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10.20.17 █ dallasvoice 3 instantTEA DallasVoice.com/Category/Instant-Tea Gay Houston judge announces HRC responds to Trump’s joke run for Texas Supreme Court about hanging gay people
President Donald Trump likes to needle Vice COMING NOV. 3! President Mike Pence on his positions on abor- tion and LGBT rights. So recently when asked about a gay issue, Trump said, “Don’t ask that AD SPACE DEADLINE guy. He wants to hang them all.” Here’s Human Right’s Campaign’s statement on Trump joking about Pence wanting to hang LGBT people: 10.30.17 HRC President Chad Griffin said of the New Yorker anecdote, “It’s disturbing and sickening that Donald Trump would ‘joke’ about Mike Steven Kirkland, an openly gay former district Pence wanting to ‘hang them all’ in reference to court judge, announced he will run for state LGBTQ people. Hate violence is tragically still a Supreme Court. fact of life for LGBTQ people across this country, “GREAT NEWS! I will be candidate for Justice, even without Donald Trump and Mike Pence Place 2 of the Texas Supreme Court,” he an- helping to fan the flames. Mike Pence has spent nounced on his website. his career attacking LGBTQ people in Congress, He is the first openly gay person to run for in the governor’s mansion, and now in the White Texas Supreme Court. Kirkland became a Hous- House. Donald Trump’s remark lays open the ton municipal judge in 2001 and served in that depth of their hostility and animosity toward position until 2008 when he was elected to the LGBTQ people and just how deeply they believe 215th District Court, where he served until 2012. we should be treated as second-class citizens in He currently works on economic development our own country. That’s not funny, that’s danger- projects in the Houston city attorney’s office. ous and un-American.” Among his awards are three LGBT-related The Trump-Pence administration’s hositility accolades: Houston GLBT Political Caucus Lead- toward LGBTQ people does not exist in a vac- ership Award–2009, Judge Norman Black Award, uum. In January, the HRC Foundation released State Bar of Texas, LGBT Law Section–2009 and the results of a groundbreaking post-election Harvey Milk Award, Houston Stonewall Young survey of more than 50,000 young people ages Democrats–2008. 13-18 revealing the deeply damaging fallout the He has been a board member of the Interna- November election has had on youth across the tional Association of LGBT Judges from 2010 United States. to present and was treasurer of former Houston The online survey, believed to be the largest Mayor Annise Parker’s campaigns from 1991 to ever of its kind, found that 70 percent of respon- 2001. dents have witnessed bullying, hate messages — David Taffet or harassment since the election, with racial bias the most common motive cited. More than BBBS raises more than a quarter of LGBTQ youth said they have been personally bullied or harassed since Election half million at gala Day — compared to 14 percent of non-LGBTQ Big Brothers Big Sisters, a Black Tie Dinner youth — with transgender young people most beneficiary, held its annual Big Black Tie Ball on frequently targeted. Oct. 6 at the Hilton Anatole. In 2016, advocates tracked at least 23 deaths Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall spoke about of transgender people in the United States due Bigs in Blue and the importance of mentoring in to fatal violence, the most ever recorded. These the lives of children across Dallas. Bigs in Blue victims were killed by acquaintances, part- is an initiative to pair police officers with children ners and strangers, some of whom have been through caring, professionally-supported one-to- arrested and charged, while others have yet to one relationships. be identified. Some of these cases involve clear Matthew Morrison from Glee entertained. anti-transgender bias. In others, the victim’s The event raised $548,000, and 550 guests transgender status may have put them at risk in attended. other ways, such as forcing them into homeless- This is the 90th anniversary of Big Brothers Big ness. CONTACT US TODAY • 214-754-8710 • [email protected] Sisters in Dallas. — David Taffet — David Taffet 1825 Market Center Blvd. 240 | Dallas, Texas | 75207
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10.20.17 █ dallasvoice 5 THE AGENDA Have an event coming up? Email your GAYfor this year’s festival. Trailers shown and information to Managing Editor Tammye Nash filmmakers who will be in attendance at [email protected] or Senior Staff Writer announced at 6 p.m. at Urban Cowboy, David Taffet at [email protected] by 2620 E. Lancaster Ave., Fort Worth. Wednesday at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue. • Oct 20: Bowling league registration • Weekly: Lambda Weekly every Sunday New LGBT bowling league registration at 1 p.m. on 89.3 KNON-FM. This week’s from 6:30-9 p.m. at AMF Garland, guest is the Rev. Neil Cazares-Thomas 1950 Marketplace Dr., Garland. League from Cathedral of Hope UCC; United runs Nov. 3-Feb. 9. $20. 214-704-3531. Black Ellument hosts discussion on HIV/ AIDS in the black community (UBE • Oct 20: Federal Club Mixer Connected) at 7 p.m. every fourth Tuesday Mixer from 6-8 p.m. at Zatar, of the month at 3116 Commerce St., 2825 Commerce St. Suite C; Core Group Meeting every 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month at • Oct. 21: My Haunted Gaybingo 7 p.m.; Fuse game night every Monday Monthly fundraiser for Resource Center evening except the last of the month at takes place from 6-9 p.m. at the 8 p.m. at the Fuse space in the Treymore Rose Room at S4, 3911 Cedar Springs Building, 4038 Lemmon Ave, Suite 101; Road. 214-540-4458. FuseConnect every Wednesday from MyResourceCenter.org/gaybingo. 7 p.m. For more information call or e-mail Jalenzski at 214-760-9718 ext. 3 or • Oct. 21: Spooktacular IV [email protected]. LGBT GLBT Chamber of Commerce Foundation square dancing group Pegasus Squares presents Superhero Spooktacular with meets every Sunday from 2:30–4:30 auction, appetizers, costumes and cocktails p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church, to benefit its scholarship fund from 4105 Junius St. For more info, email 7-10 p.m. at ilume Park, 3109 Douglas Ave. [email protected]; Dallas GLBTchamber.com. Frontrunners meet for a walk or run on the Katy Trail at Oak Lawn Park, Turtle • Oct. 21: Let’s Get Weird Creek and Hall Street, every Wednesday Halloween Party at 7:15 p.m. and every Saturday at 9 Annual Halloween party that’s become a.m.; Leadership Lambda Toastmasters an all day affair from noon-9 p.m. at practices and develops speaking and Lakewood Brewing Company, leadership skills from 6:30–8 p.m. on 2302 Executive Drive, Garland. $15. Tuesdays at First Unitarian Church, third floor of the Hallman Building, 4012 St. • Oct. 22: Hope Walk The 26th annual Hope Walk benefiting AIDS Outreach Center in Fort Worth takes place at 1 p.m. Andrews; Gray Pride support group from The 26th annual Hope Walk, a pet-friendly on Sunday, Oct. 22. See listing for more details. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. followed by mixer every 5K benefitting AIDS Outreach Center Monday at Resource Center, 5750 Cedar in Tarrant County will be held 1-5 p.m., • Oct. 24: Brite Divinity School • Oct. 25: PositiviTea 2017 Springs Road; Lambda AA meets at 7 a.m., beginning at the Trinity Park Pavilion, just open house Champagne Imperial Tea benefits Legacy’s noon, 6 p.m. 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. and has a off 7th Street in Trinity Park in Fort Worth. LGBT-friendly Brite Divinity School on Grace Project for women from 3-4:30 p.m. men’s meeting at 10 a.m. on Saturdays and There will also be a Pooches on Parade the TCU campus holds an open house for at La Duni NorthPark, meets at 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Sunday costume contest. Visit AOC.org/walk. prospective new students to learn about 8687 N. Central Expressway. at 1575 W. Mockingbird Lane #625. Call degree programs from 8:30 a.m.