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06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 3 instanTEA DallasVoice.com/Category/Instantea Tuesday morning, May 29, that information was comments. Co-star and executive producer Sara changed. Gilbert (Darlene) also tweeted out her contempt The cause of death is now listed as “blunt force for Barr. Gilbert is openly gay. And shortly after trauma of head,” and manner of death is listed as ABC officials announced they were canceling homicide. the series immediately, Barr’s talent agency — We will update this story as more information ICM — announced it would no longer represent becomes available. her, and other networks have pulled all reruns of — Tammye Nash Roseanne. Barr later apologized and deleted the tweet, ABC cancels hit ‘Roseanne’ announcing she was leaving Twitter. But the damage was done. And Barr quickly returned to reboot after Barr’s racist tweets; Twitter with more rants. Barr’s agent drops her — Arnold Wayne Jones It seemed as if the reboot of Roseanne was a risk that paid off. Ever since Will & Grace Robbery victim shoots suspect announced it was coming back to a “limited run” A robbery suspect was hospitalized early Sat- (only to be extended to two full seasons after high urday morning, May 26, after being shot twice by ratings), it has become standard for networks the man he tried to rob in the parking lot behind to tease a reboot of a show as “limited,” while TMC: The Mining Company and S4, in the 3900 holding out hope that ratings will be good enough block of Cedar Springs Road. to cement a full season order (it’s a way to bring Initial reports by local media indicated that the back the stars without the humiliation of “cancel- incident occurred at the intersection of Cedar ing” the show if it flops). Springs Road and Hawthorne Avenue, but Dallas And after Roseanne debuted in March to huge Police Department’s LGBT Liaison Office Amber ratings — nearly 22 million viewers — ABC quickly Roman has confirmed to Dallas Voice that there announced it would come back in the fall. was only one attack and that it happened in the It was risky to do that so early, though, be- parking lot in the 3900 block of Cedar Springs. Jay Alfie cause Roseanne Barr herself is such a divisive Dallas Voice has video of the immediate after- figure — supportive of LGBT rights, a putative math of the attack and shooting posted at our Allen HS trans teen wins fight not Jay Alfie began transitioning more than a year hero of the working class… but also an unapolo- website, DallasVoice.com. ago, according to Isabella, but had chosen to getic Trump supporter. According to information witness reports, a to be dead-named at graduation delay having his name changed legally. She said Officials at Allen High School have agreed to call Well, now ABC really is canceling a show be- man was attacked from behind as he was getting that after going through the required therapy, at a transgender senior by the correct name when cause of its star’s politics … at least in part. into his vehicle in the parking lot, and was hit over the end of the last school year Jay had been given he walks across the stage to receive his diploma Roseanne tweeted what many have called the head with an unknown object. The victim permission to go ahead with top surgery and Friday night. an overtly racist statement, wherein she equat- was able to get into his car where he retrieved his testosterone therapy. At the start of this year, she Although Jay Alfie had been told at the begin- ed former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the own handgun, and then fired three shots at his added, he began the name-change process. ning of the school year that school officials had no Muslim Brotherhood and a monkey. (Jarrett is assailant. But, Isabella said, she and her brother and par- problems using his correct name at graduation, African-American.) Police at the scene that night can be heard ents are still citizens of Mexico, which means that when he checked again a couple of months ago, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had on the video saying that the attacker had been since he is now 18, Jay will have to go to Mexico Jay was told that school officials would only use a baby=vj,” Barr tweeted, with “vj” a reference arrested at Parkland Hospital after going to the himself to have his name and gender markers on his legal name, which at this point is the female to Jarrett. Wanda Sykes, who was consulting emergency room with gunshot wounds. “We got his birth certificate changed. name he was given at birth. producer on the reboot, was the first to an- the bad guy,” the officer says in the video. — Tammye Nash With his parents and sister helping, Jay has nounce she would not return because of the — Tammye Nash been fighting to get school officials to change their minds, and now they have. Joe Delane’s death now In a written statement released to the media, listed as homicide by M.E. Allen ISD Supt. Scott Niven said: The April 16 death of Joe Delane, 51, has now “The school district’s practice at Allen High been ruled a homicide, according to information School graduation is to read the student’s legal on the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website. name at the ceremony. This allows for consistency Fort Worth police’s PIO said Tuesday, May 29, as the names of our 1,556 graduates are read. that the case remains under investigation. The practice of reading a student’s legal name at Delane died Monday evening, April 16, in the graduation is not specific to transgender students. ICU at JPS Hospital in Fort Worth, following an It also applies to nicknames and names that are altercation the previous Friday evening with a bar- commonly used in place of the student’s legal tender at the 515 Bar on South Jennings Street. name during the school year. If a student’s name is A police spokesman at the time told Dallas legally changed, the school district will make those Voice that the bartender — whose name was not changes accordingly. released — said that Delane had been drinking The Alfie family has been in the process of elsewhere when he went into the 515 Bar that obtaining a legal name change for several months. night and that he was being disruptive. The bar- Due to circumstances beyond the family’s control, tender said Delane refused to leave when he was the legal process will not be completed before told to, and when the bartender tried to escort him graduation on June 1. Therefore, since the family out, Delane punched him. The bartender said he has filed legal papers to change the name, the responded by pushing Delane away from him and request to change the name at graduation will be that Delane stumbled and fell, striking his head. honored.” But others who saw Delane earlier in the eve- The announcement came this week after the ning have said he was not drunk before he went family went public with their battle, and Jay’s story into 515 Bar, and some who were at the bar have was featured on several news media outlets, after said that it was the bartender who hit Delane and his sister Isabella created a MoveOn.org petition not the other way around. that garnered more than 5,000 signatures and af- Since Delane’s death, the M.E.’s office has listed ter Jay’s parents met with the school’s graduation the cause and manner of death both as “pend- coordinator on Tuesday. ing.” At some point between Friday, May 25, and Roseanne Barr

4 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 5 THE GAYAGENDA Have an event coming up? Email your dinner, dancing and sharing memories. For • June 4: Dallas Cakes watch party information to Managing Editor Tammye Nash information visit hopecottage.org/hc. Watch party for an encore showing of at [email protected] or Senior Staff Writer the Food Network series Dallas Cakes David Taffet at [email protected] by • June-September: Pride at the Library episode filmed during Toast To Life Wednesday at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue. From UNT’s LGBT Archive, the library from 6:30-8 p.m. at Resource Center, will exhibit collections from UNT’s 5750 Cedar Springs Road. RSVP at JUNE Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender DallasCakesWatchParty.eventbrite.com. • Through June 3: TBRU Archive, documenting the history and Host hotel is The Hyatt Regency. Events culture of the LGBT community in Dallas • June 5: Pride proclamation are held at various venues, starting with at the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, Dallas County Commissioners present BearDance at S4 on Friday night, the Dallas History & Archives (7th floor), a Pride proclamation at Commissioners Mr. TBRU contest and a performance 1515 Young St. Court meeting at 9 a.m. at Dallas County by Lady Bunny Saturday at the hotel, a Commissioners Court, first floor, barbecue dinner and closing ceremony • June 2: Bloomin Ball 411 Elm St. (former Texas School Book Sunday at The RoundUp and the Benefits AIDS Interfaith Network from Depository). Everyone welcome. AfterParty Sunday at Dallas Eagle. 6 p.m.-midnight at Renaissance Dallas See Page 8 for a full schedule. Hotel, 2222 N. Stemmons Freeway. • June 6: LifeWalk Pep Rally Kick off the 28th Dallas AIDS walk from • June 1: Pride at City Hall • June 2: Two Charities in One Show 6:30-9 p.m. at 3015 at Trinity Groves, Unfurling of the Pride flag in the lobby Linze Serell raises money for North Texas 3015 Gulden Lane. of Dallas City Hall at the opening of the Pride, GDMAF, Texas Red Ribbon Wish exhibit The Impact of HIV/AIDS in Dallas Network and Miss Gay Texas Pageant • June 7: Brewing Up Business at noon at Dallas City Hall, 1500 Marilla St. System at 8 p.m. at 5115 Bar, The North Texas GLBT Chamber of Chris Chism performs Saturday at Bloomin’ Everyone welcome. 515 S. Jennings Ave., Fort Worth. Commerce meets from 8:30-9:30 a.m. Ball, benefitting AIN. See listings for details. at Zephyr, 4001 Cedar Springs Road. • June 1: Hope Cottage’s 100th birthday • June 3: Miss Big Thickette City Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. Hope Cottage: Pregnancy Care and The Turtle Creek Chorale’s raise money • June 8-10: Turtle Creek Chorale TurtleCreekChorale.com. Adoption Service Center Dallas celebrates for LifeWalk with their annual fundraiser The Turtle Creek Chorale presents its 100th birthday at 6 p.m. at Lakewood pageant from 7-10 p.m. at the Round-Up Outlaws, at 7:30 p.m. on Friday- • June 8: Calcutta, Caddy and Country Club, 6430 Gaston Ave., with Saloon, 3912 Cedar Springs Road. Saturday and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday at Team Auction

