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SURPRISE, SURPRISE: In a packed chamber this week, the council discrimination against any group. Texas Monthly came out with its list of 10 listened to citizens on both sides of the issue. The amendment to the city’s Fair Housing best and 10 worst legislators. The magazine Paxton says Behavioral Health One pastor brought a petition signed by several Ordinance adds sexual orientation and gender said Gonzalez was neither, but for her leader- Council can’t ban anti-LGBTQ hundred residents. identity to a list of protected classes that already ship in killing the voter suppression bill, named discrimination No decisions have been made about the included race, color, religion, sex, national origin, her “Bull on the Brazos.” mayor’s ability to issue proclamations without disability and familial status. Gonzalez, who co-chaired the elections Last year on Oct. 27, the Texas Behavioral council approval. That vote will come later in the — Tammye Nash committee this session, is also co-chair of the Health Executive Council voted unanimously summer. House LGBT Caucus. to restore protections for LGBTQ and disabled Texas Monthly names The Pride proclamation remains in place. Texas Monthly wrote that “when Cain called clients to the Texas social workers’ code of — David Taffet Jessica Gonzalez the for a vote on the elections legislation without conduct following two weeks of widespread “Bull on the Brazos” allowing González to offer amendments, she backlash in response to the council’s vote to dressed down his decision as ‘bullshit.’” remove those protections. That first vote came at The Hidden Door returns! — David Taffet the suggestion of Gov. Greg Abbott’s office. This week, however, Texas Attorney General Amelia Court moves Ken Paxton — already under indictment and Amelia Court, Parkland’s largest HIV clinic, awaiting trial on securities fraud charges and has moved as of June 14 and has changed now under investigation by the FBI on charges its name to ACCESS. Since Amelia Court was of abuse of power — issued an opinion saying the street the old clinic was located on and the the council did not have the authority to extend new clinic is no longer on Amelia Court, the nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people. clinic has a new name. Will Francis, executive director for the National The new office is on the second floor of Association of Social Workers, Texas Chapter, the new Moody Outpatient Clinic building. All noted immediately after the original vote to phone numbers are the same and staff is the remove protections for LGBTQ people that the same. change violated the national association’s code The Hidden Door opened its doors again on — David Taffet of conduct and ethics. There were also questions Wednesday, June 16 on Tony Bobrow’s birthday about the legality of the original vote since the after having been closed for more than 15 █ council voted on the issued without having put it months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hidden Adoptable / KODY on the agenda. Door President Harvey Meissner and his crew In the Oct. 27 vote to reverse their earlier deci- took advantage of the down time to do some re- family who is looking for a dog to exercise and play with. He’s kind sion, the board also voted to ask Paxton’s office modeling, and debuted a newly-renovated patio of a daddy’s boy and tends to bond more with men, so hopefully about the legality of the rule change, even though to an approving crowd. there will be at least one male in the home he can look up to. He board members had previously acknowledged — Tammye Nash can get a bit rowdy sometimes, so he’s looking for some humans that Paxton would oppose explicit protections who have experience with large, energetic goofballs like him for LGBTQ people, based on his history of Arlington approves non- and who have no children. If you have other dogs at home, bring homophobia. them to meet him to see if they get along. If you’re looking for a — Tammye Nash discrimination ordinances fun-loving dog to stay active with, he’s the one for you. To celebrate The Arlington City Council, on Tuesday night, #ShelterPetSummer, you can adopt an adult dog or cat from the June 15, approved second readings to amend SPCA of Texas’ shelters for only $25. The special will be offered Rowlett considers repeal an ordinance banning discrimination in housing for pets located at the SPCA of Texas’ shelters and in their foster of Pride proclamation to specifically protect LGBTQ people and to homes, and adoptions will be by appointment only. To request an appointment to meet Kody, please visit SPCA.org/DogAdopt. Three Rowlett city council members want adopt a new ordinance banning discrimination Meet Kody, a handsome gentleman looking for a home of his very to repeal Mayor Tammy Dana-Bashian’s Pride in employment and public accommodations own. He can be a little shy at first, but once he gets to know you, his Adoptions will be available by appointment. Adopters will need proclamation and change the law to prevent the that also includes LGBTQ people. The vote was playful personality really shines. He loves hard and plays hard, so to submit an adoption inquiry form in order to begin the adoption mayor from issuing proclamations on her own. unanimous. he will need an adopter who can keep up. His foster mom said he’s process and schedule an appointment to complete the adoption. The ordinance banning discrimination in On June 1, Dana-Bashian issued a proclama- super smart; he knows sit, down, leave it and get it. He also learned Please browse our available animals at SPCA.org/FindAPet and visit tion to recognize Pride Month at the bi-monthly employment and public accommodations on the how to use the bells on the door to go outside in just one day. 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06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 9 VOICES OPINIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY ‘The Rainbow Deluge’ Tony Perkins wants Ronna that irri- McDaniel to know her ‘Happy tated ev- Pride’ tweet was a mistake eryone,” and I side from women daring to agree! Per- make their own reproduc- kins post- The Pride tweet wasn’t really intend- their leaders to reacquaint themselves A tive decisions, there’s nothing ed a re- ed for “the Left,” nor was it intended with the party’s values,” Perkins writes. right-wing conservatives hate more sponse on for the GOP base, most of whom aren’t “In numbers that ought to chagrin head- than Pride Month — or the “rainbow the FRC’s even on Twitter. (There are around 68 quarters, half of all Republican voters deluge,” as the Family Research Coun- website on million users in the U.S. which means think the party’s leaders aren’t conser- cil’s professional hate monger Tony Per- June 4. He very few Americans are on Twitter in vative enough.” kins calls it. Honestly, Rainbow Deluge said that the grand scheme of things.) Yikes! DO YOU HEAR THAT JOE sounds like the name of a bar with a McDaniel McDaniel’s tweet was intended to ap- MANCHIN? GET RID OF THE FILI- wild foam party night. and the pease groups like the Log Cabin Repub- BUSTER. JFC. Perkins is very mad at the Republican RNC were licans who need something, no matter If anything, Republicans have been National Committee. Is it because the pitting themselves against those “racing how small, to point to in order to justify pretty clear about what they value. And Republican Party thinks that the Jan. 6 to stop LGBT extremism” — “If McDan- their support for a party that truly, mad- it isn’t “law and order,” as it turns out. attack in D.C. was no big deal? Is it be- iel was looking for a way to end her par- ly, deeply hates them. It’s also to pro- “Law and order” just means policing cause Republicans worship Trump like ty’s record-breaking fundraising, she vide for plausible deniability — a tiny Black people. Right-wing conspiracy a god? Is it because Republicans refuse nailed it,” Perkins writes. alibi for a party going off the ideological theorists completely out of touch with to put country over party? Honestly, I’ve never wanted Perkins rails, hell bent on destroying democracy reality who storm the Capitol resulting Ha. No. Of course not. to be so right. It would be awesome if with the most extreme anti-American in deaths? They’re just excited tourists. Perkins is mad at the RNC Chairwom- the RNC were tanked by a completely agenda in modern history. It isn’t “protecting women,” unless an Ronna McDaniel for putting out the disingenuous Pride tweet. That would It really cannot be overstated how that means protecting them from the following message on Twitter: “Happy be so beautiful, like gold at the end of radically dangerous the Republican completely made-up risk of transgen- Pride Month! The GOP is proud to have a rainbow. Party is right now. That people like der predators rather than addressing doubled our LGBTQ support over the Further dragging McDaniel, Perkins Perkins think that a transgender per- the fact that violence against women is last four years, and we will continue to writes, “Right now, there are few things son using the bathroom at Target is this a real problem, and if only there were, grow our big tent by supporting mea- she — or any Republican — could have country’s greatest challenge shows you say, a Violence Against Women Act they sures that promote fairness and balance said that would have been more tone- exactly where he stands. And he’s for could support that would address that. protections for LGBTQ Americans and deaf and offensive than applauding the it: Burn down democracy and install a And it isn’t “protecting life.” That just those with deeply-held religious be- woke agenda her base is trying to com- Christian Dominion president who will means forcing women to have babies liefs.” bat.” tear down the remaining laws between whether they want to or not. Republi- Utter, utter bullshit. Oh, I can think of a few things that the church and state. cans can’t call themselves pro-life since You can’t balance protections for GOP base would find more tone-deaf You know, like the Taliban. they just stood back while over 600,000 LGBTQ people and the deeply-held and offensive. How about “Black Lives Also worth noting is that Trump is people in this country were killed by a religious belief that LGBTQ people Matter,” or “What happened on Jan. 6 probably the top pick for such a role, virus that many of them claim isn’t real. are sinful perverts who don’t deserve was an affront to everything this coun- even though he isn’t really Christian, Perkins writes of Pride Month that protections. But the GOP probably is try stands for and we must get to the because the whole “loving God” thing “the air of LGBT pride is so suffocating sincere about being proud that they’ve bottom of it,” or “Joe Biden is the duly is secondary to these folks, if it’s even that people could choke.” doubled their LGBTQ support, because elected president of the United States”? important at all. My advice to him? Wear a mask. █ that means more people are willing to Perkins acknowledges that McDan- The scary thing is, plenty of Republi- D’Anne Witkowski is a writer living in have their authentic selves denigrated iel’s tweet didn’t make anyone happy. cans don’t think that the party is crazy Michigan with her wife and son. She has in order to elect racists. “The Left will never be pleased by these enough. been writing about LGBTQ politics for over Clap, clap, clap. Such progress. half-baked GOP olive branches,” he “According to a new poll by Rasmus- a decade. Follow her on Twitter @MamaD- Perkins called it “an alienating tweet writes. So true! sen, GOP voters think it’s past time for Witkowski.

