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Theatre Group in Los Angeles. But first, But it hasn’t lost its impact. Michael Urie: he took a few minutes to chat with OUT Texas native talks 'Torch Song' North Texas about Torch Song, the so-called “What Arnold’s striving for [in Torch Song] and LGBT history dangers of playing gay characters and what — marriage equality, to be a father, to you have to do when you visit North Texas. have the same kind of life his mother had even though he’s a gay man — he wasn’t When the first staging of Harvey Fierstein’s play began with the first staging advocating for everyone to do that [when Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song of International Stud, the first installment of he wrote the plays]. He was just saying Trilogy opened at New York City’s Richard the trilogy, in 1978 at the Off-Off- they should have the option,” Urie said. “At Allen Center, in October 1981, “it blew Broadway theater, La the time, that idea was quite radical. It blew people’s minds” that a gay man would be MaMa, people’s minds that someone would be fighting for a chance to be a husband and out there asking for those things. In 1982, a father, to see a gay man that had adopted a son was like science fiction. It was exciting, but it was shocking, too.
“Now, we have marriage equality. Now there are lots of ways for gay people to have children. That doesn’t shock people like it once did,” he continued. “But what we’ve found that is still extremely topical is the conversation Arnold has with his mother in the third act — about acceptance, about love and respect — and the conversations he has with [his bisexual lover] Ed about being true to himself, about feeling respectful, feeling self-respectful.
“These conversations are absolutely still happening all over the world,” Urie said. “Sure, there are certain places where you can see people living out and proud and free. But there are lots of other places where it’s still a real struggle. I have met so many people, waiting at the stage door to tell me that what Arnold talks about in this nearly 40-year-old play still resonates with their lives.”
E.T.C. It opened at the Off Broadway And that, Urie said, is why he feels it is so Players Theatre later in May. important to take this Torch Song revival on Part two, Fugue In A Nursery, was staged the road: to bring that message to people to have a family and a life at La MaMa a year later, in February 1979. all across the country that need to hear that like his mother had, actor Michael Urie Torch Song Trilogy — which included the affirmation. said. third play, Widows and Children First! — opened in October 1981, starring Fierstein “Yes, this is a totally different time from Today, more than 35 years later, marriage himself as Arnold. The trilogy opened on 1982. We have the internet now, and social equality is the law of the land, and LGBT Broadway in June 1982, winning two Tony media. There are lots of [LGBT people] families are — almost — commonplace. Awards, two Drama Desk Awards and the on TV and in the movies,” he said. “But And yet, Torch Song still resonates. Theatre World Award. sitting quietly in a theater, listening while Urie, an openly-gay actor who was born the drama is playing out on stage where a in Houston and grew up in Plano, just Fierstein adapted the trilogy for the big man is fighting for the right to be who he finished a 103-performance run starring screen, and the movie version of Torch is — you can’t ignore that. You have to take as drag queen Arnold Beckoff in Second Song Trilogy, starring Fierstein as Arnold, that in. Stage’s revival of Torch Song on Broadway, along with Matthew Broderick and Anne which followed an Off-Broadway run in Bancroft, opened in 1988. “If you go to the theater to find yourself, the fall of 2017. you will find yourself in Torch Song.” For the revival, Urie said, Fierstein has Now Urie is gearing up to hit the road as trimmed the play down to about three Urie was born in Houston, but when Arnold in a touring production of the show, hours. “It’s the same play, with all the same he was about 6 or 7, he said, he moved set to start in the fall of this year at Center characters’ it just happens faster,” he said. with his family to Plano. He graduated
10 OUT north texas 2019 from Plano Senior High School in 1998, “You don’t get typecast as ‘gay,” because if my generation is not diligent enough in then attended Collin County Community there’s not just one kind of gay character,” learning what it was like then, or if maybe College for a year before being accepted at Urie said. “I have been fortunate to play the generation that came before us has the Julliard School and moving to New York many different gay characters, and no two tried to protect us, keep us from seeing City at the age of 19. have been the same. I guess I have probably that horror they lived in. Or maybe they played more gay characters than straight just don’t want to talk about it any more,” Urie got his first big break in 2006 when he characters, but I haven’t been pigeon- Urie said. “When people come back from was cast as Marc St. James, the gay assistant holed.” war, they often don’t want to talk about to Vanessa Williams’ character, on the TV what they went through. It’s just too much show Ugly Betty. He stayed with the show In December 2018, the Gay Men’s Health to go through it again. That night, Harvey until it was cancelled in 2010. Crisis organization in New York honored read off all those names — Alvin Ailey, Urie with its Howard Ashman Award in Keith Haring, Freddie Mercury, Leigh Even though Marc St. James was openly recognition of “his contributions to the Bowery, and so many more who were cut gay, at the time, Michael Urie was not, the LGBT community and the fight against down too soon. actor said. “Privately, I was open about my HIV/AIDS.” For Urie, it was not only a life and my sexuality,” he said. “But I was great honor, it was also a lesson in some “When you think about it, it makes you not out of the closet publicly. Really, I had heartbreaking history. want to hold on tight and not stop working no public persona at all then. I had done no — ever.” interviews, and no one really cared about Ashman, he explained was the “great writer my personal life.” and lyricist” perhaps best known for the songs he wrote, with Alan Mencken, for By Tammye Nash Still, as with many LGBT actors, there Disney movies like The Little Mermaid, [email protected] was — and for many, there still is — “this Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. Ashman fear of getting typecast. I mean, typecast died of AIDS in March 1991, just a couple in general, but if you were typecast as gay, of months shy of his 41st birthday. well then, that was it. You’d only get cast as gay characters,” he said. The Ashman Award event was held at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater in “That was a fear of mine,” Urie admitted. New York City, and “Harvey Fierstein “But I have found out that’s not actually presented me with the award,” Urie true.” said.
Urie said that while Ugly Betty was his first “First, though, he sang Ursula’s song big break overall, his first big break on stage from The Little Mermaid, which is came with the play The Temperamentals, and a song Howard Ashman wrote the in it, too, he played a gay character. lyrics for,” he continued. “Ursula the Sea Witch is based on Divine, from The play told the story of the founding the John Waters movies, and Pat Carroll of The Mattachine Society, the first did the voice. I don’t know if Howard sustained LGBT rights organization, and Ashman knew it, but Alan Mencken had the love affair between two of its founding always wanted Harvey Fierstein to sing members, Harry Hay and Rudi Gernreich. the song, and Harvey sang it that night. Urie played Gernreich, winning a Lucille And he was totally brilliant; he brought the Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor. house down.”