OBITUARY Longtime Dallas LGBT activist Campbell dance at the GLSSO meetings was low, and Read was also an environmentalist, and Burgess Read died Wednesday, April 25, the group folded by 1985. in the 1980’s, he became a member of the 2018, at the age of 87. By 1988, when he spoke to Dallas Voice, Trinity River Corridor Citizen’s Committee. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland to Selwyn Read said the Texas sodomy law had a chill- He was an early activist against building a and Mary Read (nee MacMillan), Read was ing effect on gays and lesbians on campus toll road in the Trinity flood plain, long be- educated at Edinburgh Academy and Cor- and that — at least for the then-near future, fore there were signature bridges or bond pus Christi Cambridge. He was a respected he didn’t expect any formal campus group money set aside for parks in the flood plain. mathematician and statistician and was a to form. He was a keen birdwatcher and environ- statistics professor at SMU for 40 years. When the Reagan administration want- mentalist as well as a member of the local Read helped form the school’s first gay ed to do a community survey on the prev- church community helping organize and and lesbian student association, Gay and alence of HIV in the general population teach others about birdlife. He was never Lesbian Student Support Organization, in by taking a blood sample from people in happier than when walking the mountain 1983. Read told Dallas Voice in 1988 that randomly selected households, Dallas was trails around Santa Fe. the organization placed an ad in the Daily to be the test city for the national project. Read is survived by his sister, Diana, one Campus, and within a month, 60 students Dallas County Commissioners Court, then niece and one nephew. responded. The school newspaper wanted Republican controlled, had qualms and ap- A memorial service will be held at 4 p.m. to send a reporter to the meetings, but Read pointed a 29-member advisory panel. Seven on Wednesday, June 13, in the sanctuary of refused because meetings were held at his of those members were gay, including Read First Unitarian Church, 4015 Normandy home, and he wanted to give the students who opposed the survey. The Dallas survey Ave. in the Sanctuary followed by a recep- who attended privacy. He said it was the failed and by 1989, the newly-elected Bush tion in Channing Hall. Park on either side first time the administration had to look at administration pulled its support from the of the building or in a back lot accessible Campbell Read the LGBT community, but regular atten- project. from St. Andrews Drive.

6 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 Fairway to Equality kickoff at 6:30 p.m. J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, Youth at Sue Ellen’s, 3014 Throckmorton St. Discovery Center on the second floor, 1515 Young St. • June 8: DFW Pride Happy Hour At the former Monica’s Aca y Alla in Deep • June 9: Fairway to Equality Ellum owned by longtime managers Jose Tournament shot gun starts at 1:30 p.m. and Angel from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Maracas at Indian Creek Golf Club, Cocina Mexicana. 1650 W. Frankford Road, Carrollton.

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06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 7 Raising fun and funds

TBRU 23 includes BearDance, Dance: Inferno — in keeping with this Lady Bunny, barbecue and more year’s fireman theme — at S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. It will feature drag perform- TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor er Varla Jean Merman and rapper Cazwell [email protected] along with DJs Decoding Jesus, New Dad, John LePage and Ryan Tiffen. The fire starts t least 1,500 hirsute and at 8 p.m., and admission is $25. hefty men are gathering in Saturday’s big events include the TBRU Dallas this weekend for Family Dinner and the Mr. TBRU Contest, Texas Bear Round-Up starting at 5 p.m. in the Landmark Ballroom 23: Station 23, the an- at the Hyatt. The dinner and contest shut nual event that raises down at 7:15 p.m. as does the Landmark so fun and funds for organizers can rearrange in time to re-open “bears” and their the Landmark Ballroom at 8 p.m. for “Tran- friends and fans from around the world. sJester,” a show by the legendary Lady Organizer Wayne Davis said attendance Bunny. is down a little this year, since the event has Tickets are still available, and the show is been moved a couple of months later in the open to the public. year, due to scheduling conflicts at the ho- The show will be followed by a book-sign- tel. This year’s date, he said, is in conflict ing and photo-autographing session by with some Florida bear events, Gay Days at Lady Bunny. Disney and some early LGBT Pride events. Saturday winds up with a TBRU Under- This is TBRU’s second year with the Hyatt wear Auction at midnight in the hotel’s as its host hotel. Last year, Davis explained Marsalis Hall B. that organizers were able to secure a four- The weekend winds up on Sunday with year contract with the elite downtown ho- the TBRU Big Texas Barbecue and Closing tel — giving the event a chance to have a ceremony, starting at noon at the Round- single host hotel large enough to host all Up. Then the Official TBRU After Party — the non-nightclub events and house all the Double Trash Disco, TBRU Edition, with Bears began arriving from around the world for folks coming in from out of town. DJs Blaine Soileau and Perry — runs from 5 TBRU on Thursday, May 31, at the Hyatt Hotel But the scheduling conflicts last year and p.m. to midnight at Dallas Eagle. downtown. (Chad Mantooth/Dallas Voice) this year meant TBRU had to be moved to Throughout the weekend, the Chill late May/early June. Next year, though, the Lounge — offering board games and con- Look for the “Trinity Crossing” signs for event returns to its traditional time and is versation in an alcohol lounge — and the the outdoor patio area that leads you to the set for March 14-17. For those who like to Video Game Room will be open in Cumber- bus staging area just outside the main lobby plan way ahead, TBRU 25, in 2020, will be land K and Cumberland L at the hotel, and of the hotel. Shuttles will stop at Round-Up held March 12-15. there will be meet-and-greets, socials, hap- Saloon/S4/TMC, Dallas Eagle, the Hidden TBRU, organized each year by Dallas py hours and more scheduled at the hotel Door and the Hyatt. Bears, is one of the community’s largest and bars around the gayborhood, including • Attendees are reminded to always wear fundraising weekends. 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8 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 CoH UCC to participate in Pulse memorial