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Kirk Myers believes his first job live,” he said. “We have fed the community,” he said. is helping the Black LGBTQ “Black gay and “We have provided COVID resources and trans people are still referrals. We have handed out COVID community; building bridges dying from HIV prevention kits and, for those who fell ill, comes after in disproportion- COVID care kits. We kept our facilities ate numbers. Then open so people can still get their medi- TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor there’s police brutali- cations for HIV/AIDS. Those are things [email protected] ty against Blacks, and that have grown out of our own desire homophobia even to live. It started as just surviving, but irk Myers said from within the larg- now, it’s not just surviving, it’s thriving.” that in the begin- er LGBTQ commu- Surviving and thriving in the face of ning, his work in nity,” he continued. adversity is something the Black com- the HIV/AIDS “With all that, how munity has been doing throughout this and LGBTQ com- are we supposed to country’s history. In fact, Myers said, the munities was have time to get in- Juneteenth celebration is an example of purely personal. volved in voter reg- taking an adverse situation — slaves in “My advocacy istration drives, but Texas not learning they had been freed started with my own HIV diagnosis and then, I can’t be polit- for two years — and turning it around with saving my own life,” he explained. LGBTQ, and that is different from just ically involved if I can’t even get regis- and making it a cause to celebrate.” “After I was diagnosed in 1998, I start- being affirming of being LGBTQ, be- tered to vote.” Even as the Black LGBTQ communi- ed looking for safe and affirming spaces cause “being Black and gay is different; So while some question the need for ty celebrates Juneteenth, Myers said, he for people that look like me. There were it includes all that comes with Black and separate Black Pride organizations and hasn’t lost focus on the need to build programs out there, but programs where all that comes with being gay. celebrations, Myers said Black LGBTQ bridges between his community and the no one looked like me was a problem for “In our community we need to work people need those organizations and larger LGBTQ community. But how do me.” first on educating people internally, with celebrations to help them be empowered we bridge the gap? Myers said he started out as a volun- our families, and then we can think about within themselves and their community. “It starts,” he said, “with conversa- teer with AIN — known back then as working externally with other communi- Those organizations and celebrations, tions and with taking the time to reach a AIDS Interfaith Network — and then ties,” he said. he said, provide a safe place for them hand across the aisle. Our fear of our dif- went on to work for an organization Myers used his own family as an ex- to be shielded against both racism and ferences so often keeps us incapacitated. called Renaissance III, which offered ample. “My mother was a typical Black homophobia and learn to value and cele- But we have to move past the fear and HIV/AIDS services and programs tar- southern woman,” he said. “She did not brate all of who they are. realize that a win for one of us is a win geted for the Black community. Then in want a gay son. Still, I was one of the “As lead organizer for Dallas Southern for all of us.” November 2005, he founded Abounding lucky ones. I did contract HIV, but I was Pride, it’s not my intent to segregate the Myers said that he as an individual and Prosperity, Inc. not homeless, and I was not involved communities,” Myers continued. “I con- Abounding Prosperity and Dallas South- Since then, Myers has also taken over in drugs. And over time, our relation- sider my work, all of what I do, to be a ern Pride as organizations were glad to as lead organizer for Dallas Southern ship evolved, and my mother ended up bridge between communities. But there be able to work with city officials, includ- Pride as well. founding this organization [Abounding is work we have to do at home, first. ing Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano, on “As I became more empowered my- Prosperity] with me.” “It’s like they say: Charity does start ceremonies to raise the Dallas LGBTQ self, I wanted to empower others,” My- Many other Black LGBTQ folks, how- at home. And God bless the child who Pride flag at both Love Field and at Dal- ers said, explaining why he went to ever, aren’t as lucky. “Their families ar- has his own,” Myers said. “Yes, Dallas las Police headquarters. The one at the work for Renaissance III and then found- en’t accepting. Then you throw in HIV does have an overall vibrant LGBTQ police station was especially symbolic, ed Abounding Prosperity. He wanted on top of that, and then you throw in community, and that is something we he said, because of the murders of Black to make sure that the Black HIV/AIDS racism, and it can be very difficult,” he should be proud of. But we also have a trans women in Dallas and the issues of community had access to the services said. “We are battling racism and ho- vibrant Black LGBTQ community. And police brutality against Black people that and programs they needed. But he al- mophobia; Black gay people are doubly that is something we should be proud of, have plagued the country. ways wanted to work on “social justice attacked.” too. We can and do come together as one That’s one example of bridging gaps. issues and making sure things were eq- As an example, Myers pointed to the community, but it is OK to celebrate our But there is more work to do. And the uitable,” as well. larger LGBTQ community’s battle over differences, too.” key word in that work, Myers said, is in- “The larger LGBTQ community has the last decade-plus to secure equal While the last 12-plus months have tersectionality. not always been inclusive” of LGBTQ marriage rights. “Black folks had basic been difficult to navigate, Myers said he “We have to acknowledge and accept people of color, Myers noted. But at the needs to be concerned with — housing, believes that Abounding Prosperity and, our differences. But we also have to fo- same, he added, the larger Black com- employment. I don’t have time to worry now, the return of Dallas Southern Pride cus on our points of commonality,” he munity is not always inclusive of Black about not being able to be legally mar- events like the Juneteenth Unity Week- said. “We have to be talking about what LGBTQ people, either. ried if I am worried about not being ac- end have rallied the Black LGBTQ com- brings us together instead of what di- Myers said that for him, the first pri- cepted by my family and not being able munity, bringing people together to find vides us, and we have to find where we ority is affirming being Black and being to get a job and not having somewhere to ways to extend help to those who need it. can move forward together.