-3:45 p.m. 214-267-0222 for details; DVtv in Spayse, • Oct. 24: LGBT Grief Support Group Brite Divinity School, Harrison Building, • Oct. 25: Protest Trump in Dallas news and entertainment discussion live Anyone who has lost a same-sex spouse is 2925 Princeton St., Fort Worth. Indivisible DFW and Texas Resistance streaming every Friday, 4–5 p.m., on the welcome to join at 6:45 p.m. at Oak Lawn Brite.edu/openhouse. Coalition protest Donald Trump’s Dallas Spayse Station YouTube channel. Library, 4100 Cedar Springs Road. For appearance at a Republican fundraiser. more info [email protected]. • Oct. 24: Lambda Legal and Location TBA. OCTOBER Vinson & Elkins happy hour • Oct 20: Turtle Creek Chorale • Oct. 24: Profiling and Situational Networking reception with leaders and • Oct. 25: Diversity and Inclusion The Turtle Creek Chorale presents Awareness seminars members of LGBT employee resource in the Legal Profession After Dark, a special event, at 8 p.m. Seminar for non-profit staff and groups and get an update on Lambda Symposium on diversity and inclusion at 3015 at Trinity Groves 3015 Gulden administration at 9 a.m., business owners Legal’s recent cases from 6-7:30 p.m. at presented by the Dallas LGBT Bar Lane. $75-125. TurtleCreekChorale.com at 1 p.m. and professionals at 3 p.m. Vinson & Elkins, 2001 Ross Ave., Association from 2-6 p.m. hosted by at Cathedral of Hope, Suite 3900. Business casual. Parking in AT&T at 208 S. Akard St. $25 members, • Oct 20: Q19 Sneak Peak 5910 Cedar Springs Road. 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6 dallasvoice.com █ 10.20.17 • Oct. 28: Outing LGBT • Oct. 28: Halloween Street Party Domestic Violence Annual street party on Cedar Springs Candy Marcum moderates a panel Road from sunset to midnight. discussion and Q&A session with Criminal District Court Judge Brandon Birmingham, • Oct. 29: Trunk or Treat DPD Domestic Violence Unit officer Kylee Cathedral of Hope UCC and Oak Lawn Hawks, trans activist Aricles James, Angela UMC offer trick or treating for member Lee of the National Domestic Violence and neighborhood kids from fun and Hotline and Roy Rios from the Texas festively decorated care trunks plus hot Council on Family Violence from dog cookout, bounce houses, a marionette 1-3 p.m. at Cathedral of Hope, Interfaith show and a visit from Peincess Elsa from Peace Chapel, 5910 Cedar Springs Road. 4:30-8 p.m. in the Cathedral of Hope parking lot, 5910 Cedar Springs Road.
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10.20.17 █ dallasvoice 7 Seeing the signs of Equality Texas domestic abuse
Ari James has experienced don’t you have body hair like I have?” “I’d say, ‘My, that’s hurtful,’ and he’d adds staff domestic violence as a lesbian and as a trans man, and he wants apologize,” James recalled. “But then he’d do it again and again and again and again.” organizations to do a better job for James said the man would push sexu- the LGBT community al things James wasn’t comfortable doing, but James felt he might as well give his DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer boyfriend what he wanted. He blames that [email protected] partly on still being in a post-surgery fog for a few weeks and not fully understand- ricles “Ari” James spoke on ing what was happening. the issue of domestic vio- Then James called a local domestic vio- lence before coming out as lence office. He knew the staff there as both transgender. a client and a co-worker. He felt safe con- “My mother was a tacting them for help. domestic violence vic- “But when I called and they gendered me tim,” he explained. as masculine, they gave me the batterers in- “There’s a pattern tervention hotline,” he said. “No questions. to the way domestic violence works.” No ‘What’s going on?’ That’s where we are He said that people who come from in advocating for LGBT people.” homes where there’s been domestic vio- James stressed that people who work lence are more likely to become victims with domestic violence victims and per- themselves, and once you’ve been a victim petrators shouldn’t make assumptions. of domestic violence, you’re more likely to “That’s why people don’t get the help they be revictimized. need,” he said. But you can’t meet someone and know, He said that as a domestic violence ad- Providing compassionate medical care “This is going to be an abuser.” vocate himself, as someone who knows the James said he’s been in a variety of re- signs and who knew he needed to get out, in North Texas for more than 35 Years! lationship patterns that have involved do- if he couldn’t connect with the resources he Comprehensive HIV/AIDS management mestic abuse — lesbian, poly and straight. needed, how can we expect other people to STD testing and treatment But he chose to talk with Dallas Voice about be able to find the help they need? PrEP counseling and treatment his most recent experience when he was in James said the most dangerous time in General adult medical care a relationship with another trans men. a domestic violence situation is after the ® ® “I had gotten to the point in my transition victim has left the abuser. “More murders Cosmetic - BOTOX and JUVÉDERM Aricles James that I was mostly comfortable dating other and physical violence happen after ties are trans people,” he said. He met another trans severed,” he said, “when the perpetrator no when he got home, “It looked like a bomb experiences with peers, and often the vic- man, and they began dating. The man was longer has power.” went off in my house. He wanted to sleep tim is shunned. from “a blue state” but moved to Texas. In James’ case, the man he was dating with me. When I told him that wasn’t going James will be part of a panel at Cathedral “We had fun,” James said. “He said the had just become a truck driver and was go- to happen, he got angry and called his fa- of Hope on Oct. 28 to talk about domestic right things. We had long conversations. I ing to be gone. Still, James said, he thought ther and told him he was suicidal.” violence in the LGBT community. “If we’re got lulled into a false sense of security.” about selling his house as a way of distanc- He cornered James and said things, James not talking about it, it’s not going to get James said he shared deep, dark secrets ing himself. But it was after a physical alter- said, that most trans people would find fixed,” he said. about himself with his boyfriend. They cation between them that he knew he had hurtful coming from anyone. But coming He said there’s no exhaustive list of warn- had similar relationship issues, and he felt to get the other man out of the house. from another transgender person, he add- ing signs of abusive relationships, but there safe being open about his secrets. He was “I went to work with bruises,” James ed, it was worse. are a number of patterns he’ll discuss. Brady L. Allen, M.D.• David M. Lee, M.D. sure that “Things that happened in the past said. “I went to the gym” with bruises. “He used my dead name,” James said. Candy Marcum will moderate the discus- Marc A. Tribble, M.D. • Donald A. Graneto, M.D. wouldn’t continue.” So he changed the locks and upgraded the Then the man called police and told them sion. Other panelists include 292nd Judicial At the time, James lived in rural Oklaho- windows. He let police know the situation. James came at him, resulting in James being District Court Judge Brandon Birmingham; Eric Klappholz, NP • Peter Triporo, NP • Jason Vercher, PA-C ma where he owned a home. He was about When James broke up with the man, he arrested. The ex did his best to share that Kylee Hawks of the Dallas Police Depart- Vanessa Bludau, NP • William Hays, MD, ATC, LAT to have top surgery, and the trans man he responded with threats of suicide. And al- information with anyone who would listen ment’s Domestic Violence Unit; Angela Lee was dating promised to come up from Tex- though James knew that was just more ma- to him. from the National Domestic Violence Ho- Uptown Tower as after the operation. nipulation, he said, “I’d [still] try to help him James said in the queer community, when tline; and Roy Rios from the Texas Council 4144 N. Central Expressway, Suite 750 “Looking back I can see the manipu- … . It’s not in my make up to ignore that.” someone who’s the victim of domestic vi- on Family Violence. █ Uptown Physicians Group would like to congratulate Best HIV Specialists; lation now,” James said, acknowledging What James calls the last hurrah came olence has a bad experience reporting it Domestic violence panel from 1-3 p.m. on Dr. Marc Tribble and Dr. Donald Graneto for being Best General Practitioner year after year in Dallas Voice 214-303-1033 the micro-aggressions that happened. For when the boyfriend broke into the house once, they won’t report it again. He said Oct. 28 at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar named to D Magazine’s Best Doctors in Dallas for 2017 in Infectious Disease and Family Medicine respectively. Readers Voice Awards. instance, his boyfriend would ask, “Why while James was gone. James said that many domestic violence victims have bad Springs Road. Free. www.UptownDocs.com