FROM STAFF REPORTS ance movement “grown out of the spirit of t noon on June 12, bells will giving and good deeds witnessed in the af- toll 49 times, in unison, termath of the tragedy at Pulse nightclub,” around the world as a trib- Cazares-Thomas explained. ute to the 49 victims of He said Acts of Love and Kindness has the 2016 mass shooting set a “lofty goal” of getting at least 449 en- at the Pulse nightclub tities to participate this year in the tolling in Orlando. of the bells. The Rev. Neil Ca- “Cathedral of Hope United Church of zares-Thomas, senior pastor at Cathedral of Christ first rang its bells 49 times to honor Hope United Church of Christ, announced the lives of those lost on June 13, 2016, and this week that his church will be participat- broadcast this live via Facebook,” the pastor ing in memorial to Pulse victims, and he said. “It was an important act of solidarity joined parents of the victims in calling on with the LGBTQ community, and the grief churches, temples, synagogues, mosques that we felt then continues to be felt today. and businesses around the country to par- “We are honored to have done so and ticipate by tolling their bells and sharing will be honored to join this growing move- messages of love and kindness on their ment of tolling our bells,” he continued. public signs. “Bells are sacred; we toll them for death, The tolling of the bells is part of Acts of and we ring them for celebration, ensuring

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06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 9 Turtle Creek Chorale opens busy month

The chorale finishes out its season with a 3-night concert, a sendoff performance, a regional tour and more

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he Turtle Creek Chorale begins one of the busi- est months in its histo- ry with its main stage Turtle Creek Chorale performed at First Presbyterian Church in Tyler in December 2009 (David Taffet/DallasVoice) summer concert, Out- laws, followed by its re- There’s classic country — Wynette and off on a red state tour. What surprised him when he visited gional Friendship tour. Patsy Cline — and new — Carrie Under- “It’s two hours of some of the most beau- churches in the other three cities was the wood and Dixie Chicks. tiful, uplifting Turtle Creek Chorale music warm reception he received. OUTLAWS What surprised Baugh as he listened to you’ve ever heard,” Baugh said. “One church took us into a room to pray lyrics was how much of country music is we would perform there,” he said. The chorale finishes out its concert season revolutionary music with a message, and FRIENDSHIP TOUR He hopes the audiences are filled with with Outlaws, its homage to country music he can’t ignore a message in his music. So two types of people — those in the LGBT Providing compassionate medical care to with some Tammye Wynette, Johnny Cash, the Judds’ “Love Can Build a Bridge,” Un- The Friendship Tour from June 21-24 community who don’t have the benefit of Dolly Parton and more, on June 8-10. derwood’s “So Deep” and the Dixie Chicks begins in Tulsa, moves to Little Rock — in- community support and those “who are cu- the LGBT community for more than 35 Years! Artistic Director Sean Baugh never con- infamous “Not Ready to Make Nice” are all cluding a stop at the Clinton Presidential rious about us but don’t find themselves in Comprehensive HIV/AIDS management sidered himself a country fan but said he part of Outlaws. Center, — continues in Shreveport and alignment with what we believe.” STD testing and treatment always loved Dolly. Somehow, he said, he wraps up in Tyler. Voices of Hope, Cathedral of Hope’s PrEP counseling and treatment just never thought of her as country. Performances will be in churches rather choir, will join the chorale on its tour, Baugh DMA General adult medical care But as he spent the last year listening to than concert venues. Baugh said perfor- said, to give the out-of-town performances ® ® country music, taking suggestions from The following weekend is equally busy mance halls automatically create a wall be- a more gospel flair that the audiences in Cosmetic - BOTOX and JUVÉDERM chorale members and studying the genre, for the chorale. tween performer and attendee. Churches the churches will find familiar. In Tulsa, he put together a concert that he called “en- On Friday, June 15, soloists from the cho- don’t have those barriers. He wants peo- the Council Oak Men’s Chorus, that city’s tertaining, light and fun” with lots of danc- rale will participate in the Dallas Museum of ple coming to the concerts to find common 40-voice, gay men’s chorus, will join the ing and something for everyone. Art’s monthly Late Night. This month’s Late ground and hopes to build bridges. chorale for its performance. In addition, he developed an apprecia- Night is part of an Arts District Pride celebra- The idea for a friendship tour came after The River City Men’s Chorus, a men’s tion for country music. tion. the election. chorus, but not a gay-identified choir, will “The messaging is very inspirational and Chorale members will perform at 6 p.m. “The idea came from a place of necessi- join the chorale for its second-night perfor- uplifting,” he said, despite all the songs to open Late Night in the atrium under the ty,” Baugh said. mance. Turtle Creek Chorale’s Director of about heartbreak and “my dog left me, my Chihuly glass. They’ll repeat their perfor- Two other choruses have done similar Operations Jeremy Wayne grew up in Little woman left me.” mance several times through the evening. tours. The San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Rock and helped make that connection. Chorale members helped convince him conducted by former Turtle Creek Chorale Baugh said 175 chorale members will go Brady L. Allen, M.D.• David M. Lee, M.D. this was a great idea for a concert. Artistic Director Tim Seelig, recently did a on tour and, other than time off from work, TEMPLE SHALOM Marc A. Tribble, M.D. • Donald A. Graneto, M.D. “We’re in Texas,” he said. “We have to friendship tour through the Deep South. they won’t have to pay their own expenses. pay homage. Turns out, it’s very singable.” The chorale kicks off its Friendship Tour The Washington Gay Men’s Chorus did a Fundraising through the year will cover ex- Eric Klappholz, NP • Peter Triporo, NP • Jason Vercher, PA-C

He said he’s gotten more suggestions for with a performance at Temple Shalom, similar tour through cities to its southwest. penses. █ Vanessa Bludau, NP • William Hays, MD, ATC, LAT this concert than he has for any other. in Far North Dallas on Hillcrest at Al- Baugh decided he wanted to visit near- Although the out-of-town concerts are free, “So many members are avid country pha Road, in a June 16 performance that’s by cities with which he and other chorale reservations are suggested, especially for the Ty- Uptown Tower fans,” he said. “Every member has a favor- co-sponsored by Temple Shalom LGBTQ members had connections. Tulsa is Baugh’s ler concert that’s filling up quickly. Tickets are 4144 N. Central Expressway, Suite 750 ite song.” Pride, the synagogue’s own LGBT group, hometown. And about eight years ago, the available at TurtleCreekChorale.com. Dr. Marc Tribble and Dr. Donald Graneto Voted 2018 Readers Voice Awards He got caught up in the Johnny Cash and Congregation Beth El Binah, Dallas’ chorale performed at First Presbyterian Tickets for Outlaws at City Performance Hall named to D Magazine’s Best Doctors BEST General Practitioner and 214-303-1033 debate — is he country or rock and roll? predominantly LGBT synagogue. Church in Tyler. He said he wanted to re- and the concert at Temple Shalom are available in Dallas for 2017 in Infectious Disease and Family Medicine respectively. BEST Medical Group Practice Baugh decided Cash had to be included. He called the evening a hometown send- new that friendship. to purchase online or at the door. www.UptownDocs.com