12 dallasvoice.com █ 06.18.21 “Often times, if only indirectly, [Black PLAN TO PARTY: Saturday afternoon is all about the LGBTQ people] are being asked to inte- Juneteenth Unity Weekend Pool Party, from grate themselves into the larger LGBTQ The Juneteenth Unity Weekend Schedule 4-9 p.m., featuring none other than the community. They ask us to assimilate, award-winning and multi-platinum rapper Lil After a year-long hiatus forced, of course, Kim. Then everyone dries off from the pool but they are not willing to cross-assim- by the COVID-19 pandemic, Dallas Southern black pride and heads over to Gilley’s Dallas, 1135 Both- ilate,” he continued. “But the thing is, I Pride is back with the Juneteenth Unity am Jean Blvd., for the Juneteenth Ultimate am not just gay. I am Black and gay. And Weekend celebration. And DSP’s lead Mega Party from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Hosted by because of that, I don’t give a damn how organizer, Kirk Myers, is promising it will be a Rick Ross, the party features performances weekend to remember. gay I am, I don’t have the same privilege by Kash Doll and music by DJ Lo Down “We have a whole host of events, from as a white gay man.” Loretta Brown — aka Erykah Badu. parties to health-related events and more,” The weekend winds up on Sunday, start- And that is also key: acknowledging Myers said. “We’ll be doing HIV testing for ing early-early (or late-late, depending on and understanding privilege, and know- tickets, COVID vaccines for tickets. It will be your point of view) with the Juneteenth Unity ing how to use it for everyone’s benefit. amazing.” Weekend Ball: The Emancipation Black and The weekend kicked off Thursday night, “White gay men have a level of ac- Gold, from 2 a.m.-6 p.m. at 179 Parkhouse June 17, with a rooftop party honoring cess and privilege that Black gay men (179 Parkhouse St.), hosted by GC Father Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Adam Medrano at the Shemar Garcon. Trophies will be awarded don’t have,” he said. “And Black gay new Tru by Hilton Dallas Downtown Market Lil Kim in Virgin, Fashion, Performance, Sex Siren, Center. But things kick into high gear men have a level of access that Black Tonight’s scheduled is also crowded Realness, Body and Face categories. tonight when DSP “takes over the Sheraton trans women don’t have,” adding that with a variety of parties at different venues After a quick sleep break, things start up Market Center,” the host hotel, for a wel- the same dynamic is true between white around the city, including: the Gaylebrity again with the Kirk Myers Signature Brunch come party from 7-10 p.m. “This is the first Adult Prom starting at 9:45 p.m. at The birthday celebration at the Sheraton Suites men versus white women, white wom- time to completely take over the Sheraton, Palace, 9011 John W. Carpenter Freeway, Market Center from 1-4 p.m., with special en versus black women, cisgender ver- our host hotel, and we have already sold Ste. 106; Boyz Nite Out II from 10 p.m.-2 performances by Kennedy Davenport and out all the rooms there, and we have two sus transgender. a.m. at Marty’s Live, 4207 Maple Ave.; the Tamika X. overflow hotels!” Myers said. “What we have to do is acknowledge All White Affair from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. at Dec The Distinguished Gentlemen of KKMS Another first, he said, is that “they are that privilege and find out how each of on Dragon, 1414 Dragon St., and DSP After present Emancipation Sunday Funday, at lighting up the city in the Juneteenth colors Dark from 2-4 a.m. at the host hotel, Sher- Bar 3606 and OT Tavern, 3606 Greenville us can leverage the access and privilege — black, green and red,” similar to the aton Suites Market Center. Ave., starting at 4 p.m., and the StreetDal- and power that we have to the better- weekend of Dallas Pride when the Dallas DSP is also working with the Arts District las Juneteenth party, at Area 111, 111 Oak skyline was aglow with the rainbow colors. ment of other marginalized groups,” Pride Party+ events happening this week- Lawn Ave. in the Design District, wraps up “This weekend, it will be lit up with the Myers said. “We have to understand end, and Abounding Prosperity will be offer- the weekend. Black Pride colors. They lit it up for Pride, that there is enough freedom to go ing health screenings from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. For details on each event and to purchase and they are lighting it up again for Black Saturday, June 19, at the Dallas Museum of tickets, visit DallasSouthernPride.com. around. We all deserve to live and to Pride.” Art, 1717 N. Harwood. — Tammye Nash love freely.” █

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DPD Officer Megan Thomas sweater. “We went to City Hall and had officially changed hiring policies and Pride flag over DPD headquarters. While steps in as Officer Chelsea Geist a party at my parents’ house in Illinois,” appointed Officer Lynn Albright as the about 100 officers attended, Geist said, is promoted she added. first official LGBT liaison. Albright had for every one who did attend, another While Thomas waited a few months to already been on the force, but no one — two or three couldn’t because they were tie the knot after marriage became legal, except anyone who ever met her — ever on patrol or working in a different part of DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer a friend of hers from school was half of guessed she was lesbian. the city at the time. [email protected] the second couple to marry in the state. When Albright retired after more than Thomas agreed. She said she was sur- Before her recent liaison appointment, 12 years in the position, Laura Martin prised by enthusiasm in the department allas Police Chief Thomas was stationed in Northwest pre- became liaison in 2005, serving in that for flying the flag, noting that several Eddie Garcia cinct. “I love that station,” she said, not- position for more than 10 years. During officers told her, “Hey Megan, I can’t be named Officering that officers there aren’t rushed and that time, she was promoted to detective there, but that’s really cool.” Megan Thomas have time to get to know the neighbors and is usually tapped to provide secu- Thomas said another goal of hers as as new LGBT po- and the neighborhoods, although the rity for visiting dignitaries. She left the liaison is to resume departmental train- lice liaison ear- call volume is high. liaison position when it was ing classes on working with the LGBTQ lier this month, Thomas said she’s looking forward moved to the Office of community. Those classes have been go- replacing Officer to implementing the new chief’s Safe Community Affairs ing on since Albright’s early days Chelsea Geist, who received a promo- Place program. To launch it, she’s form- at Dallas Police as liaison in conjunction with tion to the crime response team. Geist ing some committees staffed with “allies Headquarters. Resource Center and Dallas said she had hoped to continue in her who will help with the program.” Officer Am- Gay and Lesbian Alliance. liaison position at least through Pride The idea behind the program, she ex- ber Roman She is, she said, excited month but had to take the position when plained, is for businesses to display a and then Geist about her new position and it opened. Her last official act as liaison “Safe Place” sticker so someone who has served short- about working with a chief was being among the officers who raised been a victim of a crime knows that busi- er stretches who’s excited about work- the official city Pride flag over Dallas po- ness is a safe place for them to go to call as liaisons to ing with her and our lice headquarters. 9-1-1 and wait for help to arrive if nec- the commu- community. █ Thomas has been on the Dallas police essary. nity. force since 2018. Her law enforcement ex- Often someone who is the victim of Geist perience before that included stints with abuse will run out of the house without capped her time a sheriff’s office in Illinois and working a phone. Or victims of a hate crime just as liaison with private security with the Miami Transit don’t have a safe place to call police and the raising of Authority. wait. She said businesses can participate the official She served in the Navy for five years by providing a safe place for victims to Dallas under don’t ask, don’t tell. She was sta- get an accurate description to police “so city tioned in Key West where she wasn’t al- we can help people.” lowed to participate in city events, she The LGBT liaison position began in- said, but could offer support. City events formally in Oak Lawn. Before Mica in Key West were mostly LGBTQ events, England sued DPD for refusing to hire and by “support,” she means “partici- gay and lesbian cops,when Dallas police pated as much as possible.” were still raiding gay bars, Officer Earl Thomas said serving in Key West un- Newsom, a beat cop who patrolled Ce- der don’t ask, don’t tell was “Strange dar Springs Road, did something radi- times.” cal: He went into the LGBTQ-owned Throughout her military service, businesses and introduced himself. Thomas had a girlfriend who was living Newsom endeared himself to the in an apartment off base while Thomas community as someone in the Dal- was paying for housing on the base. It las Police Department LGBTQ folks was, she said, just another example of could trust. And he became such a the inequality LGBTQ people in the mili- beloved member of the community, he tary at the time faced. was named grand marshal of the Pride Thomas was married in October 2015, parade in 1987. just over three months after the Obergefell In 1993, Ben Click was appointed Dal- marriage equality decision. It was, she las’ new police chief. When he learned said, a simple wedding: “I bought a pret- of England’s lawsuit against the depart- ty dress,” and her wife wore slacks and ment soon after moving to Dallas, he

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COMMUNITY House of Rebirth marks is intended to amplify the call for an end JR the Artist, Juneteenth with art installation to the brutal treatment of black trans through his art fo- women. There will be a rally addressing rum called The In- to highlight anti-trans violence the issue of anti-transgender violence side Out Project, pro- FROM STAFF REPORTS beginning at noon. After the rally, the in- motes the messages stallation will be moved to the grounds of activists world- ouse of Rebirth of the Cathedral of Hope, outside the wide with both low- commemo- Peace Chapel. cost printing and so- rates June- Local social justice advocate Gary Bel- cial media exposure. teenth this Sat- lomy conceived of the art installation to This installation fo- urday, June 19, help promote and support the work of cusing on violence with a series The House of Rebirth, and he enlisted against black trans of 6-foot-by- the help of internationally-acclaimed women, like ev- 3-foot black- guerrilla artist JR to bring his concept to ery other project JR and-white images men and women reality. works with, will be who are the mothers, sisters, daughters, The House of Rebirth honors the seen by Inside Out’s Mieko Hick is one of the 55 people featured in the art installation. grandmothers, aunts, fathers, brothers, history of Juneteenth, the day when — worldwide viewer- basic life necessities. grandfathers, uncles and friends of trans more than two years after the Emanci- ship numbering in the millions. Pocahantas also manages Muhlaysia’s women lost to violence. pation Declaration was issued — slaves Thanks to the efforts of its founder, Closet, which provides trans women The 55 images will be laid down on in Texas learned they were freed. The Pocahantas Duvall Crowe, House of Re- with clothing to help them start new the parking lot beneath the Dallas Trans art installation “demonstrates how the birth provides shelter for trans women and better lives. The entire shelter was Mural in the parking lot in the 4000 struggle of black people is still a reali- in a home setting, and encourages trans created in memory of Pocahantas’s close block of Cedar Springs Road early on ty in our society,” according to Bellomy women to come in off the streets to a safe friend, Muhlaysia Booker, who was

the morning of June 19. The installation and House of Rebirth officials. place where they will be provided with murdered in May of 2019. █