8 dallasvoice.com █ 10.20.17 Equality Texas adds staff Three hired for education, accounting and religious outreach FROM STAFF REPORTS
quality Texas announced a proven track record in nonprofit adminis- advocate for the equal treatment of LGBTQ Faith Outreach Coordinator Kimberly the appointment of three tration and much needed experience work- youth, providing support for families to be Shappley is a registered nurse, an interna- new staff members: Ra- ing within interfaith communities” said their own best advocates. She is an active tional board certified lactation consultant, chel Gonzales, Javier Os- Chuck Smith, Equality Texas CEO. “All member of Dallas-Fort Worth Trans Kids ordained minister and mom of a whole orio and Kimberly Shap- three new members of the team will build and Families (DFWTKF) and a member of bunch of amazing people, including a trans- pley. upon our growing capacity as an organiza- the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Na- gender daughter who has turned Kimberly Equality Texas CEO tion. We are pleased to welcome them.” tional Parents for Transgender Equality into an accidental advocate. Kimberly is a Chuck Smith said each Education and Resource Coordinator Council. nationally recognized sought-after speaker of the new staff members Rachel Gonzales has testified several times As a first generation immigrant from as a southern conservative Christian parent had proven records in advocating for fair- at the Texas Capitol, spoken at rallies and Peru, Finance and Administrative Coor- of a transgender child. The Today Show told ness and equality issues, who will work on protests, and has maintained a local to na- dinator Javier Osorio earned a Bachelor of her family’s story, and Good Housekeeping education, base building, and organization- tional media presence in the fight for equal- Business Administration degree in account- and Huffington Post among others have al development inside and outside of the ity for transgender Texans. As the mother ing from the University of Texas at San An- told her story. Her recent work includes cul- organization across the state of Texas. of a transgender child, equality for LGBTQ tonio. He joined the Equality Texas staff in tural diversity training for college faculty, “Rachel, Javier, and Kimberly bring to youth is her passion. She is delighted to be August 2017, after the 85th special legisla- as well as speaking at medical and mental Equality Texas outstanding skills in build- able to combine her passion with her back- tive session ended. His specialty is financial health conferences, Christian congregations
ing coalitions with the business community, ground in cultural applied anthropology to planning, reporting and analysis. and women’s retreats. █
Providing compassionate medical care in North Texas for more than 35 Years! Comprehensive HIV/AIDS management STD testing and treatment PrEP counseling and treatment General adult medical care Cosmetic - BOTOX® and JUVÉDERM® Aricles James experiences with peers, and often the vic- tim is shunned. James will be part of a panel at Cathedral of Hope on Oct. 28 to talk about domestic violence in the LGBT community. “If we’re not talking about it, it’s not going to get fixed,” he said. He said there’s no exhaustive list of warn- ing signs of abusive relationships, but there are a number of patterns he’ll discuss. Brady L. Allen, M.D.• David M. Lee, M.D. Candy Marcum will moderate the discus- Marc A. Tribble, M.D. • Donald A. Graneto, M.D. sion. Other panelists include 292nd Judicial District Court Judge Brandon Birmingham; Eric Klappholz, NP • Peter Triporo, NP • Jason Vercher, PA-C Kylee Hawks of the Dallas Police Depart- Vanessa Bludau, NP • William Hays, MD, ATC, LAT ment’s Domestic Violence Unit; Angela Lee from the National Domestic Violence Ho- Uptown Tower tline; and Roy Rios from the Texas Council 4144 N. Central Expressway, Suite 750 on Family Violence. █ Uptown Physicians Group would like to congratulate Best HIV Specialists; Domestic violence panel from 1-3 p.m. on Dr. Marc Tribble and Dr. Donald Graneto for being Best General Practitioner year after year in Dallas Voice 214-303-1033 Oct. 28 at Cathedral of Hope, 5910 Cedar named to D Magazine’s Best Doctors in Dallas for 2017 in Infectious Disease and Family Medicine respectively. Readers Voice Awards. Springs Road. Free. www.UptownDocs.com
10.20.17 █ dallasvoice 9 LGBT people are more prone to eating disorders
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30 million Americans have eating my small private school since kindergarten. Association. up. disorders and I am among them My fellow students noticed my dramatic I had one eating disorder. There are “Puberty is a huge trigger. Your body is weight loss. I even got a few compliments. countless others, however, including binge growing and changing. Those dramatic So I just kept losing weight after that, eating and bulimia. changes come with their own issues. You’re JAMES RUSSELL | Contributing Writer dropping to around 110 pounds at one All sorts of factors lead to eating disor- struggling so much anyway,” Setliff said. [email protected] point. I would work out every day for ders, said Dr. Stephanie Setliff, medical People prone to eating disorders also have probably three hours and eat no- or low-fat director at the Eating Recovery Center Dal- a personality profile. developed an eating disorder foods for breakfast, lunch and dinner. las, a national health care system devoted “You’re usually anxious, a people pleaser, when I was 15 or 16. I was a I was anorexic. The scientific term an- to treating eating disorders at all stages of perfectionist, smart,” Setliff said. stressed out high school student orexia nervosa is defined as an eating dis- illness. I was also not alone when dieting to the who went on a diet the summer order “characterized by weight loss; diffi- From 50 to 80 percent of eating disor- extreme. of my freshman year of high culties maintaining an appropriate body ders are bio-genetically mediated. There “Diets are a common entry into eating school. I was actually a healthy weight for height, age, and stature; and, in are plenty of commonalities among people disorders.” Setliff said. “Someone will start weight at that time. People no- many individuals, distorted body image,” with eating disorders. Among the factors is dieting and start exercising around four ticed. I had been at that point at according to the National Eating Disorders our shared experience of simply growing times a week then lose weight. People no-
10 dallasvoice.com █ 10.20.17 tice. The positive feedback — ‘you look so good!’— could trigger a person already at Dr. Stephanie risk. They become anxious, adding more re- Setliff, right, strictions to their diets and exercise more.” is with Eating Many of my heterosexual classmates Recovery were suffering too. I did not think about Center in these facts at the time. Plano. (James Russell/ While eating disorders are most associ- Dallas Voice) ated with straight, young, white females, heterosexual men struggle too. “If you think about straight men, they ders among lesbians and bisexual women. deny problems. Even if something is wrong Even worse, few comprehensive studies ex- they don’t go to the emergency room,” ist about eating disorders in the transgen- Setliff said. der community. I clearly was not the only one needing, Eating disorders impact people regard- but not getting, help. Only 30 percent seek less of their identity. But the lack of com- treatment because of stigma, mispercep- prehensive information makes education tions, lack of education, diagnosis and ac- difficult. cess to care. “When people bring up eating disorders, Being a young man struggling with his lots of education is needed. People feel sexual orientation did not help my situa- like they are of choice, but they are most- tion, however. It’s no wonder studies show ly linked to genetics. Binge eating, for in- gay and bisexual men are 12 times more stance, is