying-time for the rigorous standards enough, just this past spring, X-Tube his stun gun’s paralysis to fully wear off. constituting “long-term” anointment. In revealed the results of a gay audience Eventually, though, I mouthed, “And yet you Just how long is a “long-term” layman’s terms, until you’re both on your survey that asked each of its anonymous decided to go male for your marrying gender relationship? Acid-witted American essayist/ third bottle of Tabasco purchased together; participants to reveal what his/her secret of preference, to accompany this amusing historical novelist Gore Vidal and his life- until each of you are able to echoingly favorite gay sex fetish is — the results of little fetish glitch? What kind of card-carrying partner, the mercurial Broadway stage pass one another in your hallway with the which you’ll find frustratingly vanilla: Being homosexual suddenly announces that manager Howard Austen, may very well walking farts sans even a whiff of mutually shackled, prostrate upon bent knees to men’s buttholes don’t turn him on? On the hold the Gayness Book of World Records mortifying embarrassment given to it; until your bed in chains, whimpering naked and gender-malfunction scale, it’s equivalency, entry (celebrity edition, at least) for venerably long silences when facing one another blindfolded whilst mercilessly defiled by in reverse, has his identical heterosexual maintaining the most triumphantly long-lived opposite a table in a restaurant are no longer Master ’Nilla Extract … yeah, no worries, doppelganger abruptly decreeing, “Well, if I’m same-sex partnership in civilized history: remotely uncomfortable … then, and only Twinkalicious, this list has your twisted, true- being totally honest, college cheerleaders’ 53 years (it expired upon Austen’s death then, will you at last know you’ve entered into self totally covered: pompoms, televised pro-golf tournaments in 2003). Whenever asked what stuff of a bona fide relationship of long-haul legs, In descending order, 2019’s top 10 gay and a Fire Magic Diamond Echelon Outdoor destiny’s better angels he attributed to their munificent merit fetish sex fantasies Barbecue Grill just don’t really much turn relationship’s enviable endurance, Vidal and death-do-us- were: 10. Partialism me on.” Howard, have I gone crazy, or did (who himself passed away in 2012) would part substance. (sexual interest some killer bees’ larvae hatch inside Jared’s deadpan, “It’s easy to sustain a relationship My, but, oh in a specific body ear? Or what if he’s really saying to me when sex plays no part, and impossible, my! Can you part other than the that it’s only my butt that doesn’t much turn I have observed, when it does.” Angelic even imagine genitals). 9. Role him on? Oh, what a pretty pass we’ve now Howard here couldn’t have quipped Gore what rapture play. 8. reached — our perfectly-paired same-sex one better with even all the winged spirts of shall be your (aka “dirty talk”). union of two throbbing erections — and Heaven helping by my side. jilted, long-term 7. Uniforms. 6. nary a demonic soul around for either of us Let’s just get all Vidal-Austen right to it. lover on that Bondage. 5. to ejaculate in … well, don’t that just fuck a gloriously golden Submission. 4. duck? — Bill Taft Dear Howard: I’ve been monogamously day when, . Dear William Howard: In Gayville’s new dating my boyfriend now for almost three finally, Manny’s 3. . 2. 21st century lexicon, your pitcher-by-default months, but still he’s on Grindr, and on released from Maschalagnia husband is what we now classify as a “side” Facebook he’s even still “single.” Now, I’m the putrid, (armpits). 1. — as in, he’s not a top, he’s not a bottom. hardly one of those devious queens who shackling maw Macrophilia (sexual YouTube “personality” Bradley Birkholz, a goes snatching up his husband’s iPhone of your priggish interest in someone self-professed side and tireless promulgator every time he steps in the shower, but purgatory? of a much greater of the term (as a very needed alternative, Manny and me, we’re firmly into a long- Through body size). in his opinion, to the “butthole binary” of term relationship here. We ain’t just dating streaming tears forcing gay men to choose between but two casually anymore —I commanded his seedy in his eyes Dear Howard: sexual-branding options — or, in varying ship of boy toys sail off into the sunset, shall he again, I’m a top and my meaningless degrees, a frustratingly lost at sea forever — at right about our six- at last, see newlywed husband begrudged “versatile”) elucidates: “When week marker. So imagine my nausea upon shimmering blue won’t bottom. He exploring my sexuality, I began discovering a discovering by accident that he’s begun skies! Or, as we just refuses. Nor will world of sex