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• TEXAS NEWS 8 Marriage, one year later 10 Plenette Pierson of the Dallas Wings 12 See something? Say something. 15 Trans athletes still excluded in Texas
• LIFE+STYLE 10 18 Rufus Wainwright sings Shakespeare 20 The Charles Busch of Dallas 22 Marriage stories a year after the ruling
• ON THE COVER Cover design by Craig Tuggle
departments 20 6 The Gay Agenda 25 Calendar 8 News 28 Ask Howard 16 Community Voices 29 Scene 18 Life+Style 32 Classifieds
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6 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 Haveaneventcomingup?Emailyourinformation Check the Buddies Groupies Facebook page toManagingEditorTammyeNashat for details. 8 p.m.-2 a.m. at The Urban [email protected]orSeniorStaffWriter Cowboy Saloon, 2620 E. Lancaster Ave., DavidTaffetat[email protected]by Fort Worth. Wednesdayat5p.m.forthatweek’sissue. • June 25: Houston Pride Festival and Parade • Weekly: Lambda Weekly every Sunday at 1 p.m. on 89.3 KNON-FM with this week’s • June 25: National Loving Day guest is Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez; United Sidewalk March Black Ellument hosts discussion on Join P-FLAG Abilene as it celebrates the Equality Texas joins with Cathedral of Hope, Resource Center, Lambda Legal, Human Rights Cam- HIV/AIDS in the black community (UBE 1967 Lovingv.U.S. decision that legalized paign, Turtle Creek Chorale, GALA Gay and Lesbian Alliance of North Texas and the North Texas GLBT Connected) at 7 p.m. every fourth Tuesday of interracial marriage. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at Chamber of Commerce to host “Love Ignites: Lighting the Path to a Brighter Tomorrow,” a celebration the month at 3116 Commerce St., Suite C; Core Vera Hall Minter Park, North 2nd and of the one-year anniversary of the marriage equality ruling, at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar Springs Group Meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of Cypress streets, Abilene. Road. The event takes place from 4-6 p.m. For more information, contact Collin Acock at [email protected] or 512-474-5475 x2. the month at 7 p.m.; Fuse game night every Monday evening except the last of the month • June 25: Rainbow Family Day at 8 p.m. at the Fuse space in the Treymore Sponsored by the Mayor’s LGBT Task Force. and violence toward the LGBT community • July 2: San Antonio Pride Building, 4038 Lemmon Ave, Suite 101; From 4-7 p.m. at Resource Center, at 10 a.m. at Stedfast Baptist Church, Crockett Park, 1300 N. Main Ave., FuseConnect every Wednesday from 7 p.m. 5750 Cedar Springs Road. 5840 Jacksboro Highway, Fort Worth. San Antonio. PrideSanAntonio.org For more information call or e-mail Jalenzski Text Done to 41242 for details and updates. at 214-760-9718 ext 3 or • June 25: Blow Torch • July 6: Painting to Benefit Orlando [email protected]. QueerBomb’s music festival from noon-5 p.m. • June 27: National HIV Testing Day 1851 Club in Arlington and Poured restaurant at RBC, 2617 Commerce St. Nelson-Tebedo Clinic, 4012 Cedar Springs and wine bar host a special glass painting JUNE Road, offers free walk-in HIV testing and free night to benefit the victims of the June 12 • June 24: Gay Pride Shabbat • June 25: Queerbomb Dallas 2016 condoms, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For information call shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, at the Congregation Beth El Binah, a Reform Jewish Free Pride celebration begins with music 214-528-0144. restaurant, 1601 E. Debbie Lane, Ste. 1105, congregation, celebrates the ancient biblical festival a noon followed by apoken in Mansfield. Cost is $35 per person, and holiday Gay Pride Shabbat. The Rev. Eric word/open mike at 6 p.m., rally at 7:30 p.m., • June 28: Commissioner Theresa Daniel’s includes all supplies, instruction and food, Folkerth and Neil Cazares-Thomas are among march at 8:30 p.m. and a party until 2 a.m. at District 1 town hall meeting with house wines for $5 a glass and $1 off all the participants. 7:30 p.m. Northaven United RBC, 2617 Commerce St. For more From 6-7:30 p.m. at Eastfield College, beers all night. 6:30 p.m.. RSVP by email to Methodist Church, 11211 Northaven St. information and to volunteer visit Pleasant Grove campus, 802 S. Buckner Blvd. [email protected] or call 817-453-7919 Facebook.com/QBDallas. to choose a wine or beer glass. • June 24: Movie time for adults • June 29: Commissioner Theresa Daniel’s The Danish Girl at 2 p.m. at the Oak Lawn • June 25: FemmeBomb District 1 town hall meeting • July 8: High Tech Happy Hour Branch Dallas Public Library, 4100 Cedar Music festival presented by Planned From 6-7:30 p.m. at Arlington Hall, Lee Park, Organized by TI Pride Network but open Springs Road. Parenthood from 9 p.m.-1 a.m. 3333 Turtle Creek Blvd. to everyone. From 5:30-7:30 p.m. at at Double Wide, 3510 Commerce St. Maracas Cocina Mexicana, 2914 Main St. • June 25: National HIV Testing Day JULY Resource Center, 5750 Cedar Springs Road, • June 25: What’s Up Doc • July 1: Garden Gigs at Dallas Arboretum • July 16: Quinceanera Gaybingo offers free walk-in HIV testing and free Oak Lawn Band a free concert featuring Every Friday night in July, featuring John Monthly fundraiser for Resource Center takes condoms, 4-7 p.m. Call 214-528-0144. music from popular old and new TV Lefler with Camille Cortinas, The Ray Johnson place 6-9 p.m. the third Saturday of the month and movie animation at 4 p.m. at the Band, Rania Khoury, Matt Tedderand Zach at Rose Room at S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. • June 25: Federal Club Women’s Event Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak St. Nytomt. Bring your own picnics, or get food Doors open at 5 p.m. For more information, HRC DFW Federal Club holds a Women’s and drink from the food trucks on site. Tickets call 214-540-4458 or email Event at Noble Rey Brewing Company, • June 26: Marriage Equality Day are $10, $8 for members, and parking is free. [email protected]. 2636 Farrington St., in the Design District. Celebrate the day that love and freedom won. From 7-9:30 p.m. 8525 Garland Road. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Tickets are From 4-6 p.m. at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 For information call 214-515-6500. • July 17: Drag Star Divas for Orlando $25/person, available online at Cedar Springs Road. The North Texas GLBT Chamber of DFWFederalClubWCW.eventbrite.com. • July 2: Teen Pride Volunteer Orientation Commerce partners with The Rose Room and Price includes a commemorative • June 26: Interweave Dallas LGBTQ and Real Live Connection, which hosts Drag Star Diva to present Drag Star Divas for print glass and three beers. Allies fellowship brunch “Teen Pride: A Celebration for All” Orlando, a benefit for the victims of the LGBTQ and A are invited to a brunch each September as part of Dallas’ shooting in Orlando, a drag extravaganza • June 25: Dallas Wings Pride Night sponsored by Interweave, an affiliate LGBT Pride weekend, will hold two volunteer featuring an all-star cast, 6-9:30 p.m. in The Dallas Voice and Dallas Wings invite you to organization of First Unitarian Church of orientations for anyone interested in helping Rose Room at S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. come celebrate Pride Night at College Park Dallas. From 1-3 p.m. at Truck Yard, with this year’s event on Sept. 17. Orientation There is a $5 suggested donation at the door, Center as the Wings take on the Indiana Fever. 5624 Sears St. sessions will be held July 2 from 4:30-5:30 and the event is open to those 18 and over. Come early, cheer loud and have fun! College p.m., and July 9 from 10-11 a.m., at Oak Lawn Visit http://bit.ly/Divas4Orlando for more Park Center, 600 S. Center St., Arlington. • June 26: Fears for Queers VI Library, 4100 Cedar Springs Road. information. Wings.wnba.com. LGBT horror film festival benefiting Participation in one orientation is required to GALA Youth at 5 p.m. at the Texas Theatre, volunteer with Teen Pride. Participants must • July 23: Summit on LGBT Aging • June 25: Buddies Groupies Night Out, 231 W. Jefferson Blvd. pay $10 for a background check. Second annual summit is a joint venture with Cowtown Style For information GALA North Texas. From 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at The Buddies Groupies, fans and patrons of the • June 26: I Am Done: Protest against call 469-666-REAL(7325) or email Southern Methodist University Plano longtime Dallas bar Buddies, meet for the Hate in Fort Worth [email protected]. Campus, 5326 Tennyson Parkway, Plano. Buddies Groupies Night Out, Cowtown Style. 