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hat would happen if, one day, God decided to speak direct- ly to Donald Trump, just to set him straight on a thing or two? Here’s my idea of how that might look: President Donald J. Trump took off on Air Force One today, headed to the American Heartland to give a speech before an audience of sever- al thousand paid attendees wear- ing red “Make America Great” T-shirts and hats. As his motor- cade arrived, ical success. I bet you want to congratulate you’ll ever come across! My personality is most beautiful church you’ve ever seen. they chanted on me on my fantastic popularity with Chris- absolutely magnetic! My skin glows with And what’s more, you’re going to pay for cue the scripted tians, right? It’s just fantastic. You know a healthy, deep, totally natural orange tan, it! Because all of my followers who have dialog they had Pastor Robert Jeffress at First Baptist Dallas and the sun beams off my golden hair! been contributing money to you are going memorized: “We love you, Donald!” says I’m paving the way for you to make a “Everybody loves me! And everybody to start giving it to me instead. But just as he took the stage and started to big comeback on earth, don’t you? loves to read my tweets! Twitter plans to “And to think, I was about to give you a speak, the president began to hear a ringing “What? You don’t know him? He claims replace the bird logo with my face — if we condo, too! I’ve had several open up since in his ears, signaling that he would be chan- he talks with you daily. You know — he’s can reach the right deal on it. It’s close. I had to quit cheating on Melania after the neling another divine communication. The that little twerp that built the huge new “Huh? Who do you think you are to election. You can’t sneak anything past that audience, of course could hear only his side temple to you in downtown Dallas and is judge me and call me delusional?! I’m also woman. She’s got ears like satellite dishes of the conversation. obsessed with gay sex. The one that jumps the sanest, smartest person on the planet, these days. “Hold on folks, I’ve got a call coming in. in front of a TV camera every chance he and I’m ready to challenge you to a mental “What? No, my hair is not on fire, and it’s Yep, it’s God. Hi, I was just about to tell all gets; the one with all the face makeup. He competency test. I guarantee you that my not in any danger of catching on fire. Not of these good, hard-working sheep how wears it constantly to be ready for the cam- brain is bigger and better than yours! my pants either. Why don’t you go burn a you’re in my corner, and how we’re going eras. He looks a little kinky, but hey, differ- “Oh yeah? Well the next time you want bush or something? I don’t care who you to make this the best year ever for Christi- ent strokes for different folks, right? some air time don’t be calling me during are. No one is more important than me, and anity and the Trump brand. What a team. “What?! You mean that little fucker isn’t one of my speeches! My speeches draw the I’ve got a speech to give. We’re going to be so great! really speaking for you?! You haven’t re- largest crowds ever in the history of poli- “What the hell?! Where did everybody “Oh, you don’t take sides and form col- ceived any of the money he’s been collect- tics, you know. Call Sean Hannity at Fox go?! I paid them good money to be here laborations, huh? Well, I guess you have ing in your name? He just told everyone News; he’ll set you straight! supporting me for the video we’re going to say that, but we both know you rigged you had raised tithes to 15 percent because “What? You don’t know who he is ei- to release to the media, and they took off the election, right? How else could I have of inflation. Well, you just can’t trust any- ther? You watch CNN instead? How in the early! won? It was nothing short of a miracle. Old one anymore. I can’t believe I’ve wasted hell did you get the blocked number to my “I should’ve gone golfing. I think I’m go- Hillary really got shagged on election night. so much time on that goofball. And I was brain? Those damned leakers are going to ing to fire someone over this. You’re fired! From Russia with love, and all. But my bud- about to give him a condo. really regret crossing me! You’re all fired. I can do it all myself. I’m dy Vladimir could only do so much. I owe “What do you mean I shouldn’t be so “And I’ll tell you another thing, I’m go- ready to go back to Trump Tower. I can run you big. mean-spirited and disloyal? I’m the most ing to build my own church and start my the country from there. The White House is

“But enough about my spectacular polit- truthful, best-looking and likeable guy own religion! It’s going to be the biggest, a dump. I miss my gold commodes. █

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06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 15 uring the inaugural LoveLoud Festival in August 2017 on the campus of Utah Valley University in LIFE+STYLE D Orem, roughly 40 miles outside Salt Lake City, 17,000 people fell into the embrace of Dan Reynolds. Amid performances of his band’s towering anthems, like “Monster” music and “Radioactive,” Reynolds’ message rang loud and clear: love yourself, and love the young queer people who need it most, unconditionally. Hugs for LGBTQ youth from the Imag- ine Dragons frontman, recipient of The Trevor Project’s 2017 Hero Award, don’t get much bigger than they did that day. Except they will. Soon. Reynolds, 30, takes his ally platform seriously, so this year’s second annual LoveLoud Festival — set for July 28 — will be held at Rice Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. Capacity: 46,000. Comedian, actor and writer Cameron Esposito, an out lesbian, will perform and emcee, with performances from Imagine Dragons (duh), Zedd, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda, Grace VanderWaal, Neon Trees’ Tyler Glenn, and Vagabon and A.Q. Proceeds will benefit local and national LGBTQ charities, including Encircle, Trevor Project, Tegan and Sara Foundation, and more. Reynold’s foundation serving the LGBTQ community, also named LoveLoud, was launched in 2017 to “bring communities and families together to help ignite the vital conversation about what it means to uncondi- tionally love our LGBTQ youth.” We spoke with Reynolds while he was touring to get his reflections on reconciling his LGBTQ support with Mormon- ism and reconnecting with young gay friends he couldn’t wholeheartedly support because of his past religious be- liefs. He also talked about his doc Believer, which chronicles his journey from deep Mormon faith to passionate LGBTQ activist, and the undercurrent of queerness running through

Imagine Dragons’ latest album, Evolve. █ — Chris Azzopardi Photo courtesy Eliot Lee Hazel.

Dragon slayer Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds is on a new mission — to be the proud Mormon ally leading acceptance and outreach to the queer community

16 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 Dallas Voice: LoveLoud started with a I look back: I’m a strong believer in the whole phone call between you and Tyler Glenn, “You should live life with no regrets.” But you right? Dan Reynolds: Yeah. We knew each know, I can’t tell you, honestly, that I don’t other from a distance before, because we have regrets in this specific way. I wish as a both served the same Mormon mission, in 14-year-old boy I could’ve had the words to Omaha. When we got home, even before I say, “Hey, this is not great, and if there is a started Imagine Dragons, I went to a Neon God and it’s this loving God that we’re taught Trees show and they were playing little clubs about, how could we rationally believe that in Utah. We both came up at the same time, that God would make you have this sense of and there’s not a whole lot of Mormons in love that you don’t get to act upon?” Which the music industry, so you just kind of know is supposedly the most beautiful part of each other through that. But eventually, I existence and human nature — to love. How called him, and when he put out his solo could any of that make sense? I wish that I record Excommunication, I connected with had the mental and spiritual capabilities to him in a lot of ways. see that as a kid, but I didn’t.

How open to the queer community were you I was just dealing with my own guilt complex when you first met him? We were both and feeling bad about being a 14-year-old trying desperately to be textbook Mormons, boy dealing with my own sexuality. Even as but I think both of us were finding we weren’t a heterosexual and as a kid in the Mormon fitting into that box for different reasons. I church, you immediately feel guilt and shame got kicked out of BYU, and that really shook about masturbation and sex before marriage. me up and threw me down a road of feeling Certainly, on my mission I would’ve hoped needless shame and guilt. For Tyler, it was to be a 19-year-old kid who had, again, a whole other level for him of having to live the mental capabilities or life experience a compartmentalized life and trying to find to get out of an incorrect teaching, but I happiness within the didn’t. For two years guidelines of an incor- you’re given a white rect teaching. It was just handbook that tells debilitating for him. There you the answer to was always such a heavi- everything, so when ness around him. someone asks you a question, you’re I remember when we played supposed to be this a show, he was onstage 19-year-old kid who wearing a sequined shirt has the answer. and a very glamorous outfit, and somebody in So yeah, I really do the crowd heckled him. regret that for those This was before he came two years I turned out, and I remember him to a white hand- saying something from book rather than my the stage to the extent of, “You don’t know heart and my mind, which already knew the me and I’m struggling with things right now answers, ever since I was a little kid. and fuck you,” and he flicked off the crowd. My little girl — she’s been raised to believe Watching him, what was going through what she believes in her heart, and so as a your mind? I felt what I’ve always felt since little kid who’s raised that way, this is such an probably seventh grade when one of my best easy concept for her. She’s 5 years old and friends was gay and Mormon and I watched I can say, “What does it mean to be gay?” him never want to talk about it because it and “How does that feel?” and to her I didn’t was so heavy. There were no answers to even have to teach her that concept. It’s like, be had at that young of an age when you’re of course people should love who they want raised in a really religious family. It’s hard and you should never bully, and she under- to find any resolution other than leave your stands all those concepts that a child would home or get kicked out of the house, so I naturally know. But when you have religion had seen that from a young age in middle on top of that, it gets muddled. school and felt super conflicted as a religious After becoming this mega-ally rock star, person thinking, I’m supposed to believe all have you been in touch with these gay these things, but with it comes this teaching childhood friends? Yes, that’s been really that doesn’t sit right in my heart at all. Even one of the most fulfilling, beautiful parts of as a 13-year-old, I saw my friends be con- this process, just connecting with them and flicted with their sexuality and religion and I them knowing that they have a friend that was thinking, “OK, something’s wrong here.” fully accepts them and loves them and has At the time, were you the support system known them for years through this whole for them you wanted to be? We just didn’t process. Because you have to be Mormon really talk about it. They were my friends, so on some level to understand how heavy I didn’t stop being their friend, but I think we Mormonism is. just didn’t talk about it because neither of us But yes, we’ve connected, with two in particu- had an answer. It was this heavy thing that lar, and we’ve talked about how they’ve both was lingering over their heads, and I didn’t left the church because there’s really no safe have any answers as a 14-year-old kid who space for LGBTQ youth within the Mormon was going to church every Sunday and being church right now. There’s just not. There’s told what to say. █ DRAGONS Next Page

