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03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 3 March 11 declaring South Carolina’s 1988 an- ity issued the following statement outlining how DallasVoice.com/Category/Instant-Tea ti-LGBTQ curriculum law unconstitutional and COVID-19 may pose an increased risk to the instan barring its enforcement, according to a press LGBTQ population and laying out specific steps TEA release from Lambda Legal. to minimize any disparity: New York state to allow trans Resource Center receives grant The court’s decree comes two weeks after As the spread of the novel coronavirus a.k.a. minors to correct sex markers for trans health program National Center for Lesbian Rights, Lambda COVID-19 increases, many LGBTQ+ people New York State In support of its mission of improving health Legal and private counsel Womble Bond are understandably concerned about how officials on March 10 and wellness in the LGBTQ community, Texas Dickinson, Brazil & Burke and law professor this virus may affect us and our communities. announced the state Women’s Foundation awarded Resource Cen- Clifford Rosky filed a federal lawsuit challenging The undersigned want to remind all parties is changing its policy ter a $30,000 grant. For the third year in a row, the discriminatory curriculum on behalf of the handling COVID-19 surveillance, response, prohibiting trans- the money will be used to further expand the high school student organization Gender and treatment, and media coverage that LGBTQ+ gender minors from Center’s Gender-affirming Health Program and Sexuality Alliance, as well as the Campaign for communities are among those who are particu- correcting the sex provide safe and affordable health screenings, Southern Equality and South Carolina Equality larly vulnerable to the negative health effects of marker on their birth HIV and STI testing and hormone replacement Coalition, including their members who are this virus. certificates to reflect therapy for transgender women in a welcoming public school students in South Carolina. Our increased vulnerability is a direct result of their gender identity. and inclusive environment. The statute prohibited any discussion of three factors: The announcement For many transgender people in Texas, same-sex relationships in health education in 1. The LGBTQ+ population uses tobacco at comes in the wake access to safe, affordable, and nonjudgmen- public schools except in the context of sexually rates that are 50% higher than the general pop- of a federal lawsuit tal treatment to medically transition can be a transmitted diseases. ulation. COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that Lambda Legal filed struggle. Resource Center’s Gender-affirming Eli Bundy, a 10th grader who is the presi- has proven particularly harmful to smokers. dent of the Gender and Sexuality Alliance, an 2. The LGBTQ+ population has higher rates Omar Gonzalez-Pagan against the state Health Program takes the gender-specific last month on behalf needs and differences of transgender women organization of high school students at a public of HIV and cancer, which means a greater num- of a transgender boy born in Ithaca, MHW v. into consideration. magnet school in the Charleston County School ber of us may have compromised immune sys- Cuomo. More than 125,350 transgender people District, said of the ruling, “I am very excited tems, leaving us more vulnerable to COVID-19 Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, senior attorney at live in the state of Texas. In 2019, the Cen- that this discriminatory law can no longer be infections. Lambda Legal and counsel for the lawsuit, said ter’s Transgender Health Program served 152 enforced in South Carolina, and I hope we can 3. LGBTQ+ people continue to experience in a written statement, “Every person should women. continue to work toward a more accepting and discrimination, unwelcoming attitudes, and be recognized and respected for who they are. — David Taffet equal state-wide community. lack of understanding from providers and staff Today’s announcement is a victory for all trans- — Tammye Nash in many health care settings, and as a result, gender people in New York.” many are reluctant to seek medical care except Officials with the offices of Gov. Andrew Cuo- S. C. court rules anti-LGBTQ National LGBT health orgs in situations that feel urgent – and perhaps mo and Attorney General Letitia James today curriculum unconstitutional not even then. announced the policy change will take effect warn about COVID-19 risks In addition, there are more than 3 million LGBTQ+ older people living in the United immediately. The U.S. District Court for the District of for LGBTQ population States. — Tammye Nash South Carolina entered a consent decree on The National LGBT Cancer Network and Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equal- — David Taffet

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03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 5 THE AGENDA Have an event coming up? Email your • March 14: PrimeTimers • March 17: St. Patrick’s Day • March 21: Boot Scootin’ Gaybingo informationGAY to Managing Editor Irish Fest at 10 a.m. at Fair Park. From 5-9 p.m. at The Rose Tammye Nash at [email protected] or 214-218-0912. • March 18: PrimeTimers Room, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. Senior Staff Writer David Taffet at Lunch at 12:30 p.m. at Cheddars, MyResourceCenter.org. [email protected] by Wednesday • March 14: Big Gay Pool Party 12355 Greenville Ave. 214-218-0912. at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue. Lifestyle brand Drag Star Diva hosts • March 21: PrimeTimers the first of its weekly gay pool parties • March 19: Born Perfect Potluck at 7 p.m. Location and MARCH at 1 p.m. at Bali Beach Club, Panel discussion on reparative directions at 214-218-0912. • Through March 15: TBRU XXV 2508 Maple Ave. No cover. Valet therapy at 7 p.m. at The Riveter, Texas Bear Round Up’s theme available. BigGayPoolParty.com. 3333 Welborn Ave. • March 21: Golden Gays monthly this year is “A Roman Holiday.” The brunch Hyatt Regency Dallas, 300 Reunion • March 16: DIFFA Dallas’ 30th • March 19: GALA Happy Hour GALA third Saturday brunch for people Blvd. TBRU.org. Anniversary Celebration Happy Hour from 5:30-8 p.m. at Plano 50+ at 11:30 a.m. at Norma’s Cafe, DIFFA Dallas celebrates its 30th Super Bowl, 2521 Ave. K, Plano. 605 W. 15th St., Plano. • March 13: DFW Pride Happy Hour anniversary with House of DIFFA GALANorthTexas.org. The LGBT Chamber of Commerce Extravaganza, the annual black tie • March 19: Log Cabin mixer Foundation presents DFW Pride Happy gala raising awareness and money for Mixer featuring conservative drag • March 21: Different Strokes Golf Hour, hosted by TMC: The Mining HIV/AIDS services. For tickets and superstar Lady Maga at 6 p.m. at Association (DSGA) Company, 3903 Cedar Springs Road. information visit DIFFADallas.org. Mattito’s, 3102 Oak Lawn, Suite 144. DSGA, the LGBTA golf organization For information email lisa.howe@ LCRDallas.org. begins its 23rd season at 10 a.m. at glbtchamber.com or call 214-865.7313. • March 16: Gender inclusive Cedar Crest, 1800 Southerland Ave. career workshop • March 19: Tarrant Stonewall $55 includes golf, cart, range balls and • March 13-15: Sweethearts & Orphans Navigating the workplace as a trans membership drive prizes. Information at DSGADallas. Classic Chassis Car Club visits or gender variant person can come TCU political science professor James org or [email protected]. Waxahachie’s Sweethearts & Orphans with questions and challenges. These Riddlesperger speaks at a membership car event. Info at ClassicChassic.com. free workshops empower with drive hosted by Kelly Smith and Holly • March 21: DFW Gay for Good information on how to prepare, search, Edwards, 6508 Genoa Road, Fort Worth. Volunteers will be helping Texas Trees • March 14: DFW Gaymers find, interview and land a compatible TarrantStonewall.org. Foundation nursery. Details, volunteer Game night for LGBTQ gaymers from and inclusive job from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and find additional projects 7:30-10:50 p.m. at Common Ground at Resource Center, • March 20-26: LGBT Health Week at GayForGood.org/dallas-fortworth. Games, 1328 Inwood Road. 5750 Cedar Springs Road. Free. • March 20: Pride beneficiary • March 22: PrimeTimers • March 14: Graffiti Arts Festival • March 16: Pride Festival applications due Games at 2 p.m. hosted in Carrollton. Spray can artists create billboard-sized tickets go on sale Deadline to apply to be a Pride Location and directions at 214-218-0912. murals, shop for crafts and eat from Tickets to the 2020 Pride festival on festival beneficiary. Register by 5 p.m. food trucks from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at June 6 go on sale. Purchase tickets at DallasPride.org. • March 23: Gender inclusive 1953 Golden Heights Road, Fort Worth. DallasPride.org. career workshop Navigating the workplace as a trans or