associated with a lack of will pow- Early Voting likely to report an eating disorder than their er,” Setliff said. rd rd heterosexual peers. Yet you can recover and have a normal October 23 - November 3 “Think about it: you’re facing bullying, relationship with food, Setliff said. “But discrimination, fear or rejection. Of course the condition lingers, and you maintain the [you] are afraid,” Setliff said. core of the eating disorder. Stress or change Election day Unfortunately, few conclusive studies could trigger it. Typically those prone to th connecting eating disorders to the larger eating disorders have personalities that do November 7 LGBT community exist. NEDA suggests not take changes or transitions well even if up. looking at eating disorders in our commu- they are positive stressors. You can still be Stonewall Recommends “Puberty is a huge trigger. Your body is nity within a broader cultural context of rigid about changing your mind and see- growing and changing. Those dramatic oppression. ing the big picture. But the difference is if Voting FOR changes come with their own issues. You’re Beginning as early as 12, gay, lesbian you say, ‘I have these thoughts. What do I struggling so much anyway,” Setliff said. and bisexual teens may be at higher risk of do?’ as opposed to immediately reverting People prone to eating disorders also have binge eating and purging. But many stud- to binging or purging.” Constitutional Amendment Prop 7 a personality profile. ies are inconclusive. Yet other studies show As LGBT resources expand and younger “You’re usually anxious, a people pleaser, few significant differences between hetero- generations report being more accepting of Dallas Bond Proposals A-J perfectionist, smart,” Setliff said. sexual women and lesbians and bisexu- their LGBT peers, organizations catering to I was also not alone when dieting to the al women in the prevalence of any of the the LGBT community have an imperative Dallas County Schools extreme. eating disorders. Lesbian, gay and bisexual to fight the stigma. A survey of local LGBT “Diets are a common entry into eating African Americans and Hispanics are just organizations shows no recent listings of disorders.” Setliff said. “Someone will start as susceptible to eating disorders, too, giv- programming related to eating disorders. Visit DallasCountyVotes.org dieting and start exercising around four en extra stressors they face. “We need to get into more places where for early voting locations times a week then lose weight. People no- Research is conflicted about eating disor- LGBT people go,” Setliff said. █ Political Ad paid for by Michael McCue, Treasurer, Stonewall Democrats of Dallas
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We promise Terri Schlichenmeyer, Leslie McMurray, Mathew Shaw, players who are kneeling for so- that we will never be allowed to play again to continue to write out of love, and with Brandi Amara Skyy, Mark Stokes, Jef Tingley, D cial justice have some people saying it’s a anywhere in Jordan due to our political the desire to spread love. We will fight, as David Webb, Casey Williams sign of a leader cracking down on the First and religious beliefs and endorsement of we have always done, for our right to freely Photographers: Kat Haygood, Chuck Marcelo, Cassie Quinn Amendment, which leads to an authoritar- gender equality and sexual freedom,” band play our music and speak our mind. advertising ian state. Think that’s an overreach? 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It might want to rethink how Chuck Miller Graphic Designer I 132 happened? Police arrested seven people, for our Palestinian audience, who organize this act looks to people who might want to reportedly for “promoting sexual devian- elaborate bus trips to come from Palestine visit that amazing country. multimedia cy,” even though there is no law against to see us play. Jordan is the birthplace of It’s a place I had hoped to revisit. As a Stephen Mobley Social Media Manager l 123 homosexuality in Egypt — no less against our lead singer’s mother, a formative part gay man, am I no longer welcome? Brian Kennedy Video Producer █ the rainbow flag. of his identity and writing and a place we Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the nation’s Israel Luna Video Producer/DVtv host Brad Pritchett DVtv Host The band issued the following state- have always considered our second home. most-award-winning commentator in LGBT Brandi Amara Skyy DVtv Host ment: “Dear everyone, we were on a flight “We denounce the systemic prosecution media. His recently published memoir, “And to New York, where we will be teaching a of voices of political dissent. We denounce Then I Danced,” is available on Amazon.com, circulation workshop for the next two months, when the systemic prosecution of advocates Barnes & Noble or at your favorite bookseller. Linda Depriter Circulation Director l 120 the media frenzy began. We have not yet founders commented about the situation in Cairo, as An open letter to NRA-supported You have become the Dorian Grays of Robert Moore | Don Ritz we have received conflicting reports, and members of Congress legislators, except now we see you for honestly have not been able to figure out Dear …, what you really are: cowards, kneeling at affiliations/memberships what is actually happening. Our trusted I’m not one given to excess emotion; I the foot of that cold, stone faced NRA. Associated Press - Associate Member National Gay and Gay Journalists Association sources on the ground have not been able think I learned that from being in the Army. You now have a sense of how infuriated I Certified LGBT Business Enterprise to verify anything pertaining to the arrests And I have never written a letter like this am with you. And before you get all indig- or the alleged ban on future performances. one but it’s way overdue. nant, I want remind you of something you We hope everyone is safe and well, and ap- You who have long been supported by have long since forgotten: constitutionally, preciate your patience.” the NRA and have followed its commands you serve me, not the other way around. According to the BBC, the Egyptian state in lockstep, you are drenched in the blood I am so unbelievably angry at you be- news agency reported that public prosecu- of the massacred. I don’t mean that figura- cause I saw death in Vietnam and under- tor Nabil Sadek ordered an investigation tively, I mean that almost literally. stand its awful consequences. Young men,
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12 dallasvoice.com █ 10.20.17 10.20.17 █ dallasvoice 13 LIFE+STYLE Come on interview
back!The return of country diva Shania Twain
ontrary to popular belief, some neurological voice disorder called dyspho- Dallas Voice: Do you have enough leopard What was your introduction to the gay com- things do impress Shania Twain. nia couldn’t keep the genre subverter, who print gloves to go around for all the gays munity? I work with a lot of gay people and The country-pop icon and paragon once thought she’d never sing again, from to partake in celebrating your come- they’re just a part of my almost daily family C back? Shania Twain [Laughing]: I should world. So, they’re just part of my friends and of leopard print has great admiration for recording her long-overdue fifth LP, Now. her LGBTQ fans, who she says have be- Released in September, Twain wrote every make them, right? What do you think would my community. I guess more when I started come guiding lights in her song, and her shiny résumé be the preferred fabric? Silk or…? to become successful, I was really sur- rounded by more creative people, and there own life. got even shinier when the Velour. Yeah, like, velvet. are so many creative people in this industry We need a million of those by tomorrow. Twain’s inspiring story album instantly seized the who are gay, both men and women. It just But first, Shania, after all these years, is one of survival, from No. 1 spot on the Billboard becomes the norm. her childhood hardships albums and country charts. how do you explain your connection to the LGBTQ community? I can’t real- During some of your rough patches, did while growing up in the Country-pop’s comeback you get any sage advice from your gay small town of Timmins, queen was an open book ly explain my connection in any sort of theoretical way to anyone. But