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no healthy option for any LGBTQ youth [in How does it feel to hear a story like that? It the church], and that’s the sad thing. I wish I makes it all worth it, because this is a really could be giving some options to any Ortho- difficult line to walk. You’re never gonna be dox religious LGBTQ kids. progressive enough for the progressives, and you’re never gonna be conservative enough And you are, with LoveLoud. How would for the conservatives. I’ve literally had people you describe the feeling of being at last tell me, “You’ve made so many more kids year’s premiere LoveLoud Festival? I gay, and this is your judgment day to deal would say, to date, LoveLoud last year was with that.” I read those things, and of course genuinely my favorite day of my life thus far. it’s sad. But also I know my path. I know my So many people would look in on this and mission, and I know what I’m doing, so it’s say, “Dan, you should be preaching with OK, ’cause I know there’s just misunder- your platform: LGBTQ kids who are raised in standing. But yeah, those letters mean a lot Orthodox faith, leave. Get out of the religion.” and they fire me up to just say, “OK, let’s And that is actually a very uninformed and go next year to a stadium and let’s make it uneducated and unsafe thing to be saying bigger.” to these kids because a lot of them don’t have a choice. Basically, you’re saying, “Get What are you most looking forward to about kicked out of your house, potentially, and put this year’s festival? That it’s much, much yourself in a more at-risk situation.” So the bigger is exciting. It’ll be at least double the only thing that you can do is say, “I love you. size of what it was before. We did 20,000 last I support you 100 percent. And look at all year and this year we’re doing a stadium, so these people who are also religious who also it’s like 40,000. The artists are bigger. And accept and love you.” Let us do everything just watching how it spread very organically we can do to make a safe space for you, and within the religious community, because it that’s what LoveLoud is about. sparked so much dialogue within the Mor- mon church. Mormon after Mormon hit me It was really rad to see a lot of people who up and would be like, “I was at church and came from very conservative backgrounds of someone gave a talk about LoveLoud and faith, mainly Mormonism, come out, because there was this big argument about whether it was in the heartland of Utah. Some of them it’s OK to have your child go to it or not,” and came to the festival already having their I’m like, “Awesome.” minds made up of what it meant to fully love and accept LGBTQ youth, but I think a lot of That dialogue is way more important even in them didn’t, which is really rad. There were a that one day because the dialogue that’s lot of people who were on the fence. Uncles taking place at home about LoveLoud is and aunts and parents who didn’t know how what needs to be happening rather than [the to deal with the situation of having their child stagnation] that has been going on for years be gay, or their niece or nephew. I know their within the Mormon church of, “Let’s keep eyes were opened because I got tons of moving forward and the kids keep taking emails and messages from people saying, their lives and the suicide rates keep going “My uncle who had never accepted me at all up in Utah.” LGBTQ youth are eight times came to this and walked away and gave me more likely to take their lives when they’re a big hug and said, ‘I understand and I love not accepted in their homes or community, you and I accept you.’” and that statistic alone is just devastating.

18 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 Do you write songs with the queer commu- been trying to do through the process is be nity in mind? Definitely on Evolve. At least true to myself and follow my heart. But that three of the songs were produced with [gay was a really beautiful moment. I’ll always re- producer-songwriter] Justin Tranter [see story member that show. It was one of my favorite Page 20], who’s just one of the biggest activ- shows we’ve ever played. ists in the queer community. Just having him What do your parents, who declined to be in there around me and the spirit that comes in your documentary, Believer, think of with Justin was certainly inspiring to me, and the film? I sent the movie to all my family so there’s no doubt that as we were writing because I just wanted to take that step and songs, there was a need to make sure that not have it be an awkward thing in the family. these lyrics were going to reach the under- My mom and dad came to the premiere. dog, were going to reach these queer youth. That they would know, “Hey, this is for me.” That’s huge. It was huge. I know that for the most part we all see a little different on this, I think Evolve has it speckled all through it, but with that said, they’ve all been really whether it’s just the album artwork — the loving and supportive of what I’m doing. rainbow on the front — or the lyrics. A lot But, yeah, there have been rough moments, of things are so subconscious in the writing definitely, during the beginning of it, when I process. But we were talking about politics a was just getting into it. Arguments here and lot at the time and how he felt like his future there within the family. was so unsettled, and it was gonna be less safe for him. And he was scared. So, we had It’s tricky because I love my family and I wanna a lot of deep, beautiful conversations that I’m respect their privacy, but I would be lying to sure impacted Evolve in ways that I couldn’t you if I didn’t say … it’s been a little bit of even know. a rub, yeah. Like I said, my mom and dad came to the premiere and that meant a lot. There’s a pretty iconic photo of you holding And my uncle, who’s my dad brother, he’s a rainbow flag at Lollapalooza Brazil Fes- gay and Mormon and moved out of the tival in March. Tell me about that moment. United States years ago because he just felt Brazil is an interesting place because it has a like there was no place for him. He had to lot of people who want change. I believe their get that far away to be able to feel like he Pride parade is more populated than any- could be himself. I got to talk to him and I where in the world, but it’s still a very unsafe haven’t seen him since I was 8 years old, and place for LGBTQ youth. So, I committed this that was the only uncle I didn’t ever get to tour to do everything I can to bring as much know — my gay uncle — because he felt so color and pride to the stage that a straight unwelcome and like he couldn’t live his true man possibly can. life without moving a country away. My dad Based on some headlines after that gig, the went recently and visited him, and that was a gay community also didn’t seem to mind really beautiful thing. the shirtlessness. [Laughs] Hey, I love it. I don’t know. It’s baby steps for me. I know For me this whole process has also been that everybody has their own way of coming my process of coming into my own self and around to certain things and it takes time, embracing sexuality, period. And celebrating but the question is, how long will it take? And life, and celebrating love. So, it’s been a real how many lives will be lost or saved along changing couple of years for me, and all I’ve the way?