• Weekly: Lambda Weekly at 1 p.m. Sunday at 5:30 p.m., Monday, Wednesday For more info, email pegasussquares@gmail. Inwood Road. Call 214-267-0222 for details; on Sunday on 89.3 KNON-FM with David and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at com; Dallas Frontrunners meet for a walk or LGBT Sex Addicts Anonymous meets at Taffet, Lerone Landis and the late Patti Fink 11:30 a.m. at Resource Center, 2701 Reagan run at Oak Lawn Park, near the intersection of 6 p.m. every Friday at 1919 Independence with this week’s guest is trans mama bear St. First Monday is birthday night at 5750 Turtle Creek and Hall Street, every Wednesday St., Room 19, Plano. 972-316-9188 for Amber Briggle and family; Silver Pride Cedar Springs Road; Core Group Meeting at 7:15 p.m. and every Saturday at 8:30 a.m.; details; Leadership Lambda Toastmasters Project Coffee and Convo for LGBTQ+ every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at Leadership Lambda Toastmasters practices gay-identified Toastmasters group meets seniors meets Mondays from 11 a.m.- 1 7 p.m.; Fuse game night every Monday and develops speaking and leadership from 6:30-8 p.m. every Monday at the First p.m. at Oak Lawn Library, 4100 Cedar evening except the last of the month at 8 p.m. skills from 6:30–8 p.m. on Mondays at First Unitarian Church, 4015 Normandy Road (does Springs Road, Tuesdays from 10 a.m.-1 at the Fuse space in the 3918 Harry Hines Unitarian Church, third floor of the Hallman not meet on Mondays that are holidays); p.m. at Grauwyler Park Branch Library, 2146 Blvd.; FuseConnect every Wednesday from Building, 4012 St. Andrews; Thrive, program United Black Ellument hosts discussion Gilford St. Wednesdays for Breakfast Club 7 p.m. For more information call or e-mail of Resource Center for LGBTQ adults 50+ on HIV/AIDS in the black community (UBE from 10 a.m.-noon at Reverchon Recreation Jalenzski at 214-760-9718 ext. 3 or Jalenzski@ support group every Monday from 11:30 Connected) at 7 p.m. every fourth Tuesday of Center, 3505 Maple Ave. and Thursdays for myresourcecenter.org; LGBT square dancing a.m.-1 p.m. followed by free lunch at Resource the month at 3918 Harry Hines Blvd.; DVtv in Rainbow Rec from 10 a.m.-noon at Reverchon group Pegasus Squares meets the second Center, 5750 Cedar Springs Road; Lambda Spayse, news and entertainment discussion Recreation Center, 3505 Maple Ave.; Unwired and fourth Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at Grace AA meets at noon, 6:30 p.m., 7:45 p.m. and 11 live streaming every Friday, 4–5 p.m., on the Group of Crystal Meth Anonymous meets United Methodist Church, 4105 Junius St. p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 6525 Spayse Station YouTube channel.

6 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 gender variant person can come • March 26: The Writer’s Garret with questions and challenges. Beth El Binah President Christopher These free workshops empower with Manes reads from his new book information on how to prepare, search, Naming the Leper about his family’s find, interview and land a compatible history with leprosy in the early and inclusive job from 6:30-8:30 p.m. 20th century in Louisiana. The at Resource Center, Writer’s Garret, 1250 Majesty Drive. 5750 Cedar Springs Road. Free. WritersGarret.org.

• March 24: Family Night at Durkins • March 27: LGBT Caucus GALA family friendly night, The five founding members of the networking, socializing, happy hour, Texas House of Representatives LGBT rock ’n roll and pizza with 10 percent Caucus hold a town hall at 5:30 p.m. at going to GALA Youth from 5-8 p.m. at Resource Center, 5750 Cedar Springs Durkins, 8930 Highway 121, McKinney. Road. Happy hour will take place after GALANorthTexas.org. the event at a nearby location.

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03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 7 TBRU 25: The bears

event in North America. “Last year,” Davis said, “nearly 1,400 people attended. But our biggest year was 2016. We had about 1,900 people come to party that year.” And as attendance has grown, so have the Dallas Bears’ charitable dona- TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor according to current Dallas Bears Presi- tions. Last year, they donated a grand [email protected] dent Wayne Davis. That visit prompted total of $78,754 to six different commu- the Dallas Bears to start their own event. nity organizations. he Texas Bear And in 1996, the Texas Bear Round Up Davenport said, “TBRU is operated Round Up cele- was born. solely by volunteers. And all the mon- brates its 25th anni- “They expected maybe 100 people to ey TBRU brings in goes back to charity versary this week- show up that first year, including the once the bills are paid. Everyone who end, and organizers members of the Dallas group,” Davis puts this on every year volunteers their say they are throw- continued. “They ended up with nearly time and efforts throughout the year. I ing the best round- 300 people attending that first year.” think that it is one of the reasons TBRU up weekend so far. But TBRU isn’t just a party. It is and is so successful.” From the Official Early-Bear Party held always has been “a party with a cause,” But what makes TBRU so popular last Wednesday night at Dallas Eagle, noted Dallas Bears charitable events di- and, as a result, so successful? Davis through the special performance by rector Randy Flores. “TBRU is not just has an answer for that: “I think it’s our Ginger Minj on Saturday night, all the a party and celebration of who we are. hospitality. That’s the basic word. We way to the official after party, Double We also raise money for our charities.” want to be as friendly as possible.” Trash Disco: TBRU Edition” on Sun- The first TBRU, which raised $7,000 That was true in the beginning, Davis day night, March 15 at Dallas Eagle — for AIDS Services of Denton County, said, and it is true now. TBRU XXV: A Roman Holiday promis- was about three times bigger than or- “When TBRU started, the stereotypi- es to be a party for the record books. ganizers expected, and in the 25 years cal bear didn’t fit into the genome of the Members of Dallas Bears, founded since, it has grown into the largest bear gay community,” Davis said. “We had around 1993, “saw these other bear different body clubs staging bear events,” so a few types, and bear members decided to attend “the events were a granddaddy of bear events,” the place of accep- International Bear Rendezvous, tance. TBRU

8 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 is that, too. People can come and relax BENEFICIARIES and enjoy themselves and not have to Beneficiaries for TBRU 25 are Resource Center’s deal with the stigma of body types or Youth First program, the Greg Dollgener Memorial health issues. AIDS Fund and Dallas Hope Charities’ LGBTQ BearDance “It’s a very welcoming and open at- shelter, the Hope Center. mosphere, more so maybe than some other events,” he said. SCHEDULE AND ENTERTAINMENT

TBRU, Flores added, is “all inclusive; Friday it’s not just for bears, but also for the • Paul J. Williams as Sister Helen Holy and her 2020 people who love bears and want to be sidekick, Eleanor Roosefelt, host The 701 Club part of the community. We include all, Friday at 2:45 p.m. earDance are spinning upstairs in the Retro and that shows in the event.” • Sister Helen Holy hosts the Bears Bingo game Dallas kicks Lounge. The Opposites Attract show at 4:30 p.m. TBRU, of course, is focused on gay • The Mr. TBRU Contest at 7 p.m. off TBRU 25 mixer will be going on from 8-10 men, and, Davis stressed, “we certainly • BearDance: Gods and Gladiators weekend to- p.m. welcome our trans brothers to partici- from 8 p.m.-4 a.m. at S4. night, Friday Tickets are available for $35, pate. [Dallas Bears] membership voted March 13, from online at BearDance.org and on that, and we voted unanimously to Saturday 8 p.m.-4 a.m., TBRU.org, until 8 p.m. tonight. • Cock & Shop vendors market from always offer space and welcome [trans noon-1:30 p.m. at S4, 3911 Ce- Tickets purchased in advance men] as members. I was very proud • Naughty Bear Bingo game show at 1:30 p.m. dar Springs Road. This year’s can be picked up at the Bear- of our group for welcoming trans men • TBRU Family Dinner at 5 p.m. BearDance theme is “Gods and Dance table at the TBRU host ho- unanimously that way.” • Mr. TBRU Contest and Mini-Underwear Auction Gladiators,” tying in with the tel, Hyatt Regency Dallas. After • Ginger Minj Show: Big Gay Cabaret at 8 p.m. TBRU theme of “Roman Holi- 8 p.m., tickets are $40, available (See Page 12 of this issue for an interview with day.” at the door. When in Rome … Ginger Minj.) Special guest for the event is Proceeds benefit the TBRU Each year, Dallas Bears members sug- Sunday Alyssa Edwards, the interna- designated beneficiaries, Re- gest possible themes for the next TBRU, • TBRU Big Texas Barbecue and Closing tional drag superstar who calls source Center’s Youth First Pro- and for this year’s event, organizers Ceremony at noon. Dallas home. DJs Tony Ruiz and gram, Dallas Hope Charities • Official TBRU After Party: Doublerash T Disco — settled on “ A Roman Holiday” as the TBRU Edition at 5 p.m. at Dallas Eagle. Corey Craig provide the music Hope Center LGBTQ youth shel- theme. For a complete schedule of the entire weekend’s on the main dance floor, while ter, and the Greg Dollgener me- events, visit TBRU.org. DJ Bird and DJ Decoding Jesus morial AIDS Fund. █ TBRU 25, Page 11