“That was a very big play for me,” Urie said, After singing though, Fierstein “talked noting that the Mattachine Society was about Howard Ashman and his work. He founded in 1950, nearly 20 years before talked about so many other wonderful the Stonewall Riots. He also pointed out artists and creators whose lives were cut that Gernreich, who worked as a fashion short by AIDS, imagining what we would designer in Hollywood, ended up leaving have gotten from them if they had lived,” the organization he helped found because Urie recalled. his association with it was damaging his career. “It was a hugely eye-opening evening for me,” he “Think about it: being gay was hurting his continued. “My career in fashion!” Urie declared. “It’s hard generation is not ... to believe that now, but it just goes to show getting cut down by you what the ’50s were really like.” AIDS the way the Taking on that second gay character generation before us seemed like a huge gamble at the time, Urie was. said. But, despite his fears of being typecast, it turned out to be just the right move. “It makes me wonder
OUT north texas 2019 11 LGBT TEXAN(S) OF THE YEAR
Round Rock and returning incumbents gather information about drug traffickers There were four openly-LGBT gubernatorial candidates across the U.S. Celia Israel from Austin and Mary and money launderers. running in the 2018 mid-term elections. Gonzales from El Paso for a record FIVE Campaigning as an open lesbian, Valdez Dallas County’s former sheriff, Latina openly-LGBT lawmakers seated in the was a dark horse Democrat in the 2004 lesbian Lupe Valdez was one of them. Texas House of Representatives for the race for Dallas County sheriff, but she While Valdez did not succeed in her bid to 86th Legislature in 2019. surprised everyone by winning and leading oust Republican incumbent Greg Abbott, the way in turning Dallas County “bl;ue” for she brought in nearly 43 percent of the The slate of LGBT candidates also included the first time in decades — maybe ever. vote — an amazing feat for an openly- congressional candidate Lorie Burch and In 2016, Valdez hit the national stage when LGBT Democrat in a state-wide race in state Senate candidate Mark Phariss, she was a prime-time featured speaker such a deep red Republican stronghold. the two Democrats who came closer to at the Democratic National Convention, Valdez’s campaign signaled a huge step winning and raised more money than and rumors that she was planning a run forward for LGBT candidates — indeed, for Democrats have in forever in the GOP for higher office began to fly. But Valdez all progressive candidates — in Texas. And stronghold of Collin County, along with remained as sheriff until December 2017, for that reason, Dallas Voice named Lupe transgender man Finn Jones, who launched when she resigned and officially declared Valdez as our LGBT Texan of the year. a very credible campaign for the state her candidacy for governor. But Valdez wasn’t the only LGBT candidate House in Tarrant County. making history in Texas in 2018. At least 30 While Valdez didn’t win the governor’s openly-LGBT candidates made it through As Chuck Smith, then-CEO of Equality seat in Texas, her campaign still has the primaries and onto the general election Texas, noted after the election, just to be some victories to claim: Valdez closed the ballot in November. That included Julie part of the political conversation in Texas electoral gap between herself and Abbott Johnson and Jessica Gonzales in Dallas LGBT candidates must be elected at state by 6 percent compared to the 2014 election County, who won their bids for the Texas and local levels to legislative, judicial and when Abbott defeated popular and high- House of Representatives and have joined executive positions. Having five LGBT profile Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis. the newly-elected Erin people in the Legislature will make a Valdez got more than 1.7 million more Zweiner from difference when negative legislation is votes than Davis did, and almost 800,000 introduced. more votes than Abbott did in his first governor’s race. As for Valdez’s campaign, it was “transformative,” said In addition to being the first lesbian to LGBT Victory Fund run for governor in Texas, she was the first CEO Annise Parker, Latina to run for the office. And she was the former mayor only the fourth woman to receive a major of Houston who is party’s nomination for governor in Texas. herself a history- Had she won, Valdez would have been only making LGBT the third Catholic governor on Texas — candidate in Texas. Abbott is Catholic, as was Francis Lubbock And, she added, who served from 1861 to 1863. But Valdez Valdez knew would have been the first Texas governor “when she got to have been born Catholic rather than into it” that her converting after marrying a Catholic. run for governor was All of those factors figured into making a long shot, a total her election a long shot in red Texas. But uphill race. Valdez addressed that the night she won her runoff against Andrew White, son of Still, Parker said, Valdez former Gov. Mark White: “I am constantly is “an experienced hearing this is going to be such an uphill candidate” with a battle,” she told a crowd of supporters compelling personal story. gathered for her runoff. “Please, tell me when I didn’t have an uphill battle.” Valdez, a child of migrant Parker said Valdez connected to everyday workers who paid for her own people across Texas. college and earned a masters degree in criminology from UT Arlington, “Lupe is Texas,” Parker said. “She built reached the rank of captain in bridges. She connected to kids facing the U.S. National Guard before their own challenges. Win or lose, she was becoming a federal agent inspirational.” investigating fraud and abuse in the U.S. and By David Taffet working undercover [email protected] in South America to
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Discover what gives BIG D its name with the official LGBT Visitors Guide of North Texas, your go-to resource for travel planning tips, relocation resources, and Chamber of Commerce. Speaking of selecting a business that supports our relationships, marriage equality is now community and addresses your needs. the law of the land and we are excited to see more and more companies reaching From downtown dining to the best out to LGBT families. museums and attractions, we’ll help you navigate your way through our eclectic We are extremely grateful to you, gayborhoods and hidden gems. Whether our readers, for supporting us and to you plan your visit around one of our our advertisers for investing in our LGBT signature events, such as the Pride community. Our goal with OUT is Parade or the biggest Black Tie Dinner to spark your excitement every year in the nation, there is always a reason to when you receive this issue. And, as we celebrate in North Texas and we’ve got continue to evolve the magazine, we ask all the deets. that you provide us feedback so that we are able to continue meeting your needs We are very excited to present this as a visitor, community member and year’s edition to you and hope that it business. provides you with compelling content, new trends, thought-provoking topics As you turn the pages of this latest issue and inspiration. Our mission is to be of OUT, it is our sincere hope that you your voice in north Texas, to bring are inspired and enjoy this publication people together to tell your stories. created just for you. The importance of having a local LGBT media source is crucial to being Happy reading! recognized and it is vital to record our history. Leo Cusimano Publisher Business is all about relationships, and the LGBT community is proud to do business with people they know and trust, we are fiercely loyal. At OUT North Texas, we are proud of the relationships we have developed with our readers, advertisers, the convention and visitor’s bureaus, and the North Texas GLBT
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Greetings! play important roles in our region’s economy. I encourage readers to support As mayor of the city of Dallas, it is my these businesses and explore what they honor to congratulate OUT North Texas on have to offer to our city. its publication of the 2019 Official LGBT Visitors Guide. OUT North Texas has also been a reliable and useful resource for travelers, The OUT North Texas family has been a providing the latest information on the reliable and useful resource to the lesbian, city’s best entertainment, shopping and gay, bisexual and transgender community dining. The Voice Publishing Company’s (LGBT) and showcases the vibrancy of the long commitment to our community is city of Dallas. I believe that we are stronger commendable, and I wish OUT North as a city because of our diversity, and being Texas a successful edition. a welcoming community for all is more important now than ever. Again, thank you to OUT North Texas for consistently making a positive impact in Entrepreneurs, small businesses and our community. Fortune 500 firms are discovering the tremendous value of having a diverse workforce and community. That is what Best Regards, brings companies to Dallas and what encourages them to stay. The many Michael S. Rawlings retailers, companies, professionals and Mayor, City of Dallas service providers listed in this publication
ARLINGTON MAYOR JEFF WILLIAMS
Greetings! Texas Rangers and the WNBA’s Wings. I appreciate the contributions of all men As the Mayor of the City of Arlington, I and women as we work together to make would like to congratulate OUT North Texas Arlington and North Texas a special place to on the outstanding publication of the 2019 live, learn, work and play. An important part Official LGBT Visitors Guide. OUT North of our diversity is the strong and vibrant Texas continues to provide a beneficial LGBT community we have here in Arlington. resource to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and The American Dream City is a place where transgender (LGBT) community across our all residents can live their dream and find region, including right here in Arlington. success. I believe we are a stronger city because of our diversity and I want to thank I’m proud of this great city’s diversity, and The Voice Publishing Company and OUT it’s my honor and responsibility to make North Texas for their invaluable support of sure everyone in our community feels our city’s LGBT community. welcome and supported as they pursue their dreams and goals. OUT North Texas LGBT retailers, companies, professionals is a terrific example of that. The Visitors and service providers have so much to offer Guide highlights Arlington’s Downtown our city. OUT North Texas is showcasing that Cultural Arts District and our world- in a big way. I can’t wait to see your readers class Entertainment District. I’m excited here in The American Dream City in 2019 for both LGBT residents and visitors to and I want to recognize all of them for the experience everything we have to offer, positive impact they continue to have on the including the $250 million Texas Live! dining, region’s growth and economic momentum! entertainment and hospitality district and the new Live! by Lowes resort hotel, set to Sincerely, open in August 2019. We are also home to Six Flags Over Texas and three professional Jeff Williams sports franchises: the Dallas Cowboys, the Mayor, City of Arlington
14 OUT north texas 2019 FORT WORTH MAYOR BESTY PRICE It is my distinct pleasure to welcome you • The Cultural District...recognized as the to the city of Fort Worth, Texas. We hope “museum capital of the Southwest,” is that all of you will savor your stay in Fort home to world-class museums, one of the Worth and enjoy the unique mix of cultural country’s top-ranked zoos, and a multitude activities found only “Where the West of beautiful parks and gardens. Begins.” • Northside’s historic Stockyards area...a As Mayor, it is with great pride that I delightful journey into the city’s western would like to tell you about our city, a city heritage. You are sure to enjoy the area’s of cowboys, culture and community. In one many shops and restaurants while finding visit you can enjoy an enormous range of a real-life cowboy or two outfitted with experiences — from art to animals, from horses and even the cattle drive of the Fort fashion to family fun. We offer lessons in Worth Herd of longhorns! western history with a tour of the Historic Stockyard, auto racing at the Texas Motor One of our most valuable assets is Speedway or a relaxing night of shopping our people. Visitors often cite the “Fort and dining in downtown’s historic Worth Friendly” spirit of our citizens and Sundance Square. The choice is yours! businesses as the top reason they plan a return visit. We hope you enjoy your time While you are in Fort Worth, we hope you in Cowtown and make plenty of friends get a chance to visit: that last a lifetime.