far beyond the realm of butt sex. calling some number up in Frisco that I don’t say back home he acknowledge my When you’re a side, you get to have fun no recognize, and quite regularly, too …but only in Alabama logical argument, matter what. My message is that you don’t on those rare nights when I don’t sleep over, whenever it’s “But we entered need to feel pressured into conforming to the and always after 11 p.m. when I’ve been raining yet the into this marriage expectations of gay sex fed to us through asleep for nearly an hour. Howard, why must sun’s come together — a porn and popularized media.” I be the one forced to woundedly point out to out: The devil’s sexual team. Nonetheless, William Howard, despite my randy juvenile what’s so obvious here? beating his wife at the door. As teammates, someone has to always this sound argument in the defense of sides, Should I just tell this ramblin’, amblin’ man be pitcher; someone has to always play it offers precious little comfort in your own flat-out that without monogamy he’ll soon be Dear Howard: How do I go about telling catcher.” I can’t be the only one of us who’s defense. The bottom-line truth still remains without me? — Almost Golden my husband, Mr. Vanilla Extract, that a always willing to compromise my preferred that you were, for all intents and purposes, Dear Totally Leaden: Yes, absolutely, single jar of Vaseline rattling around in our position in the pyrrhic glorification, every basically shanghai’d into marrying a man would you, please? A rare find it is, indeed, nightstand’s “date night” drawer doesn’t time he hops aboard me with his wicked who conveniently negated ever mentioning to run across someone so aglow with the exactly set Saturday night’s mattress on fire Louisville Slugger. (Who’d he inherit that beforehand that conjugal relations revolted radiance of such insecure pettiness as you with passion? I feel ashamed as a nun in a monster creature from anyhow — Godzilla?) him; worse, on whatever occasions he — another stealth-ninja who surreptitiously wimple even admitting to my own husband Howard, the true miracle afterwards, upon did deign to engage in sexual intercourse steals another man’s private property to that I harbor such wicked lustiness as S-M my insistent pressing of Jared as to why he with you, it amounted to little more than a snoop through his intimate correspondences bedroom fantasies, even though Roger’s would never swap-out turns playing catcher mercy fuck of duty, rather than the euphoria that are none of your business, while totally addicted to daddy/twink for me occasionally being allowed to pitch, of lovemaking between an equal pair of rapaciously trying to wrangle some phantom, porn. (He doesn’t even bother anymore to was how I managed to refrain from coming testosterone-charged newlyweds. For a man “long-term” commitment out of a man whom erase his search histories.) But so far as just totally unglued once he answered my who professes an equal disgust at playing you’ve barely met — in a relationship that’s he thinks of me in any sexual context at all, question. And talk about some more kind either a top or bottom, the fact that he still withstood all the blistering, infidel sands of it’s almost like he fears even broaching the of prize revelation to pull out from what I refused to compromise with you halfway in time now for 12 whole weeks? Honey, you topic of bondage play with me, whom he assumed was just a box of Cracker Jack! the bedroom, or even bend a little, says to don’t deserve “long-term” love. And certainly takes to bed with him every single night. Suddenly, it’s bottom of the ninth and the Howard that there lurks deeper letdowns not to any real man cloaked in the humble I suppose taking a flogger to the man to bases are loaded, and my husband quietly in your husband’s psyche than merely his possession of real, human fallibilities. Likely whom he vowed his eternal protection and took a deep breath, tapped his cleats atop abhorrence of rectums. sooner than later do I most duly anticipate devotion might irreparably diminish, if not the mound, dusted a cloud of chalk into his — Howard Lewis Russell receiving my wedding invitation celebrating outright demean, the sanctity of my spousal and tossed straight down the center Have a question about love, sex, the noble nuptials of yourself to an XXXL pedestal. Apparently, I’m too deified to be of home plate an ash-splintering, stadium relationships or etiquette? Send it to anatomically correct, life-size beefcake stud sullied with anything raunchier than a dab eruption game-changer: “OK, truth is, [email protected] and he may of a blow-up doll. of petroleum jelly on anal Tuesdays…. why sweetie, I don’t really much even enjoy anal answer it.

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