03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 9 Blowing doors wide open

Getting ready to perform at ble professional skills outside of drag, and it can be an uphill battle trying to get the TBRU 25, Ginger Minj talks people in power to recognize that. But I’ve about how drag opened doors never been one to shy away from a battle! for her in the entertainment Everybody always talks about how they industry were “edited to be…” a villain, a cry- baby, a bitch… whatever. Do you think that fans watching Drag Race are see- TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor ing the queens as they really are, their [email protected] “true personalities,” or does the editing make them come across as something oshua Allan Eads says he else? What about you, personally? Did has been an actor and singer the editors treat you fairly? Everything I pretty much all his life. But it said on the show, I said in real life. I don’t think I was treated or portrayed unfairly, was his foray into drag and but they’ve got to cram two or three days his drag alter ego Ginger into 43 minutes, so they pick the most Minj’s stint on Season 7 of dynamic moments and tell the story from RuPaul’s Drag Race and the there. There are moments I wish they second Drag Race All Stars would have been able to give a little more that put him in the national context or backstory to, but that’s not I’ve been a performer my entire life. I was I know you are from Florida, and when I spotlight — something that always possible. It’s a high stress environ- the epitome of a “theater geek” growing watched the video of Michelle Visage Ginger says has its advantages and its ment, a pressure cooker, and sometimes up, and I got into drag because I wanted performing your wedding at Drag Con, disadvantages. █ we crack! I own every moment for what to play the iconic women of musical the- she mentioned the effect that the Pulse it came across as, because I understand atre! The girls always had the best songs, shooting had on you. Can you tell me a every moment for what it really was. the best roles and the best costumes! little about that? How did it affect you Treat every day like “all the world’s a or change you? Those were my friends Dallas Voice: I first heard about you Do you have any advice for drag queens stage,” and you’ll find the fun in anything! and my family, even the ones I didn’t through RuPaul’s Drag Race (and I who want to be on Drag Race? What know, in a place that was like home to all wanted you to win from the start), so let’s about advice in general for those who What does the aspect of drag bring to of us. Pulse was one of the first clubs in get the obvious questions out of the way want to make a career out of drag? I your performance as a singer and as a the area to give me a chance when I was first. What was the best thing for you always tell my drag kids that drag is what comedian? Do you think being known starting out. [It was] owned and run by about being on Drag Race? And what you make of it. If you put in the work, the for drag opens doors for you as a good people who always put our commu- about the drawbacks or disadvantages? work will always be there. If you want one singer and a comedian/actor? Or is the nity first. It was devastating that someone Ginger Minj: You’re so sweet ... and you moment of glory, more power to you! But drag something you think you have to could come into OUR house and hurt have terrible taste! Haha! No one can deny if you want a long-lasting career, chase “overcome” to be taken seriously as a OUR family, and there was nothing WE the power of the Drag Race brand. It reaches every opportunity, give 110 percent and singer/comedian/actor? As I said, some- could do about it. people all around the world and connects treat people how you want to be treated! times it’s hard to be seen as anything It hurt then and it still hurts now. But I have with them on such a deep, emotional level. other than a “Drag Queen.” People aren’t to say that the way our community has I’ve always been an artist who isn’t afraid I have to admit that I did not realize what stupid; they’re just uneducated, and it’s come together to fight back is incredibly to knock on doors until they open, but the an outstanding singer you are. I just up to us to help them learn! Drag is hugely inspiring. I love Orlando, and I’ll never platform Drag Race gave me has blown a watched the video of you singing for popular right now, and people are trying to leave it, because everything here is such a lot of doors off their hinges! I’m being seen Harvey Fierstein, and I was blown away shove it into all forms of entertainment but part of me. for projects that I never thought would by your performance. Do you prefer to usually as a quick gag for shock value or be possible for me, and I’ve had a lot of sing live or do stand-up comedy? Since cheap laughs. Once they get to work with Going all the way back to the early days incredible opportunities because of my time you are a “real” singer, is it weird for us and see that we have more to offer, it of “the modern gay rights movement” on the show. you to have to lip sync? Thank you so usually blows their minds and makes them — Stonewall — the drag queens and much for that! Singing “I Am What I Am” realize what an asset we can really be to the trans women have always been at It’s a double-edged sword, though. Some- for Harvey Fierstein was a life-changing them. the forefront of the movement in one times producers and casting directors event for me. It’s the moment I’m most My role in Dumplin started as a two-line, way or another, whether they were don’t see us as “real” actors/singers/ proud of in my entire career. It felt import- one-day gig, but once the writer and throwing bricks at corrupt cops in artists, because drag is new and niche to ant and genuine, and I’m forever grateful director got a sense of what I could do, Greenwich Village, or getting up on them. I’ve been an actor and singer my to Logo and RuPaul’s Drag Race for giving they expanded my role and gave it more every stage possible to raise money for entire life, whereas I’ve only been doing me that opportunity. depth. We just have to keep working hard HIV/AIDS organizations. And yet, for a drag for 15 years. A lot of us have incredi- Art is art, and drag should always be fun! to prove ourselves! BLOWING DOORS, Page 12