• Our downtown area...a nationally noted Sincerely, model of successful urban renaissance filled with restaurants, museums, art Betsy Price galleries, theaters and an abundance of Mayor, City of Fort Worth retail shopping. The Sundance Square area of downtown is a “must-see” for everyone visiting the city.
PLANO MAYOR HARRY LAROSILIERE
Hello Friends! and JP Morgan Chase Bank NA who call Plano homes. We realize diversity On behalf of the City of Plano, I in action is inclusion. As a result, we am delighted to express heartdelf have been named one of the best and greetings and congratulations on safest cities to live in America. Our the Official LGBT Visitors Guide. We families enjoy great neighborhoods, call Plano the “City of Excellence,” an award winning school district and since we pride ourselves on being a a thriving business community. Our premierdestination to live, work and doors are wide open and we look play. We re a world-class, globally forward to seeing you soon in the “City diverse and inclusive city where of Excellence!” everyone is welcome. Warm regards, This has allowed us to attract many iconic companies such as Toyota North Harry LaRosiliere America, Liberty Mutual insurance Mayor, City of Plano
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friendly venues, Dallas has something for back to one of Dallas’ most influential and everyone. These are simply a few reasons authentic neighborhoods. why Dallas is the No. 1 visitor destination in Texas and one of the top cities in the Bishop Arts District: This South Dallas nation for conventions and events. favorite was once a hidden treat reserved for those who stumbled upon it and now Dallas’ many neighborhoods and it’s a must-see for locals and visitors entertainment districts have everything alike. The quaint streets, filled with funky you can imagine for an exciting and vintage stores, contemporary art galleries diverse visit. From family-friendly offerings and an abundance of bars and restaurants and quaint settings to vibrant nightlife and provide plenty of reasons to venture into exciting atmospheres, you can do and see this neighborhood. it all in Dallas’ various neighborhoods and surrounding cities. You really can do it all in Dallas! Dallas is the Official Home of the Frozen Margarita, so we are proud to introduce Downtown: The heart of the city, the Margarita Mile, a collection of the Dallas’ Downtown is in the middle of a city’s best and most brazen margaritas. resurgence thanks to a boom in hotel The Margarita Mile is a collection of the and retail development. It’s now a best and brightest margaritas in the city, On behalf of the entire VisitDallas thriving area where visitors can do it conveniently collected in a colorful app. organization, I’d like to extend a warm all – accommodations, food, culture, art, Thirsty for a little excitement? We have an welcome to our great city – Dallas! As shopping and entertainment. app for that! The FREE Margarita Mile app the ninth-largest U.S. city, and part of the is available on the Apple Store and Google fourth-largest metropolitan area in the Uptown: True to its name, Uptown is Play. Download now to start your tasting nation, Dallas is the top visitor destination the place to see and be seen. Full of tour. Visit www.MargaritaMileDallas.com in Texas. bars, restaurants and hip hotels, this for more details, to download the app and neighborhood is also home to the to sign up for our exclusive Margarita Mile Dallas is the leading business and financial American Airlines Center, home of the newsletter. center in the Southwest offering travelers Dallas Mavericks, Dallas Stars and host to an unparalleled array of amenities many top musicians. Let the bold, vibrant spirit of Dallas, delivered with first-class service. We are with a touch of Texas charm, guide the centrally located, have moderate climate, Oak Lawn: Voted one of America’s best way to your BIG Dallas moments. From and proud to offer an array of affordable gayborhoods, Oak Lawn is a thriving transportation to hotels, restaurants, retail accommodations and state-of-the-art community chock full of bars, retail, and entertainment venues, Dallas is ready facilities. Upon arrival, you will have a vast restaurants and clubs. This historic area to roll out our red carpet to greet you. selection of convenient transportation draws big crowds every weekend, as options to an abundance of hotels, does the annual Dallas Pride Parade Again, welcome to BIG D! Please accept entertainment and cultural districts, retail down Cedar Springs Road. But it’s not all my warmest wishes for an unforgettable destinations, surrounding communities nightlife in this neighborhood, it’s also visit to our city. I know you will enjoy your and more. home to the Cathedral of Hope, known as time here and leave with Dallas in your the world’s largest predominately LGBTQ heart. You will have the opportunity to congregation. experience Dallas in a BIG way! Our city Sincerely, is filled with so many unique experiences– Deep Ellum: Known as the birthplace from tasty treats from local celebrity of the blues in the early 1900s, this Phillip Jones chefs, to the cultural landscape in one neighborhood also played host to President and CEO of the nation’s largest arts districts, to musicians like Nirvana and Notorious VisitDallas first-class shopping and many family- B.I.G. Now, a current revival has brought new restaurants, music venues and shops
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OUT north texas 2019 19 TWO GAYBORHOODS
Lots of big cities have a gayborhood, call it, everyone knows this is the place gayborhood a cowboy flavor, and Kroger’s offering LGBT residents and visitors a place to go if you’re looking for the LGBT grocery store is as much a pick-up joint where they know they can go to eat, drink, community. and meeting place as a market. shop and play in a fun and gay-positive environment. There’s The Castro in San Oak Lawn was once a dodgy neighborhood OAK CLIFF Francisco and Chelsea in New York; South sandwiched between Downtown Dallas and Head southwest to find Oak Cliff, Beach in Miami and Montrose in Houston. the Park Cities. But the in 1970s, the LGBT what was once one of the city’s toniest Here in Dallas, we have TWO gayborhoods, community began moving in, gentrifying residential areas, but that had come to be and one of the oldest — The Strip on the neighborhood and creating a gay mecca. seen as an area of high crime and poverty. Cedar Springs in Oak Lawn — was voted These days, thanks to its proximity to Once again, the LGBT community stepped Best Gayborhood in the U.S. in Out Highland Park, University Park and Uptown, in and led the way in restoring Oak Cliff Traveler’s 2014 survey. The Oak Lawn Oak Lawn Avenue has become prime to its former glory, and the area has, over gayborhood continues to grow, spreading real estate and one of the most desirable recent years, seen a resurgence in appeal south to the Uptown area and west into addresses in town. — and an increase in rents. And still it the Dallas Design District, while Bishop remains one of the most affordable — and the most interesting — areas of town.