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Local couples talk about the impact That level of spending, Williams Institute re- lives,” she said. “A friend of ours who died re- searchers say, could support an estimated 18,900 cently, her wife had rights while she was dying of the SCOTUS ruling on marriage jobs for one full year. and rights after death as a surviving spouse. But I equality in the last 12 months That’s a lot of money in a lot of pockets. am saddened that some people who have taken But for same-sex couples in the Dallas-Fort advantage of marriage have been outed and Worth Metroplex who got married in the last 12 fired.” TaMMye nash | Managing Editor months or who finally had their legal marriages Steve Atkinson, who married his long-term [email protected] performed elsewhere legally recognized here at partner, Ted Kincaid, in California in 2008 before david TaffeT | Senior News Writer home, it’s not about the money at all. Prop 8 passed, also noted that hasn’t been all roses. [email protected] “It’s breathtaking!” declared longtime activist “It’s been a very interesting year, in mostly good Louise Young. “the absolute joy I’ve seen on the Steve Atkinson and Ted Kincaid ways. But it’s also been a mixed bag,” Atkinson It’s been a year since the U.S. Supreme Court is- faces of couples that have gotten married! The said. “On the negative side of things, when we sued it’s landmark ruling in Obergefell vs. pure joy that same-sex couples have is something won marriage rights, that unleashed a whole new Hodges, making marriage equality the law of the we didn’t have before. round of hate against us, against all LGBT people. land, and in those 12 months, about 123,000 same- “It’s like waking up from a dream and realizing There have been a lot of so-called religious free- sex couples have been legally married in this [the dream is] real.” dom bills and stuff, and all of it is really just a li- country, according to a study released Wednesday, Young and her wife, Vivienne Armstrong, have cense to discriminate against us. June 22, by Gallup. been a couple since they met on the campus of “People got pissed off that we got marriage The study, based on interviews conducted over University of Colorado at Boulder in 1971. They rights. They’re angry about that, so they are trying the last year by Gallup, shows that 49 percent of went to Vermont for a civil union on July 24, 2000, to take away our other rights and protections,” he the same-sex couples in the U.S. who live together when Vermont became the first state in the U.S. to added. “We still don’t have workplace protections. are now legally married, up from 38 percent before recognize civil unions. They were married in Cal- Louise Young and Vivienne Armstrong So we can get married, yes, but we can also still be the ruling. That means that about 9.6 percent of the ifornia on Aug. 22, 2008, during the window be- fired for being gay.” gays and lesbians in this country are married, up tween a state supreme court ruling legalizing Linus Spiller married his partner of 18 years, almost 2 percent from 7.9 percent before the mar- marriage there and the vote on Proposition 8 that Gregory Craft, in February 2015 in Washington, riage equality ruling. rescinded legal recognition. Then they were mar- D.C. And according to the Williams Institute, a pro- ried again in Oklahoma on Oct. 14, 2014 at Young’s Craft says the marriage equality ruling has gressive think-tank based at the UCLA School of high school reunion. “changed the conversation. Because it’s the law, Law and dedicated to independent research on Armstrong pointed out that the Obergefell ruling [people] have to find something else petty to talk sexual orientation and gender identity, those mar- has had far-reaching effects, beyond that walk about now.” riages generated about $1.58 billion in the federal down the aisle. But while the law has changed, Spiller said, a economy, and added about $102 million in state “So many people who’ve taken advantage of and local sales tax revenue. marriage have so many rights that impact their Gregory Craft and Linus Spiller MARRIAGE, Page 13
8 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 Employment Pounders named 2016 Discrimination Lawyer /DZ2IÀFHRI Kuchling award winner 5RE:LOH\3&
Singer/actress Deborah Cox change and equality for the LGBT community. will headline 35th annual “My activism began in 1981, caring for and treating patients with the disease we came to fundraising dinner know as HIV and AIDS at UTMB Galveston,” he added. “While I’m very proud of our advance- froM sTaff rePorTs ments in medical, legal and civil rights, I realize UREZLOH\FRP there is much work ahead.” 0DUNHW&HQWHU%OYG6WH'DOODV7; Dr. Steven Pounders has been named the re- cipient of the 2016 Kuchling Humanitarian Deborah Cox Award, Black Tie Dinner officials announced Serving the L community for over 25 Years! Thursday, June 23, at the annual Black Tie Sneak Cox has recorded six award-winning albums, Peek event. and her lost of No. 1 Billboard hits includes the Organizers also announced that multi-plat- double-platinum “Nobody’s Supposed to Be inum recording artist and actress Deborah Cox Here,” which sat at No. 1 on the R&B charts for Best tasting custom made will be featured entertainer at this year’s dinner, 14 consecutive weeks. She was recently an- set for Oct. 1 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel. nounced as the star of the national Broadway Organizers said they chose Pounders as this tour of TheBodyguard, a musical based on the cakes just for you! year’s Kuchling Award because he has, for more Whitney Houston movie of the same name. The >LKKPUN*HRLZ*\WJHRLZ than 25 years, “served the LGBT community show comes to the Metroplex next year, as part with compassion and dignity through his med- of the Dallas Summer Musicals line-up from July )PY[OKH`*HRLZ*VVRPLZ ical practice, which began at a time when HIV 18-30, 2017, and at Bass Performance Hall Aug. and AIDS were sweeping through the commu- 1-6, 2017. nity with devastating impact.” Pounders also Cox is also long-time ally of the LGBT commu- 3515 Oak Lawn Ave., Dallas, TX volunteers as medical director of Resource Cen- nity. She received the Out Music Pillar Award in ter’s Nelson-Tebedo Clinic, which provides free January 2015, the California State Senate Award medical care to those in need in the LGBT com- in 2014, and The Civil Rights Award from the t"BOE+#BLFSZDPN munity. New York State Senate in 2007 for her contribu- Pounders has “spent decades supporting the tions to the fight for equality. 7YV]PKPUNJVTWHZZPVUH[LTLKPJHSJHYLPU LGBT community in Dallas, devoting his time Cox was also honored by The Harvey Milk and energy to myriad organizations and impact- Foundation at the 2015 Diversity Honors for her 5VY[O;L_HZMVYTVYLTVYL[OHU @LHYZ ing thousands of lives,” said Black Tie Dinner Co- efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the Chair Nathan Robbins. “As we celebrate our 35th LGBT community. And on June 12 this year, she year, Dr. Pounders is an excellent representation received the Liberty Bell and Proclamation in )YHK`3(SSLU, M.D. of a community leader and an Philadelphia by Mayor James Kenney to pro- +H]PK43LL, M.D. extremely deserving claim June 12 as LGBTQ Philadelphia Pride Pa- recipient of the rade and Festival Day. 4HYJ(;YPIISL, M.D. Kuchling Hu- Black Tie Dinner Co-Chair Mitzi Lemons said +VUHSK(.YHUL[V, M.D. manitarian the BTD committee is “thrilled to welcome Deb- Award.” orah Cox to the Black Tie Dinner stage this year. ,YPJ2SHWWOVSa, NP Pounders Throughout her successful career, Deborah has said that been a major supporter of the LGBT community, 7L[LY;YPWVYV, NP when he and we can’t wait to share her powerful voice found out with our community.” he had The theme for the 35th anniversary Black Tie been cho- Dinner is “Believe.” The Human Rights Cam- sen as this paign Foundation is the national beneficiary of year’s Kuch- the dinner each year, and organizers announced ling Award this year’s list of local beneficiary organizations winner, “I felt in April. They are: AIDS Interfaith Network, Comprehensive humbled to be AIDS Outreach Center, AIDS Services of Dallas, HIV/AIDS management included on a list Cathedral of Hope, Celebration Community loaded with Church, Congregation Beth El Binah, Equality STD testing and treatment champions Texas Foundation, Lambda Legal, Legacy Coun- of social seling Center, Legal Hospice of Texas, Northaven PrEP counseling United Methodist Church, Resource Center, Tur- and treatment tle Creek Chorale, Uptown Players, The Women’s Chorus of Dallas, and first time ben- General adult medical care eficiary, Promise House. • Foradditionalinformationaboutthedinner, visitblacktie.org.Raffleticketsandsponsor- 10 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 06.24.16 • dallasvoice 11 and they are the first line of defense — either building security or the police. Dallas against an attack. “You can tell a lot about police are on high alert to protect the LGBT com- someone who won’t make eye contact,” munity right now. They’re aware of LGBT events he said. going on through the end of the year and the lo- Keeping our guard up According to the FBI video, if you do cation of many gay businesses. If you’re calling make that eye contact, the likelihood a from an LGBT-owned