10 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 Coronavirus cancellations update Officials with the World Health Organization honored on the rescheduled dates, which will with our supporters and allies.” this week declared the novel coronavirus, also be announced soon. • Cathedral of Hope: The Rev. Neil Thomas TBRU 25, From Page 9 called COVID-19, to be a pandemic as more said church officials are taking precautions to infections are being diagnosed. LGBT community cancelations limit possible exposure to the virus. Church “We want to make it fun for people, • Silver Pride is temporarily canceling all doors will be open before and during services so we’ll be having toga parties and en- Major cancelations Coffee&Convo meet-ups at libraries and rec to avoid everyone touching door handles. couraging costumes — togas, gladiators, • Dallas’ annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade set centers. Between services, the places most touched Roman soldiers,” Davis said. for Saturday, March 14, has been canceled. • Congregation Beth El Binah has canceled will be sanitized. The way communion is given • The NBA has suspended its season after its March 14 Purim party. Shabbat services will will change. Davenport noted, “A lot of people a Rudy Gobert, a player with the Utah Jazz, proceed as scheduled. • Abounding Prosperity: According to have hand made their costumes, I hear. I tested positive for the virus. • Legacy Counseling Center has postponed Associate Director Tamara Stephney, agency chat with people on social media, and a • WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert The Grace Project until fall. officials have posted universal precautions and lot of them have been sending previews released the following statement on Thurs- • The AIDS Service Dallas’ State of the are doing a daily deep cleaning. of their costumes. It’s going to be great. day, March 12: The WNBA is currently not in Agency event set for April 14 has been post- • Legacy Counseling Center: Executive season, but together with the WNBPA and poned. Director Melissa Grove said she is doing a Davis noted that bears and bear lovers teams, we have been in close communication • The Transgender Career Fair has been coronavirus homeless supply drive. They’re from “almost all 50 states and 10 to 14 for- and will continue to connect with and offer postponed from March 31 to July 15. collecting canned goods and non-perishables eign countries” attend TBRU every year. resources to players in the U.S. and those • Educare has that its announced Compas- for the 32 families in their housing program. Organizers had expected around 1,500 playing overseas.” sion Fatigue Symposium, originally set for April The agency is accepting donations in the people to attend this year, which would • SXSW in Austin has been canceled and 16, is being rescheduled for June 12. Officials lobby from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday. no refunds will be given. According to sales said, “Given the severity of this unprecedented Clients coming for counseling are given hand be the largest attendance in the last three terms: “Any and all payments made to SXSW situation, we will be providing refunds to those wipes, and their temperatures are taken before or so years. But, they noted, recent events are not refundable for any reason, including, attendees who cannot attend the Compassion their appointments. Grove said Legacy is set- surrounding COVID-19 — the coronavi- without limitation, failure to use credentials Fatigue Symposium on June 12.” ting up Telehealth, in case employees need to rus, which this week was declared a pan- due to illness, acts of God, travel-related prob- work from home or clients can’t get out. demic by the World Health Organization lems, acts of terrorism, loss of employment Making provisions • AIDS Services Dallas: Agency officials and/or duplicate purchases.” • From Dallas Pride: “Dallas Pride is moving are monitoring the situation but not making — could impact attendance. Tickets may be used for future events up to forward with plans for our June 6-7 events. We any changes to policies. They are doing deep Davenport said last week that con- three years. are working closely with Fair Park and the City cleanings at various properties. cerns over the virus had already prompt- • The Dallas Art Fair has been postponed of Dallas Office of Emergency Management as • Prism Health North Texas: Clients coming ed “a couple” of the international guests from April 16-19 to Oct. 1-4. we continue to monitor COVID-19 information in for medical appointments who have any to cancel their plans to attend. 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03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 11 Phone 214-754-8710 █ Fax 844-313-2282 1825 Market Center Blvd., Ste. 240, Dallas, Texas 75207 A gay soldier’s story Hours: Weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. • dallasvoice.com administration Leo Cusimano Publisher █ 114 editorial of Vietnam and after Tammye Nash Managing Editor █ 113 Arnold Wayne Jones Executive Editor Life+Style █ 129 David Taffet Senior Staff Writer █ 125 Larry Sanders writes about was gay, because they would make you Like other Vietnam vets, Sanders Philip Burton Proofreader Contributors: Chris Azzopardi, Gary Bellomy, Jenny Block, serving in the army, where prove it. How does someone not dating didn’t feel welcomed by the folks at anyone “prove” they’re gay? Well, I had home when he came back at the end of J. Denton Bricker, Alicia Chang, D’Anne Witowski, Lawrence he could have been arrested Ferber, Hardy Haberman, Scott Huffman, Lisa Keen, Mark a student deferment anyway, but Sand- his tour of duty. And as a gay soldier, he Lowry, Joey Moreno, Cassie Nova, Josh Robbins, Mikey Rox, for being gay during a very ers decided to simply lie — although not didn’t particularly relate to those who Howard Lewis Russell, James Russell, unpopular war completely. served with him. Terri Schlichenmeyer, Leslie McMurray, Mathew Shaw, He didn’t really identify as homo- So, for close to 50 years, he didn’t talk Brandi Amara Skyy, Mark Stokes, Jef Tingley, Casey Williams Photographers: Paul Jentz, Chuck Marcelo, Cassie Quinn sexual. Had feelings? Sure, but he was about his experience in Vietnam very The mem- Intern: John McClanahan DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer young. He wasn’t sure what those feel- much. ory of the smell of death [email protected] ings meant. He said while he doesn’t particularly has haunted Sanders for years, but he advertising Chad Mantooth Advertising Director █ 131 Within weeks, Sanders was drafted feel as though he has PTSD, he has suf- brilliantly describes it in just five short Nicholas Gonzalez Advertising Account Rep. █ 115 he day Larry Sand- and sent to basic training, then on to fered from nightmares for years. Some paragraphs. Stephen Mobley MarketPlace Sales █ 123 ers registered for the training to become a medic. By the end of his bittersweet stories explain how he And what about being a gay soldier in National Advertising Representative draft, one question of the year, he found himself in Vietnam, survived his year in Vietnam. an army that forbade it? He said for his Rivendell Media Inc. 908-232-2021 buried in the middle getting there just weeks before the begin- “My ‘Go Dau Ha’ Puppy” tells of the year in Vietnam, he mostly put that aside ning of the Tet Offensive that escalated dog he adopted but then had to leave be- as a way to survive. art of a long question- Kevin Thomas Art Director █ 119 naire smacked him the war — and the anti-war movement hind when his tour of duty ended. How And survive, he did. He survived; he Shawn Weston Graphic Designer █ 132 in the face: “Do you at home. could he bear to leave behind the dog came home; he came out. Sanders earned Sanders, now a Dallas resident who’s that got him through the last few months his college degree on the GI bill, moved multimedia identify as a homo- Stephen Mobley Social Media Director █ 123 sexual or ever had sexual feelings for been with his husband for more than of war? He writes that he looked her in to Dallas, became an art director and met Brian Kennedy Video Producer persons of the same sex? __YES __NO.” 40 years, took a writing class at a Dal- the eye and told her he’d never forget his husband. Then he and his husband Israel Luna Video Producer/DVtv host Sanders, who had just turned 18, lived las County Community College, and he her, then left her with a Vietnamese fam- opened a store in Deep Ellum. Brad Pritchett DVtv Host Brandi Amara Skyy DVtv Host in Arkansas. He noted there was no wrote a short story for that class about ily. But just when he finally was beginning Regina Lyn DVtv Host “maybe” or “unsure.” Just “yes” or “no.” arriving in Vietnam on the eve of the Tet But how could he leave his dog, I to feel safe again, the AIDS crisis hit. Come out to the U.S. government or lie. Offensive. asked again. He answered, he just had to Sanders refers to those early years of circulation Linda Depriter Circulation Director █ 120 He knew that one little box could He thought that would be it. But the get out of there. the AIDS pandemic as his “second Viet- change his future. If he said yes, would next day, he wrote another story. Then Other stories in the book are very nam.” In 1991, his best friend had just founders he be arrested? At the time Sanders reg- another. short and simply describe a feeling. “The died. “People were dying all around us, Robert Moore █ Don Ritz istered for the draft in 1967, no one was His collection of stories eventually Smell” is one of those. and no one knew who would be next,” affiliations/memberships clear about what happened to someone grew into his newly-released book In- “There is a smell to death,” Sanders he writes. “It felt like Vietnam all over Associated Press - Associate Member who admitted being gay. coming! Memories of a Combat Medic Grow- wrote. “It’s difficult to describe. You again.” National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Certified LGBT Business Enterprise When I registered for the draft just a ing Up Poor Getting Drafted to Vietnam know it when you smell it. You want to Incoming! by Larry Sanders is available at Founding Member - North Texas GLBT Chamber few years later, I was told not to say I Coming Home and Coming Out. run. You hope you never smell it again.” Amazon. █ Founding Member - National LGBT Media Association

BLOWING DOORS, From Page 10 long time — and still to some degree we want to share in ourselves. I’ve seen mold,” you are an activist. If you fight with unique perspective. It has surpassed our — the “business gays” and the activ- some very closed-minded people change whatever power you’re given to make the wildest expectations with our productions ist types have tended to look at drag their opinions when their hate is met with world a better, more understanding place of Golden Gals and Rozeanne, and the as “embarrassing” or “stereotypical.” love and understanding. for the next generation, you are my hero. rest of the series is already getting great Do you think that is changing now? buzz! It’s always nice when something that If so, why? I think it’s changing in the I have always thought of drag as being Tell me about what you are doing now — you’re passionate about catches on with sense that we are everywhere now: clubs, something of a radical act, a special besides coming to Dallas for TBRU, I the community you love so much! TVs, movies, libraries, etc., and more of kind of activism. What do you think mean. A new show? New music? Maybe mainstream America is seeing that what of the concept of drag as activism or something altogether new? There’s so What do you want to talk about that I we do isn’t something that needs to be a social movement? Do you think of much cooking in this kitchen! TV, movies haven’t asked about? What do you want feared or looked down on. We want the yourself just as a performer, an enter- and a new album are all in the near future, your fans to know? Follow me on social same things that everybody wants: love, tainer, or do you consider yourself to and I recently started a new live theatre se- media! If you see me out and about, come respect and the right to be happy. Our be an activist, too? I think anyone who ries in Orlando called TVLand Live! with my talk to me! I love you guys from the bottom community has fought so hard for so long is different but refuses to be ashamed of husband, CJ, and my best friend, Gidget of my foam-padded heart, and getting to to make the world a better, happier place that fact is an activist! If you stand up and Galore, where we take classic television know all of you has been the best part of for EVERYONE, because it’s something refuse to be shamed for not fitting “the shows and celebrate them from our own this entire experience.