You can find all the trendiest places to see and be seen, to The growth has been largely concentrated shop and to live, including around the Bishop Arts District, everything from markets surrounded by Davis and Bishop avenues. such as EatZi’s to fancy Chief among the draws for this historically restaurants like Al Biernat’s funky, artsy center are the restaurants and and comfortable hangouts boutiques, many gay-owned. like Lucky’s. From Hattie’s to Veracruz Restaurant, Arts District/Oak Cliff becomes Oak Lawn runs perpendicular to three there’s also the acclaimed Lucia restaurant, ever more vibrant and inclusive. other busy drags: Lemmon Avenue, Cedar the Oak Cliff branch of the gay-popular Springs Road and Maple Avenue, all of hamburger joint Hunky’s, and Tillman’s OAK LAWN which claim their share of nightclubs and Roadhouse, designed by famed gay style “The Crossroads” is one nickname for the gay-owned and -managed businesses. guru Todd Fiscus. The list is nearly endless, intersection of Cedar Springs Road and as new shops create more and more Throckmorton Street, there at the heart of Caven Enterprises owns four clubs along reasons for the gay community of Dallas to Dallas’ oldest and largest gayborhood. It’s the Strip (JR.’s Bar & Grill, Sue Ellen’s, head south of the Trinity and call this place also called “Oak Lawn,” “Cedar Springs” TMC: The Mining Company and Station home. and “The Strip.” But regardless what you 4). The Round-Up Saloon gives the 20 OUT north texas 2019 BARS AND CLUBS
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Lemmon Ave. McKinney Ave. 2 1 Wycliff Ave. 4 14 The Dallas Eagle 5 10 1 INWOOD & LEMMON 6 11 5740 Maple Ave. Cedar Springs Rd. Knight St. 12 13 214-357-4375 DallasEagle.com Bowser Ave. Throckmorton St. Lemmon Ave. 8 Hidden Door 2 5025 Bowser Ave. 3 7 Reagan St. 214-526-0620 Inwood Rd. 2 HiddenDoor-Dallas.com Hudnall St. Maple Ave. THE STRIP Oak Lawn Ave. 1 Oak Lawn & Cedar Springs Maple Ave, 3 The Tin Room 3 9 2514 Hudnall St. Alexandre’s 1 214-526-6365 4026 Cedar Springs Road. TinRoom.net 214-559-0720 Pekers 9 Cedar Springs Tap House 2 2615 Oak Lawn Ave. SW DALLAS & OAK CLIFF 4123 Cedar Springs Road. 214-528-3333 214-377-7446 PekersBar.com IH 35 CedarSpringsTapHouse.com Barbara’s Pavillion 1 325 Centre St. IH 30 The Round-Up Saloon 10 214-941-2145 The Grapevine Bar 3 3912 Cedar Springs Road. Bishop Ave, 2 3902 Maple Ave. Riverfront Blvd. >>> 214-522-9611 214-522-8466 Club Los Rieles 2 Zang Blvd. RoundupSaloon.com thegrapevinebar.com 4930 Military Pkwy W. Davis St. 214-546-1109 Jefferson Blvd. Havana Lounge 4 Station 4 (S4) and 11 Centre St, 1 4006 Cedar Springs Road. The Rose Room 214-886-6804 3911 Cedar Springs Road. 214-526-7171 JR.’s Bar & Grill 5 Station4Dallas.com ARLINGTON/FORT WORTH 3923 Cedar Springs Road. 214-528-1004 Sue Ellen’s 12 The 515 Bar Club Reflection jrsdallas.com 3014 Throckmorton St. 515 S. Jennings Ave. 604 Jennings Ave. 214-559-0707 817-338-0515 817-870-8867 6 SueEllensDallas.com 515Bar.com Kaliente Club Reflection.com 4350 Maple Ave. 214-520-6676 1851 Club TMC: The Mining Co. Randi’s 2 to 2 13 931 W. Division St. Arlington 3109 Alta Mere Dr. 3903 Cedar Springs Road. 817-642-5554 Liquid Zoo 7 214-521-4205 817-731-0300 2506 Knight St. 1851Club.com TMCDallas.com 214-221-3004 Urban Cowboy Saloon LiquidZooSportsbar.com Changes 2620 E. Lancaster Ave. Woody’s Sports 2637 E. Lancaster Ave. 14 682-707-5663 817-413-2332 Marty’s Live 8 & Video Bar UrbanCowboySaloon.com 4207 Maple Ave. 4011 Cedar Springs Road. 214-599-2151 214-520-6629 DallasWoodys.com
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DALLAS ARTS DISTRICT/ and films. It features a performance CONTINENTAL AVENUE BRIDGE KLYDE WARREN PARK pavillion, walking trails, AND WEST DALLAS GATEWAY Dallas’ Arts District is strung out along a dog park, a children’s park, a games area 109 Continental Ave. Flora Street on the edge of downtown, and and more. The park is privately operated DallasContinentalBridge.com it features the world-renowned Winspear and managed by the Woodall Rodgers Up until the opening of the Margaret Opera House, the Wyly Theatre and the Park Foundation. Hunt Hill Bridge, designed by Santiago Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. Calatrava, the Continental Avenue Bridge Add in the museums — The Nasher DALLAS CITY HALL was the link between most of Dallas and Sculpture Center, the Dallas Museum of 1500 Marilla St. Dallas west of the Trinity River. Once Art and the Trammell and Margaret Crow Dallas, 75201 the new Calatrava bridge was built, the Collection of Asian Art, and Dallas has the 214-670-3011 Continental Avenue Bridge was closed largest contiguous urban arts district DallasCityHall.com and redesigned into a concrete park in the country. This building, designed by I.M. Pei and spanning the river. The bridge offers completed in 1978, is the hub active and passive play spaces, Across Woodall Rogers Freeway, the Perot of city government services. programmed activities and an up-close Museum of Nature and Science adds view of the river, Trinity Floodway and another dimension to the cultural offerings DALLAS COUNTY the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. along Flora Street. And over Woodall HISTORICAL PLAZA Rogers, Klyde Warren Park offers a whole Market, Elm, Commerce COTTON BOWL AT FAIR PARK new angle on the idea of culture and urban and Houston streets 1300 Robert B. Cullum Blvd. green space. Dallas, 75201 Dallas, 75210 214-571-1300 214-670-8400 Klyde Warren Park is a 5.2-acre deck park This plaza is marked by several historical Located in Fair Park, the Cotton Bowl designed by The Office of James Burnett buildings and monuments, including The is home to the Southwestern and built over the recessed Woodall Old Red Courthouse, John Neely Bryan Cotton Bowl Classic. Rodgers Freeway between Pearl and St. Cabin and the John F. Kennedy Memorial. Paul streets. The park offers daily free
programming for the public, ranging from yoga to lecture series to outdoor concerts
22 OUT north texas 2019 DALLAS FARMERS MARKET birds such as scarlet ibis and toucans flying Hippo Outpost opened bringing hippos & RESOURCE CENTER freely and the only public display of three- back to the zoo for the first time in 15 1010 S. Pearl Expressway toed sloths in the U.S., plus electric eels, years. The zoo also offers the Endangered Dallas, 75201 caecilians, tamarins, poison dart frogs, Tiger Habitat, the Lacerte Family Children’s 214-939-2808 Orinoco crocodiles, and vampire bats. Zoo and the 36-acre Wilds of Africa, named DallasFarmersMarket.org. The lower level houses aquaria featuring “Best African Exhibit in the U.S.,” with its Established in 1941, the Dallas Farmers fish, sea anemones, coral, jellyfish, and Giants of the Savanna Elephant Habitat. Market is the district where farmers sell other sea animals from around the world. Giants of Savanna is the only multi-species crops, from food to flowers, directly to zoo exhibit in the U.S. to mix elephants customers, plus artisans and restaurants. DALLAS ZOO and other species in the same complex. 650 S. R.L. Thornton Freeway The Wilds of Africa exhibit also includes DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM Dallas, 75203 the Gorilla Trail, and the Adventure Safari 1801 N. Griffin St. 214-670-6826 through the six habitats of Africa, as well as Dallas, 75202 DallasZoo.com the Don Glendenning Penguin Cove and 214-720-2224 The Dallas Zoo, the first zoo in the Predator Rock featuring lions and cheetahs. DWAZoo.com Southwest, started in 1888 with two deer The zoo also offers free-flight bird 1801 N. Griffin St. in Dallas. and two mountain lions in City Park, then demonstrations daily with large African Situated in an old warehouse in Dallas’ moved to Fair Park in 1909. By 1912, the species, such as crowned cranes. West End, Dallas World Aquarium is a zoo had outgrown that location and moved for-profit aquarium and zoo intended to Marsalis Park where it stands today. The to aid conservation and education by Dallas Zoo is home to more than 2,000 housing many animals that are threatened animals. In spring 2017, the Simmons or endangered as part of a cooperative breeding program with other zoos around the world.