06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 15 Pride Party+ is PRIDE back The Arts District celebrates Pride Pride. For this year, however, special with three days of programming Teen Pride activities move to Pride in the Arts District. Kennedy Davenport hosts DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer and performs and welcomes Barbie Dav- [email protected] enport, Ruby Scott, Hakeem Davenport, Devin Banks, Glam Davenport and Ariel hat’s ex- O’Hara to the Teen Pride stage. pected to Organizer Amanda Robinson said ad- be one of mission is quite limited, and social dis- the largest tancing will be practiced since vaccines Pride cele- have only recently become available for brations in teens. North Texas Robinson will also lead advocacy train- this year takes ing and teach how to create a safe space. place in the Arts District this weekend, She said the pandemic has taken a partic- with a schedule of events that is an ex- ular toll on LGBTQ teens who were not hausting 13 pages long covering three always living in a safe and loving family days. environment during the lockdown. What about social distancing? An For younger attendees, the DMA has event that began just a few years ago at art materials and learning games. At the the Dallas Museum of Art has expand- Flora Street entrance, create a Pride por- ed to include outdoor spaces at the trait with MariconX artist Jose Villalobos Winspear Opera House, exhibits at the Dezi 5 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday. Nasher, Crow and Holocaust museums, Abounding Prosperity will have its pop-up events at Klyde Warren Park and highlight just five at a time. boy who finds himself caught between HIV testing truck parked outside the programming running the gamut from At the Crow Museum of Asian Art, a cowboy’s lustful rage, greed and cor- DMA’s Flora Street entrance. Those who Teen Pride to Coalition for Aging LGBT. three quilt panels from the Names Proj- ruption. It’s won several awards already, are tested will get a free ticket to Dal- “We’re continuing to work our way ect will be on display beginning Friday including “Best LGBT Short Film” at the las Southern Pride’s Juneteenth Unity down Flora Street,” said committee and continuing through the rest of the South Texas Underground Film Festival Weekend Mega Party at Gilley’s on Sat- member Robert Emery, adding that he’s month. Two feature Asian-Americans and “Best Direction” at the Las Vegan urday night. already spoken to several organizations who died of HIV, and the third includes Queer Arts Film Festival. After the film, Sunday begins with virtual yoga class that are interested in adding to the mix Dallas names. Among them is the es- Cravy will be on hand for a Q&A. Ad- at 11 a.m. led by Resource Center’s Ja- to make next year’s event even larger. pecially moving panel Dallasite Duane mission is free, but reservation required. lenzski Brown. Youth First and the DMA The weekend begins Friday night, Kearns Puryear that he made for him- United Black Ellument presents the Teen Advisory Council invite young June 18, with a virtual kick-off hosted by self before he died and which hung at film premier of Make ’em Know It about people to express themselves with rock Terry Loftis and featuring Miss Dallas Resource Center until his death in 1990, the Kiki Ball scene in Dallas. Director painting and bracelet making. Materials Southern Pride Porsche Paris, Dezi 5 and when it was sent to be included in the Devin Hulsey and cast members will provided while supplies last. Miss Gay USofA Kennedy Davenport. NAMES Project Quilt. be present for a Q&A. The film runs at 2 The University of Texas at Dallas Gal- Tune in at vimeo.com/showcase/pride- Use code PRIDE21 to get $2 off admis- p.m. on Saturday. erstein Gender Center and Crow Muse- party at 6:30 p.m. to watch. sion to the Holocaust Museum and get an On the Sammons Park Communi- um presents a virtual program centered Pride Party + continues both live and “LGBTQ+History and Rights Must See ty Stage outside the Winspear, TITAS/ around AAPI issues and the LGBTQIA online from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Saturday and Do” that details the LGBTQ histori- Dance Unbound hosts Complexions communities from noon-2 p.m. And the and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. on Sunday, including cal elements of the museum’s exhibit. On Contemporary Ballet in-person Big Barre Dallas Opera joins Pride in the Arts Dis- exhibits in the various museums feature line, the museum is featuring a video with master class at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. trict for the first time offering Vanished, a LGBT artists. Use the Nasher’s tour app Beau Chandler and Major Jimenez who TITAS artistic and executive director three-part indie art film available through for the month of June that features artists were arrested for trying to obtain a mar- Charles Santos leads a panel discussion Dallas Opera TV. Through June 30, get a on view whose LGBTQ identity influ- riage license in Dallas before it was legal. at 1:30 p.m. Complexions Ballet per- 50 percent discount on the film and a sev- enced their work. And learn about five Throughout the weekend are lots of forms in the Winspear at 8 p.m. en-day free trial of Dallas Opera TV with

LGBT artists in the DMA collection with performances, both live and on film. At 3 p.m. on the Sammons stage, per- promo code TDO4LOVE. █ a self-guided tour available at the guest Among the screenings is Brock Cravy’s formers at 3 p.m. on Saturday include Links for virtual programs not given in services desk. Innocent Boy, showing at 3 p.m. on Sun- Uptown Players, Bandan Koro, Dezi 5, the article can be found in the pdf of the pro- Only five? Well, five are featured, day in the Horchow Auditorium at the Arttitude resident installation artists and gram available at DallasArtsDistrict.org/ which leaves years of upcoming pro- DMA. Described as a short horror film Kennedy Davenport. wp-content/uploads/Schedule-of-Events-for- gramming if the museum continues to set in Texas, it deals with a young trans Teen Pride is usually part of Dallas Pride-2021-2-1.pdf.

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06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 17 A happy crossover AUTO

2021 Chevy Trailblazer RS expresses its sunny personality

CASEY WILLIAMS | Auto Reviewer [email protected]

love the color of your car,” yells a guy in a mini-van on my way home Ifrom work. “What color is that?” “Oasis Blue,” I reply. “That is a cool car!” I may need sunglasses to look it in the face, but the bright baby blue hue definitely expresses the 2021 Chevy Trail- blazer’s sunny personality. And especially in RS trim, it’s also fun to drive. All of this has elevated the little crossover to one of GM’s best sellers. While the Trailblazer is Chevy’s lat- est subcompact crossover, it shares styl- ing cues with its bigger mid-size Blaz- er sibling. Squinty driving lights over LED headlamps, black grille and black There’s nothing complicated about the chassis, but it works well enough. An 2021 Chevy Trailblazer RS independent front and compound crank rear suspension is typical of this class. Five-passenger, AWD Crossover There’s a bit of clunking over rough Powertrain: 1.3-liter T3, 9-spd auto pavement with the large wheels, but Output: 155hp/174 lb.-ft. torque there’s nothing untoward, and it is will- Suspension f/r: Ind/Compound crank ing to play a little in the twisties. Wheels f/r: 18-inch /18-inch alloy Hit the Sport button to sharpen steer- Brakes f/r: disc/disc Must-have features: Style, Engine ing, throttle and shift responses. Just Fuel economy: 26/30 mpg city/hwy don’t expect any more horsepower, be- Assembly: Bupyeong, Korea cause what you have is all you get. For- Base/As-tested price: $19,995/30,580 tunately, the torquey little engine tosses the Trailblazer down-road with relative chrome trim distinguish the front. while enthusiasm. a contrasting black roof and 18-inch If you’re going to get a Trailblaz- wheels dominate the side view. It’s as in front and should prove durable. Sin- ing, lane keep assist, blind spot warning er RS, get one in a fun color like Oasis much Volvo XC40 as baby Chevy. gle-zone automatic climate control, Bose and rear cross path detection. A rear seat Blue. It definitely fits its happy person- Around back there’s faux carbon fiber, audio and power front seats with lum- alert reminds you to retrieve children. ality, whether spinning the turbo on twin exhaust outlets and chiseled tail bar adjustment add comforts. A sunroof There’s plenty of power to get it all highways or slipping through tight city lamps. Logos and lettering are rendered would make it even better. down the road, too. Base Trailblazers streets. in black. Lift the hatch to fill a roomy car- Just because the Trailblazer is small have a 1.2-liter three-cylinder, but RS Chevrolet created a cool little cross- go compartment with fold-down seats. doesn’t mean it skimps on technology. editions come stoked with a 1.3-liter tur- over and is being rewarded for the effort. As expected in a compact crossover, An intuitive touchscreen swipes through bocharged three-cylinder engine that de- Base models start at $19,995, but come to there’s a fair amount of hard plastic top- radio stations and conjures audio, phone, livers 155 horsepower and 174 lb.-ft. of $30,580 in sporty RS trim with all the lux- ping the dash and doors. But there’s also navigation and climate functions with torque. Front-drive with a continuously ury and safety gear. some surprising upscale details — like a simple icons. I’d prefer an actual tun- variable transmission is standard, but Competitors include the Subaru thick flat-bottom, leather-wrapped steer- ing knob, but it’s all pretty easy to use. our all-wheel-drive model shifts power Crosstrek, Toyota CH-R, Ford EcoSport, ing wheel, padded dash inserts with Devices connect through wireless Apple through a 9-speed automatic transmis- Honda HR-V, Hyundai Kona and similar red stitching, red accents around the air CarPlay, Android Auto and 4G Wi-Fi. sion that’s so much more satisfying with Buick Encore GX. vents, and piano black trim ensconcing Charge wirelessly in the console. actual cogs. I could do without auto stop/ Storm Forward! █ the touchscreen. Keeping everybody safe are adaptive start that pauses the engine at rest, but it Send comments to Casey at AutoCasey@ Cloth and neoprene seats are heated cruise, forward collision mitigation brak- contributes to 26/30-MPG city/highway. aol.com; follow him on YouTube @AutoCasey