12 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 Phone 214-754-8710 █ Fax 844-313-2282 █ 1825 Market Center Blvd., Ste. 240, Dallas, Texas 75207 commUNITY Hours: Weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. • dallasvoice.com voices administration Leo Cusimano Publisher █ 114 editorial A leatherman amid the furries Tammye Nash Managing Editor █ 113 n one of my past lives, I was a part- you get the tendance. We had approximately 80-plus Arnold Wayne Jones Executive Editor Life+Style █ 129 David Taffet Senior Staff Writer █ 125 ner in a company that manufactured idea. enthusiastic folks jammed into a confer- Philip Burton Proofreader costumed characters — you know, Not sur- ence room as we started the workshop, Contributors: Chris Azzopardi, Gary Bellomy, Jenny Block, I those furry mascots you usually encoun- prising to and more kept arriving right up until we J. Denton Bricker, Alicia Chang, D’Anne Witowski, Lawrence ter at theme parks and sporting events. me were closed the doors. Ferber, Hardy Haberman, Scott Huffman, Lisa Keen, Mark Lowry, Joey Moreno, Cassie Nova, Josh Robbins, Mikey Rox, We designed and built a good number the large They were a young, energetic and en- Howard Lewis Russell, James Russell, of the characters that populated parks in number of gaged group of people, and only a cou- Terri Schlichenmeyer, Leslie McMurray, Mathew Shaw, the 1970s and ’80s, including Cyrus Cos- LGBTQ-iden- ple were in their fur suits. Also surpris- Brandi Amara Skyy, Mark Stokes, Jef Tingley, Casey Williams mo at Six Flags and the Looney Tunes tified char- ing to me was how many of them took Photographers: Paul Jentz, Chuck Marcelo, Cassie Quinn Intern: John McClanahan characters at Great America Parks. acters I met. notes! I do a lot of presentations and Those costumes were colorful, furry There were workshops, but rarely have I seen any- advertising and, although they gave a happy expe- also a signifi- one take notes. Chad Mantooth Advertising Director █ 131 rience to park-goers, they were misera- cant presence Sex among furries is often called “mu- Nicholas Gonzalez Advertising Account Rep. █ 115 Stephen Mobley MarketPlace Sales █ 123 ble to wear. Knowing that, it puzzled me ring,” and those costumes with strategic National Advertising Representative that some folks would voluntarily wear access zippers designed to allow access Rivendell Media Inc. 908-232-2021 these furry creations for fun, and it was to the sexy bits are referred to as “mur- even stranger to me that some found suits.” I won’t go into detail about our art workshop, but I will say that the mur- Kevin Thomas Art Director █ 119 them to be not just furry and cuddly, but Shawn Weston Graphic Designer █ 132 sexy and erotic. suits seem well adapted to kinky fun. And so, I was, frankly, surprised when The most important lesson I learned multimedia from Furry Fiesta is that just because a Stephen Mobley Social Media Director █ 123 my life journey led me to Texas Furry Brian Kennedy Video Producer Fiesta — not just as a visitor, but a pre- group of people are marginalized be- Israel Luna Video Producer/DVtv host senter. cause of their kink, that doesn’t mean Brad Pritchett DVtv Host For those who are unaware, Furry Fi- they don’t have a culture and vibrancy Brandi Amara Skyy DVtv Host esta is a convention of thousands (that’s of their own. Regina Lyn DVtv Host right, thousands) of “furries,” their ad- Coming from the LGBTQ community circulation mirers and allies. There were, in fact, so I understand prejudice. Coming from Linda Depriter Circulation Director █ 120 many furries at the Furry Fiesta that they the leather community, I understand founders took over the entirety of the Hyatt Re- the judgement and discrimination folks Robert Moore █ Don Ritz gency hotel in downtown Dallas. heap on those who find their pleasures affiliations/memberships Now, before you jump to the con- outside the mainstream. Associated Press - Associate Member clusion that all those fuzzy folk were But being allowed to get a glimpse National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association there for kinky sexual highjinks, let me from the inside of people whose person- Certified LGBT Business Enterprise Founding Member - North Texas GLBT Chamber assure you: They were not. Many just ality expression is as radically different Founding Member - National LGBT Media Association love dressing up as cartoon characters as that of the furries was a wonderful and furring around. Many are children of gender non-binary flags and pins. I opportunity. I have a new appreciation or teenagers who have fun expressing say “not surprising” because I have seen for them and their particular kinks. I themselves through the persona (or “fur- these same large numbers at sci-fi con- would not be surprised if a few furries sona”) of the characters they wear, many ventions and comic cons. We geeks and started showing up at leather/kink of which they design themselves. There nerds have a large LGBTQ contingent. events, and, frankly, I would welcome unique perspective. It has surpassed our are dances, parties and workshops for And yes, I am not just a leatherman, I am them. Their playful energy is something wildest expectations with our productions furries of all ages. also a bit of a Trekkie. I miss in the leather world. of Golden Gals and Rozeanne, and the © 2020 Voice Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. And yes, there are also specifically So why was a queer leatherman at- The leathermen and leatherwomen I rest of the series is already getting great Reprint rights are available only by written consent of the buzz! It’s always nice when something that publisher or managing editor. adult sessions that are segregated by age tending this Furry Fiesta event? Well, be- first encountered over 35 years ago were Dallas Voice is published every Friday. Additional copies you’re passionate about catches on with may be purchased for $1 each, payable in advance at requirements, because a good number of cause I was invited to do a workshop to hot and sexy, but they were also playful the Dallas Voice office. Dallas Voice may be distributed them do enjoy some furry sexual high- educate furries on the intricacies of kink and rowdy. I see a lot of that in the furries the community you love so much! only by Dallas Voice authorized independent contractors or distributors. No person may, without prior written jinks. — part sex education, part kink educa- I had the pleasure of meeting. Maybe we permission of Voice Publishing, take more than one copy of What do you want to talk about that I each Dallas Voice weekly issue. There was also a huge vendor market, tion and all specifically tailored for the could all use a few hours in a fursuit to haven’t asked about? What do you want Subscriptions via First Class Mail are available: Three months (13 consecutive issues), $65. Six months (26 with everything from fur suit makers to furry community. let our hair down and find joy in not just consecutive issues), $85. One year (52 consecutive issues), your fans to know? Follow me on social artists and designers. Additionally, there I am grateful I had help from a well- our sex and kink, but our lives. █ media! If you see me out and about, come $130. Contact Dallas Voice at 214-754-8710 x123. 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03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 13 LIFE+STYLE travel

The sunsets on Clearwater Beach are breathtaking, above, while its annual Sugar Sand Festival brings in talented sculptors from around the world, opposite

lorida. The name of the state known as the base of the Church of too hot to walk on barefooted, even in conjures a host of images, from Scientology (Tom Cruise and John the swelter of summer. Called “sugar Executive Editor F wild presidential elections to Travolta have places here; Hulk Hogan sand,” the city performs daily groom- rocket launches and stories about, well, and Mario Andretti also call it home), ing that keeps it looking pristine. For “Floridians.” When you think about the the town is more centered on its beaches the past seven years, they have even state as destination, however, chanc- and boardwalk, which are vibrant yet put on the Sugar Sand Festival, where es are you think of three draws: The convenient and manageable. a dozen-plus artists from all over the funkiness of Key West, the spectacle of Although the town spreads the width world — from St. Petersburg, Fla. to St. Fort Lauderdale/Wilton Manors/Miami of the peninsula, its entertainment Petersburg, Russia — gather to build

STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY STORY JONES | WAYNE ARNOLD [email protected] or the campy second-childhood play- district for visitors revolves around the their artwork out of sand… and not just ground of Orlando. narrow archipelago of barrier islands castles: The Great Pyramid, the Parthe- But Florida’s forgotten coast — along upon which is situated Clearwater non, the Statue of Liberty and more, the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay, Beach (divided into north and south have been spectacularly etched out of straddling the Intracoastal Waterway — neighborhoods). silica and water, the ultimate sustainable is not only fun and affordable but also Not a wild spring break kind of town pop-up art exhibition, enthusiastical- welcoming to gay travelers, with draws like that other Floridian South Beach’ ly curated by founder Lisa Chandler. from exquisite beaches to lively festivals Clearwater’s version is actually a little (Even when the festival isn’t taking and a happening social scene. Whether lower-key than its North Beach, which place, you can rent a beachside cabana you center yourself in Clearwater or has more shopping and clubs and is a and people watch, tan or just vegetate.) Sarasota 60 miles to the south, there’s marginally closer walk to Pier 60, the You can chill even more if you head an adventure to be had… albeit without pedestrian walkway into the Gulf that’s out to Sandy Key, just a five-minute the noise and pace of Miami or raucous a focal point of seaside social activity. drive over the causeway, a relaxing families of Disney. You’d be hard pressed to find a more perspective. The beach is just as soft and appealing coastline in the continental beautiful, but there’s more (and cheap- Going Clearwater U.S. From astonisting sunrises to breath- er) available parking. The Marriott here, An unexpected gem of the central taking sunset vistas, the climate ranges recently renovated, has spacious rooms coast, Clearwater sits on the oceans- from brisk to sultry with few extremes and a staid but elegant vibe. Sandy Key

The forgotten coast ide of a peninsula across from Tampa, in between. The beaches are covered in is also the closest place where you can

Florida’s Gulf-side Clearwater and Sarasota Florida’s for beachcombers offer low-key adventures and ocean lovers of all kinds its closest major airport. Perhaps best fluffy, soft, white powder that is never eat at Columbia Restaurant, a Sunshine

14 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 State staple of Cuban-Spanish cuisine common. But if you don’t like fishing, that originated in Ybor City in 1905. you can instead book a dolphin tour or a This old school eatery has the kind of sunset party boat, where you can take in menu where every recipe has a personal the aquatic fauna and vistas while getting history, including its classic chopped tipsy and possibly enjoying a buffet. The salad, empanadas, “original” Cubano marina, like the pier, is a popular place to and a mango rum drink that was simply simply explore on foot (it’s easy to walk heavenly. between North and South Beach, wherev- Beaches, of course, mean seafood, and er you stay.) seafood means fishing boats. For a brisk If you’re even more committed to and exciting coastal adventure, I rec- experiencing the sea life of the Gulf ommend a half-day fishing trip, which Coast, check out the Clearwater Marine we took aboard the Super Queen (it Aquarium. Less an aquatic zoo than an costs about $70). The excursion is about animal hospital and rehab center, you a five-hour commitment (7:30 a.m. to a can assist trainers in feeding some of little past noon, so you still have plenty the bottlenose porpoises, pet stingrays of daylight left afterwards) with about as they glide underneath your fingers two hours of deep-sea line fishing, but and even see a large nurse shark swim chances are you will successfully land peacefully alongside other fish. a few fish. (Depending on the time of Options for accommodations are year, expect to catch anything from plentiful. The Edge Hotel boasts a white grunts to red snapper and the glass-sided pool on the sixth floor Gulf signature seafood, grouper.) You overlooking the Gulf. Next door is the can throw your catch back, or donate high-end Shepherd Hotel, or splurge on the caught fish to others on the boat the impressive Opal Sands Resort. The who weren’t as lucky, or you can do Sandpearl Resort is home to a wonder- what I did: Eat ‘em. The boat crew ful fine-dining restaurant, Coretta by the will clean them and hand you over the Sea, which even offers a totally afford- fillets, and several local restaurants offer able $59 prix fixe four-course menu. a catch-and-cook service. I took mine You can dine at sea level at the Island to Cooters, a friendly sports bar that Way Grill near the aquarium, get lunch will turn your catch into a deep-fried or dinner at Bob Heilman’s Beachcomb- po’ boy sandwich with slaw and pickle er, or just pop in to Blackfins for a craft spear for under $8. (Pro tip: You might beer and fresh fish tacos. wanna wear old or disposable clothes, The Pier 60 Sugar Sand Festival takes and bring a towel and wet wipes, to place April 10–26 in Clearwater. Sugar- minimize smelling of fish when you get SandFestival.com. back to your hotel.) The boat ride out to the fishing spot has South to Sarasota the added advantage of being a sightsee- About equidistant south of Tampa ing tour where you might catch a glimpse (but with its own airport) is Sarasota, of dolphins or manatees, which are fairly █ FORGOTTEN COAST Next Page

03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 15 █ FORGOTTEN COAST From Previous Page but the two cities are divided by more than an hour’s drive. About half the population of Clearwater and located inside the Intracoastal Waterway, Sara- sota projects a lazier, cooler atmosphere as a hub for sightseeing and exploring, but also offers more gay-specific attrac- tions and activities. The so-called gay beach, North Lido, is a bit of a hike from downtown but worth an Uber ride. In addition to spacious beaches and people-watching, there’s a concession and picnic area for grabbing a quick nosh between sun- bathing sessions, and the beach is right on the edge of tony St. Armand’s Circle, a lovely community with several dining options (including a branch of Colum- bia). For nightlife, you need to go fur- ther inland toward Gulf Gate Estates, where you can find the fun dick-dancer and drag bar Oasis, a hoppin’ hang that’s both divey and dance-y. Even though he did not have a direct connection to Sarasota, the Harvey Milk Festival celebrates the gay pio- neer with art, music and more. Now in its 11th year, the three-day event each May includes an outdoor music and █ FORGOTTEN COAST Page 20 Daybreak is brisk and beautiful over the marina in Clearwater.

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16 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 A full-sized reproduction of Michelangelo’s ‘David,’ above, is one of the amazing pieces of artwork at Sarasota’s Ringling Museum; below, Oasis is the city’s fun, divey gay bar.

03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 17 L+S screen Oh, grow up

Feral children travel to an island where they never grow up in the ‘Peter Pan’ redux ‘Wendy,’ above; opposite, ‘Saint Frances’ is an unlikely buddy pic between a 6-year-old and her nanny. Adulting intrudes on childhood spectacularly in ‘Saint Frances’ and ‘Wendy’

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considered skipping the new film Wendy for one reason: I have I reached an age where I was not cer- tain I could tolerate one more iteration of Peter Pan. From the Disney animated version to Hook, the Dallas Theater Cen- ter musical Fly, Peter and the Starcatcher, Finding Neverland… enough already! Can’t anyone find some other public because it feels like the tale has finally domain property to exploit and explore? found its best new life. Behn Zeitlin, One reason for my resistance is too the director and co-writer, has broken many adaptations seem to miss the its code by refracting adult angst about inherent darkness of the plot, thinking getting older through the prism of a it to be a children’s story. But consider: childhood fantasy. This Peter Pan isn’t What kind of boy doesn’t grow up, and for — or even about — kids anymore lives in a place called “Neverland?” than Fellini’s 8½ is. That’s death, folks. And the adult Capt. It starts in a lazy diner somewhere in Hook, stalked by a predator whose har- the south. The Darling children — twins binger of his approach is the ticking of a Douglas and James, and baby sister clock? Well, could any metaphor for the Wendy (Divine France) — dream of life Grim Reaper be more on-point? beyond their truckstop. One night, see- But I’m so glad I didn’t skip Wendy, ing a mysterious figure scampering over

18 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 can change them from children to old folks. Indeed, when that fate befalls one of their crew, the plot takes a big twist… or maybe it’s better to call it a hook. Zeitlin’s last film was the similar- ly-themed Beasts of the Southern Wild, and he revisits it stylistically as well: He prefers a jumpy, cinema verite style into which he seamlessly integrates gorgeous, naturally-seeming visual effects. He aims for a certain poetry of storytelling reminiscent of Terrence Malick, only with children. And what children. France is a potent actress full of fire and charisma. Her persona contrasts spectactual- ly to Mack, whose intense eyes and demeanor give him a mesmerizing quality. They are perfect instruments through which Zeitlin comments on the need to grow up, to age, to come to terms with adulthood and even death. Because that’s what life is all about.

a locomotive, they leap onto the moving Bridget is the kind of screwed-up train and embark on their awfully big millennial who’s both charming and adventure. frustrating — suffering from her own The kid who lures them is Peter version of Peter Pan syndrome. Al- (Yoshua Mack), a tiny black boy with ready in her mid-30s, she behaves like a face that shows experience. He takes a 20something — temp jobs, one-night them to a magical island where the stands, an almost allergic reaction to children never age… at least until they responsibility. She’s also funny and stop believing in Mother, the enchant- honest (too honest), someone we all ed undersea creature whose glowing recognize as a hot mess but whom we light preserves them. They live a care- are pulling for. So when she lands, free but feral existence, that doesn’t against all odds, a gig as a nanny to really seem to make sense; we never 6-year-old Frannie, it seems like she see them eating or drinking, and they may finally be growing up. resist too much introspection. Sadness █ GROW UP Next Page