business, especially in the ‘If you see something, say Cazares-Thomas moved the 9 a.m. service out- shooter will carry through with his plan goes Oak Lawn area, let the 911 operator know. something,’ minister, others advise side, but the bomb squad swept the church in- down. Caven Enterprises CEO Gregg Kilhoffer said side and out and had the bags removed in time Cazares-Thomas said the Orlando shooter his clubs and others in Oak Lawn have banned for the 11 a.m. service to take place inside. was wearing a coat and carrying a backpack. backpacks for awhile. If someone using public david TaffeT | Senior Staff Writer Cazares-Thomas’ advice for people to use Take note if someone is dressed inappropriately, transportation comes in with a backpack, and [email protected] throughout the community — in bars and busi- he advised. therefore has no vehicle in which to store the bag, nesses, offices and churches — is if you see “We’re not allowing backpacks or big purses,” bartenders will check the bag behind the bar. “We owe it to one another to be extra vigilant,” something, say something. Cazares-Thomas said, adding that the alternative If someone arrived wearing inappropriate the Rev. Neil Cazares-Thomas said after suitcases Church officials later learned the bags be- is to go through everyone’s backpacks and clothing, Kilhoffer said, door staff checks them were found outside the door of Cathedral of longed to two homeless people who thought purses — and no one at the church wants to do before letting that person in. Hope on Sunday, June 19, just a week after 49 they were leaving their belongings in a safe that. Instead, church-goers can check those larger Still, bartenders get busy and may not notice people were shot to death inside an Orlando gay place. And it would have been, the pastor said, bags or return them to their car. when packages are left or when bags are unat- nightclub. had they let someone know. In fact, he added, But taking steps to remain safe doesn’t mean tended, Kilhoffer said. So, “If you see something Cazares-Thomas said the church has stepped the church would have locked the bags up kept living in fear. that doesn’t look right, please notify a bar- up security after the Orlando murders. Before them secure for the owners had church officials “Go about your normal life,” Cazares-Thomas tender.” the church opens now, a security officer checks known what the bags were. advised. “Don’t let fear win.” He said bartenders in all the clubs in Oak the perimeter. Instead it prompted a call to police. Bob Roton, Legacy Counseling Center’s clinic Lawn have safety procedures they follow and It was while checking the property that first “It’s sad we have to do that,” Cazares-Thomas director, said although he’s trained to look for appreciate customers looking out for everyone’s Sunday after the Orlando attack that the guard said. suspicious behavior, the trick is knowing when safety. So if you see something or someone that found two suitcases and a laptop bag with some- The church has done quite a bit of work to en- suspicious behavior is actually dangerous be- seems out of place, speak up, he said. Interrupt. thing beeping inside. sure its safety, including studying a video put out havior. Do whatever you need to do to get the attention That prompted an evacuation of the building by the FBI and Homeland Security. Police and airport security usually look for of a manager, floor staff, door personnel or a bar- and a call to police, who in turn summoned the Ushers are the first people who greet anyone someone who’s behaving nervously. That tender. bomb squad. coming into the church, Cazares-Thomas said, wouldn’t work in a gay bar where someone may Look for packages left next to a building, in Gregg Kilhoffer, left, and Bob Roton the bushes or elsewhere. Notify security or call 911 rather than examine the package yourself. be nervous because it’s his first time in a bar or Look for odd behavior among other patrons nervous about returning to a bar after the Or- inside the club. But what does odd behavior look lando massacre, Roton said. like? Actually, a bit of nervous behavior in an If you see someone who looks nervous, ap- LGBT bar would be quite natural right now. proach that person. Say hello. Introduce yourself. Roton also suggests engaging someone who Start a conversation. In most cases, that person seems to be behaving suspiciously; have a con- was just nervous about being in a bar by himself. versation with the person. In the rare case where you suspect something, Roton said one situation he sees in his office is say something to bar staff. They’ll keep an eye when someone who’s been referred to Legacy is on the person and call security or the police if given an appointment or referral elsewhere and necessary. then doesn’t leave. Or they leave, walk around Kilhoffer also advised club-goers to be aware the parking lot and then come back. of their surroundings and know where all the That can happen in any office. Someone exits are. comes into the lobby and asks a question, but Staying home isn’t an answer. Looking out for then doesn’t leave after he gets an answer. each other and being aware of what’s going on If the situation seems threatening, call for help around us will help keep the community safe. • 12 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 MARRIAGE, From Page 8 An open and affirming church where everyone is welcome. 10:30am Sunday Worship Great Wedding Site! Oak Cliff, 2527 W. Colorado Blvd., Dallas, TX 75211 ('*#,()#.*&&mmm$fhec_i[kYY$eh] Patti Fink and Erin Moore lot of attitudes haven’t. “Young people aren’t so “Even though we’ve been together 26 years and bad,” he said. “But those my age and older have legally married for almost eight years, we never been the most resistant, as well as religious people. made an effort to use the word ‘husband’ until the They have been the absolute worst. They feel like ruling last year,” Atkinson said. “Now we keep something has been taken from them, when it has- each other in check and make sure we use it — not n’t. because words are magical, it’s just important that “Every day, someone I interact with, either in people hear it. The more we treat it as a natural person or online socially, has something negative thing, the more people get used to it and accept it. to say,” Spiller added. “They do it covertly usually, “We have to boldly put ourselves out there,” but the attitude is still there. And I attack it each Atkinson said. “Just as it’s been important time it rears its head, whether I hurt feelings or throughout the history of our community to come not.” out [as LGBT people], it’s important now to be But still, the joy that Young described is there — open about the fact that we are married, and that even for couples who have spent many years to- our marriage is as normal as any heterosexual gether and were legally married somewhere be- marriage.” fore the June 26, 2015 SCOTUS ruling made their Patti Fink and Erin Moore, another long-term marriages legal everywhere. couple active in DFW’s LGBT community and in “What it means to me personally is that our life Democratic politics statewide, were married on for the last 18 years together has not been in vain,” April 1, by Judge Teena Callahan in her court- Craft said. “It’s actually recognized that we matter. room. Callahan was the first family court judge in It’s not just a fantasy or a fad.” Texas to declare — in granting a divorce decree for He continued, “For me, it has solidified our a same-sex couple in 2009 — that Defense of Mar- union. I am able to call Linus ‘my husband’ with riage Act, which allowed individual states to ig- strong conviction. Sometimes I notice people’s re- nore the legality of same-sex marriages performed action when I call Linus my husband, and it tickles in other jurisdictions, was unconstitutional. me. But I don’t care.” “Considering the long fight we had — first to Spiller said he and Craft have always had a prevent a constitutional amendment banning good response from their families, who were only marriage through to the U.S. Supreme Court’s rul- upset that the two eloped to D.C. instead of getting ing legalizing marriage — getting married by a married locally, where family could participate. judge who is a personal friend and who had a part “Once we save enough money to renew our in that fight made it all the more meaningful.” vows and a have a reception the way we want to And even though its been 12 months, it’s still do it, we are going to have a tough time deciding sometimes hard to believe. “I still have to almost who’s going to be in the wedding party, because pinch myself sometimes at this great victory we’ve everyone is jockeying for a slot,” he laughed. won,” Atkinson said. “Most of us never dreamed Atkinson said he and Kincaid now “make a we’d have marriage this soon. Ten years ago, I conscious effort to use the word ‘husband’” when would have said I’d be an old, old old man before referring to one another. that happened. And now, here