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06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 19 Pride takes Wings SPORTS HEALTH

Dallas guard Arike Ogunbowale, No. 24 in white, draws a foul on Seattle center Ezi Magbegor during a WNBA basketball game on June. The Wings take on the Washington Mystic Saturday, June 26 at College Park Center in Dallas’ annual Pride game. (Bettina Hansen/The Seattle Times via Associated Press) Local WNBA team has fore anywhere, Baccus added, saying, “I’m very excited for our fans to see celebrated Pride every year this.” But she stopped short of giving since moving to Arlington any more clues about what those special additions would be. DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer The Wings are participating in two [email protected] other Pride events this year as well — Dining with Pride and the Pride Game ne profession- Speaker Series. al sports team Dine with Pride Courtside is a virtual in Arlington event the team is holding in conjunction is rolling out with Human Rights Campaign on June the red carpet 25 at 6:30 p.m. The event includes a this month and panel discussion and Q&A with Wings welcoming the players and coaches and HRC staff. LGBTQ com- There will be auction items and door munity to its prizes as well. Tickets are $40. games with open arms — just as they’ve The Wings’ annual Pride Game done every June since moving to Dallas. Speaker Series takes place on Wednes- The Dallas Wings Pride game takes day, June 23, at 6:30 p.m. and is free. place at noon on Saturday, June 26, Panelists include local community against the Washington Mystics. The leaders. Anyone interested in attending WNBA game will be nationally broad- can contact Baccus by phone at 817- cast on CBS. 900-3014 or by email at jbaccus@dallas- Voices of Hope, the Cathedral of wings.com. Hope choir conducted by the Turtle When ordering tickets to the Wings’ Creek Chorale’s Sean Baugh, will sing Pride game on June 26, use the promo the national anthem. And according to code Pride21. Jordan Baccus, senior manager of group Wings games take place at College sales and community engagement for Park Center, 600 S. Center St. on the the Wings, “We are also giving back University of Texas Arlington campus. to some different organizations that … From I-30, take the Center Street exit help out the LGBTQ community.” coming from either Fort Worth or Dal- There will be a few special additions las and go south. Park in the garages

in the arena that have not been seen be- before the arena. █

20 dallasvoice.com █ 06.18.21 To your health HEALTH UT Health Research team looking for survey participants

TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor [email protected]

his Pride Month, for the seventh year in a row, prin- cipal investigator Dr. Irene Tami and her research team This year, Tami said, the team is once at the University of again using the internet to get as many Texas Health Sci- LGBTQ Texans as possible to participate. ence Center at Houston are once again “Our findings are critical for designing asking people to participate in an on- and implementing tailored interventions going study aiming to identify lifestyle and educational programs for prevent- and risk factors for chronic conditions, ing and controlling chronic conditions including cancer, among self-identified among LGBTQ populations,” Marquez LGBTQ individuals in Texas. said in an email asking for participants. The survey in English can be accessed “Now, more than ever, it is essential that at https://uthtmc.az1.qualtrics.com/ those who identify as LGBTQ are given jfe/form/SV_5AclUWuMAdx8GOi. the best resources that fit their desires To access the survey in Spanish, visit and needs. You can help guide our pub- https://uthtmc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/ lic health systems to better suit LGBTQ+ form/SV_aeCtGrZkv7FU754. individuals. [Participation in the survey] The survey closes July 10. would help move research on LGBTQ Tami explained that the project began health forward and legitimize needs.” in 2014 when she worked at M.D. An- Tami said that the first time she and derson Hospital in Houston. Each sum- her team went to Houston Pride and col- mer, she said, her team would attend the lected data on tobacco use in the LGBTQ Houston Pride Festival, asking people to community, they found 51 percent prev- participate in the survey, “using paper alence of tobacco use in the community, and pen” to collect data. compared to 14 percent in the general At first, she said, the survey focused population. That has led, she said, to a heavily on tobacco use among sexual mi- “huge tsunami of tobacco-related condi- SIZE norities and marketing by tobacco com- tions and cancers in the LGBTQ commu- matters panies to that same community. In sub- nity.” sequent years, Tami noted, they began Based on that data already collected, to gather information on other health Tami said, the National Institutes for issues affecting the LGBTQ community Health have funded a grant that will as well. allow her team to develop text-based In 2020, when COVID-19 forced the smoking cessation programs created cancellation of Houston’s Pride Festival specifically for sexual minorities that — as well as Pride celebrations around will send motivational texts with “con- the state and the rest of the country, Ta- tent more appealing to LGBTQ groups.” mi’s team took their data collection ef- “We worked with groups in Houston How BIG is your forts to the virtual world, asking LGBTQ to make sure the language we are using Social Media Footprint? media outlets and organizations around [in the program] is right,” Tami said. Let us help you Texas to help them get out the word and “By the end of this year or sometime achieve RESULTS with reach participants across the state. next year, with data we hope to gath- Social Media Management! As a result, team member Jocelyn er from the survey this year, I hope to Marquez noted, “Last year, in the midst submit for a five-year grant” to address of the COVID-19 pandemic, we collected other health issues, and to hopefully in- more than 250 responses from many cit- clude more resources for the transgender Stephen Mobley - Social Media Manager ies across Texas.” community. █ 214.754.8710 - dallasvoice.com/social-media-management-services

06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 21 DOCUMENTARY 40 years later BOTH sides of the story Johnson & Johnson presents screening of AIDS doc ‘5B,’ fireside chat with Billy Porter

TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor [email protected]

t was June 5, 1981 when the U.S. Cen- ters for Disease Control published an I article in its “Morbidity and Mortal- ity Weekly Report” describing cases of a rare lung infection called Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in found five young, white, previously healthy gay men in Los Angeles. Los Angeles immunolo- gist Dr. Michael Gottlieb and Dr. Wayne Shandera with the CDC, along with their colleagues, reported that all five also had other unusual infections, an indication that their immune systems were not functioning properly. That same day, on the other side of the country, a dermatologist in New York Billy Porter City called the CDC to report a cluster with HIV 14 years ago, joins Michael of cases of a rare and aggressive form of Sneed, executive vice president of Glob- cancer called Kaposi’s sarcoma. These al Cultural Affairs for Johnson & John- cases had also been found in gay men, son at Festival de Cannes to host a free and, like PCP, KS is associated with a special screening of the 2018 documen- weak immune system. tary 5B, an award-winning film about Two of the patients in Los Angeles had the work of the nurses and caregivers already died by the time the report was who, in 1983, built and opened Ward 5B, published, and the other three patients the first AIDS ward in the world, at San there died soon after. Francisco General Hospital, changing By the end of July, people were already the way AIDS patients in the 1980s were talking about the “gay men’s pneumonia” cared for. and “the gay cancer.” By the end of the After the screening, Porter will sit year, 337 cases of this severe immune defi- down with for a fireside chat with 5B ciency syndrome had been reported in the nurse Alison Moëd Paolercio, RN MS, U.S.; of those 130 were already dead. and nurse, entrepreneur, innovator and This month — June 2021 — marks the author Rebecca Love RN, MSN, FIEL, 40th anniversary of those first reports of to discuss the disproportionate toll that what was at first called GRID — Gay-Re- epidemics and pandemics take on at-risk lated Immune Deficiency — and later communities, the parallels between the renamed Acquired Immune Deficiency HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 crises, and Syndrome or AIDS. According to UN- the role of nurses in driving healthcare

AIDS, there were an estimated 37.6 mil- change. █ lion people worldwide living with HIV, The screening, and the fireside chat fol- the virus that causes AIDS. In the 40 lowing can be seen via Zoom. Register at years since those first cases in L.A. and https://jnjmeetings.zoom.us/webinar/regis- New York were first reported, an esti- ter/WN_zNPrkj1JRV6szhiV7AVzdw. Those mated 34.7 million people worldwide not able to join the event can visit 5Bfilm. have died of AIDS. com to find out where to stream the movie On Thursday, June 24, from 5-7:30 p.m. and, after the event, view the fireside chat Central, actor Billy Porter, who publicly at https://nursing.jnj.com/5B-fireside-chat- revealed in May that he was diagnosed with-billy-porter.