I would say friends? Oh, I get good advice from gay Ontario, where she raised during our recent conver- my intentions are to inspire and connect friends all the time! I think more than any- her three younger siblings sation, speaking passion- with people, to be relatable then and now. thing I’m inspired by the spirit of where the after her parents died in a ately and candidly about I think that it is what resonates — we relate gay community is right now and that con- car accident in 1987, to her her LGBTQ activism at the to one another, we relate to struggle, and viction to be who you are. I love standing up 2009 divorce from Robert onset of her country career then surviving struggle and celebrating who for that. It’s just so important to be transpar- “Mutt” Lange, producer of Twain’s cross- in 1993, having to “agree to disagree” with we are and what we are and appreciating ent and open about who you are and to not over behemoth, 1997’s Come on Over. The those who aren’t pro-gay, and bringing that as a community of people regardless of hide behind fear. best-selling country album of all time was drag queens and Bud-guzzlin’ bros togeth- what it is. Just celebrating together to the Have you clung to that sentiment as a way a game-changer with an impressive track er with “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!” anthemic nature of some of those songs, to push past your own personal pain? record — 40 million copies sold globally, But, also, you don’t get Shania Twain on and on this new album there are several like Completely! I mean, my whole transition into 50 weeks atop the Billboard country charts the phone without reminiscing on 1998’s that as well. where I am now in this moment has been facing fears and taking that leap of faith my- over three years, 11 singles — that Twain is VH1 Divas, when Twain shared the stage Is there something specific you hope to convey to LGBTQ audiences with this self, and that would be my advice to anyone still champion in the female-artist arena. with an epic mix of icons — Aretha Frank- out there. A gay person who has been living Fifteen years after dropping her last lin, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Gloria album? Surviving against the odds. A song like “I’m Alright” — just that statement there behind their fears and then makes that cou- juggernaut, 2002’s Up!, Twain, 52, is again Estefan — for one of the most legendary, and telling yourself, “I’m alright. I’ve made it rageous decision to start living as who they demonstrating slay status to her legions gay-loved nights in diva hair-story. █ through. I’ve survived.” And with a fist-in- really are and stop pretending and embrace of loyal, boot-stompin’ queer fans. Even a — Chris Azzopardi the-air attitude, with conviction. it — it takes a lot of courage.
14 dallasvoice.com █ 10.20.17 For me, I’ve just learned that there’s no time Woman!” — and this is, what, 20 years ago? to waste. You need to take that leap and be — I’m over that come a long time ago. A who you are, and we’re in a society now that lot of straight men sing “Man! I Feel Like a is making it easier. We still have a long way Woman!” just for the sheer entertainment of to go, but there are a lot more outlets. it. So, I think songs like that have been great, But the gay community — and minority com- maybe, contributors to bringing us together, munities in general — are always fighting. I if not for anything than just for the common have a song on the album called “Swingin’ denominator of music and owning that for with My Eyes Closed” and it’s a fun party whatever it means to them, and that breaks song, but the true depth of the song is about down barriers. even when you can’t see what is in front of How do you reflect on your gender-bending you, you still have to move forward. You can’t style, when you donned menswear, in move backwards; you gotta keep moving that video? I like to have a sense of humor forward and fighting for that freedom to exer- about everything, especially things that can cise independence and courage. have a lot of tension. A song like “Man! I Feel There couldn’t be a better time for a song Like a Woman!” just smacks it dead for me. like that. In 2013, you tweeted about the The audience issue is not something I worry Supreme Court overturning the Defense of about. I’m respectful to my audience and Marriage Act, saying, “Congrats to every- I appreciate them for relating to my music one celebrating equality today in the U.S. regardless of their point of view on whatever #loveislove.” Why is it important for you it is, whether it’s politics or social issues. I’m to take a stand on gay rights and other not here to judge. LGBTQ issues? I just feel very saddened Tell me about the first time you encountered by any kind of oppression in our society in a Shania drag queen. I went to an imposter today’s day and age. I mean, it’s so negative. show in Las Vegas and it was incredible. You Equality should be a no-brainer, automatic, brought up the country world and maybe all the way around. We need to have mutual how that might be more conservative, but respect all the way around. Supremacy of it’s funny, three of the artists that were in the any sort is just poison. I just feel like we’re show were myself, Reba McEntire and Dolly not above each other in any way and mutual Parton. I thought that was so wonderful. It’s respect and an admiration for an individu- like, “OK, we’re country artists, and we’re al’s abilities, talents, heart, commitment — I in there!” Any artist that is, on a visual level, mean, what does that have to do with any very expressive would make a great imposter minority status that we might be labeled with night subject! today, whatever that may be? Certainly, I What is the one thing a queen cannot go know that gays feel that. without if they truly want to feel like How does it feel knowing that your songs Shania Twain? Probably something leopard “Forever and For Always” and “From this print, and I would say a top hat. The boots, Moment On” have probably been the first for sure! dance at a number of same-sex marriag- For gay men everywhere, 1998 was one of es? Awww! That’s lovely. It’s so lovely. But the best years as it was the inaugural love is beautiful, and music is very much a VH1 Divas, the best and most iconic. It part of our lives and monumental moments doesn’t get any better than you, Mariah of our lives. Carey, Gloria Estefan, Celine Dion, Aretha Because country music has long been Franklin and guest performer Carole King. deemed conservative in its views, could Of them, who are you still in touch with? we speak as openly as we are now about Mariah Carey. Celine Dion. We still cross LGBTQ issues at the beginning of your paths — it’s great. I always like to catch Ma- career? I mean, I did. You know what this is riah when she is live; Celine, too. It was such really about? This is about pro-equality, this a wonderful group of ladies, really terrific. is about pro-mutual respect. And if you’re Who most lived up to the diva title during really for those things in life, then why would the show? I think Mariah had the biggest there be any boundaries? Why would you hair, so probably her! side where there are? Why would you draw a You were second, I think. I was! I said, “OK, line there? I gotta look at Mariah’s hair. I want to try for In the country community, I think it comes it to be as big as hers,” because she has down to the fear of potentially alienating this naturally big, amazing hair. So I’m like, conservative fans. I think everybody has “Come on, let’s go for it. I know Mariah’s the right to their opinion, and that I would gonna have bigger hair than me, so I’m gon- never argue with. That is a huge part of free- na go for it and have fun with it.” She has dom of speech and mutual respect, having that hair that I want, that naturally big hair the right to your own opinion. If you’re not with this gorgeous wave and those ringlets. pro-gay, then you’re not pro-gay, and we just When you all performed “Natural Woman” have to agree to disagree. I would never get as your encore, I wasn’t sure who was into a fist fight with somebody who didn’t stealing the spotlight: Mariah’s hair or agree. I just think that would be counterpro- Aretha. I know! Nobody can kill Aretha’s ductive. So, I think we all have to respect spotlight. each other’s opinions on these issues.