The upper level is an artificial reproduction of the Orinoco Rainforest, an aviary with
OUT north texas 2019 23 FAIR PARK AND THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS 1121 First Avenue Dallas, 75210 | 214-426-3400 FairPark.org. Dallas’ Fair Park, located just southeast of downtown, is home to the annual Texas State Fair, which runs from late September into October each year and is the largest state fair in the country. Fair Park, open year-round, is linked by location to the earliest state fair grounds, dating back to 1886. But most of the existing buildings were constructed in the Art Deco style specifically for the 1936 Exposition, which celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Texas Republic.
Today, Fair Park is the only intact and unaltered pre-1950s world fair site remaining in the U.S. The 227-acre park, designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986, hosts more than 7 million visitors each year for the fair, various sporting events and cultural and entertainment events. Southeast of Downtown Dallas, just off Interstate 30. Beginning this year, Fair Park will also be home to the annual Dallas Pride KALITA HUMPHREYS THEATER PIONEER PLAZA celebration the first weekend in June, 3636 Turtle Creek Blvd. Griffin andYoung streets including the Miller Lite Music Festival and Dallas, 75219 Dallas, 75202 | 214-953-1184 the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade. Designed in the 1950s by architect Frank A 4.2-acre plaza featuring the world’s Lloyd Wright. Home to the gay-centric largest bronze monument: 40 longhorn GILLEY’S MUSIC COMPLEX Uptown Players. steers representing Texas’ cattle drives. 1135 S. Lamar St. Dallas, 75215 | 214-421-2021 KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON REUNION TOWER AT HYATT GilleysMusic.com CONVENTION CENTER REGENCY DALLAS Gilley’s Music Complex houses four music 650 S. Griffin St. 300 Reunion Blvd. East venues: The Palladium Ballroom, the South Dallas, 75202 | 214-939-2700 Dallas, 75207 | 214-712-7145 Side Music Hall, The Loft and The Saloon. DallasConventionCenter.com. DallasRegencyHyatt.com The Dallas Convention Center is one of the The landmark tower adjacent to the Hyatt GREAT TRINITY FOREST/TRINITY largest in the nation. Regency Hotel offering a spectacular view RIVER CORRIDOR from the observation deck on the 50th TrinityRiverCorridor.com MCKINNEY AVENUE TROLLEY floor. Also home to Five Sixty, a revolving Great Trinity Forest is perhaps the largest 3153 Oak Grove St. restaurant operated by famed chef urban bottomland hardwood forest in Dallas, 75204 | 214-855-0006 Wolfgang Puck. America. It is part of the Trinity River MATA.org Corridor Project’s environmental and Historic trolleys connecting the downtown SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM recreational charter and extends from the Arts District with shops, restaurants, 411 Elm St. Santa Fe Trestle Trail near Corinth Street galleries and boutiques in Uptown Dallas. Dallas and Riverfront Boulevard, within view of Riding is free. JFK.org downtown Dallas, to just past I-20, an 11- mile stretch of land that basically follows MORTON H. MEYERSON JOHN F. KENNEDY MEMORIAL the Trinity River. It includes the Trinity SYMPHONY CENTER 605 Commerce St. Fields, encompassing MoneyGram Soccer 2301 Flora St. Dallas, 75202 | 214-571-1300 Park, California Crossing Boat Launch and Dallas, 75201 | 214-670-3600 For decades, Dallas battled against being Elm Fork; Trinity Lakes, encompassing DallasSymphony.com known as the city where President John Trinity Skyline Trails, Trammel Crow This I.M. Pei-designed concert hall is F. Kennedy was assassinated. Then civic Park, Continental Avenue Bridge and one of the most acclaimed of its kind in leaders decided that instead of backing West Dallas Gateway, Trinity Overlook North America. It has been an anchor away from history, they should explore it. Park; and Big Spring, with a pavilion and performance hall in the Downtown Arts Thus was born the Sixth Floor Museum. amphitheater connecting Moore Park and District for more than 25 years. Situated in the old School Book Depository the Santa Fe Trestle Trail, the Dallas Wave, — the building from which Lee Harvey Big Spring, Texas Horse Park, Texas Buckeye Oswald shot the president — the Sixth Trail and more. Floor Museum chronicles the assassination
24 OUT north texas 2019 TRINITY GROVES WHITE ROCK LAKE PARK 3011 Gulden Lane Near East Dallas off East Lawther Drive Dallas, 75212 WhiteRockLake.org TrinityGroves.com White Rock Lake Park, the crown jewel Trinity Groves is a 15-acre site at the of Dallas’ park system, is an Audubon western end of the Margaret Hunt Society-designated bird watching area and Hill Bridge and the Continental Bridge wetlands site with numerous scenic picnic offering restaurants, retail shops, arts and areas, two boat ramps, fishing piers where entertainment, including the innovative anglers can catch catfish, sunfish and bass, Trinity Groves Project Restaurant Concept and event facilities —Winfrey Point and Incubator program that encourages chefs Big Thicket — available for rent. White and restaurateurs to create and present Rock Lake, a 1,015-acre city lake, sits at the unique restaurant concepts to a team of center of the park. The park is also home experienced restaurateurs who will then to numerous special events, including the support them to bring their ideas to reality. March of Dimes Walk for America White On Singleton Ave. in Dallas, Rock Marathon and White Rock Lake Trash just west of the Trinity River. Bash and a mysterious colony of monk parakeets. TRINITY RIVER AUDUBON CENTER WINSPEAR OPERA HOUSE 6500 S. Great Trinity Forest Way 2303 Flora St. Dallas, 75217 Dallas, 75201 | 214-443-1000 TrinityRiverAudubon.org ATTPAC.org Open to the public on a reclaimed A 2,200-seat state-of-the-art opera dumpsite and offering hiking trails, house designed by Norman Foster with a KLYDE WARREN PARK wildlife including 220 bird species distinctive red facade, louvered canopy and and a welcome center that explains the modern chandelier, the Winspear features and the legacy of John F. Kennedy and ecology of the Trinity River. performances by the Dallas Opera, TITAS presents contemporary culture within the and other arts groups and national touring context of presidential history. UNION STATION — AMTRAK productions. And just around the corner on Commerce 400 S. Houston St. Street stands the John F. Kennedy Dallas, 75202 | 214-653-1101 WYLY THEATER Memorial, a cenotaph, or open tomb, DART.org 2400 Flora St. designed by Philip Johnson to symbolize A vintage 1914 station that is home to Dallas, 75201 | 214-978-2800 the freedom of Kennedy’s spirit. The Amtrak, Downtown DART Light Rail & ATTPAC.org memorial is a square, roofless room, 30 feet Trinity Railway Express. Connected to the An aluminum-tube cube designed by Rem high and 50x50 feet wide with two narrow Hyatt Regency Dallas via underground. Koolhaas that offers a flexible 500-plus seat openings facing north and south. main theater with a 99-seat black box that WEST END HISTORIC DISTRICT can be endlessly reconfigured. It is home SOUTHFORK RANCH 208 N. Market St., Ste. A to the Dallas Theater Center and the Dallas 3700 Hogge Road Dallas, 75202 | 214-741-7180 Black Dance Theatre. Parker, 75002 | 972-442-7800 DallasWestEnd.org SouthforkRanch.com The turn-of-the-century warehouse district Southfork Ranch, famous for its west of downtown that is home to various representation in the TV show Dallas, restaurants, shops and nightclubs. includes a memorabilia exhibit.