we are.” • 06.24.16 • dallasvoice 13 Celebration and remembrance QueerBomb Pride party adds elements to honor Orlando victims david TaffeT | Senior Staff Writer speakers that includes City Councilman Adam own private security and QueerBomb has volun- [email protected] Blow Torch Music Medrano, who will issue an LGBT Liberation teer security that will work the events throughout festival Lineup: Proclamation. the day. People will be wanded before entering the QueerBomb organizer Daniel Cates hopes this At 8:30 p.m. the march leaves the rally yard and club. year’s QueerBomb will be a way for the commu- Noon: Robert Olivas and friends will wind through Deep Ellum, making its way up Other events are coordinating with QueerBomb nity to take action as it celebrates Pride and comes 1 p.m.: Charlie and the Big Black Cup Main Street and down Elm Street before returning to make the Pride celebration even larger. together to heal in the wake of the June 12 murders 1:45 p.m.: Queer Classical Hour to RBC. Planned Parenthood is presenting FemmeBomb at Pulse nightclub in Orlando. - featuring Vincent Pierce Cates said it makes more sense if QueerBomb at Double Wide on Commerce Street. Live music In just a few years, QueerBomb has evolved sig- 3 p.m.: Patrick Boothe is trying to make a statement, to march through an and art will celebrate femme folks of all back- nificantly, Cates said: “It began as a statement 3:40 p.m.: Toshio Mana area of town outside the gayborhood. Noting it grounds, gender identities and sexual orientations. against the corporatization of Pride,” he said. But 4:20 p.m.: Mr. Pixie would be mostly straight people who would be Sudie, Francine, Moth Face and DJ Ursa Minor are what began as a protest is now the premiere LGBT 5 p.m.: Mokah Soulfly on the sidewalks watching on Saturday night, he among the performers. June Pride event. 5:15 p.m.: Alsace Carcione said, “We’ll show these people how to have a good Oak Lawn Band presents What’s Up Doc, a free This year’s celebration begins at noon at RBC, a Rally yard speakers: time.” concert, at the Latino Cultural Center with music club on Commerce Street in Deep Ellum, with the Keisha Hunter (Mokah Soulfly) Anyone may participate since this is a march, from popular animated shows from TV and Blow Torch Music Festival. (See box for lineup) Christopher Stephen Soden not a parade. Police have promised security along movies, both old and new. At 5 p.m., the rally yard opens. Organizations Luz Hernandez of Planned Parenthood the route. “More and more people are coming on board,” will be set up to encourage people to get involved. Michael Dominguez The march ends where it began at RBC where Cates said. “We’re looking forward to seeing how “Artists will be creating art live,” Cates said, Sammi Partida the QueerBomb Ball begins at 9 p.m. it grows over the next few years.” • noting that proceeds will benefit the victims of the CD Kirven Cates said the rally yard will remain open and RBC,2617CommerceStreetfromnoon-2a.m.Walk- attack in Orlando. Danielle Jessica Pellet alcohol-free through the evening so younger peo- ingdistancetoDeepEllumStationontheGreenLine Spoken word performances and open mike Kilo Mx ple may participate. Drinking will be allowed in- andpaidparkingisavailablefor$5underthebridges. begin at 6 p.m. Jalenzski Brown side and on the club’s patios. DoubleWide,3510CommerceSt.9p.m.-1a.m. Councilman Medrano The rally starts at 7:30 p.m., with a line-up of In addition to police security, RBC employs its LatinoCulturalCenter,2600LiveOakSt.at4p.m. 14 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 Trans athletes still excluded in Texas Despite threat of lawsuits, 30 days, the Education Department warned, it would risk losing some or all of its Title IX fund- UIL doesn’t budge on ing. exclusionary policy Some of the legal battles are currently playing out in Texas. Most recently Texas Attorney General JaMes rUsseLL | Contributing Writer Ken Paxton, a Republican, on behalf of a Wichita [email protected] Falls school district, challenged new guidelines for transgender students released by the Obama ad- The 32-member legislative council of the Univer- ministration. sity Interscholastic League can’t say Rafael McDon- In Fort Worth, a group known as Stand for Fort nell didn’t try to educate the committee on Tuesday, Worth, is rallying against similar guidelines re- June 14. leased by the school district for accommodating McDonnell, the communications and advocacy transgender students. In their literature, the group manager of Resource Center, spoke to the statewide suggests the provisions threaten the parent-child body overseeing high school sports and other ex- relationship and force an “agenda” on their chil- tracurricular activities about a rule barring trans- dren. gender student athletes in sports set to go into effect They’ve been joined by a chorus of local legisla- in August. tors, including Republican state Sen. Konni Burton, McDonnell asked the committee to halt its im- and state Reps. Matt Krause and Stephanie Klick, plementation, which states gender is based on a all of who represent parts of Fort Worth. Parents in student’s birth certificate, not gender identity. He Palatine recently formed a similar group known as also shared policies from Colorado, Florida and “Students and Parents for Privacy” and filed a suit Minnesota, all of which have rules accommodating against the federal guidelines. transgender athletes. What the opponents have in rhetoric, they lack As the Dallas Voice and other outlets have re- in historical precedent, however. ported, McDonnell said, “UIL did not consult out- Earlier this month the Fourth Circuit Court of side resources; they simply codified their current Appeals declined to re-hear a case brought by practice.” transgender Virginia student Gavin Grimm. The The rule was one of 11 ballot items sent to school Gloucester County schools student successfully district superintendents across Texas for consider- sued to overturn his school district’s policy segre- ation. It passed in a lopsided 586-32 vote. gating transgender students from their peers by re- “The reception from the legislative committee quiring them to use separate restroom facilities. was polite. They all intently looked at it and some The American Civil Liberties, representing took notes,” McDonnell said. “But because it Grimm, successfully argued the rule vio- wasn’t on the agenda, they couldn’t take lates Title IX, federal non-discrimina- it up.” tion laws and the 14th The committee however de- Amendment to the U.S. Consti- clined to consider a different pro- tution. posal — unaffiliated with While the appeals court de- McDonnell’s previous advo- clined to re-hear the case, the cacy — allowing transgender Fourth Circuit halted the de- athletes to play sports based cision. The Gloucester on their gender identity. County School Board His request to halt enforce- plans to appeal its case to ment isn’t without precedent, the Supreme Court. however. McDonnell believes the Last year, the Education De- Supreme Court will ulti- partment ruled a Palatine, Ill., mately rule in favor of school district violated Title IX transgender equality. for refusing to allow a transgen- Until then, “UIL now der girl on a girls’ sports team to has in its hands good use the girls’ locker room. If the policies,” McDonnell district did not remedy said. • the situation within Rafael McDonnell 06.24.16 • dallasvoice 15 commUNITY voices n • Phone 214-754-8710 Fax 214-969-7271 1825 Market Center Blvd., Ste. 240, Dallas, Texas 75207 Hours: Weekdays 9 a.m.–5 p.m. • dallasvoice.com administration Leo Cusimano Publisher l 114 Terry Thompson President l 116 Jesse Arnold Office Manager l 110 Media and the community editorial Looking back on a life in Tammye Nash Managing Editor l 113 editor of a news- they hired me, and I moved there. Arnold Wayne Jones Executive Editor Life+Style l 129 the field of journalism paper in the New- After a couple of years of monitoring hate David Taffet Senior Staff Writer l 125 sTexas chain of crimes and chasing white supremacist groups, Contributors: Chris Azzopardi, Jenny Block, J. Denton hen you count your blessings this suburban newspa- I wanted to return home to Texas. I returned Bricker, Alicia Chang, Lawrence Ferber, Hardy Haberman, month during gay Pride, don’t for- pers owned by the with an inspiration from SPLC founder Morris Shelley Hamilton, Scott Huffman, Lisa Keen, Cassie Nova, get to say a word of thanks to the Belo Corp., for giv- Dees and chief lawyer Richard Cohen that Mikey Rox, Howard Lewis Russell, Terri Schlichenmeyer, W Dallas-Fort Worth mainstream media. You ing me my first would influence the rest of my career. Dees and Leslie McMurray, Mathew Shaw, Mark Stokes, Jef Tingley, wouldn’t enjoy the freedom you experience job. I worked Cohen liked me, and they encouraged me to David Webb, Casey Williams today without the editors and reporters of those every beat at that follow my heart. Photographers: Kat Haygood, Chuck