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10.20.17 █ dallasvoice 15 L+S stage A very gay ‘Pride’ More farce than drawing-room comedy, WTT’s Austen adaptation tickles
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16 dallasvoice.com █ 10.20.17 Truth be told, critics can grow weary of constrained by its scenes and casting the energy and ravenous timing of a farce. reviewing shows based on the same source limitations. A passing knowledge of the The actors wear a mix of Empire-waist- material over and over. There’s only so plot points — the estrogen-heavy Bennets ed frocks, Reeboks and jeans; the music much Shakespeare, Rodgers & Hammer- (Bob Hess and Wendy Walsh) have been queues are more hip-hop than Handel, stein, Nutcracker and Moliere the human saddled with four unmarried daughters more disco than dirge. This Bennet clan re- brain can withstand in a lifetime. and no assets except an estate that will sembles the Fezziwigs, not the Granthams. Among those over-exposed items in the pass to a cousin with Mr. Bennet’s death Anachronisms can be hit-or-miss; the public domain is surely Jane Austen — a — are trying to find marriageable material. forced Mod ‘60s extravagance of Water- masterful constructor of smart-observed Jane (Kate Paulsen) is the eldest beauty Tower’s One Man, Two Guvnors last season social comedies in novel form that play- and prize filly in the pony show of bucolic was so incessantly hectoring I darted at wrights, screenwriters and librettists have courtship. Younger Lizzy (Jenny Ledel) intermission faster than Napoleon leaving exhausted for two centuries. (This year is defiantly anti-marriage, embracing her Russia. Here, director Joanie Schultz hits was the 200th anniversary of her death plainness and affinity for reading over the sweet-spot with Hamill’s script, which at age 41.) She only turned out six novels quadrilles and small-talk. Onto the estate balances between bawdy Restoration come- plus some short stories, but appears Mr. Darcy (John dy and Ferris Beuller’s Day Off. There’s very even Emma became Clueless, PRICDE & PREJUDICE Michael Marrs), a priggish but little winking at the audience; Ledel and Addison Theatre Centre, and Pride & Prejudice became 15650 Addison Road. fabulously wealthy bachelor Marrs play only Lizzy and Darcy, and with Through Nov. 5. Bridget Jones’ Diary (book, WaterTowerTheatre.org. who seems to have as much a focus that gives a classic through-line to movie and sequels!). Just disdain for Lizzy and she him. the show. But she allows everyone else to how much Regency era social satire is a Of course they actually love each other, ham it up like William Shatner on a bender. third millennium curmudgeon expected to though ego makes them take two full The actors are having a ball, and the au- endure? acts to acknowledge it. The formula has dience willing joins them. Brandon Potter The correct answer appears to be, “At been reliably employed from Taming of the in three roles — the boorish Mr. Collins, least one more.” For Kate Hamill’s clever Shrew through Big Bang Theory, so Austen the lecherous Mr. Wickham and the catty and fast-paced adaptation by Austen’s doesn’t deserve all the credit, but the idea Miss Bingley — creates three distinction signature opus, Pride & Prejudice, now at of a dreamy, unreachable millionaire, the scene-stealers; Justin Duncan cuts a dash- Addison’s WaterTower Theatre, is a kind sisterly worry about “marrying well” and ing figure as Mr. Bingley and a riotously of exception-that-proves-the-rule that ubiq- the proto-feminist idea of not settling for sourpussed spinster; Bob Hess’ weary Mr. uity is not a vice when accompanied by a man you don’t love has hardly been Bennet transforms into a dithery country WTT does Austen as a lively, cross-dressing flourishes of great style. bettered. It’s a drawing-room comedy of maiden; and Steph Garrett emerges in Act comedy. (Photos courtesy Jason Anderson) It matters, I suppose, that the source manners that oozes primness. 2 from playing the flippant Lydia to being material is so familiar. A play is a much But not in this version. A mere eight ac- an imperious Lady Bracknell-esque dow- for this production: It’s wild… but also nimbler medium than a novel, but one tors portray more than 14 characters with ager. That may be the perfect metaphor Wilde. █ Striking out at the bars? We have something right up your alley! City View LGBT Bowling League Antique Mall starting Friday, October 27th FALL SALE Registration Oct. 20th - 6:30pm - 9pm 15-50% OFF Everyone bowls FREE! October 25-29 Bring your partner and kids! Antique Flea Market League starts Nov. 3rd thru Feb. 9th; $20 per nite ONE DAY ONLY! l New Bowlers welcome RAIN OR SHINE! l FREE lessons by certified coaches l SAT. 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Out baritone Michael Chioldi Michael Chioldi can barely remember a time before he loved to ham it up onstage. makes his Dallas Opera debut But becoming an operatic baritone? Well, — just another step following his that took a while longer to realize. philosophy of carpe diem “I came to opera through acting,” the out singer says over a coffee inside the Winspear Opera House. He liked musical ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editor theater and light operetta roles. But it was [email protected] his father who foresaw a serious future in
18 dallasvoice.com █ 10.20.17 Michael Chioldi took on the role of Abimelech — ‘who has one aria and dies’ — for the chance to make his Dallas Opera debut. (Photo courtesy Karen Almond/Dallas Opera) opera. specific path. “My dad said, ‘When your voice catch- He jokes that the career of a baritone is, es up with your acting, you’ll be a star,’” “we all start with Papageno [in Mozart’s he recounts. Initially, the assessment Magic Flute] and we end with Wotan [in stung the younger Chioldi as a criticism; Wagner’s Ring Cycle]. And back when now he sees it as a useful insight into a I was thin and pretty, I did all the very career arc that he jokingly assesses as light-baritone repertoire. But as my voice imbuing him with the title King of the grew, I cultivated my [work with] Verdi, Middle. which I love.” (In 2013, the bicentennial Baritones, you see, are “middles” in year of Verdi’s birth, he debuted in five many ways — the mid-range between Verdi roles in a single season.) counter-tenor and tenor at the top and “I love the Verdi repertoire because he bass and basso-profundo at the bottom. loved baritones — I am convinced he was They are often the villains, the heavies writing for himself through the baritone and the “best friends” in opera, not the voice,” Chioldi says. Verdi even special- leading man. And Chioldi ized in putting baritones in concedes that while he SAMSON & DALILA leading roles: The title charac- doesn’t have the name Winspear Opera House, ters in Macbeth and Rigoletto, recognition of, say, Paulo 2403 Flora St. Oct. 20–Nov. 5. and the juicy lead of Iago in DallasOpera.org. Szot (though he has been Otello, among others. But he included in the Barihunks fan-boy blog), stresses, he’s more than content with his he works constantly in a variety of roles. “middle” honorific; he has come to realize “I’ve spent many years working at big that he accomplishes more with his talent regional houses. I just feel very fortunate, than he once imagined. very lucky,” he says. “About 10 years ago, I thought of Chioldi has been a staple in North myself, ‘I’m just a performer, just an Texas operas for a number of years now, entertainer,’ but I see it differently now,” with four or five local productions … all he says. “I’ve met so many established with the Fort Worth Opera, though. With and impressive people along the way. I’ve Saint-Saens’ Samson & Dalila — which sung for Congress, and when these peo- opens the Dallas Opera’s season this week ple come up and say, ‘Thank you — this — Chioldi marks his Dallas debut. let’s me do my job better,’ I realize, the “It’s funny — sometimes you work arts are [more than entertainment] — they for one company in a city and the other are the fabric of society.” [company] doesn’t hire you. Opera is still Chioldi shamelessly embraces the one of those businesses where there’s a cliche that opera singers tend to be bigger, pecking order,” he says. Which is one rea- though he proudly stays fit while conced- son by he took on the role of Abimelech in ing he’s more bear than twink. Samson. He just wrapped performing the “I’ve tried to maintain my physical larger role of the High Priest in another fitness — I’m still the most in-shape bari- production, but accepted this part — “I tone for my class… and there’s no rotten have one aria in Act 1, then I die,” he mayonnaise in this hot face!” he winks jokes — for the chance to work with mae- about avoiding Botox. “Sometimes I’m a stro Emmanuel Villaume and everyone bit of an operatic pig, because I like the else at the Winspear. high notes. You know, you cook what you “I wanted to get to Dallas and sing love to eat, and I have good high notes, so my debut here,” he says. “I’d rather get I go to my strengths. My timbre and color onstage and in front of the Dallas Opera has gotten darker but the tone is still high. [artists and audiences] than to [worry I’m right in the meat of my vocal prowess. about the size of the part].” I’m having a big second act.” It’s all part of a journey that Chioldi has That second act is more than just career shepherded wisely, but with a sense of highlights; less than a year ago, he and humor. his long-time partner wed in a blowout at “When you work in the bigger com- Trinity Church on Wall Street and Broad- panies, unless you’re a star, time is too way. precious so you have to be a quick study “We had a faaabbulous wedding,” to fit in. But I had an opportunity for 10 Chioldi coos. “It was wall-to-wall with years at [New York] City Opera to col- the Who’s Who of opera people and great laborate with directors and conductors.” friends and family. And, at least that day, That experience helped Chioldi explore he wasn’t King of the Middle — he was and refine his craft… and also carve out a King of the World. █
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Chilling ghost story ‘Haunted’ best bets get limited run in Lewisville
Barry has been living in the shadow of his parents’ murder for 30 years. Now at a breaking point, and with the support of his boyfriend Kevin, Barry returns to the scene of the crime to solve this life-changing mystery. Haunted is a world premiere ghost story by local playwright Bruce R. Coleman, and runs for one-weekend-only in Lewisville.
