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Fort Worth gets ‘Ticked Off’ Q Cinema 12 screens controversial North Texas film From Bollywood to the Bahamas, annual festival offers something for every taste • SCREEN, Page 20 DallasVoice.com DallasVoice.com/Instant-Tea Facebook.com/DallasVoice Twitter.com/DallasVoice The Premier Media Source for LGBT Texas Established 1984 | Volume 27 | Issue 3 FREE | Friday, June 4, 2010 New chief: The man with the plan for parks From Friends of Fair Park to Trinity Delay was Commons Foundation, former Councilman Craig Holcomb has big disappointing visions, goals for Dallas’ city parks DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer DPD’s David Brown tells LGBT [email protected] group that community should have Workers this week began assembling the arch been notified of May 15 hate crime on the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge that extends immediately, asks for input on Woodall Rodgers Freeway over the Trinity River. The bridge is the first step in the Trinity River de- improving communication velopment. Perhaps no one in the city of Dallas has had JOHN WRIGHT | Online Editor more to do with park development — including [email protected] the Trinity River Project — in recent years than former Dallas City Councilman Craig Holcomb. Making his first appearance before an LGBT Holcomb founded the Trinity Commons group, new Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Foundation and serves as its president. And a he was “disappointed” in the department’s delay project intended to turn thousands of acres of for- in classifying a recent est into land for public use is a natural for Hol- aggravated robbery comb, who has also been the executive director in Oak Lawn as an of Friends of Fair Park since 1990. anti-gay hate crime. His group is credited with putting together Brown spoke Tues- more than $200 million that helped fund a vari- day, May 25, during ety of projects. Under his leadership, Friends of the regular monthly Fair Park has helped coordinate money from var- meeting of Dallas’ ious sources that helped fund the African Amer- LGBT LULAC chap- ican Museum, The Women’s Museum and the ter, at Havana on IMAX Theatre in Fair Park. Cedar Springs Road. Four other buildings have undergone major The appearance restoration and 17 frescoes that had been painted dvtv came just a few over after the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition blocks from where — have been restored with money Friends of Fair SEE MORE | Video of and 10 days after — Park put together. Brown’s remarks is at two clubgoers were Holcomb’s interest in the city’s parks began SHINING ACHIEVEMENT | http://tinyurl.com/29wc76k. brutally attacked by during his tenure on the City Council. He repre- ‘The Contralto,’ a re-creation four suspects yelling sented East Dallas and Oak Lawn — approxi- of a statue erected in Fair gay slurs and wielding baseball bats in the 2700 mately the district now served by Angela Hunt Park for the 1936 Texas Cen- block of Throckmorton Street. — from 1983 to 1989. tennial Exposition, shines in the sun over the head of The incident occurred in the early morning When he was first elected, Holcomb was mar- Friends of Fair Park Executive hours of Saturday, May 15. And DPD has been ried to a woman. By the time he left office, he was Director Craig Holcomb. criticized for failing to classify it as an anti-gay already living with his partner, Hector Garcia. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) hate crime — or notify the public about it — until Even before he came out, Holcomb was • BROWN, Page 13 • HOLCOMB, Page 14 2 dallasvoice.com • 06.04.10 toc06.04.10 | Volume 27 | Issue 3 4 headlines • TEXAS NEWS 4 AIDS Outreach closing Arlington office 4 Fairway to Equality tees off 8 LSR Journal: Willow Burk-Havelik 9 Rare Reporter: Don’t cut library funds 10 Singing for the Cure at Carnegie • LIFE+STYLE 23 ‘Butch Voices’ speak up in Dallas 24 Sugar & Gold comes to Denton 24 Sink your teeth into some Pridecakes 29 ‘Night’ shines bright 23 departments 4 Texas News 20 Life+Style 6 Pet of the Week 38 Starvoice 11 Deaths 40 Scene 18 Viewpoints 42 Classifieds 06.04.10 • dallasvoice 3 • texasnews instantTEA DallasVoice.com/Instant-Tea Thank you for being a AIDS Outreach closing Arlington office friend, Rue McClanahan Rue McClanahan died at 1 a.m. Thurs- Gould says steady decline in clients The organization is also eliminating four staff day of a massive stroke. She had a stroke positions and reducing hours for a fifth position, last fall and was also a breast cancer sur- at suburban office and the vivor. as well as eliminating all but one of its contract economy are reasons for closure The former Golden