22 dallasvoice.com █ 06.18.21 ON THE PAGE BOTH sides of the story

Paula Stone Williams’ memoir offers a look at gender roles in society, from one who’s been on both sides

TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER | BOOKWORM SEZ [email protected]

As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned by Paula Stone Williams; c.2021; Atria Books $27; 256 pages.

here are two sides to every story. In politics, there’s left and right; T in fairy tales, it’s good or evil. Guilty or innocent in court, salty or spicy at mealtime, dog or cat among friends, physically and at work. He’d been at the heads or tails. Sometimes you choose organization for 35 years, and he was re- and, at other times, like in As a Woman spected, although less than he believed. by Paula Stone Williams, you can see Williams was fired and humiliated. Billy Porter both sides. Marriage in question, children shaken, From the time he was very small, Paul job gone, he began to assess his life. Williams thought that he “should have The world needed to know the truth. been born a girl.” He wasn’t bitter about And so, on July 29, 2014, Paula Stone it — not when he was a teen, not even Williams officially took to her blog. as an adult. But it lingered in the back- Come to As a Woman looking for a ground of his life. memoir, and you’re going to be hap- Oh, he tried to tamp down his desires py: Most of the pages here tell a tale of to dress in his mother’s clothes. But he transitioning while immersed in a major could not, though he knew it would evangelical organization, which are gen- anger her. She caught him once wear- erally incompatible things. This is inter- ing his grandmother’s cast-offs, and he esting, told in an unabashedly forward never forgot her reaction. Even so, he manner, as author Paula Stone Williams ransacked her closet at least once a week resists minimizing her male past. during his adolescence, hoping his par- Dig deeper, though, and there’s more ents wouldn’t come home early. to this book: Its look at the difference His feelings of furtiveness were per- in how society as a whole regards the haps exacerbated by a family legacy roles of men and women, from someone of evangelical ministry. Every man he with knowledge of both, is funny and knew was a leader in their church; when sharp-eyed, and could serve as a prim- he was young, it was assumed that Wil- er-slash-warning for newly-transition- liams would follow them, as if there was ing women. no other option. And so, dutifully, he be- It’s fiery; it’s sometimes the tiniest bit came a CEO in a “church planting” orga- whiny; it’s a little repetitious, and it’s nization. He married a woman he gen- eyebrow-raising with a dash of heated uinely loved, and they started a family. argument-starter for zest. But the urges didn’t go away. As his In the end, As a Woman leaves a lot for children grew and left the nest, Williams female readers to agree with; Williams’ began to explore the possibility of letting observations are honed, hard and hon- out the woman he was inside. He con- est. Men. however — particularly cis fessed everything to his wife, started men – could take umbrage at her obser- hormones, and asked for his wife’s si- vations and might give this book a little

lence until he made plans for a transition bit of side-eye. █

06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 23 Crystal Methyd, one of the top four queens in Season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, makes a special Pride Month appearance Friday, June 18, at Urban Cowboy Saloon in Fort Worth. See listings for details.

PRIDE AGENDA PLAN YOUR WEEK A special calendar of events celebrating Pride of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center. 11 a.m.-7 org. Ticket sales end at 5 p.m. Central on • June 27: Pride Night at FC Dallas Have an event coming up? Email your and the DFW LGBTQ community. p.m. Full schedule at DallasArtsDistrict.org/ Wednesday, June 23. Get specially priced tickets to the annual Y’all information to Managing Editor Tammye Nash pridepartyplus. Means All game against the New England at [email protected] or Senior Staff Writer • June 18: Pride Party + • June 25: Lessons From Our Community Revolution. The LGBT Chamber recommends David Taffet at [email protected] by Virtual kickoff of Dallas Arts District’s Pride • June 19: Millennial Drag Show Liberty Lounge, 515 S. Jennings in Fort Worth, buying seats in sections 131 and 132 near the Monday at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue. Party + with Terry Loftis as Master of & HipHop Night hosts “Lessons From Our Community: Stories Supporters’ Section. Tailgate at 6 p.m. Game The Gay Agenda is now color-coded: Ceremonies, Miss Dallas Southern Pride, The Urban Cowboy, 2620 E. Lancaster Ave. in About the Fight for Equality,” beginning at 5 p.m. at 8 p.m. at Toyota Stadium, 9200 World Cup Red for community events; blue for arts and Porsche Paris, Dezi 5, and Miss Southern Fort Worth, hosts the Millennial Drag Show and Way, Frisco. Visit FCDallas.com. entertainment; purple for sports; green for Pride, Kennedy Davenport. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Hip Hop Night beginning at 9 p.m. • June 25: Devine Miss Diva Show nightlife and orange for civic events and holidays. Vimeo.com/showcase/prideparty The Devine Miss Diva Show returns to Club • June 27: Wall of Food Drag Show • June 20: Pride Party + Changes, 2637 E. Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth, The Urban Cowboy Saloon, 2620 E. Lancaster JUNE • June 18-20: Virtual and on-site programming from the beginning at 11 p.m. Ave. in Fort Worth, hosts the Wall of Food • June 18: Federal Club Juneteenth Unity Weekend 2021 Crowe Museum of Asian Art, Dallas Museum charity drag show, beginning at 6 p.m. HRC DFW Federal Club cocktails and Hosted by Dallas Southern Pride. Free. of Art and Nasher Sculpture Center from 11 • June 26: Dallas Wings Pride game conversation as members and guests meet Sheraton Suites Market Center, 2101 N. a.m.-5 p.m. Full schedule at DallasArtsDistrict. WNBA’s Dallas Wings face the Washington • June 27: Liberty Lowdown Art & Craft virtually. DFWFederalClub.org for details. Stemmons Freeway is the host hotel. Code org/pridepartyplus. Mystics at noon. During the Pride game there Showcase DSP for $89 rate. Ultimate Mega Party at will be a few special additions to the arena Local artists gather from noon to 5 p.m. at The • June 18: Name and gender Gilley’s Dallas, 1135 S. Lamar St. on Saturday • June 20: Teen Pride that Wings officials say haven’t been done Liberty Lounge, 515 S. Jennings Ave., to show change workshop from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Art activities, live performances, advocacy anywhere before. The national anthem will their art and crafts. Admission is free. Lambda Legal discusses what the process training free for ages 13-19 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. be sung by Voices of Hope from Cathedral looks like in Texas to secure state and federal • June 18: Crystal Methyd at the Dallas Museum of Art. of Hope. College Park Center, 600 S. Center • June 28: identity documents. Lawyers can receive CLE at The Urban Cowboy St., Arlington. Promo code Pride21 for ticket Raid of the Rainbow Lounge screening credit. Meeting via Zoom. LambdaLegal.org. Drag queen Crystal Methyd, a top four • June 25: Human Rights Campaign Dallas discount. Visit Wings.WNBA.com. The Urban Cowboy Saloon, 2620 E. Lancaster contestant in the 12th season of RuPaul’s Drag Fort Worth and the Dallas Wings for “Dine Ave. in Fort Worth, presents a public screening • June 18: The History of Juneteenth Race, performs at 9 p.m. at The Urban Cowboy with Pride Courtside: A Virtual Event.” The • June 26: Trinity Pride of Robert Camina’s 2012 documentary, Raid Lunch & Learn, a virtual presentation about Saloon, 2620 E. Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth. event includes a panel discussion with Dallas A hybrid celebration will consist of a live stream of the Rainbow Lounge, which documents the the annual celebration of emancipation from For more information visit Facebook.com/ Wings players and coaches and Human of Virtual Trinity Pride Fest on Facebook Live as night of June 28, 2009, the 40th anniversary of slavery in the United States. Join Dr. George TheUrbanCowboySaloon. Rights Campaign staff, a Q&A Session, an well as at official Trinity Pride Partner locations the Stonewall Riots, when officers with the Fort Keaton, Jr., Founder and Executive Director auction and door prizes. Tickets are $40 and throughout Fort Worth at 7 p.m. Worth Police Department joined agents from of Remembering Black Dallas and the Dallas • June 19: Pride Party + include access to the virtual event, a ticket to the Texas Alcoholic Beverag Commission in Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a Pop-up performances on the Sammons the Dallas Wings’ 2021 or 2022 Pride Game • June 26: Pride Night Lights raiding a newly-opened LGBTQ bar called The discussion of the history of Juneteenth, its Park Community Stage including Kennedy and an HRC membership or membership The Urban Cowboy Saloon, Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth. The screening particular significance in Texas, and how the Davenport, Uptown Players, Bandan Koro renewal. A link to attend will be emailed 2620 E. Lancaster Ave. in Fort Worth, presents starts at 8 p.m. holiday has evolved over the last 150 years. and Dezi 5 from 3-5 p.m. Programming at the to all registrants the week of the event. “Pride Night Lights,” a neon light show DallasHolocaustMuseum.secure.force.com/ Crowe Museum of Asian Art, Dallas Museum For information email zack.hasychak@hrc. celebrating Pride, beginning at 9 p.m. ticket.