DEETS: MCL Grand, 100 N. Charles St., Lewisville. OurProductionsTheatreCo.org. Friday 10.20
Denise Lee croons for you at TCC’s After Dark
The Turtle Creek Chorale is known for making great music, but they turn the song singing over to local legend Denise Lee for one night. She will serenade attendees of After Dark, TCC’s annual fundraiser and party. You’ll enjoy cocktails, desserts and of course live music, all while supporting Dallas’ storied gay men’s chorus.
DEETS: 3015 at Trinity Groves, 3015 Gulden Lane. 8–11 p.m. $75–$125. TurtleCreekChorale.com/after-dark.
There are only two Gaybingos left in 2017, and to spook you up, this month’s carries a ‘haunted’ theme. And the Rose Room will be haunted, by an appearance by former RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 1 contestant Tammie Brown. So grab your ghoulfriend and drag yourself out for fun and Saturday 10.21 funny at this fundraiser for the Resource Center. DEETS: The Rose Room inside S4, Drag Racer Tammie Brown appears 2911 Cedar Springs Road. 5 p.m. doors, 6 p.m. show. at a ‘Haunted’ Gaybingo $25–$45, MyResourceCenter.org. IMMIGRATION Same-sex couples and Individuals Green Cards ❖ Fiancé Visas ❖ Citizenship Waivers ❖ Appeals ❖ Deportation Defense Olinger Law, pllc Lynn S. Olinger Board Certified Immigration Law Specialist
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The revue comedy show ‘Forbidden Broadway,’ which lovingly mocks theater, comes to the Eisemann this weekend.
Joanie Schultz. Reviewed this week. ARTSWEEK WaterTower Theatre, 15650 Addison Road. THEATER Through Nov. 5. WaterTowerTheatre.org. Adding Machine: The Musical. A darkly comic Rent. The 20th anniversary tour of the musical adaptation of Elmer Rice’s incendiary groundbreaking musical returns to Cowtown. 1923 play about the effects of automation on the Bass Performance Hall, 525 Commerce St., modern American male psyche. Directed by Fort Worth. Oct. 17–22. BassHall.com. Blake Hackler. Final weekend. Theatre 3, 2800 Routh St. in the Quadrangle. Stiff. Actress Sherry Jo Ward won two recent Theatre3Dallas.com. DFW Theater Critics Forum Awards for her solo show about her diagnoses with Stiff Person Application Pending. Janelle Lutz (End of the Syndrome. She brings back the show for three Rainbow) stars as 40 characters, including a consecutive Tuesdays at Stage West, kindergarten assistant thrust into the cutthroat 821 W. Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth. world of upper-class pre-school admissions. StageWest.org. Circle Theatre, 230 W. 4th St., Fort Worth. Oct. 19–Nov. 18. CircleTheatre.com. COMEDY Blood Fest: A Play About Sibling Rivalry. Forbidden Broadway: The 35th Anniversary A world premiere from Mark-Brian Sonna, Tour. The comedy revue show that mocks the with an appropriately ghoulish title for Halloween. best of Broadway, from Phantom to Studio Theatre at Addison Theatre Centre, Book of Mormon. Eisemann Center for 15650 Addison Road. Oct. 19–Nov. 5. Performing Arts, 2351 Performance Drive, MBSProductions.net. Richardson. Through Sunday. The Full Monty. Uptown Players presents this EisemannCenter.com. story of working class men who start a strip show to raise money. Book by Terrence McNally, score FINE ART by David Yazbek. Kalita Humphreys Theater, Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Oct. 20–Nov. 5. the Pumpkins. The DMA features the only Infinity UptownPlayers.org. Mirror Room of its kind in a North American Hair. The hippie musical. Final weekend. collection, this tribute to the gourd by Japanese Wyly Theatre, 2400 Flora St. artist Yayoi Kusama. Dallas Museum of Art, Through Oct. 22. DallasTheaterCenter.org. 1717 Harwood St. Oct. 1–Feb. 25. DMA.org. A Lost Leonardo. With his artistic career in EXHIBITIONS turmoil, the Renaissance master starts an Pumpkin Patch Village. Dallas Arboretum, association with Cesare Borgia in this comedy. 8525 Garland Road. Through Nov. 22. Presented by Amphibian Stage Productions. DallasArboretum.org. 120 S. Main St., Fort Worth. Through Nov. 5. AmphibianStage.com. State Fair of Texas. Final weekend. 1300 Robert B. Cullum Blvd. BigTex.org. Occupant. WingSpan Theatre opens its 20th anniversary season with a late play by multiple HALLOWEEN Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Albee. Screams. Annual Halloween-themed park on Final weekend. Bath House Cultural Center, the Scarborough Faire grounds, 2511 FM 66, 521 E. Lawther Drive. WingSpanTheatre.com. Waxahachie. Through Oct. 28. Pride and Prejudice. New adaptation of ScreamsPark.com. Jane Austen’s classic, directed by
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Dark Hour Haunted House. Primetime for the THEATER If you did another Divas, what other diva She’s such a great creative person and best scary-creepy mansion tour in North Texas. Haunted. Local playwright and director Bruce would you want to sing alongside? a super songwriter and really uses her 701 Taylor Drive, Plano. Weekends and Halloween R. Coleman wrote this mystery about a man Rihanna, for sure. She’s just so awesome. brain, so it’s lovely to watch her. through Oct. 31. DarkHourHauntedHouse.com plagues by his parents’ murder 30 years earlier, I love her voice; I never get tired of it. Lastly, how many costume changes can and his journey to return to the scene of the crime. Presented by Our Productions Theatre Co. MCL Never, never. And we hear it so much on gay audiences look forward to when Grand, 100 N. Charles St., Lewisville. Oct. 26–29. the radio, right? She’s every second song you hit the road? How many would a FRIDAY 10.20 972-724-2147. OurProductionsTheatreCo.org. on the radio and I just never get tired of it. gay audience find ideal, do you think? FUNDRAISER Ironbound. A dark comedy about a new immigrant Even with “Love on the Brain” — I mean, At least 15. Whoa! OK, that is a friggin’ After Dark. Turtle Creek Chorale’s annual searching for love and success. A regional it just doesn’t get better than that. So, high demand. I’d have to change every fundraiser, a dessert-and-cocktails party with premiere and the season opener for a performance by Denise Lee. 3015 at Trinity she’d definitely be on my list. two songs! Kitchen Dog Theater. Trinity River Arts Center, Groves, 3015 Gulden Lane. 8–11 p.m. $75–$125. I’m hoping for you and Taylor to team up As long as you bring out the iconic en- 2600 N. Stemmons Freeway, ste. 180. TurtleCreekChorale.com/after-dark. – our two country-gone-pop queens. sembles, no harm, no foul. Gotta have Oct. 26–Nov. 12. KitchenDogTheater.org. Taylor would be a good one. She’d be a a little flashback moment here and there, SATURDAY 10.21 must on Divas, for sure. She’s awesome. yeah! COMMUNITY GayBingo. This game and fundraising party benefits Resource Center. This month’s theme is My Haunted Gaybingo, and features Drag Racer Tammie Brown. Station 4, 3911 Cedar Springs Road. 5 p.m. doors, 6 p.m. show. $25–$45. MyResourceCenter.org.