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Welcome to Arlington, a world of wonderful! Arlington is vibrant and featuring world-renowned artists. And diverse, and offers visitors everything finally, two stops that you definitely from rich cultural experiences to don’t want to miss are the all-new Texas exceptional international cuisine, Live!, the entertainment hotspot that outdoor adventure and sports wonders. includes dining and concerts in the While in Arlington, we invite you to center of the entertainment district, and witness first-hand the Texas-sized the deals in the Arlington shopping hospitality that we are famous for. Take district. For more information and for time to enjoy Six Flags Over Texas, a deals that only the CVB can offer, visit Texas Rangers game, or a Globe Life arlington.org. Park tour. Or, catch a show at Theatre Arlington or a concert at downtown’s We welcome you to Arlington, and Levitt Pavilion. The Entertainment thank you for visiting our city! District is also where you’ll find AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Ron Price Cowboys, the only NFL stadium that President & CEO doubles as a contemporary art gallery Arlington Convention & Visitors Bureau
OUT IN THE PARK
Since it first opened in 1961, Six Flags Over Texas, located next to I-30 in Arlington, has been the premier destination for amusement park fun in North Texas — indeed, in the state as a whole. And more than 20 years ago, it became a major part of North Texas’ annual Pride celebration when Dallas Voice began working with the park to sponsor Gay Day at Six Flags each September, on the day before the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade.
In 2018, the Arlington Convention and Visitors Bureau not only joined the Out North Texas team this year, they also brought Six Flags Over Texas with them, and Gay Day at Six Flags returned with a vengeance. Hundreds of proud LGBT people and their families and friends flooded the theme park the weekend before the 2018 parade to celebrate their Pride openly.
Dallas Pride is moving in 2019 — from the third weekend in September to the first weekend in June, and from the Oak Lawn gayborhood and Cedar Springs Strip to Fair Park. But the annual Pride pilgrimage to Arlington continues, now renamed Out in the Park. An exact date has yet to be set for 2019, but with the Arlington CVB and Dallas Voice presenting the event, the party looks to be bigger and better than ever!
So keep an eye out for the announcement of the date and get ready to get
Out in the Park in 2019!!
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resource. The park opened in 1990 with TEXAS LIVE! Arlington is the largest of the DFW just 376 acres but now encompasses 1,300 The newest addition to Arlington’s mid-cities, and is home to the University of acres of paved and unpaved trails for entertainment district, Texas Live!, Texas at Arlington, three of the Metroplex’s hiking and biking, a nature center with is a unique attraction combining professional sports teams — Dallas interactive exhibits, aquariums, terrariums, entertainment, restaurants and Cowboys, Texas Rangers and the Dallas environmental educational programs and a accommodations in one venue. Nestled Wings — not to mention two of the largest gift shop. between AT&T Stadium and Globe Life and most popular theme parks in the state. RiverLegacy.org Park, its perfect for sports fans, and the Arlington Backyard is a 5,000-person 1851 Club, Arlington’s one LGBT bar, at SIX FLAGS HURRICANE HARBOR outdoor concert venue. There is also the 931 W. Division St., is open daily from 3 1800 E. Lamar Blvd. PBR Texas bar with two mechanical bulls, p.m. to 2 a.m. It is a no-smoking venue, Arlington, 76006 the multi-level sports bar Live! Arena, plus with regular drag shows on the weekends, 817-265-3356 restaurants including the third location of karaoke every Thursday at 9 p.m., three SixFlags.com/Parks/HurricaneHarbor Lockhart Smokehouse, Guy Fieri’s latest pool tables, an electronic dart board, free One of the nation’s largest collections of venture, Taco Joint, and Troy’s, a bar and WiFi, an internet jukebox with videos and water rides. restaurant brought to you by none other everything from sports to entertainment than former Dallas Cowboy’s quarterback and awards shows on the big screen TVs. SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS Troy Aikman. Coming soon to the 2201 Road To Six Flags entertainment complex is Live! By Loews, There may be only one LGBT bar, Arlington, 76011 a planned 14-story hotel with 301 rooms, but Arlington has plenty of other 817-640-8900 including 23 suites, all with floor-to-ceiling entertainment options, from nightlife to SixFlags.com windows and more. getting back to nature. Major attractions include rides, shows, concerts, games and restaurants. Open all VERIZON THEATER RIVER LEGACY PARK summer long for special holiday events, 1001 Performance Place River Legacy Park, running along the including Fright Fest in October and Grand Prairie, 75050 Trinity River on the north side of Arlington, Holiday in the Park in November and 972-854-5050 opened in 1988 as a partnership between December. VerizonTheater.com the city of Arlington and River Legacy An indoor performance space seating more Foundation to preserve and enhance than 6,300 just down I-30 from Arlington the parkland along the Trinity River as and across the road from Lone Star Park. an educational, recreational and natural
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AMERICAN AIRLINES C.R. funds, is the acclaimed multi-purpose SMITH MUSEUM performance venue and permanent home 4601 Texas Highway 360 of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth, 76155 the Texas Ballet Theater, the Fort Worth 817-967-1560 Opera, the Cliburn Concerts, the Van CRSmithMuseum.org Cliburn International Piano Competition This museum focuses the world of and some presentations by Casa Mañana. commercial aviation through interactive Performing Arts Fort Worth, the non-profit exhibits, dioramas, a large-screen theater organization that oversees management of and a restored DC-3. the Hall, also presents national Broadway touring productions under the Broadway at AMON CARTER MUSEUM the Bass banner, as well as programming 3501 Camp Bowie Blvd. that includes Broadway Specials, Popular Fort Worth, 76107 Entertainment and McDavid Studio 817-738-1933 Concert Series. CarterMuseum.org Featuring works by major 19th and The 2,042-seat multipurpose hall FORT WORTH ZOO 20th century American artists, including was designed by David M. Schwarz/ legendary Western artists Frederic Architectural Services Inc. with acoustics Remington and Charles M. Russell, and by Jaffee, Holden Acoustics Inc. It has an other artists like Georgia O’Keeffe and 80-foot diameter Great Dome, painted Around the corner is the Maddox-Muse Stuart Davis. It houses the second-largest by Fort Worth artists Scott and Stuart Center, built in 1894 as the Fort Worth collection of photography in the country. Gentling, atop the Founders Concert Medical College and renovated in 1998 by Theater. Perhaps Bass Hall’s most famous Performing Arts of Fort Worth to be used BASS PERFORMANCE HALL features are the two 48-foot-tall angels, as administrative offices. David Schwartz 525 Commerce St. sculpted from Texas limestone by Marton designed the two recital halls — The Van Fort Worth, 76102 Varo and blowing golden trumpets, that Cliburn Recital Hall and the McDavid 817-212-4200 adorn the Grand Facade. The angels have Studio — that were added on to the BassHall.com now become preeminent cultural icons in original building in 2000 for the resident The crown jewel of Downtown Fort the North Texas area. companies to utilize for practice and for Worth, the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass commercial use for private and public Performance Hall, built entirely with private events.