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DRAG HERE RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 12 top four finalist Crystal Methyd performs at Urban Cowboy Saloon, Friday, June 18, 2620 E. Lancaster Ave., with a meet-and-greet at 9:30 p.m., and show at 11 p.m. Tickets are $25-$100 via Eventbrite.

CAMP HERE Gay Camping Friends take over the Rainbow Ranch, on Lake Limestone, CR 800 in Groesbeck, for the weekend of June 18-20, with canoing, volleyball, hiking, a pool and more. The weekend includes a meet-and-greet at Ken and Barb’s VIP Lounge on Friday and the Madon- narama Vogue Party with a vogueing contest and a costume contest. Get more information at Facebook.com/groups/gaycampingfriends.

Still Life 1951, an oil on DRESS UP FOR THIS Masonite painting, is part of The Green Elephant, 5627 the Frida Kohl: Five Works Dyer St. in Dallas, hosts the exhibit now on display at the Out In Space Pride Costume Dallas Museum of Art. Party Saturday, June 19, at The exhibit closes Sunday, 8 p.m. event is presented June 20. See listings for by Unique Vibrations and PLUR FX, and they details. encourage everyone to dress up in your most futuristic/space-themed costumes to enjoy music by ACND8, coming from Los Ange- les to spin the best trance and progressive. Tickets are $15-$25. Visit Facebook.com/ PLAN YOUR WEEK Events/313465487122598 for details. • June 27: Pride Night at FC Dallas Have an event coming up? Email your • June 18: Music in the Park • Through June 19: Rusty Scruby Get specially priced tickets to the annual Y’all information to Managing Editor Tammye Nash Brianne Sargent & Friends String Trio Gay artist Rusty Scruby has a solo exhibit TEENS PARTY HERE Means All game against the New England at [email protected] or Senior Staff Writer performs at 8:15 p.m. at Samuell-Grand called Comfort at Cris Worley Fine Arts, Teen Pride and the Dallas Arts Revolution. The LGBT Chamber recommends David Taffet at [email protected] by Amphitheater, 6200 E. Grand Ave. 1845 E. Levee St., Suite 110. Open house on District Pride Party present buying seats in sections 131 and 132 near the Monday at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue. Tickets at ShakespeareDallas.org. May 15 from noon-4 p.m. CrisWorley.com. a Teen Pride party with art Supporters’ Section. Tailgate at 6 p.m. Game The Gay Agenda is now color-coded: activities, advocacy training at 8 p.m. at Toyota Stadium, 9200 World Cup Red for community events; blue for arts and • June 18-20: Juneteenth Unity • June 19: Music in the Park and live performances by Way, Frisco. Visit FCDallas.com. entertainment; purple for sports; green for Weekend 2021 Bobby Sparks, Cure for Paranoia and The Kennedy Davenport, Ariel O’Hara, Barbie nightlife and orange for civic events and holidays. Hosted by Dallas Southern Pride. Free. Grays perform at 8:15 p.m. at Samuell-Grand Davenport, Devin Banx, Glam Davenport, • June 27: Wall of Food Drag Show Sheraton Suites Market Center, 2101 N. Amphitheater, 6200 E. Grand Ave. Hakeem davenport and Ruby Scott. For ages The Urban Cowboy Saloon, 2620 E. Lancaster JUNE Stemmons Freeway is the host hotel. Code Tickets at ShakespeareDallas.org. 13-19. Admission is free, but reservations are Ave. in Fort Worth, hosts the Wall of Food • June 18: Federal Club DSP for $89 rate. Ultimate Mega Party at required. Email [email protected] for info. charity drag show, beginning at 6 p.m. HRC DFW Federal Club cocktails and Gilley’s Dallas, 1135 S. Lamar St. • Through June 20: Frida Kahlo: Five Works conversation as members and guests meet on Saturday from 10 p.m.-3 a.m. Five works by Frida Kahlo from a private TRAIN FOR THIS • June 27: Liberty Lowdown Art & Craft virtually. DFWFederalClub.org for details. collection including four paintings and a Dallas Area Rape Crisis Showcase • June 18-24: Rooftop Cinema drawing will be on display in the atrium on Center presents Allies to Local artists gather from noon to 5 p.m. at The • June 18: Name and gender Summer series of outdoor films at Dallas level 4 at the Dallas Museum of Art, Advocates: Supporting Liberty Lounge, 515 S. Jennings Ave., to show change workshop Heritage Village, 1515 S. Harwood St. June 18: 1717 N. Harwood St. DMA.org. LGBTQ+ Survivors, to train their art and crafts. Admission is free. Lambda Legal discusses what the process The Breakfast Club, Friday the 13th. June 19: individuals in the fight against looks like in Texas to secure state and federal Love Jones, Get Out. June 20: Breakfast At • June 22: Get Centered tour sexual violence. The workshop takes place via • June 28: identity documents. Lawyers can receive CLE Tiffany’s. June 21: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. June Virtual Resource Center tour streams Zoom from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, June 24. For Raid of the Rainbow Lounge screening credit. Meeting via Zoom. LambdaLegal.org. 22: The Greatest Showman. June 23: Pulp for free at 5 p.m. Registration required. information visit DallasRapeCrisis.org. The Urban Cowboy Saloon, 2620 E. Lancaster Fiction. June 24: The Great Gatsby. Tickets at MyResourceCenter.org. Ave. in Fort Worth, presents a public screening • June 18: The History of Juneteenth RooftopCinemaClub.com/heritagevillage. of Robert Camina’s 2012 documentary, Raid Lunch & Learn, a virtual presentation about • June 23: Inspiring Inclusion of the Rainbow Lounge, which documents the the annual celebration of emancipation from • June 18-Sept. 5: Jurassic World: The North Texas Commission presents Inspiring night of June 28, 2009, the 40th anniversary of slavery in the United States. Join Dr. George Exhibition Inclusion in an Evolving World. Join Wendy the Stonewall Riots, when officers with the Fort Keaton, Jr., Founder and Executive Director You’ve seen the films. Now experience them John, head of global diversity and inclusion Worth Police Department joined agents from of Remembering Black Dallas and the Dallas in real life at Jurassic World: The Exhibition. at Fidelity Investments for a “less talk, more the Texas Alcoholic Beverag Commission in Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a Educational, immersive, interactive and most of action” session on why inclusion (for all) raiding a newly-opened LGBTQ bar called The discussion of the history of Juneteenth, its all, awesome, the Exhibition will thrill audiences matters. 11 a.m. via Zoom. Register at form. Rainbow Lounge in Fort Worth. The screening particular significance in Texas, and how the of all ages as they come face to face with jotform.com/211545298862161. starts at 8 p.m. holiday has evolved over the last 150 years. these mighty and sometimes vicious creatures. Look for extended listings online at DallasHolocaustMuseum.secure.force.com/ Grandscape, 5752 Grandscape Blvd., ticket. 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06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 25 consider my own place an equally ratio- nal, alternatively viable option? At 50, and fully 15 years my senior in Ask Howard age, I’m beginning to wonder if Cindy HOW TO DO THE WRONG THING RIGHT is even capable still of compromise. I’m the first “long-term” girlfriend she’s ever From getting sober had. Before me, the longest of the bunch hospital it was broad daylight able survivor, you! with you — your chances at getting laid managed a whopping three whole to staying single and both of us sober. I have to Dear Howard: will increase a hundredfold, instantly. weeks! wear this damned cast on my I’m planning a trip Dear Howard: My current girlfriend Am I just being whiny here, Howard? Ah, sweet June. Across the northern foot at least until Labor Day. abroad later this and I met four months ago at — I’m em- Should I not press the issue of us each hemisphere, June is June everywhere. There goes the summer — summer, the barrassed to say — a food pantry. She selling, and simply move in with Cindy? Everything’s still beautiful. All the trees two in a row now just … first for me and was there volunteering; I was there try- She does have a fetching house, even a and foliage of high summer haven’t been lost. Trapped indoors. Two my boyfriend, ing to keep starvation at bay. We’ve since glassed-in backyard greenhouse, too, rendered raggedy yet. Marriages are old housebound harpies, together. Jim’s decided, with clear heads now, to move that Popsicle, my parakeet, adores tak- fresh and exciting, eternally sunny. June both of us lyin’ like rugs. been all over in together. Her Persian cat and my Peru- ing loft in. I can see why she wouldn’t 20 marks the summer solstice this year. Our public story is that I Europe, except vian parakeet will just have to work out want to give it up. Who would? I don’t Our longest day of the year always takes was rearranging the furni- for Scandina- their differences somehow. know why my own instincts are rebel- place this month, when the Earth’s north ture (yes, at 2 a.m.), and one via and Russia. So, here’s the real rub, though: Cindy ling. — Birdie Lynne pole is at its maximum axial tilt toward of our alabaster obelisks We’ll be in the thinks I should sell my downtown con- Dear Lindy: Here’s the deal regarding the sun, and continuous daylight never tipped over, landing on mood for a cold do, as she owns a three-bedroom house the long-term viability of entering into a leaves the Arctic circle. my ankle. A handy clime come Sep- with a yard. On the other hand, my take committed, live-in relationship with a On the day directly preceding the sol- alibi, being that the tember. We’re both is that we should both sell, pool our real person of 50 whose longest previously stice — June 19 — arrives a holiday of hurled antiquity did fully vaccinated. estate profits and buy a place we each committed relationship was on par to a slightly dimmer understanding, known play lurid jetsam in Any ad- truly love, where we can start fresh, two good Grindr trick: Ladybird, your an- as Juneteenth. As I understand, way the night’s various orna- vice on as one in equally neutral territory. tennae are already up, if not practically back on New Year’s Day, 1863, was when mental damages — I forget how gay It just seems more evenly committed, phosphorescent. Instinct, as the tired the Emancipation Proclamation went which one of us threw it people right, Howard? Especially with red-hot truism goes, is absolutely the only thing into effect; however, the “official” date at the other. behave Dallas being such a seller’s market these you can always trust — instinct and your of slavery’s end didn’t become written in Fred told me in the hos- differently days, too. See, my philosophy is, if we’re grandmother. ink in Texas until two years later on June pital, while my foot, from culture going to jump into this thing, then we 19, 1865, for that was how long it took was being x-rayed to culture? need to do it whole hog with raisin sauce. word to filter down to the last remain- that this is my wake- Do they? We And it’s not that Cindy doesn’t see ing American slaves, located in Galves- up call: I need to go to don’t want to where I’m coming from, but she says. ton, Texas, who were freed by a troop of AA. I likewise informed Fred come across as seeing as how she already owns a house mostly black Union soldiers. Thus, June that our koi pond’s new- country bumpkins. plenty big enough for us to grow as a 19 is nowadays embraced as Juneteenth, ly-installed, wrecked com- — Jethro and Jethrene unit in, why not leave its option on the the still-as-of-yet “un-officiated” holi- bustion-engine bicycle feature Dear JJs: Last month, I skittered briefly table? Well, I like my condo, too, and the day celebrating when American slavery would be replaced, brand new again — across the surface of gay travel expecta- unit next door to me just happens to be was no more. In sidebar, for those of you he needn’t worry — by the time he re- tions in a post-Covid world, versus vis- for sale; so, by this reasoning, why not wishing to throw support behind the turned from Betty Ford. A poke too far, iting a Muslim country, to which Putin’s movement endorsing that Juneteenth be maybe, Howard? — Dizzy Dale Russia fully qualifies. Individuals the welcomed a national holiday, visit June- Dear Desilou: I think you and Fred, world over display spirited kindness this week’s solution teenthLegacyProject.com like all those so blessedly unencumbered and humanity toward visitors from oth- Well, okey-dokey, now; let’s just get by the ravages of intellect — blissfully er cultures, the exception being Putin’s all gleamingly emancipated, eternal adrift in a sparkling spaciness like a lu- nation of permanent poker faces, resul- sunshine of this spotless honeymoon pe- nar rover ferrying rhinestones — should tant from totally out-of-step governmen- riod’s, Covid’s-over/fresh-start excite- simply leave the Harley to the koi pond tal policies. Men in Russia, for instance, ment right to it, then, shall we? where she rests. Glue-capstone its man- make absolutely no eye contact, what- Dear Howard: I got into a knock- gled handlebar with your shattered obe- soever. My gaydar (which is superb) down/drag-out fight with my new hus- lisk’s permanently exposed shards of crashed batshit useless in Moscow and band the other night. Like, we’re talking regret. Obviously, no visitor will need St. Petersburg — like reading a com- Code Red, secret-lab-in-Wuhan-level inquire what your secret for overnight pass in the Bermuda Triangle. Nor do dramatics here, on full public display: sobriety was, and the free money your Russian gays exhibit any of the telltale Fred somehow escaped outside, tweakin’ new outdoor, modern art installation aspirational displays of one-upmanship, mad, keys in hand, drunk as a motorcy- saves via bypassing a stint at Betty Ford, refinement and campy polish that we, as cle, against which I made a preventative all the subsequent relapses, money eter- jaded queer Americans, practically hone stance in our klieg-lit driveway, virally nally owed your various dealers, etc., for stereotype; Russian gays’ haircuts conjuring up my best Richard Avedon’s will more than cover a new hog for Fred- aren’t hip, their clothes aren’t edgy, and “Dovima with Elephants” pose. Not the die. A solid gold one, at that, and anoth- their gyms are useful places with lockers █ browse █ submit cleverest idea I’ve ever had. Of course, er, grander obelisk, too — go jasper this in which to safely store contraband. For a more complete Community To submit an item for inclusion in he roared right out over me. time, Desi, granite, even! Fuck, go all-out But, if you can make a Russian man Calendar online, visit the Community Calendar, visit By the time we each returned from the malachite, gurl, you sober, greenly envi- smile — make him laugh for you, not Tinyurl.com/dvevents. Tinyurl.com/dvevents.