06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 19 L+S music

Totally precious Grammy- and Globe-nominated out songwriter Justin Tranter’s delusions come true

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ho needs awards when you 10s (including Maroon 5’s “Cold” and have Oprah? Halsey’s “Bad at Love”), co-wrote all the W True, walking away with a original songs on Gwen Stefani’s 2017 shiny, golden statue has its own perks, but Christmas album and was named BMI Pop for songwriter-to-the-stars Justin Tranter, Songwriter of the Year 2016. just being nominated for a Grammy and The wordsmith behind pop behemoths a Golden Globe this year was a triumph. by Kelly Clarkson, Britney Spears, Justin Now, too, he can officially add “sat in the Bieber, Selena Gomez and Kesha — and same church as Oprah” to his prolific ré- producer on queer-ally Dan Reynolds lat- sumé (OK, whatever, the Beverly Hilton in est album with his band Imagine Dragon, L.A.) while the queen shook the world with Evolve (see story Page 16) — recently dis- her epic Globes speech in early January. cussed the “delusion” involved in becom- “I lost and I survived, and had a fucking ing a pop songwriter, how his queerness blast, and got to watch Oprah’s speech live helps to nurture his bonds with the female in person after I lost,” says Tranter, 37. “I artists he writes for and his mission to give

could’ve swerved out, but I was having marginalized artists a voice. █ the time of my life.” — Chris Azzopardi Lately, life’s been good to Tranter. Aside from picking up a Song of the Year nod Dallas Voice: When I spoke to Gwen Stefani at the Grammys for “Issues,” performed in 2016 about her This Is What the Truth by Julia Michaels, and Best Original Song Feels Like album, she said about you, at the Globes for the Nick Jonas-sung “He was so supportive of me and so confident in me, and I had lost a lot of “Home” from the animated fantasy Ferdi- my confidence, so he really brought that nand, the former Semi Precious Weapons out of me.” Do you hear this from other frontman has amassed four pop radio Top artists you work with? Justin Tranter: I do

20 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 hear that, and it makes me feel amazing — have me and Britney, who are around the same The day we wrote was two days after I rescued about me and an ex-boyfriend. That was and it makes me feel even better to know age. So, we just did the best we could to make my dog, and we left the session twice to come super-duper personal and a crazy moment. that someone like Gwen is saying that to everybody — not just make her feel safe, she check on my dog, just to make sure he was I sang the demo on that one, and so I was other people, too. It’s such an awesome thing made us feel safe! We’re in the room with a OK. I was a new dog mom and Kesha, of listening to my demo of that for a year, and to do. After 10 years of my band getting to fucking icon! She’s the icon. We’re just fucking course, is a huge animal lover and animal then I went to the RCA offices in New York to wear and sing and say and be exactly who studio geeks. rights activist. hear Kelly’s version. I was very new in my pop I was and do exactly what I wanted to do Kesha’s another great one. Kesha was so funny, Do you explain to the artists you work with songwriter career and I started crying. It was — my band members were amazing with because that’s the first time I’d ever written with what inspires the songs you write? If the just so cool because her voice is so good. I following my vision for so long — I take someone who I’d been friends with for a really artist wasn’t there during the writing process got to sit next to her at the Golden Globes, so really great pride in helping other people long fucking time before we worked together. — if they’re just cutting the song — you kind that was a really cool full circle moment. feel confident enough to share their truth. Kesha and I have been friends since 2010 and of have to feel it out because you want the Of course, with Gwen, it was the easiest we wrote together in 2017, so there’s seven artist to make it their own. because I’m a Gwen superfan. years of friendship, which was kind of really What’s the most personal song you’ve ONLINE EXCLUSIVE Do you think being queer helps you connect cool. We toured together, so we’ve watched written about your life that somebody else with female artists, who so many gay each other perform hundreds of times; but ended up singing? Wow, I don’t think I’ve men revere, in a special way? Being queer we’d never seen how the other one works in a ever been asked that question before. Early on, To read more of our interview with Justin Tranter, has shaped absolutely every single thing I writing session, so that was really amazing. “Nostalgic” by Kelly Clarkson was very much visit DallasVoice.com. have ever done and helps me understand the underdog point of view, because I am an underdog. A lot of homophobia is based in misogyny, so I can relate to a lot of these things, whether that’s just in terms of writing lyrics or how I work with women. I think we’ve faced similar challenges. I still think in a lot of ways, especially in the professional world, women have it a lot harder than queer men do. But in terms of bullying and feeling ashamed of our sexuality, there’s common ground there. When I was young, women writers, women 888.226.0114 artists, women songwriters, women comedians — they’re all I ever cared about. DALLAS I never really related to the traditional point of view. 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06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 21 L+S stage Meatball therapy To make a solo show about his late mom, performance artist John Michael learned he has to break a few eggs… then add beef and breadcrumbs

ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor forming partner (also an actor) who has [email protected] definitely seen his shows. He’s still messy, though. hen Dallas audiences first met “I am summoning at this moment [my John Michael, in one of his first late mother] from the dead right outside W of (now) seven one-man shows, Trump Tower,” he says over the phone he was a messy, suburban North Texas kid from a stretch of land on the banks of the barely, old enough to drink, who talked Chicago River. “There are like 10 store- about his relationship with fronts [here] — all vacant. It’s his parents, how he didn’t DALLAS SOLO FEST the quietest place to hold an want his boyfriend (if he ever Rosewood Center interview.” for Family Arts, had one) to see his plays, 5938 Skillman St. June 6–10. He relishes the economic how he coped with an STI DallasSoloFest.com. stagnation in the shadow of from a one-night stand. our Commander-in-Creep’s What a difference some years — and a storied stories. Who knows? It — and lot of living — can make. this entire conversation — may make it He’s now pushing 30, his mother passed into one of his plays eventually. Or some away unexpectedly, he’s relocated to variation of it. John Michael, right, enlists an audience member or five at each performance of ‘Meatball Séance.’ Chicago and now has a gender-non-con- That’s because his solo shows — in- (Photo courtesy Paul Clark)

22 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 cluding Meatball Séance, which opens at you have to mix your meat with the eggs have found more ways for the audience the interactions for engaging. the Dallas Solo Fest at Dallas Children with the breadcrumbs with the parsley to have a blast and challenge this negative “When you make your audience do Theatre’s home, The Rosewood Center for and garlic and let them meld [to create a association with the phrase ‘audience par- more work, they have more of a buy- Family Arts, on June 7 — are drawn from meatball].” ticipation.’ The fun the audience members in,” he says. “But it’s always been in my the intimate details of his own life. And It’s not a dour show, though, but an are having onstage is to make them feel the aesthetic to embrace not being super while it usually takes John Michael (he affirming, interactive, community-building way my mother made me feel. My griev- polished. Matt [Tomlanovich] used to say, eschews a separate surname on the stage) experience. ing is active.” ‘If something’s too smooth, you can’t grab an hour to perform them, even though the “It’s about setting up the audience for John Michael has matured as well in onto it.’” scripts are rarely more than 10 pages in success and learning how to have fun. his approach since the early days; he has And when John Michael is at work, length. They can do whatever the fuck they want massaged simple word choices, like asking expect to hold on tight. █ “My shows are like lily pads — I know onstage as long as they come at it with an “Are you comfortable with a knife?” Meatball Séance is performed June 7, 9 and the pads I need to jump to, and I will land open heart. It works on so many levels. I instead of, “Here, dice this garlic,” to make 10. on them, but I might need to do them out of order because of what happens on- stage.” That’s certainly the case with Meatball Séance, which John Michael debuted in Dallas back on Christmas 2016 for a one- night-only performance and which, he now estimates, has only about 20 percent of its original content remaining. “There’s a lot of audience participation, and I’m only onstage for 10 minutes alone. The play changes because the audience is different each time, so depending on what the audience members give me, I [jump around]. Like, while we’re cutting vegeta- bles — there are a lot of things I can do to help them have fun. One of the joys of the show is that, because of the structure, it forces me to listen.” I suggest it sounds like a cooking seg- ment from the Today show about his dead mother. “Exactly,” he smiles back. If it sounds morbid, John Michael sees it, rather, as intensely human. “When Mom died and then [his mentor and friend] Matt [Tomlanovich] died, I ran away to Chicago to start a new life. When I was first here, though, people would ask me why I moved and I told them. And it made it all the more awful to hear this person who I barely knew to say, ‘I’m sorry.’ Those words bring the mood of the moment down. But what else can you say? The boldest thing you can say [in that context is], ‘I don’t know what to say.’ So for the longest time I stopped talking about my favorite person in the world, my mom. It was almost like a second death. I realized I was dealing with people’s own insecurities about mortality.” Meatball Séance — in which, yes, he enlists some attendees to join him onstage and actually cook his mother’s recipe to conjure her spirit, so that he can intro- duce her to his boyfriend — is more than theater, more than standup. It is, for John Michael, an active way of dealing with, and normalizing, the grieving process. “When you touch a memory, you add to it,” he says. “I have a relationship with the memory of my mother, just like how