Marcelo, Cassie Quinn newspapers and television stations. newspaper — ex- I later applied for a job at the Dallas Voice, My thoughts on mainstream media crystal- cept sports — and editor Dennis Voice and publisher Robert advertising ized June 9 at the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealy learning the basics Moore hired me. The next chapter of my career Chad Mantooth Advertising Director l 131 Plaza, when I accepted an award from the Press of reporting. Someone asked me once to cover unfolded with me launching a new direction Kris Martin Advertising Account Manager l 115 Club of Dallas for “Excellence in Journalism” at a football game, but they dismissed me from for myself and, to some extent, the weekly Jesse Arnold Classified Sales l 110 the 2016 North Texas Legends ceremony. The the project when I asked if they could explain newspaper because Moore held a hands-off National Advertising Representative club honored me along with some real bigshots, the game to me first. philosophy about editorial content. Many of the Rivendell Media Inc. 908-232-2021 including retired Dallas Morning News colum- Everyone understood I was different, but no newspaper’s readers and advertisers never nist Steve Blow, who wrote countless missives one challenged me on it. From the start, I gath- dreamed that the LGBT community would be art over the years in support of the LGBT commu- ered everyone would accept me if I carried my held to strict, traditional standards of journal- Kevin Thomas Art Director I 119 nity. weight. I did. ism and investigative reports in the pages of the Craig Tuggle Graphic Designer I 132 I stood in heady company, and I worried At my next job at the Valley Morning Star in publication. multimedia about how I would stack up. Harlingen I became increasingly alarmed about Hostility often ensued, but the community Stephen Mobley Social Media Manager l 123 The beauty of your last name starting with a new disease that came to be known as AIDS. eventually sorted it out. Israel Luna Video Producer one of the last letters in the alphabet is that you I began dabbling in coverage of the epidemic, From its start, Dallas Voice exhibited a Brad Pritchett DVtv Host will likely be the last one called to speak, which and I grew increasingly more interested in cov- unique presentation among LGBT publications. I was. The horror of it is that you must dwell on erage of issues not routinely covered by the The newspaper printed news in an unbiased circulation what you are going to say when it comes your mainstream media. manner, and it attracted the notice of main- Linda Depriter Circulation Director l 120 turn to talk. My subsequent move to the Dallas Times stream journalists who often sought assistance When my turn came I mounted the stage, Herald introduced me to William Waybourn, about local LGBT issues. The sense of respect founders and I hoped the words would come from my president of the Dallas Gay and Lesbian Al- spread to local officials and finally to the Dal- Robert Moore l Don Ritz heart and mind. It helped that the beautiful liance, whom I met at Dallas-Fort Worth Inter- las-Fort Worth community at large. • NBC Channel 5 host, Kristi Nelson, welcomed national Airport during a protest he and his Today, I’m best known for my reporting and columns affiliations/memberships me warmly, and she gave me a boost of confi- colleagues staged. It changed my career be- for the Dallas Voice. I retired from the publication about Associated Press - Associate Member dence. cause their bravery so impressed me. eight years ago, but I still contribute to it occasionally. National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Looking out at the audience that included After leaving the Times Herald, I went to I’m happy to be remembered for my work at the Dallas Houston Press Club stalwarts such as retired ABC Channel 8 anchor work as a staff writer at the Dallas Observer Voice, especially after my peers at the Press Club of Dal- Certified LGBT Business Enterprise Gloria Campos and investigative reporter Brett when it was still owned by the original founder, las told me it rose to the level of excellence. Shipp — not to mention “legends” like former Bob Walton. The Observer reported LGBT news Dallas Times Herald journalist Hugh occasionally, but it left most of that to the Letter to the editor Aynesworth, who covered the John F. Kennedy newly-founded Dallas Voice that specifically assassination — I might have shrank. But that served the gay community. I decided to change What the FBI missed didn’t happen because I knew I stood in the that, much to the distress of my editor, who rea- company of good people. soned that gay news should be in a gay news- Many individuals and organizations, including So I told my story as it relates to journalism. paper and only occasionally reported by an my hometown newspaper, The Dallas Morning ©2016 Voice Publishing Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprint rights are available only by written consent of the publisher It began at the age of about 10 in my native offbeat weekly alternative publication. News, have asked what the FBI investigators or managing editor. town of Childress. I would go to the newspaper Many “legendary” battles ensued between missed when they questioned and looked into the Dallas Voice is published weekly on Fridays. Each reader is entitled to one free copy of each issue, obtained at official distribution locations. office, and they would give me 10 newspapers us over the coverage, but we made peace long beliefs and action of Omar Mateen, the man who Additional copies of Dallas Voice may be purchased for $1 each, to sell for 10 cents each. When I returned to the ago and are good friends today. During that murdered 49 people and wounded 53 more at payable in advance at the Dallas Voice office. Dallas Voice may be distributed only by Dallas Voice authorized independent contractors office with the money, I got to keep half of it. time, the Dallas chapter of the Gay and Lesbian Pulse nightclub in Orlando early Sunday morn- or distributors. No person may, without prior written permission of Voice Publishing, take more than one copy of each Dallas Voice Back in those days, a half-dollar bought a lot Alliance Against Defamation presented me ing, June 12. weekly issue. more than you might imagine. 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Dallas Voice reserves the right to enforce its own judgments regarding degree in journalism. I was a good student, but LGBT issues. Once again, I became a little con- Either the FBI did not look hard enough or they the suitability of advertising copy, illustrations and/or I graduated in terror. The thought of getting my fused about my purpose in life, and I applied discounted “family violence.” photographs. first job in my chosen field scared me to death. for a job at the Southern Poverty Law Center in For shame! Unsolicited manuscripts are accepted by email only. To obtain a copy of our guidelines for contributors, send a request by email I will forever be grateful to Rich Heilland, the Montgomery, Ala. To my utter amazement, Phyllis Guest, Dallas to [email protected]. 16 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 Don’t ‘straight-wash’ Orlando The murders at Pulse were an act specifically tar- of terrorism, but just as much an geted a gay night- act of anti-LGBT hate. club. Frankly, I don’t care that he called think it’s time for a little “Gaysplaining.” 911 and ranted When you call the creep who murdered my about ISIS. I don’t I Latino/a brothers and sisters at Pulse — a care if he wore a GAY BAR — a terrorist, you are only half right. fake explosive vest He was a terrorist who hated LGBTQ people, or not. I don’t care and many in the media are soft-peddling that if he was “radical- fact. ized” or not. If you do not understand why this is so dis- Anyone who turbing, you are most likely not GLBTQAAIA, goes into a gay bar and starts mindlessly killing or whatever letter you can tag onto the acronym. people is radical in my book, and his target Am I angry? Hell yes. makes the reason pretty clear. This was not ran- Do I want change? Yes. dom violence; it was specific and it was a hate I would love it if everyone would just “get crime. along.” But in America, we love our prejudices. Now, that said, to the many heterosexual And we have politicians and pundits who nur- friends who have offered sympathies: Thank ture them. you. You recognize that this was an event that They stoke the fear that a lot of heterosexual affected me and all the LGBTQ community. But men and women have of a different sexual ori- please understand that the raw nerves and grief entation. They stoke the fear of the “other,” being experienced by the worldwide LGBTQ whether it is race, heritage, sexual orientation or community is very real and very raw. We have gender identity. all been attacked and it is every bit as traumatic The “other” is something to be feared, de- as 9/11 was for the entire