OUT north texas 2019 31 BILLY BOB’S TEXAS FORT WORTH JAPANESE GARDEN and threatened species on the state and 2520 Rodeo Plaza 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd. federal levels. It is the only zoo in the U.S. Fort Worth, 76102 Fort Worth, 76107 to house representatives of all four of the 817-624-7117 | BillyBobsTexas.com 817-871-7686 | FWBG.org Great Ape species (gorillas, orangutans, The world’s largest honky-tonk comprises A 7.5-acre garden with waterfalls and pools bonobos and chimpanzees) and is one of seven acres and includes its own indoor filled with koi surrounded by evergreen only seven zoos in the country housing rodeo arena, two dance floors, 25 bars, shrubs, trees, flowers and colorful foliage. bonobos. It is also home to the most restaurants, arcade games, a Wall of Fame Home to the annual Japanese Fall Festival successful breeding colonies of lesser with celebrity handprints and a general early every December. flamingos in the world, and one of only five store, plus live musical entertainment every zoos in the world to display two of the five night and free dance lessons on Thursday FORT WORTH MUSEUM OF species of rhinos in captivity. nights. SCIENCE AND HISTORY Fort Worth Zoo is also known for its eight- 1501 Montgomery St. acre Texas Wild section, featuring CASA MANANA Fort Worth, 76107 exhibits focusing on the various regions of 3101 W. Lancaster Ave. 817-255-9300, 888-255-9300 the Lone Star State, as well as the Museum Fort Worth, 76107 FWMuseum.org of Living Art, Raptor Canyon, Asian Falls, 817-332-2272 | CasaManana.org One of the largest science and history the World of Primates, Penguins and more. Housed in a geodesic dome, this famous museums in the Southwest, with nine The Fort Worth Zoo is open 365 days a theater-in-the-round offers Broadway permanent exhibits, including DinoDig, year. Admission is $14 for adults, $10 for musicals, national touring shows, concerts and Hands-On Science, as well as the children ages 3-12, free for toddlers age and comedies. domed Omni Theater and the Noble 2 and younger, and $10 for seniors age Planetarium. 65 and older; Wednesdays are half-price CIRCLE THEATRE admission, and family memberships and 230 W. 4th St. FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS animal “adoptions” are available. Fort Worth, 76102 Fort Worth has long been known as the 817-877-3040 | CircleTheatre.com place “Where the West begins.” Nowhere JFK TRIBUTE IN FORT WORTH Located in Sundance Square, Circle is that more obvious than in the Fort When you mention JFK and Texas, seats 125 and celebrates Texas’ unique Worth Stockyards, the head of the everyone immediately thinks of Dealey culture, often producing works by Texas legendary Chisholm Trail and, later, the Plaza and the School Book Depository in playwrights. city’s meatpacking district and livestock Dallas. But fewer people realize that before exchange. Today, the past and present he went to Dallas that fateful November FORT WORTH BOTANIC GARDENS collide in the Stockyards. Twice-daily day, President Kennedy spent the previous 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd. cattle drives featuring mounted cowhands night at the Hotel Texas in downtown Fort Fort Worth, 76107 herding Texas longhorns through the Worth, and on the morning of Nov. 22, met 817-871-7686 | FWBG.org streets, the Stockyards Museum, the Texas with a crowd of well-wishers outside the Featuring more than 2,500 native and Cowboy Hall of Fame and the Grapevine hotel before speaking at the Fort Worth exotic species of plants covering 109 acres, Vintage Railroad keep history alive. The Chamber of Commerce breakfast. with more than 21 specialty gardens, world-famous honky-tonk Billy Bob’s Today, the city of Fort Worth honors including the European-designed Rose Texas and the Stockyards Championship Kennedy and his legacy with the JFK Garden and the 10,000-square-foot Rodeo maintain the cowboy flavor, and Tribute, featuring a sculpture of President Conservatory housing tropical flowers and the Stockyards Station offers up plenty of Kennedy, images that capture moments in foliage from around the world. shopping and top-notch restaurants. North time and inscriptions describing his stay of Downtown Fort Worth, on Exchange in Fort Worth. General Worth Square, at Avenue at North Main Street. the intersection of Main and 8th streets. FortWorthStockyards.org JFKTribute.com
FORT WORTH WATER GARDENS KIMBELL ART MUSEUM 1502 Commerce St. 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd. Fort Worth, 76102 Fort Worth, 76107 817-392-7111 817-332-8451 | KimbellArt.org The Fort Worth Water Gardens, designed A world-class collection of art, including by Philip Johnson, is a refreshing oasis works by El Greco, Cezanne, Rembrandt, adjacent to the Fort Worth Convention Picasso and Matisse. The museum also Center. Visitors can experience a variety of regularly hosts major traveling exhibitions, water features as they wander through this and the building is widely regarded as one urban park. of the most outstanding public art facilities in the world. FORT WORTH ZOO 1989 Colonial Parkway MODERN ART MUSEUM Fort Worth, 76110 OF FORT WORTH 817-759-7555 | FortWorthZoo.com 3200 Darnell St. Ranked each year as one of the best zoos Fort Worth, 76107 in the country, the Fort Worth Zoo features 817-738-9215, 866-824-5566 542 species total, with 112 species in The Modern.org the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Embodies the principles of classical 7TH STREET Species Survival Plan and 68 endangered Japanese architecture while employing 32 OUT north texas 2019 modern Western techniques. Designed by acclaimed Japanese architect Tadao Ando, it features 53,000 square feet of gallery space, a 1.5-acre pond, and a 250-seat auditorium.
NATIONAL COWBOYS OF COLOR MUSEUM 3400 Mount Vernon Ave. Fort Worth, 76102 817-534-8801 CowboysofColor.org This museum highlights the role of African-Americans in the American West, telling their stories through artwork, photos and other historical items.
NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME 1720 Gendy St. Fort Worth, 76107 817-336-4475 Cowgirl.net The only museum in the world honoring women of the American West who have displayed extraordinary courage and pioneer spirit, it includes 3,000 square feet of interactive exhibits, artifacts from the permanent collection, a traveling exhibit gallery, multi-purpose theater, expanded research library, wild-west-show-themed gift store and a grand rotunda where visitors can learn about the 158 women in the museum’s hall of fame.
BASS HALL
showcases a variety of boots and special memorabilia. DOWNTOWN TRINITY TRAILS TEXAS COWBOY HALL OF FAME Northside Drive and Samuels STOCKYARDS MUSEUM 128 E. Exchange Ave. to Foster Park 131 E. Exchange Ave. Fort Worth, 76102 817-871-PARK Fort Worth, 76106 817-626-7131 TrinityTrails.org 817-625-5082 TexasCowboyHallofFame.com 32 miles of paved trails accessible from StockyardsMuseum.org Housed in the Stockyard’s original horse practically anywhere from Northside Drive Tells the story of the Fort Worth Stockyards and mule barns, the museum features the and Samuels to Foster Park, just north of and the local meatpacking industry, Sterquell Wagon Collection of more than I-20. The trail winds through Heritage Park, explaining how Fort Worth became known 60 restored wagons, carriages and sleighs Trinity Park and Overton Park, with an as “Cowtown.” and videos, trophies, saddles and eastern fork to Gateway Park. photographs from Hall of Fame honorees, plus the John Justin Trail of Fame which
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GLEN ROSE
If you’re looking for outdoor adventures, head about 75 miles southwest of Dallas to the little town of Glen Rose. That’s where you’ll find both Fossil Rim Wildlife Center and Dinosaur Valley State Park.
Fossil Rim is home to more than 1,000 exotic animals, including a number of endangered species. The park is home to the world’s largest herd of Grevy’s zebras. Visitors drive through the park at their own pace, and the animals will come right up to the car.
When you are through talking to the animals at Fossil Rim, head about nine miles north to Dinosaur Valley State Park, where you can walk among some of the best-preserved dinosaur tracks in the world. The park also features several life- size dinosaur models that were originally created by Sinclair Oil for the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Fossil Rim, 2299 County Road 2008, Glen Rose Dinosaur Valley State Park, 1629 Park Road 59, Glen Rose From Dallas, take US 67 about 75 miles southwest to Glen Rose. Follow signs for the parks.
GRAPEVINE
The Grapevine Vintage Railway runs from Main Street in Grapevine to the Fort Worth Stockyards along the Cotton Belt Route. The railroad operates passenger excursion trains using an 1896-era 4-6-0 steam locomotive (and sometimes a diesel engine) to pull its 1920s-era coaches.
The train operates most weekends from March through mid-November, with special events during the Christmas holidays — the North Pole Express and the Christmas Wine Trains — and at other times of the year — for St. Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Halloween and more.
For more information visit GrapevineTexasUSA.com/ grapevine-vintage-railroad. GRAPEVINE
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Gay Paree!
Welcome to Paris, y’all! Paris, Texas, that is. Located about 105 miles east of Dallas, the city has a bus system called the Metro but it’s best known for its Eiffel Tower … the one with a cowboy hat on top.
This Eiffel Tower is in a park outside the Paris Civic Center, and it stands 65 feet tall, a little shorter than the one in France that’s 1,063 feet high.
But the Texas Eiffel Tower is five feet taller than the one also dedicated in 1993 in Paris, Tenn.!
Take I-30 east to State Highway 24 north. The Eiffel Tower is in the southeast corner of the city, at 2025 S. Collegiate Drive.