03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 19 █ FORGOTTEN COAST From Page 16 █ GROW UP From Previous Page masterworks of European art (including locavore hang Boca (bloodys, frittatas She certainly has been adulting a lot crafts festival, a dance, an art exhibit a full-scale reproduction of Michelan- flatbreads and succulent burgers) for lately. She gets pregnant, and quickly and community lectures and educa- gelo’s David) and palatial grounds that brunch to the exquisite chef-driven terminates it, but continues to experi- tional experiences, that coincides with you could wander for days without dining of Melange, where craft cocktails ence bleeding. The lesbian couple who the Sarasota Film Festival. (Sarasota’s getting bored. occupy space alongside rabbit tacos, are Frannie’s parents zing her with official gay Pride celebration takes place All that wandering will require body escargot-stuffed mushrooms and pear passive-aggressive putdowns, though in October.) fuel, of course. If you’re there on the salad for dinner. █ truthfully, she deserves most of them. Sarasota is also home to the Ringling weekend, don’t miss the Farmer’s Mar- The Harvey Milk Festival takes place May “Would you have preferred never to Museum, one of the largest and most ket for sampling tons of local products, 7–9 in Sarasota. HarveyMilkFestival.org. have been born?” Bridget’s mother astonishing fine-art museums in the from produce to honey. Other dining asks? She thinks about it, but her an- American South. Founded by circus options run the gamut, from the open- swer is “no.” magnate John Ringling, it not only has air casual appeal of The Overton (good ONLINE EXCLUSIVE And therein lies the goody-sweet the foremost collection of big-top mem- coffees, sandwiches, even spaghetti and appeal of Saint Frances — a movie For a more extensive gallery of the Florida coast, orabilia and historical artifacts but also meatballs) for lunch to the hipster-chic visit DallasVoice.com partially about abortion that’s mostly a comedy, with a loveable loser as its lead. Kelly O’Sullivan, who plays Brid- get, also wrote the screenplay, which gives the dialogue a lived-in quality — and not just when she’s speaking it. Max Lipchitz as the schlubby good guy who fathers her child has a winsome likeability, and Charin Alvaraez and Lily Mojekwu as the high-strung moms hit their marks. But if anyone upstages Providing comprehensive and compassionate medical care O‘Sullivan, it’s Ramona Edith Williams as the incorrigibly adorable Frannie — to the LGBT community for more than 35 Years! precocious but never cloying, her spirit unites the themes of parenthood expert- ly but subtly. They make a terrific team for this unlikely buddy picture.

The Hunt could benefit from growing up itself. On the surface, it’s a fairly pro forma horror pic in the vein of The Hunger Games or The Purge: A dozen strangers given a few weapons who need to run while unseen people stalk them as prey. But the gag is that it’s a satire: Liberal elites are hunting down right wing conspiracy nuts who post fake news and defend gun rights… well, how do they feel about the Second Amendment when they are the targets? The problem lies in its message, Comprehensive David M. Lee, M.D. BEST General Practitioner which is muddled and confusing. Is the 6 Years in a Row! HIV/AIDS management film anti-cancel-culture… but pro-vio- Donald A. Graneto, M.D. BEST Medical Group Practice lence? Do the hunted deserve what they Eric Klappholz, NP BEST HIV Specialists STD testing and treatment get… or does this only prove they are right? The film is at both its best and its Peter Triporo, NP PrEP counseling and treatment worst when it spouts off talking points Jason Vercher, PA-C Uptown Physicians Group ironically: crisis actors, deplorables, Uptown Tower politically-correct tropes of all kinds. It Vanessa Bludau, NP General adult medical care lacks subtlety, but there are laughs. The 4144 N. Central Expressway, Suite 750 William Hays, MD, ATC, LAT ® problem is that we “get it” and the film 214-303-1033 Cosmetic - BOTOX overstays its welcome… although an Ismail Boodhwani, FNP-C ® www.UptownDocs.com and JUVÉDERM explanatory flashback about an hour in actually succeeds in undermining our precepts and expectations. Ultimately, though, it’s hard to know how to feel Dr. Donald Graneto Voted 2019 Readers Voice Awards named to D Magazine’s BEST Medical Group Practice at the end. Ambivalence is one thing, Best Doctors BEST HIV Specialists in Dallas for 2017 in but that’s not the same as trying to have Peter Triporo, NP named Top 10 in 2018 and Dr. David Lee, Infectious Disease and America’s Top Nurse Practitioner Awards BEST General Practitioner your cake and eat it, too. █ Family Medicine respectively. presented by Point of Care Network All films now playing.

20 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 LIFE+STYLE best bets Saturday 03.14 Masked queer recording artist Orville Peck returns to Dallas

Orville Peck has had a banner year, what with the release of his hit country album Pony, his nonstop touring and especially all the buzz about his fringed Stetson that covers his face. But the out Canadian singer isn’t done yet. His The Road to Luck Tour contines, with another stop into 2020. He stops off again in North Texas (he was here last October) for a set at Canton Hall on Saturday. Yee haw!

DEETS: Canton Hall, 2727 Canton St. 8 p.m. CantonHall.com.

Friday 03.20 – Sunday 01.31 Massive new DMA exhibition ‘For a Dreamer of Houses’ explores art and the spaces we occupy

Inspired by philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s influential treatise The Poetics of Space, as well as recent acquisitions to its permanent collection, DMA contemporary art curator Katherine Brodbeck has assembled a new exhibition of 54 works from 35 artists entitled For a Dreamer of Houses. The large-scale collection of works, all evocative of our physical and psychological interaction with personal space, is a dazzling display that will be up through January 2021.

DEETS: Barrel Vault and Quadrant Galleries of the Dallas Museum of Art, 1717 Harwood St. $9 special admission fee. Through Jan. 31, 2021. DallasMuseumOfArt.org.

Friday 03.20 – Sunday 03.22 Carole King musical ‘Beautiful’ stops in Bass Hall for one weekend only

You know you have a solid score for a musical when almost all the songs were written or co-written by Carole King, she of “Natural Woman”/“The Locomotion”/“You’ve Got a Friend”/countless more fame. The Tony Award- winning musical Beautiful superbly showcases her music, as well as her life’s story. It returns to North Texas for one weekend only, with five performances.

DEETS: Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce St., Fort Worth. BassHall.com.

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he seems. Screens as part of the Tuesday ARTSWEEK FRIDAY 03.13 Big Movie New Classic Series, which now THEATER DANCE includes a matinee. Landmark’s Magnolia American Mariachi. Set in the 1970s, Latinas Alvin Ailey. Perhaps the most famous dance Theatre in the West Village, hope to establish an all-girl mariachi band, company in America performs three times 3699 McKinney Ave. even though no such thing exists. In this over two days. Presented by TITAS/Dance Screens at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. original musical comedy about family and Unbound. Winspear Opera House, culture. Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St. March 2403 Flora St. March 13–14. ATTPAC.org 14–April 5. DallasTheaterCenter.org. WEDNESDAY 03.18 COMMUNITY Come from Away. The Tony Award-winner SATURDAY 03.14 FrontRunners. Gay jogging/walking group this week’s solution for best direction of a musical, this unlikely COMMUNITY meets weekly at 7:15 p.m. in Oak Lawn Park crowd-pleaser is about the small Canadian FrontRunners. Gay jogging/walking group at Hall Street and Turtle Creek Boulevard for a town that hosted airline passengers diverted meets weekly at 8:30 a.m. in Oak Lawn Park run along the Katy Trail. in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. at Hall Street and Turtle Creek Boulevard for a Fair Park Music Hall, 901 First Ave. Through run along the Katy Trail. WEEK 9: The Queer Off All Stars: The March 22. DallasSummerMusicals.org. Winter Games. Contestants from season CONCERTS 1 and 2 return for this elimination-style talent Mlima’s Tale. Second Thought Theatre kicks Orville Peck. The out country singer show for the queer community. Sue Ellen’s, off its 2020 season with this play by two-time performs. Canton Hall, 2727 Canton St. 8 p.m. 3014 Throckmorton St. 10:30 p.m. Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage about the Ticketmaster.com. black market ivory trade. Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphreys campus, 3636 Turtle Creek THURSDAY 03.19 Blvd. Through Sunday. SecondThoughtTheatre. MONDAY 03.16 CABARET com. CABARET Glitterbomb Denton. Weekly queer variety Mama’s Party. Amy Stevenson’s weekly show with a new lineup every Thursday, Playwrights in the Newsroom. Original play show featuring talented singers. Mainstage, now at a new locale and new time. Andy’s Bar, about journalism by Brigham Mosley and 222 E. Irving Blvd., Irving. 7:35 p.m. $10 122 N. Locust St., Denton. 8 p.m. Janielle Kastner. Part of the Elevator Project. Studio at the Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St. Through Sunday. ATTPAC.org. TUESDAY 03.17 FRIDAY 03.20 FILM OPERA █ browse █ submit Shadow of a Doubt. Another hit from Alfred Don Carlo. Verdi’s family and religious Hitchcock — masterful, but less well-known drama. Presented by Dallas Opera. Winspear For a more complete Community To submit an item for inclusion in than many, is this sinister thriller about Uncle Opera House, 2403 Flora St. March 20–28. Calendar online, visit the Community Calendar, visit Charley, who may be more devious than DallasOpera.org. Tinyurl.com/dvevents. Tinyurl.com/dvevents.