country. spised and hated. So cut your LGBTQ friends a little slack, and Add to this toxic mix the insanely easy access maybe, if you really believe that you are an ally, to high-powered weapons and ammunition de- you will join in doing something to change signed to do nothing but slaughter people, and things. That could start with, oh, I don’t know you have an even more volatile and deadly sit- … stricter gun laws? uation. The measures we are asking for have worked Sadly, in America when we are wronged — ei- in every other “civilized” country, and they can ther by action or perception — we immediately work here. Almost half of the U.S. Senate look for revenge. Usually, revenge with a gun. thought gun law reform was a good thing, but We even joke about it, speaking of “blowing those who were on the payroll of the NRA man- away” people we disagree with. It is the subject aged to get even the lamest form of control voted of movies, TV and books — a consistent thread down. in our culture. I know, I know — Second Amendment and So is it any wonder that the epidemic of gun “bearing arms,” founding fathers and “well-reg- violence has become an LGBTQ issue? ulated militia” and blah blah blah. Hey, just Meanwhile, there is the hate crime in Orlando. what is an assault weapon anyway? Orlando — I used to think of that city’s name Want to quibble about the definition of “as- as synonymous with fun, vacations, and pleas- sault weapon”? Then go over to the NRA web- ure. The theme parks, the tourist attractions and site and chat with the people over there stroking the gay bars made it a favorite spot for me and their guns. many of my friends. Here in my community, we are healing. And But now, I can never use that city name again we really don’t care about whether you want to without seeing the faces of the 49 mainly call this a terrorist attack or not. Latino/a brothers and sisters who were mur- To us, it was family, and to us, it calls for action. dered and the 50-plus others who are making I sincerely hope a big part of that action hap- painful recoveries in hospitals around the city. pens this November at the ballot box. All but Aside from tarnishing the city’s name, the three votes that defeated four minor gun control crime committed against the LGBTQ commu- bills in the Senate came from Republicans. Let’s nity has left a lot of LGBTQ people, such as my- start with eliminating all those (R)’s who are up self, feeling wounded as well. Not just by the for re-election. despicable act of the shooter, but by the Then maybe we can do more than talk about “straight-washing” that has taken place in the healing. • press. Hardy Haberman is a longtime local LGBT activist Calling the murderer a terrorist is only half and board member for the Woodhull Freedom Alliance. right. He also hated LGBTQ people, and he His blog is at DungeonDiary.blogspot.com. 06.24.16 • dallasvoice 17 life+style Raise the profile Rufus!Taming the unruly world of glam singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright ’m not at the psychiatrist’s office.” Rufus Wainwright realizes that now, years later. There was a time, he acknowledges, amused by Ithe notion, that interviews such as the one we’re engaged in passed as therapy. For that reason, the singer and composer is transparent, a book that never closes. That frankness has long marked his raw musings, windows into his life as a gay man, as a former drug addict, as a son, as a father. The personal catharsis of his latest work is less discernible. Featuring guest collaborators Helena Bonham Carter, Carrie Fisher, William Shatner, Florence Welch and sister Martha Wainwright, Take All My Loves: 9 Shakespeare Sonnets adapts the Bard’s work within noticeably non-traditional sonic structures, because this is a Rufus Wainwright album. Before we launch into a wide-ranging conversation — encompassing issues he sorted through while recording the Shakespearian project, how his “very wry” personality rubs gay people the wrong way and the Benedict Cumberbatch conundrum — Wainwright says “don’t worry,” reassur- ing me that even though this isn’t quite psychiatry, “I’m still pretty open.” • — Chris Azzopardi Dallas Voice: Just when I think you’ve reached around my mother’s illness and death, and also peaked ambition, you release an album of aging is in here. I think one of the reasons “A Shakespeare sonnets set to music. Where do Woman’s Face” is repeated several times — it’s you think your desire to be so outside of the really about an older man kind of fawning over a box comes from? Rufus Wainwright: Well, I was younger man and that’s a tradition that now I’m on never in the closet, I was never in the box… I was both sides of [laughs]. I’ve been a younger man never in my right mind! I don’t know. This album, and I am that older man now, and so I see it from in a lot of ways, is kind of a miracle in the sense both sides. To have a woman [Anna Prohaska] that it’s nothing that I ever really planned on or sing it is very interesting, because that takes it into was working toward; it sort of made itself, and all a whole other mirrored image, which is what’s in conjunction, of course, with the 400-year an- amazing about Shakespeare — how many reflec- niversary of Shakespeare’s death. tions we can illustrate depending on how old one It just so happens that many years ago I was working is or how young one is or what gender one is re- on a project of the sonnets [Five Shakespeare lating to at that moment. It’s a vortex of possibili- Sonnets, in 2010] and somehow the work that I ties. was doing with these poems really resonated with When it comes to aging, what has been your ex- all sorts of people, whether it was the San Fran- perience as a middle-aged gay man who’s a cisco Symphony wanting arrangements of them or public figure? The catch-22 is that in 20 years Songs for Lulu [his 2010 album grieving the loss — I’m 42 now — I’ll probably look back at this pe- of his mother, Kate McGarrigle] or other singers riod as really my zenith, when I was probably the performing them. In fact, there are a few dance most attractive I’ve ever been. But now that I’m in choreographers now who have started to choreo- the middle of it, I’m looking backwards to when I graph pieces to the work, so it’s just something was 22... and when I was 22 I was really miser- that happened, and lo and behold it fell right in line able! So it’s, “You don’t know what you’ve got till with this 400th anniversary. I just had to facilitate it’s gone,” as Joni Mitchell said. But I think artisti- that as much as I could. What a lot of people think cally in one’s 40s you do feel the joint rapture of is outside of my box is really just me following my both experience and still a sense of youth that can brute instincts and going with that fully. I’ve never combine and really make you feel like you’re in been able to work otherwise, so I suppose that will the present. continue to be the case. Your cross-genre collaborations are constantly Yes, you seem a bit artistically restless. Yes. surprising people, and there are some unex- Also, for me, music is where I really — I mean, pected ones on this album. Who is someone and she’s, like, hanging out with aliens or some- noticing the way you interacted with the other speaking about being in a psychiatrist’s office — you want to work with that we wouldn’t ex- thing. fellas on stage and I’m like, “Rufus is such a exorcise a lot of my demons and emotionally con- pect? The other day my sister Martha had her I saw you in Toronto in 2014 for If I Loved You: shameless flirt.” I know! I’m terrible! front issues, and in order to do that I can’t really 40th birthday and we had some people up to the Gentlemen Prefer Broadway; I’ve seen you Have you always been that way? I have. I’m just coast now. I have to crack the ice a little bit. That’s house. One of them was Sufjan Stevens, who I’ve many times before, but not in that dynamic, built that way. I’m sort of a gay Elizabeth Taylor. the way it is. admired for a long time and, yeah, he’d be fun to with a bunch of men, many of whom were When you’re singing a love song with Josh With this piece in particular, what issues are you write a song with. I’ve given up on Björk. She’s not straight. So I was watching you and, of course, confronting? I think a lot of this is centered taken my lead. I’m like, “Hey Björk, let’s do this” admiring the performances, but I was also • RUFUS Page 23 18 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 l+s stage ‘the charles Busch of Dallas’ Actor Coy Covington dons wig and heels for his 10th outing as a female character in a Charles Busch play tammye Nash | Managing Editor cause I need more roles!” Busch is “just terrific,” Covington continued, “We’re trying to go word-for-word, to do it ex- [email protected] And while Beach Party is not a new play, really, “and very honest. When he told me he was revis- actly as it’s written. And there is this one line I this is a new version of it, thanks at least in part to ing this play, I asked him, ‘Can’t you do some- kept getting wrong. I kept saying, ‘I can see as Coy Covington what he thinks of being Covington’s participation. thing to pad my part?’ He just said, ‘No. It’s a clearly now.’ But when I went back and reread called “the Charles Busch of Dallas,” and “When he found out I was doing this play this supporting role, darling. I know you are used to the script, I realized that the actual line is, ‘I see Ahe’ll tell you, that’s high praise indeed. summer at Theatre Three, he contacted me [and being center stage, but this is a supporting role.’ now clearly.’ “It’s a thrill and an honor. They can tag me T3’s acting artistic director, Bruce Coleman] and “And you know, that impressed me even “It just puts a more theatrical spin on the lines,” with that all they want,” Covington declared. said, ‘Would you guys be willing to use this new more!” Covington said. “He just has a certain way of ar- “Truly, it is a huge honor, and just a hoot. I enjoy version of the play?’” Covington explained. “Of Covington, who began his stage career in the ranging the words that gives it that Charles Busch doing his work so much. I am grateful to be ac- course we said yes. We jumped at the chance. So early 1990s, is known for specializing in female spin, which is just more fabulous than the usual.” knowledged for it, and grateful that [Busch] is so the audiences in Dallas will be the roles, performed in drag, and this Covington admits that he has thought of fol- generous with his work.” first ones to ever see this version ‘Psycho Beach PaRty’ is the 10th time he has performed lowing even further in Busch’s footsteps and Theatre Three opens its 2016-17 season, begin- of it.” a female role in a Charles Busch writing his own plays. “He doesn’t do parodies; Norma Young Arena Stage, ning this weekend, with one of Busch’s campy In Psycho Beach Party, Coving- 2800 Routh St., Ste. 168. play. he does satire. He pays homage to these glam- classics, Psycho Beach Party, described as an “hilar- ton plays Mrs. Forrest, mother of Through July 10. Theatre3.com. “I started doing his plays — I orous old movies, and if I wrote, I would defi- ious and outrageous mash-up of Frankie Avalon, the show’s main protagonist, think the first one was in 1992, Red nitely do that. I would probably have similar Annette Funicello and The Three Faces of Eve.” Chicklet Forrest, a teenage girl who desperately Scare on Sunset. I just sort of fell into his rhythm,” themes, the same comic sensibility. It is the 10th time Covington has donned wigs wants to be part of the 1962 Malibu surfer crowd, the actor said of his affinity for Busch plays. “He’s “So yes, I have thought about writing, but I and heels for a roll in a Busch play. But it is the but has to find a way to overcome her own issues just got this kind of effortless, brassy elegance that haven’t ever gotten around to putting pen to first time, he said, that he has had the chance to — which include multiple personality disorder — draws me toward him.” paper.” debut a new version of one of the playwright’s to do so. As a performer and a playwrght, Covington He would also strive, Covington said, to add works. Covington describes his character as “the over- said Busch is “very theatrical and generous,” with another element of Busch’s work to his own writ- “Charles and I, over the years, have gotten to bearing mother. … the over-protective mother a “witty, urbane glamor” that shines through his ing: “His writing is also a little bit naughty. be friends,” Covington said this week. “We’re not who’s just a little bit whacked out herself.” It is work. There’s glamor and elegance, with some of the ‘buddies,’ but we have gotten to be friends. He’s the first time he has taken on a supporting role in “His vernacular and his syntax is just so movies’ innuendo — and then there’s just a little just a fabulous person really, and he’s always a Busch play instead of one of the central charac- unique,” Covington said. “So he’s fun to talk to, bit of raunch thrown in, and I love that. It just been very supportive of and generous to me. ters. fun to read. I mean, his Facebook posts are leg- adds a whole new layer.” “I tease him often — although I’m not really It is a “really exciting opportunity,” the actor endary. His writing is just so specialized, so styl- While he may someday write his own plays, teasing — telling him that even though he’s hav- said, that “grew out of Charles Busch’s generosity ized, but at the same time, that makes it hard to for now Covington said he is focused on doing ing so much success right with his cabaret show and his willingness to reach out to me. It’s really memorize.” his best with Busch’s work. “I just really look up [which he brought to Dallas’ Wyly Theater last kind of cool we’re doing this revised play. It’s He noted that because this is the first time the to him,” Covington said. “And he really does October], he needs to keep writing more plays be- kind of fabulous.” revised version of Beach Party will be staged, need to keep writing! • 20 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 '$//$67$9(51*8,/' 2016 VOICE OF PRIDE COMPETITION (Registration ends 10 minutes prior to start times) PRELIMINARY DATES LOCATION ELIMINATION DATES LOCATION QUARTER-FINAL DATES CHECK-IN START CHECK-IN START LOCATION START Sunday, June 12, 2016 Tuesday, July 5, 2016 Wednesday, July 20, 2016 Alexandre’s SP SP Kaliente SP SP 'DOODV(DJOH SP SP Monday, June 13, 2016 Wednesday, July 6, 2016 Thursday, July 21, 2016 =LSSHUV SP SP %ULFN-RH¶V SP SP BJ’s NXS SP SP Thursday, June 16, 2016 Thursday, July 7, 2016 Sue Ellen’s SP SP Pekers SP SP SEMI-FINAL DATE LOCATION START Monday, June 20, 2016 Saturday, July 9, 2016 Sunday, July 31, 2016 &HGDU6SULQJV7DS+RXVH SP SP Marty’s Live SP SP 5RXQG8S6DORRQ SP SP Wednesday, June 22, 2016 FINAL DATE LOCATION START /LTXLG=RR SP SP Sunday, August 21, 2016 7KH5RVH5RRP SP SP )RUPRUHLQIRUPDWLRQRUWRJHWDQDSSOLFDWLRQ JRWR www.dallaspride.orgDQGFKHFNRXWWKH9RLFHRI3ULGHSDJH 06.24.16 • dallasvoice 21 l+s books Married men on marriage Anthology offers 4 stories from 4 perspectives pllc A More Perfect snarling pit of teenage attitude? 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He hoped to con- to his conservative family to defend his love for nect with the kids, Lucas, he refuses to marry his partner until same- though they were often sex marriage is legal everywhere. uncontrollable. He J. Scott Coatsworth contributes “Flames” to the dreamed they would anthology. It is the story of Alex and Gio, life part- eventually learn some- ners who are separated after an argument. When thing, though they usu- their home is destroyed and Gio is critically injured ally ignored his lessons. in a fire, Gio’s mother banishes Alex from his side, And when the year was and Alex has no legal recourse since the two had over, he had considered staying at Union Street never married. But Alex is determined to get to but he just couldn’t. 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Anthology offers 4 stories from 4 perspectives Did you get a chance to meet Bene- dict Cumberbatch while record- ing the BBC’s The Shakespeare Show: Recorded Live from the Royal Shakespeare Company? Yeah! I’ve hung out with Benedict a couple of times. He’s... he’s quite the figure. Most amazing thing is, I can’t tell if he’s gorgeous or incredi- bly ugly. [Laughs] It’s a weird combi- nation. At certain angles he looks like my aunt, and then at certain an- gles he looks the man who’s gonna ruin my marriage. A couple of years ago, I was sur- prised to hear you say you didn’t think you had a big gay following. I’ve been following you since “Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk” and I’m definitely gay. Aww! Well, thank you. I As we speak, you’re about to restage Rufus guess I just feel with the gay community my kind Does Judy at Carnegie Hall [on June 16-17 in of very wry and frank opinion on things can be New York and June 23-24 in Toronto]. How will misinterpreted. Us queers are kind of a sensitive the music and the show reflect the way the bunch, so sometimes there’s a bit of a tempest in world’s changed in the last 10 years since you a teapot [reaction] when I put out certain con- first performed it? The main reason I’m doing cepts. Some people enjoy the dialectic of that and the show again is to see what condition my voice other people shy from it and, well, the gay com- is in. I mean, I have an inkling that it’s at the top of munity... it can get a little insular. its game, and the only way to really prove that is to sing that material, so it’s more of a practical ex- You never had to make a coming out announce- ercise for me to do this show again. I’ve been ment, so I wonder: How do you feel about fa- working very hard on my singing over the years mous people coming out making headlines in and I want to show that off, but on a more philo- 2016? Yeah, well… I mean, it’s good that they’re sophical level: I originally did this show because of