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It’s getting TBRU hosting a “Weekend of Bears HOT and Hoses” in firefighter-themed event by Tammye Nash, Page 8 in here! 2 dallasvoice.com █ 06.01.18 toc06.01.18 | Volume 35 | Issue 4 10 headlines █ TEXAS NEWS 9 CoH tolling bells for Pulse victims 10 TCC goes ‘Outlaw’ to end season 11 RARE REPORTER: Trump talks to God VISIT █ LIFE+STYLE OURMISTRESS ITALIAN 16 16 Dan Reynolds Love(s)Loud 20 Justin Trantor writes songs for icons 22 John Michael’s ‘Meatball’ therapy █ ON THE COVER BearDance: Inferno. Models John LGBT Owned & Operated Terrell & Rob Groom. Photo by Layla Behind Full Circle Tavern 1319 S. Lamar St 214-208-3435 thefullcircletavern.com Gonzalez. Design by Kevin Thomas 22 departments 6 The Gay Agenda 25 Best Bets 8 News 28 Ask Harold 14 CommUNITY 29 Scene 16 Life+Style 32 MarketPlace 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 the series immediately, Barr’s talent agency — We will update this story as more information ICM — announced it would no longer represent becomes available.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.