26 dallasvoice.com █ 06.18.21 consider my own place an equally ratio- Honey, a 15-year age gap is hard nal, alternatively viable option? enough to bridge, even if Popsicle does At 50, and fully 15 years my senior in get to trade-up from a cage in your con- age, I’m beginning to wonder if Cindy do to a greenhouse lush of palms with is even capable still of compromise. I’m a burbling fountain, butterflies and the first “long-term” girlfriend she’s ever soaring sunshine fluttering her soaring had. Before me, the longest of the bunch wings. It ain’t Popsicle who must re- managed a whopping three whole side daily alongside Cindy the Ossified. weeks! Somethin’ here just don’t feel quite right, Am I just being whiny here, Howard? not even remotely. Indeed, it’s a total Should I not press the issue of us each shitshow, in fact. selling, and simply move in with Cindy? This new summer, children, as we’ve She does have a fetching house, even a discovered, all things marvelously pe- glassed-in backyard greenhouse, too, culiar, too, have their time and season- that Popsicle, my parakeet, adores tak- al effervescence: Be it the summer sol- ing loft in. I can see why she wouldn’t stice, Juneteenth or koi ponds featuring want to give it up. Who would? I don’t mangled motorcycles’ twisted follies to know why my own instincts are rebel- tattered youth, everything, ultimately, ling. — Birdie Lynne is transient, even the longest day of the Dear Lindy: Here’s the deal regarding year. the long-term viability of entering into a Big kisses, everybody, to Betsy Ross committed, live-in relationship with a from me now, and I’ll see you all back person of 50 whose longest previously here again, same place, on the other side committed relationship was on par to a July’s rockets’ red glare. Enjoy, kidz, this good Grindr trick: Ladybird, your an- remaindered lovely, lipid June; sum- tennae are already up, if not practically mer’s a-peaked. phosphorescent. Instinct, as the tired — Howard Lewis Russell truism goes, is absolutely the only thing Have a comment or seasonally-sane ques- you can always trust — instinct and your tion for Howard? Send it to AskHoward@ grandmother. dallasvoice.com

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Serving Lion King & Queen Realness

Rising Star at The Rose Room Marissa Kage at Roy G’s

The happy newlyweds at S4

All smiles at TMC Colby Jack Davenport at S4 Augustine servin’ up sass at Hunky’s

06.18.21 █ dallasvoice 29 Jeffrey servin’ drinks and lewks at Roy G’s Heather grabbing a drink in The Rose Room

Who is that masc man at TMC?

Kathleen making the first shots of the night I’ll have what she’s having

Dylan, Skylar Leche and Jax at The Rose Room

Why yes, I’ll have two vodka sodas at Mr. Misster Daphne Rio shoots her shot at Round-Up Saloon Hunter is looking for his top

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Who is that masc man at TMC?

Hunter is looking for his top

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