CONCERTS Something Wicked This Way Comes. The Oak Lawn Band performs a free concert of spook- tacular music for the season. Oak Lawn United Methodist Church, 3014 Oak Lawn Ave. 8 p.m. OakLawnBand.org. The revue comedy show ‘Forbidden Broadway,’ which lovingly mocks theater, comes to the Eisemann this weekend. TUESDAY 10.24 FILM The Haunting. The influential Robert Wise film from 1960, in which the ghosts are never seen. Screens as part of the Tuesday Big Movie New Classic Series at Landmark’s Magnolia Theatre in the West Village, 3699 McKinney Ave. Screens at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.
THURSDAY 10.26 CABARET Glitterbomb Denton. Weekly queer variety show with a new lineup every Thursday. Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chain Saw Repair, 1125 E. University Drive, Denton. 9:30 p.m.
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10.20.17 █ dallasvoice 23 L+S scoop Ask Howard How to do the wrong thing right
Happy nocturnal tricks-and-treats to all you optional. I don’t smoke, nor drink alcohol, I’ve diabolically dear boyz-of-the-night! Candy-ass never used drugs… and I’ve also never had Howard here, in keeping with the scream- a lover, or even a long-term boyfriend. I came worthy spirit of the season, is about to go all to peace many years ago with the sober truth whistleblower on a couple of your more devilish that I’ve never been, to phrase it kindly as tricks (pun!) that you play so ghoulishly on your, possible, “a looker.” As Lincoln said, “Show me ahem, clientele: The “loads” of call-boy queries a man without vices, and I’ll show you a man I regularly receive astound even jaded ol’ me, without virtues.” My sole “vice” is that every so let us plunge deep, deep into the double- couple months I’m able to afford a splurge for entendre bowels of caveat emptor advertising sex, although I’m too ashamed to rent locally; as I lift the abominable veil of miasmic fog from instead, I always import someone here from the swampier Rent-A-Ramboner ploys. But out-of-state for an “overnighter.” fret not, shady boyz! I won’t expose all your Long story short, I’m flying in a new boy the demented favorites; but let’s everyone now turn day before Halloween — a really nice-sounding rapaciously “pro” for just a moment, drop our kid from Charleston, whom I’ve been emailing filthy drawers, toss a few wadded Benjamins and texting for a couple weeks now. His ad’s onto the hotel nightstand, and get frighteningly headline says he’s a big “NC Buddy” and my right to it. experiences with guys from North Carolina Dear Howard, have always gone well; it was only as I was I live on a very fixed income, which on a purchasing his airfare when I stupidly realized retired teacher’s pension is mandatory, not Charleston isn’t actually in North Carolina?
Howard, please tell me that “NC” is oblate BoyAhoy, Bender, Hornet, Scruff and the like, for, say, “Network Computer” Buddy, or “Non although most the people at my office are on Competitive” Buddy, or “No Complaints” them — the Millennials, in any case — but Buddy? — T. Rex those sites are way too “shameless” for me. Dear Trixie, My generation didn’t selfie our own dick pix. Oh, lordy, girlene, I don’t know whether to So what do I do? I pay-to-play with the gay-for- laugh at you or cry for you. But even Howard pay: Whenever I go online to hire an escort, had to do some research on this one. The though, the “advanced search filter” lists four news, sadly, isn’t particularly appetizing. I’d options of “safe sex” to choose from: 1. Always. much rather report that “NC” stands for, oh, a 2. Sometimes. 3. Needs Discussion. 4. Never. buddy who enjoys (wink/wink!) consensually Naturally, I only choose “always,” but what “non-consensual” twisted sex, or “negative does it mean when a “safe only” escort lists control” S&M bedroom adventures. However, for his “preferences” that he’s “friendly” to I’m afraid you’ll be experiencing thrills with your providing a “BF Experience? ”Does it mean he “NC Buddy” more along such sodomite-lines of won’t mind pretending to be my boyfriend when obfuscation that one would, most likely, never we’re out in public, or, does it mean that he’s request even an edgy “fetish” as this of his friendly to a long-term relationship with just one very own boyfriend/lover/spouse. In essence, client? — B.M.B. Trixalicious, when Mr. Rent-A-Dick arrives at Dear Bamboozled Mush Brains, your (please, God!) fleabag motel with (no Seriously, just how big was that pile of doubt) his portable rimming seat in tow, you used dildos you rode into town on? I’m one- should probably expect something just a trifle hundred-percent presuming here that you’re more…. um, “flavorfully homemade” for your one of my preciously adorable, fame-at-any- hors d’oeuvres’ course than mere felched cost boys, whose sole aim is but to see his spooge prior to taking him out to dinner: “NC” “shockingly” creative, I’m-such-an-innocent- Buddy is the abbreviation for “nature calls.” doe-among-wolves question published; if P.S. Make sure the room is well-stocked with so, congratulations, Bambi! The “Boyfriend towels! Experience” means that your very “magnetic” full of “positive” energy “safe only” hired Dear Howard, rental cock will be positively elated to blast a I’m in my late 40s with a bit of a jellyroll/ massively gifted wad up your tweaking butt, muffin-top kind of thing going on around the sans using any condom whatsoever. That’s middle. My hair’s all taken the last chopper what his “safe only” ad, promising to provide out of Saigon, and what few listless stragglers you a fully “friendly BF Experience” you’ll never remain are now “melanin-challenged” … all forget means. right, I’m closer to, like, my early … OK, mid- — Howard Lewis Russell 50s, we’ll say. Anyhow, Howard, my point is: I Do you (attention-seeking freaks and all) haven’t been cruised by even so much as one have a question — about etiquette, love, life single man in at least a dozen years. What little or work — that needs a special spin from sex I get, I have to hire it. I’m scared witless Howard? Send your problem to AskHoward@ about putting myself out there on Grindr, DallasVoice.com and he may answer it.
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