22 dallasvoice.com █ 03.13.20 03.13.20 █ dallasvoice 23 L+S scoop Cassie Nova From weighted blankets to long red nails

Hello peoples. I hope you are enjoying this beautiful magnificent day. I actually woke up in kind of a “meh” mood today, so I am trying to fake my way into a great mood and have a fabulous and productive day. I’m gonna fake it till I make it. I slept great, so I can’t blame that. I have been sleeping really well as of late. I received a weighted blanket for Christmas, and I love it. I am a man of a certain age, and as we get older, we tend to need to get up and pee a lot. Since I got the weighted blanket, I guess I have been sleeping so soundly that either I can hold it longer, or I am in too deep a sleep to even think about peeing. I don’t suffer from anxiety — well, only the normal amount anxiety, I would say — but if you have anxiety problems, you should seriously try a weighted blanket. There is something about the pressure on top of you that is so nice. You know when you go to the dentist, and they do an X-ray? And they put that lead vest on you to protect you from the radiation? I have always loved the way that felt. It’s so calming. Most days, even my little Chihuahua Toby loves the weighted blanket. It takes him a bit to lift the blanket and get under it, but he will eventually get his adorable little ass under there. Some days you can kind of tell he just doesn’t have the energy, and so he just gets under the covers on Jamie’s side, instead. I need to find a cover or duvet that fits over the blanket. It’s not like you can just easily throw it in the washer. The one I have is 45 pounds and is lots of small squares with BBs filling those squares. I am worried that during the summer it may be way too hot to sleep with my weighted blanket, but we like to keep the bedroom cold enough to hang meat in, so I should be okay. It does get a little toasty under the blanket, but if you are not tossing and turning, you really don’t realize it. Not sure why I went on a weighted blan- year, because of sinus problems, I lose my grocery cart, and I sanitized it. I used two of has the long red nails. Lord knows, I hate to ket tangent, but there it is. My “meh” mood voice and get an annoying scratchy throat those wipes to really clean it. And I immedi- look ridiculous. (That is sarcasm, ladies and is not from not sleeping; I sleeps good! that leads to a stupid cough. But right now, ately rubbed my nose. gentlemen. Looking ridiculous is my bread Maybe I am hungry. I’m always hungry, and if you cough even the smallest bit, people Dammit! and butter. So long red nails it is!) no, before you ask, I am not hung over. I did look at you like you have the plague. Let me start again; ten steps later I I’m so gay I couldn’t even masturbate if I not have a single thing to drink last night — I cough into my elbow or a hankie like scratched my ear. Fuck! had long red nails. Not to mention, I might or for more than a week, actually. I have quit you are supposed to, but the looks I get — I The harder I tried not to touch my face, accidently recircumcise myself. Although, it drinking for a bit. That might be the reason feel like a leper. If I called in sick to work or the more I touched it. I went through the would be fun to file them while I am gossip- for my blah mood — my body is going into quarantined myself everytime I had a sinus same thing when I was 13 but with my penis ing. I have always wanted to look like I work shock. It doesn’t know how to act without issue, I’d be homeless. Come to think of instead of my face. at the DMV. some Tito’s remnants in my blood stream. it, my mood is most likely caused by the I bought a bunch of hand sanitizer and Who would have thought that this column Maybe I just need a Snickers. Or a Snick- stupid sinus medications. I’m always feeling antibacterial soap to trick myself into think- would have turned into weighing the pros ers martini. OMG! Did I just invent some- discombobulated and off. I like that word — ing I am doing something. Maybe I should and cons of having long red sculpted nails? thing fabulous?! I will let you know when I discombobulated. It sounds cooler than it get those long-ass fake sculpted nails from I think I just put myself into a good mood! start drinking again in a few weeks. is — discombobulated. the nail salon. I bet I would be much more You just never know where the day is going OH SHIT! Maybe it is the Coronavirus! So, yesterday I tried to not touch my aware of touching my face if I had those. to take ya. I hope you all make it a good Actually, it’s more likely just freaking Texas face — you know, because the news has But how do you wipe your ass with those on day! allergies. I hate this time of year. All this tree everyone freaked out. I thought, let me just your hands? Remember to always love more, bitch sperm floating in the air is killing me. Every try not to touch my face while I am in the Never mind; I don’t want to end up look- less and be fabulous! XOXO! Cassie Nova grocery store. It started off well; I got the ing like that Peter Griffin meme where he

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Making the SCENE the week of March 13–19:

• 1851 Club: Candi Carrol, Addison Foster and Nia Courtland on Friday. Tara St. Stone, Shelly Von Miller and Sapphire Davenport on Saturday. • Alexandre’s: Perfect Mark & Mike MRF on Friday. Terry Loftis on Saturday. Wayne Smith on Sunday. K-Marie on Tuesday. Vero Voz on Wednesday. Chris Chism on Thursday. • Club Changes: Turn Me Over, Kiss My Clover from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. on Saturday. • Club Reflection: Mother Michial Community Awards at 7 p.m. on Wednesday. • Dallas Eagle: TBRU 25 Bear of the Year Contest at 10 p.m. on Friday. TBRU 25 Clash of the Divas from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. on Saturday. TBRU 25 Supafly rashT Disco from 5 p.m.-close on Sunday. • Havana: Sunday Funday with the Mayra D’Lorenzo Show at 4 p.m. on Sunday. • Hidden Door: Firedancers’ Spring Food Drive from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday. TGRA Presents Texas Slide Fundraiser at 7 p.m. on Saturday. S.L.U.T.S. Club Night on Wednesday. • JR.’s Bar & Grill: RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 Watch Party at 7 p.m. on Friday. • Marty’s Live: Marty’s Game Night at 10 p.m. on Tuesday. • Pekers: Miss Gay Texas Pageant System Presents Shamrocks Are Blooming benefiting Educare and GDMAF, with food at 4 p.m. and show at 5 p.m. on Sunday. • Round-Up Saloon: Bear Happy Hour at 6 p.m. on Friday. Whose Game is it Anyway?, a weekly blast of fun with cash prizes, from 10:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Lip Sync Battle at 11 p.m. on Thursday. • S4: Opposites Attract Mixer from 8-10 p.m. on Friday. Beardance: Gods and Gladiators with special guest Alyssa Edwards from 8 p.m.-4 a.m. on Friday. • Sue Ellen’s: Barefoot Hippies at 3:30 p.m. and Jason Huff at 6 p.m. on Sunday. Comedy Open Mic from 8-11 p.m. on Monday. • The Rose Room: Alyssa Edwards on Friday. Demi Sexton on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Jenna Skyy and USofA Pageants Present Miss Gay Dallas USofA at 11 p.m. on Thursday. • Urban Cowboy: Imperial Court Presents The Red Ribbon Show at 6 p.m. on Saturday, and the In Town Show and Awards at 7 p.m. on Thursday. • Woody’s Sports & Video Bar: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with happy hour at 8 p.m. and Showtunes all night beginning at 9 p.m. on Tuesday.

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