doing it. … I don’t know. I just... it’s still to be ap- my broken feelings toward the Iraq War. I needed plauded because the sad truth is we are living in something to remind me of how great America reactionary times now and whether it’s Donald could be when it wanted to be, and sadly we’re in Trump or ISIS, there is this kind of tremendous the same predicament with Donald Trump and backlash to a lot of the advancements that have this racist, sexist blowback. I don’t know, it just been made in the last 20 years, and so I think it’s seems to be something that occurs every 10 probably harder in certain places to be gay now years in the United States and I’m happy that the than it was a while ago. The pendulum has Judy show is gonna be back out there again be- started to swing the other way. So, as long as cause it is all the good that this country can repre- people are coming out and continuing the battle, sent. then I think it’s good. Regarding your voice: Haven’t you already I know you have a lot of opinions on today’s pop proven yourself as a singer? Well, I’m a big divas. So Lady Gaga, Adele and Beyoncé: opera fan and in the world of opera, you don’t re- Which would you fuck, marry, kill? Fuck, marry, ally hit your stride until you’re in your 40s vocally. kill — oh boy. Dangerous. I guess I would marry That’s when you get all the big roles, so it’s just Adele. Ahh, I would, you know, fuck Gaga and kill more of a personal thing. I’m not trying to prove it Beyoncé. to anybody; I’m just proving it to myself, and also Did you not like Lemonade? I just, ahhh... what- just to be really on top of the material. I loved ever. I was only given a few choices, so it’s not my doing Judy the first time because it was this kind fault. of mad rollercoaster ride that I just attached my- You don’t have any tour stops in North Carolina, self to with handcuffs (laughs) and went along but what’s your take on how artists are han- with, but this time I feel like I can hold onto the dling the situation regarding House Bill 2, the reigns a little better and just really nail it. “bathroom bill”? And if you did have a date You’ve done Judy and Shakespeare. Which there, what would you do? This relates back to other legendary figures intrigue you enough what I said before: I think that any kind of push- to make you want to dedicate an entire back against this rising wave of right-wing extrem- album’s worth of material to their work? The ism coming from large sectors in the world is a figure that’s kind of looming all of a sudden — I’m positive act. What’s good about the North Car- just hearing little squeaks of this in my psyche, but olina thing is, I mean, I think the artists are doing I’m a big Blake fan. I love Blake. Who knows. their part, which is great, but I think it’s also the Maybe something like that. I’d also like to do a business leaders who are really pulling the money French record at some point to just sort of, you out of the state that’s gonna really make a huge know, loosen it up a bit. And of course there are difference. It’s all people working in conjunction my own songs from my own life, so there are a lot from all different fields that’s important. And yeah, of possibilities. I’d probably pull out. And the Shakespeare character you call your So, no North Carolina shows anytime soon? No, spirit animal? Oh, gee. I would say I’ve always and I don’t have any gigs there. I’ll go to the ladies wanted to be Titania from a Midsummer Night’s room one time in protest and scare everybody. Dream, because I’m a sad queen, really. • 06.24.16 • dallasvoice 23 tuesday 06.28 — Sunday 07.10 life+Style Making it big on Broadway best bets Caitlin Ehlinger leads the cast in Dallas Summer Musicals and Performing Arts Fort Worth’s production of 42nd Street, the comedy classic that tells the story of starry-eyed Peggy Sawyer who leaves her home in Allentown, Penn., to make it big on Broadway. DEETS: Music Hall at Fair Park, 901 First Ave. Wednesday 06.29 — DallasSummerMusicals.org. Saturday 07.23 A different kind of boy Second Thought Theatre winds up its 2016 season with A Kid Like Jake, directed by Matthew Gray and starring Christie Vela, Ian Ferguson and Jenny Ledel. Daniel Pearle’s play about a couple trying to get their son — who likes to dress up as Cinderella — into an exclusive preschool runs June 29-July 23 at Bryant Hall on the Kalita Humphreys Campus. DEETS: Bryant Hall, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. SecondThoughtTheatre.com. Cute, Reliable & Affordable... 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Giraffe — handsomely tually landed already now in Bible Belt Central. tall, sometimes gangly, lusted With a little research, though, Jake, here are the by prey and predators alike. Howard top 10 LGBT “zoo orgy” party animals’ slang in- 8 Pig — the kinkier and vocations, for all invitees joining in such fanged, filthier it is, the happier he de- bareback expeditions: viantly wallows in it (as you probably know). It seems everyone now suddenly, this summer, 9. Bull — ’roided-up gym has “vacation” on their minds, and along with all A word to the wise junkie, obsessively tipping the those tan, frolicking queers in turquoise Spandex here, Jake: If you’re a scales well north of 200 lbs. beach thongs comes, of course, good old sum- 10. Unicorn — the nonex- mertime-sizzling XXX fantasies of faraway, ex- big ol’ hairy, brutally- istent, self-proclaimed “100 otic, one-night-stand strangers whom one never percent bisexual” (desiring of has to ever see or fuck twice, again: Let’s get alpha top, I’d advise a threesome sans any jealous right to it. you steer well clear of conflict). FYI: A word to the wise Dear Howard, showing up to any safari here, Jake: If you’re a big ol’ Have you ever heard of a “zoo party” before? orgy as Harambe, the hairy, brutally-alpha top, I’d My life-partner and I attend pig parties a lot — advise you steer lawfully well dungeon slings, blindfolded slaves, Tina galore recently euthanized clear of showing up to any sa- and the like — but I just received an actual, fari orgy as, oh, Harambe, the snail-mailed velum invitation card to some zoo silverback gorilla. recently euthanized Cincin- orgy thing at the nearby “ranch” of my monthly ‘ nati Zoo silverback gorilla … allowed, “hall pass” hookup. The three-day event 1. Bear — husky, large-built, middle-aged, that is, if you at all have your is taking place over the 4th of July weekend. His proudly brandishing thick facial, chest and body raw sights set on abusing any engraved card reads, cryptically, “Are You Prey, hair. virginally-precious, submis- Or, Predator? Cum As The Beast You’re Born 2. Cub — younger, thinner, less stocky baby sive little chimps. Wild To Be.” Ugh, cum again now? What’s bear (usually a bottom). proper etiquette here, Howard? — Jake 3. Chicken — young twink, willowy-skinny with Dear Howard, Dear Jake, no body hair (tends to be effeminate). I’m backpacking across Kudos to your life-partner’s Mesozoic benevo- 4. Otter — wiry, lean and hairy (older than a continental Europe six weeks lence, playa, for bestowing you once-a-month chicken but younger and leaner than a bear). later this summer, hitting all the major vice meccas — Copenhagen, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris, Barcelona, Rome. Could you tell me which country over all has the most well- hung men? — Lucky Bangin’ Backpacker Dear Lucky, Well, aren’t we sure going to have a big summer! Fortunately, Howard here is a very globally-seasoned sex traveler, so trust me when I tell you that the most consistently colos- sal cocks in all of Europe are just awaitin’ you to bend over in — wait for it… Lisbon. Lucky, my man, no size queen sleazily panhandling/hus- tling his way across the continent should ever skip the prime penises of Portugal. Dear Howard, My wife and I are “queer hypocrisy” film buffs: We relish films starring straight actors who laughably attempt portraying themselves gay. We’re heading up soon to our “low-tech” cabin in Santa Fe to escape this annually Stygian Dallas summer swelter and would enjoy some clever DVD suggestions from you to bring along—and don’t dare suggest to us such obviously homo- phobic bilge as the likes of Boys Don’t Cry, Per- sonal Best, Bound, Heavenly Creatures, Carol, The Children’s Hour or Basic Instinct, or, I swear, we’ll never read your column again. — Beth Dear Bethany, My heart quivers with fear of losing you, sweet reader. — Howard Lewis Russell Do you have a question — about etiquette, love, life or work — that needs an answer? Send your problem to [email protected] and he may answer it. 28 dallasvoice.com • 06.24.16 life+style scene Officers from the DPD Northwest Division, under the command of Deputy Chief Catrina Shead, pose with Councilman Adam Medrano and Stoli North America Bartender of the Year Rocky Collins on The Strip. Steve Kemble, above, emceed the CSMA’s Summer Showcase, featuring hot men in swimwear, below. 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