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24 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 LIFE+STYLE best bets Friday 06.01 — Sunday 06.10 The sound of ABBA echoes at Casa Manana with ‘Mamma Mia’

Moviegoers are looking forward to the summer release of the sequel to Mamma Mia (with Cher, no less!), but North Texas theatergoers have the original right at their doorsteps. Casa Manana is staging an all-new production of Mamma Mia, which features the songs of supergroup ABBA, including “Dancing Queen,” “The Winner Takes It All,” “Take a Chance on Me” and “Money Money.” It’s directed by Tim Bennett, artistic director of Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo, and includes local favorite Denise Lee in the cast.

DEETS: Casa Manana, 3101 W. Lancaster Ave., For Worth. CasaManana.org Friday 06.08 — Sunday 06.10 Wednesday Turtle Creek Chorale 06.06 — concludes season with Outlaws concert Saturday Gays are used to being considered outlaws, scoffing at sodomy bans and 06.09 such for many years. So we have a lot Legendary comedy in common with the outlaws of country music — Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, troupe Second City the Red-Headed Stranger and more. delivers Summer Now, the Turtle Creek Chorale embraces Blockbuster those bad cowboy roots, with its season- closing Outlaws concert. The mainstage of Second City, the Chicago-based improv and sketch comedy troupe that Moody Performance Hall will reverberate launched countless careers from Tina Fey to Stephen Colbert, has a with honkytonk classics of days past and legendary history. And for a few nights this week, you can be part of present, so boot-scoot over for one of that history as the company arrives in the Arts District for its Summer three performances. Blockbuster show, with wacky, sassy and edgy sketches perfect for beating the summer heat. DEETS: Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. TurtleCreekChorale.com. DEETS: Wyly Theatre Studio, 2400 Flora St. ATTPAC.org Check Out Our Buns!

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06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 25 calendar highlights

Pride Month kicks off at the Bath House Cultural Center with the local premiere production of ‘Lilies.’

autobiographical play about dealing with ARTSWEEK parenting a child on the autism spectrum. THEATER Directed by Marianne Galloway. Theatre Too, 20th Annual New Works Festival. Kitchen Dog 2900 Routh St. inside the Quadrangle. Theater celebrates its landmark 20th season of Through June 10. Theatre3Dallas.com. this festival with an expanded schedule of nine Footloose — The Musical. Presented by staged readings, several by local playwrights Theatre Arlington, 305 W. Main St., Arlington. (Blake Hackler, Jenny Ledel) and several by Through Sunday. TheatreArlington.org. returning favorites (Zayd Dohrn, Steve Yockey). Trinity River Arts Center, 2600 N. Stemmons BALLET Freeway. June 1–17. Get full schedule at Swan Lake. Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, as KitchenDogTheater.org. choreographed by Sir Ben Stevenson, moves Hir. A twisted take on the modern American family from Fort Worth to Dallas’ Winspear Opera House, from gender-bending playwright Taylor Mac. 2403 Flora St. June 1–3. TexasBalletTheater.org. A regional premiere. Stage West, 821 W. Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth. Through June 17. StageWest.org. FINE ART Lilies. In 1952, a Quebec bishop visits a prison Sign and Symbols: Mobile Tagging Art by to hear the confession of a dying inmate, only to Pedro Morales. The gay artist’s modernist work learn he was brought there to relive his childhood continues at the Uptown museum. The Museum secrets via a play staged by the inmate. The of Geometric and MADI Art, 3109 Carlisle St. North Texas premiere of a play, which is also an Through July 15. GeometricMADIMuseum.org. acclaimed film of gay cinema. The production Laura Owens. The controversial, eclectic artist is kicks of National Pride Month at the Bath House featured at a show at the Dallas Museum of Cultural Center, 521 E. Lawther Drive. Art 1717 Harwood St. Through July 29. DMA.org. Through June 9. LiliesPlay.com Memory Mind Matter: The Sculpture of Mamma Mia! The musical based on the songs Eduardo Chillida. The work of 20th century of ABBA arrives for a new production at Casa Spanish sculptor and artist. Meadows Manana, with a cast that includes Denise Lee. Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. Through June 3. Casa Manana, 3101 W. Lancaster Ave., MeadowsMuseumDallas.org. Fort Worth. June 1–20. CasaManana.org. Portrait of a Man, a new play by Mark-Brian Sonna, based on a true story about how a popular 19th century painter scandalized English royalty. FRIDAY 06.01 COMMUNITY Studio Theatre at Addison Theatre Centre, TBRU: Station 23. Fireman-themed weekend 15650 Addison Road. June 1–17. of bears. See coverage starting Page 8. For full MBSProductions.net. listing of events, visit TBRU.org. Self-Injurious Behavior. Local actress BearDance: Inferno. DJ John LePage spins Jessica Cavanaugh wrote and stars in this

26 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 with others at the ninth annual event, also with Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St. June 6–9. performances by Cazwell and Varla Jean Merman. ATTPAC.org. Station 4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. 8 p.m. BearDance.org. Panoptikon. The weekly retro disco dance party, THURSDAY 06.07 presented by Lord Byron. Red Light, CABARET 2911 Main St. Doors 9 p.m. Glitterbomb Denton. Weekly queer variety show with a new lineup every Thursday, now at a new locale and new time. Andy’s Bar, SATURDAY 06.02 122 N. Locust St., Denton. 8 p.m. COMMUNITY FrontRunners. Gay jogging/walking group meets FRIDAY 06.08 CONCERTS weekly at 9 a.m. in Oak Lawn Park at Hall Street Turtle Creek Chorale: Outlaws. The TCC closes and Turtle Creek Boulevard for a run along the its season with a tribute to honkytonk country Katy Trail. music. Moody Performance Hall, 2520 Flora St. June 8–10. TurtleCreekChorale.com. TUESDAY 06.05 FILM this week’s solution Doctor Zhivago. David Lean’s magnificent epic, set against the Russian Revolution. Screens as part of the Tuesday Big Movie New Classic Series at Landmark’s Magnolia Theatre in the West Village, 3699 McKinney Ave. Screens at 7:30 p.m. ONLY

WEDNESDAY 06.06 COMEDY The Second City Summer Blockbuster. The famed sketch comedy troupe performs.

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Pride Month kicks off at the Bath House Cultural Center with the local premiere production of ‘Lilies.’ autobiographical play about dealing with parenting a child on the autism spectrum. Directed by Marianne Galloway. Theatre Too, 2900 Routh St. inside the Quadrangle. Through June 10. Theatre3Dallas.com. Footloose — The Musical. Presented by Theatre Arlington, 305 W. Main St., Arlington. Through Sunday. TheatreArlington.org.

BALLET Swan Lake. Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, as choreographed by Sir Ben Stevenson, moves from Fort Worth to Dallas’ Winspear Opera House, 2403 Flora St. June 1–3. TexasBalletTheater.org.