Girl was in Dallas last counselor positions. September with Del Shores to perform a “This is a very difficult decision to reach in stand-up comedy show. She called her TAMMYE NASH | Senior Editor light of AOC being actively involved in the Ar- portion “sit-down” comedy. [email protected] lington community for over a decade,” Gould I interviewed McClanahan by phone and said. “However, with the effects of the worsening was told I’d have 30 minutes. After an hour, The economy may be on a slow rebound, but economy and a lack of viable transportation she asked if she it didn’t happen fast enough to keep Tarrant within the city of Arlington it has become clear could run to the County’s largest AIDS service organization from that those most in need of our programs and bathroom and announcing new cutbacks just before the Memo- services have an ongoing challenge in reaching then call me back. We spoke rial Day weekend. us.” for another hour. In a statement released Friday, May 31, Allan He said the number of clients accessing serv- While on the Gould, executive director of AIDS Outreach Cen- ices at the Arlington office has seen a steady de- phone with her, ter of Tarrant County, announced that the agency cline over recent years. Because of that and we recalled our would be closing its Arlington office, effective favorite “Golden Aug. 31. • AIDS OUTREACH, Page 12 Allan Gould Girls” and “Maude” episodes. We recited lines to each other and laughed for an hour. Her favorite “Golden Girls” episode was the one in which Dorothy’s friend Jean comes to visit. Jean is a lesbian and falls for Rose. After Blanche realizes what’s going on (”Lesbian? Danny Thomas is one, Teeing up for equality right?”), she becomes furious that Jean would fall for Rose and not for her. McClanahan confided that she never re- In its 20th year the rapidly growing ally liked “Mama’s Family” and was not on event now benefits HRC good terms with Betty White. McClanahan also was in the cast of “Sordid Lives.” She told me a story about attending the DAVID TAFFET | Staff Writer premiere of Bea Arthur’s one-woman show on Broadway. At the party afterward, Arthur [email protected] was getting a little drunk. McClanahan’s new husband went over and introduced himself. Arthur said, “Rue, yes, I always Fairway to Equality has become the Human loved Rue. But that Betty White was a real Rights Campaign’s largest single community c***.” event. The North Texas golf tournament, now in White, the oldest of the “Golden Girls” its 20th year, tees off at Firewheel Golf Park in Gar- stars, is now the only one who’s still alive. land on Saturday, June 5. McClanahan is survived by her husband Deiadra Burns co-chairs the event this year for and her son, Mark, who lives in Austin. After performing in Dallas last summer, the third time. For the second year, Gregory Pynes she spent several weeks with her son. They shares managing duties with her. Pynes and Burns were writing a show that McClanahan was also co-chaired LifeWalk together in the 1990s. planning to take to Broadway. The golf tournament began in 1991 as a Thank you, Rue, for being a friend. fundraiser for the Candy Marcum Institute, a —David Taffet women’s studies program at Oak Lawn Commu- nity Services. Dee Pennington and Lori Masters Stonewall march planned were among the organizers of the original event. Back in April I reported that Equality Marcum said she had nothing to do with organ- March 2010, this year’s version of last izing the event, but played every year. year’s Million Gay March, had been moved After several years, she said, someone politely to October to beat the June heat. But as it told her she had been violating the rules. Mar- turns out, one of the organizers of last cum’s brother-in-law was always part of her team year’s event is now separately planning a and then one year she had a second man in her march at the end of this month to com- foursome. She said she looked around and real- memmorate the anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. Daniel Cates, a co- ized hers was the only team with men participat- chair of the committee that organized the ing in this women-only event. Million Gay March, said this year’s After Oak Lawn Community Services closed, Stonewall anniversary march will take place Pennington brought the event to Uncommon on the evening of June 27 in downtown Legacy. That group provided scholarship money Dallas. for women to attend college. A few years later — John Wright • GOLF, Page 12 4 dallasvoice.com • 06.04.10 • texasnews GET YOUR FLAP ON PARTY LAUNCH | Todd C. Hedrick, from left, co-chair of the steering committee for AIDS Interfaith Network’s 2010 Great Gatsby ..

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