FINE ART Sign and Symbols: Mobile Tagging Art by Pedro Morales. The gay artist’s modernist work continues at the Uptown museum. The Museum of Geometric and MADI Art, 3109 Carlisle St. Through July 15. GeometricMADIMuseum.org. Laura Owens. The controversial, eclectic artist is featured at a show at the Dallas Museum of Art 1717 Harwood St. Through July 29. DMA.org. Memory Mind Matter: The Sculpture of Eduardo Chillida. The work of 20th century Spanish sculptor and artist. Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. Through June 3. MeadowsMuseumDallas.org.

FRIDAY 06.01 COMMUNITY TBRU: Station 23. Fireman-themed weekend of bears. See coverage starting Page 8. For full listing of events, visit TBRU.org. BearDance: Inferno. DJ John LePage spins

06.01.18 █ dallasvoice 27 L+S scoop Ask Howard How to do the wrong thing right

How in tarnation is June here already, with the headboard in Sibyl’s sequoia? Honey, it another stultifying Summer of Trump viru- doesn’t require too much augur clairvoyance to lently upon us? Barely is Memorial Day in sawdust an easy-marked “rain” tree. our rearview mirror, yet my synapses are so sizzle-fried it’s near but impossible to recall Dear Howard: My freshman roommate’s what a Trump-free summer actually felt like. ability to decode gay app-speak is atrocious. Surely a century’s worth of Junes have now He’s so bad that I, a lesbian who’s never come and gone since Our Orange Oracle first touched male genitalia, have to guide him. descended that gaudy escalator to paid actors’ Fortunately, most of these horndawgs lob ob- dead applause, with Melania wearing her im- vious quicksand grenades (“I’ve lots of positive peccable zombie perma-grin, the only message energy to offer,” “I promise you a night you’ll re- extracted from the whole Grand Guignol farce member the rest of your life”) so I’ve taught him being, “Damn, but that trophy wife’s sure on now to steer clear of them. Unfortunately, my some wicked sweet meds.” I vaguely recall boy has just no street smarts. While tokin’ the June as once being a month of sunshine-seek- other night, “Lyle” exhaled slowly, “Beeyotch, ing pleasures: baseball games, bridal cere- how do you even know all this penis-plumbing, monies, cocaine-white sand on the beach, stealth stuff anyway?” Adjusting the tweezers, boating, bicycling and blackberry cobblers… I told him, “You twisted Hershey hos only think you remember, kisses-on-rainbows stuff, rather you’ve cornered the perv market.” He snapped than this insane deluge of daily tweets we’re his retaliation fingers fiercely: “Girl, with enough force-fed now. hits, anything fits!” Passing back the roach clip, Well, we will survive this summer’s latest I shrugged, “The heck you say! But not even lunacy, irrespective of being unable to compre- felching can hold a candle to rainbow kissing.” hend why some bellicose, media-fake kum- Lyle pawed for the nearest laptop. “Does a quat’s scorching vortex of devolved madness dash go between rainbow and kiss?” I shook swirls constantly about us (like trying to fathom my head. “Google ain’t gonna give you nothin’ how Sarah Huckabee Sanders is possibly but the cookies-and-milk version.” Leaning straight). Meanwhile, here you go, girlz, I’m forward, separating out seeds on top of Dallas tossing this hissing potboiler to you. Let’s get Voice, I brightly mentioned, “’Course, you could kissingly right to it. always ask Howard: He might spill the beans to you straight; assuming he can sanitize the Dear Howard: I’ve been seeing an “inter- definition enough for public consumption.” So, esting” girl about once a week for almost six you wanna give it a whirl, Howie? Tell my boy weeks. She’s what one would politely call “out what a real rainbow kiss is. The disco floor’s all there” but in a kooky, fun way. She lives in a yours. — Shelli Styx quirky treehouse she constructed herself— Dear Sister Stick It: Well, hell’s bells, Shell! stained glass windows, dreamcatchers, quartz First, I’d like to thank you for the Lesbyterian geodes. You know the kind — everyone’s seen vote of confidence. My readers aroused by this crystal-gazer/soothsayer chick one time uteruses are too few and far between as it is. or another. Initially, I met her on, basically, a Second, what the twisted fuck are you truants “straight” site, but after a couple days texting smokin’? Is there any sober reason behind back and forth she sent me a lavender smiley asking this question? Shelli, you know perfectly face, acknowledging she could be convinced well that nothing repulses gay men faster than to possibly hang in the lady-pond, and we imagery of “the crimson tide” (hint: we ain’t had our first date that very night at a romantic talkin’ Alabama football here, Lyle). Italian place. Truthfully, we hit it off great. But You’re playing with matches here, madam. every date since has been a repeat of exactly The PR chasm bonding together gays and the same — just hugs and a goodnight kiss lesbians teeters but on a bridge near collapse afterwards. There’s no — how should I phrase from clichés and stereotypes about one anoth- it? — progression. What’s going on here, er: lesbians are aghast at gays’ flibbertigibbet man? Is she just breadcrumbing me; or, maybe sexual predilection to always opt for superficial she really is straight, and just needs a good quantity over quality; meanwhile, gay men are trustworthy friend? — Dee Cassy Haine mystified as to why lesbians share exactly the Dear Daisy Chain: Allow me to nudge you same personality traits of militantly sour, skulk- a good way out on Howard’s trustful limb of ing and secretive natures. Yet here you go, set- mercenary enlightenment: I’m not even going ting the river beneath us all on fire. My bois are to ask who paid for those six pasta dinners on absolutely gonna lose their lunch when I inform your dates with Lady Sibyl of Delphi, ’cause we them what a rainbow kiss is. No doubt that was wild enough, at least, to dull the imagery of one, cannot continue for reasons of propriety both know Sibyl doesn’t go Dutch — not when your scurrilous intent — but to what end? Just what Howard is about to explain. Ready or (even for me!). So, thank you, Ms. Styx, for it’s a fellow Cassandra winking to her across so that you and your fellow long-haul truckers not, three… two… one: A rainbow kiss is the ensuring the harmony needle stays continually the table playing footsies with her intuitive can gather around Diesel Dot’s homemade confluence of a menstrual cycle, mixed with in-the-red-warning zone. I’ll even toast you a dreamcatcher. You’re an intelligent woman, smoker, gnawing endangered alligator-gar jerky semen, that’s “fed” back. The sperm provider sendoff via that infamous quote from gorgeous- Dee, so I’ll just give you this “stumper” to awl while pouring baked beans down your gullets is usually exiled (his usefulness over) so that ly slutty Julie Christie’s (Oscar-winning!) mod all on your own. Any heterosexual tree-hugger by the gallon to guffaw mercilessly at the havoc the two lovers can enjoy sharing what required ’60s Carnaby Street goodtime-girl in Darling: advertising herself as possibly capable of being you have wreaked? Shelli-belly, your question them endure an aroused naked man in their “Kisses, kisses, terribly, terribly!” “convinced” to hang about the lady-pond only serves zero justice toward developing harmony bedroom at all. (Hope you weren’t in mid-lun- — Howard Lewis Russell beggars Howard’s clearcutting question: What within our community; nevertheless, you just cheon bite, folks, whilst devouring this deli- Do you have a question — about etiquette, exactly seals your “fun kook’s” convincing? couldn’t resist testing whether my kahunas are ciousness… as it’s only the version my editor love, life or work — that needs a special spin Seven spaghetti dinners, a six-pack of Schlitz big enough to reveal what a rainbow kiss is. would allow.) Yes, for anyone with interest still from Howard? Send your problem to AskHow- shared atop sleeping bags in Big Bend Nation- Well, hitch up your overalls. Meanwhile, piqued, there’s bloody well more, though I, for [email protected] and he may answer it. al Park or you taping stacks of “solids” across men, toss back a stiff snort of Wild Turkey …

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Sittin’ in the shade, throwin’ shade Staying safe and sexy at S4

Showing off their Pride in North Texas! North Texas Pride Come As You Are Festival in June 9.

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