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SCARBOROUGH FESTIVAL WAXAHACHIE woodworking, pottery making and more appropriately. For more information, visit than 200 shops selling crafts and other SRFestival.com Ye olde good times Renaissance goods. Oh, and if you can make it in the spring, If you want to step back in time to have a You can visit the faire each Saturday and perhaps you’ll want to go in October good time, Waxahachie, Texas — located Sunday during the festival’s two-month when the English village is converted into about 35 miles south of Dallas on I-35E run, and be sure to gather along the Screams, a playground for ghosts and — is the place to be each year, from “parade route” about 1 p.m. to see all the ghoulies featuring five different haunted the second weekend in April through vendors, entertainers, peasants, lords and houses, a whole troupe of strigoi and more! Memorial Day Weekend in May. ladies of the court and, of course, Queen Margaret of Scotland and King Henry VIII The Scarborough Renaissance Festival/ That’s where you’ll find Scarborough and Queen Catherine of Aragon as they Screams grounds are at 2511 FM 66, Renaissance Festival, situated in a 35-acre march by. Waxahachie. 16th century English village, with artisan demonstrations, magic shows, jousting, Each weekend is based on a different From Dallas, take I-35 about 30 miles south birds of prey exhibitions, 27 stages of theme — from Time Travelers Weekend to exit 399A and turn right. entertainment, games of skill that include to Pirate Weekend and more. So plan a living chess match, glass working, your trip — and your festival garb — OUT north texas 2019 35 NORTH TEXAS’ UNIQUE FOODIE SCENE
TACOS. One of the signatures of Tex-Mex Dallas-Fort Worth is a cosmopolitan cuisine, there are many small, hole-in-the- Metroplex offering countless culinary wall joints that focus solely on these bite- styles, from sushi to pan-Asian to French sized street-style meals-in-a-tortilla. and fusion cuisines of all kinds. But when El Come Taco. The suadero taco is a in Rome... you eat pizza. And when in favorite, but from the salsas to the lingua Texas, you can’t miss our signature culinary tacos, you can’t go wrong here. traditions: Tex-Mex, tacos (which aren’t the 2513 N. Fitzhugh Ave. ElComeTaco.com. same!), barbecue and steak. * El Tizocito. Fresh garnishes, fast service and complimentary black beans to And while you can find them all around start? We are so there. 5150 Lemmon Ave. Dallas, Fort Worth and the Mid-Cities, TizTaco.com. some great ones are specifically available Tacodeli. Austin-based, this taqueria in or around the gayborhood (those are probably has the widest assortment of marked with an *). Here are 30 unmissable signature tacos in the Metroplex. places in those four categories, listed 1878 Sylvan Ave. Tacodeli.com. alphabetically. Taco Stop. This tiny stand in the Design District serves simple, exquisite tacos. TEX-MEX. Not the same as classical 1900 Irving Blvd. Mexican food (which is also plentiful in Tacos Mariachi. This Tijuana-style shop Dallas), Tex-Mex is a combo that highlights serves funky tacos and daily specials. some Mexican staples and adds a Texas 602 Singleton Blvd. TacosMariachi.com. twist. * Taqueria La Ventana. One of the *Avila’s. The small, family-owned newest taquerias on The Strip is already restaurant’s chile rellenos are perfect popular in the community. comfort food. 4714 Maple Ave. 3847 Cedar Springs Road. AvilasRestaurant.com. Trompo. The trompo taco is its El Fenix. When you’ve been serving namesake, but a campuchana quesadilla is food for more than a century, you must be the best of both worlds. 839 Singleton Blvd. doing something right. Multiple locations. Taquero. Rustic and hearty, the tacos ElFenix.com. here are unique. 1600 Singleton Blvd. * Gloria’s. Though not specifically Resident Taqueria. Gourmet Tex-Mex, this restaurant has some Tex- mini-meals, served on a tortilla. Perfection. Mex items among its Salvadorian cuisine. 9661 Audelia Road. ResidentTaqueria.com. Multiple locations. GloriasCuisine.com. Rusty Taco. Rusty always said, “Tacos Gonzalez Mexican Restaurant. A Are the Most Important Meal of the Dallas institution for decades, with the best Day,” and we couldn’t agree more. This flour tortillas in town. 367 W. Jefferson Ave. gayborhood staple serves up Mexican- GonzalezRestaurant.com. street style tacos in a friendly and Mattito’s. An Oak Lawn favorite serving welcoming environment. classic Tex-Mex and margaritas in a festive 3604 Oak Lawn Ave. RustyTaco.com. atmosphere, including patio seating, all in the heart of Oak Lawn. 3102 Oak Lawn BARBECUE. Beef-centric (though you can Ave. Ste. 144. Additional locations on also find pulled pork and other proteins), Forest Lane in Dallas and in Las Colinas in Texas BBQ is all about the pitmaster and Irving. Mattitos.com the tenderness of the meats. * Mia’s Tex-Mex. One taste of the * 18th & Vine. Inspired by Kansas City- signature brisket tacos, and you’ll wonder style BBQ, its burnt ends are heavenly. whether food can be your soulmate. 4100 Maple Ave. 18thandVinebbq.com. 4322 Lemmon Ave. MiasTexMex.com. Dickey’s. A Dallas institution for nearly * Ojeda’s. A long-standing gayborhood 80 years. Multiple locations. tradition, the puffed beef tacos are a Lockhart Smokehouse. The Oak Cliff joint requirement for first-timers. needs no sauce to be succulently adored. 4617 Maple Ave. OjedasRestaurant.com. 400 W. Davis St. * Uncle Julio’s Mexican from Scratch. LockhartSmokehouse.com. One of the busiest restaurants in the Pecan Lodge. Worried about the long gayborhood serves great margaritas, lines? Hey, there wouldn’t be lines if it tableside guacamole and, for dessert, a weren’t worth the wait. 2702 Main St. “chocolate pinata.” Holy moly! PecanLodge.com. 4125 Lemmon Ave. UncleJulios.com. The Slow Bone. Classic old-school
barbecue. 2234 Irving Blvd. SlowBone.com.
36 OUT north texas 2019 STEAKHOUSES. More than just serving a slab of ribeye on a plate, a great steakhouse also features wonderful seafood, side dishes and a suitable wine list and cocktails. * Al Biernat’s. Al himself is the consummate host, and serves Dallas’ most revered steaks. 4217 Oak Lawn Ave. AlBiernats.com. Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse. Thick-cut filets, tomahawk steaks, chops? It’s all so good. 2323 Olive St. DelFriscos.com.
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Knife. Celebrity chef John Tesar’s temple to protein boasts some of the longest dry- aged beef in Texas (and the bacon sampler app is awesome). 5300 E. Mockingbird Lane. KnifeDallas.com. * Lawry’s The Prime Rib. Classic beef and seafood fine-dining chain with tableside carving in a formal setting. 14655 Dallas Parkway. Lawry’sOnline.com * Nick & Sam’s. A see-and-be-seen staple of Dallas’ beautiful people who enjoy meat palaces. 3008 Maple Ave Nick-Sams.com. Perry’s Steakhouse. Best deal in Dallas? The Friday lunch special (a huge pork chop for a song!). 2000 McKinney Ave. PerrysSteakhouse.com. Town Hearth. The decor dazzles, the buzz is omnipresent and the food stellar. 1617 Market Center Blvd. TownHearth.com. By Arnold Wayne Jones [email protected]
TACOS RESIDENT TAQUERIA Arnold Wayne Jones is the executive editor of Dallas Voice and is in charge of the newspaper’s Life+Style section. He is an award-winning travel writer and theater and dining critic, and author of The Envelope, Please: The Ultimate Academy Awards Trivia Book. UNCLE JULIO’S OUT north texas 2019 37 DFW; THE JEWEL IN DRAG’S CROWN
CASSIE NOVA great drag and have such a thriving gay Let’s start with the venue that was literally So let’s say you are sitting at home on community?” But we are. And we do. built for drag — any random day of the week or weekend, Years ago, the Dallas club scene started and you get a wild hair to go out and have paying drag queens very well, and before THE ROSE ROOM. Located inside some fun. Well, if you live in or are visiting long, entertainers from all over were STATION 4 (3911 Cedar Springs Road), the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, you are moving here for a chance to get booked the Rose Room offers the biggest and in luck. We have something for everyone in doing what they love to do. It was a win- best drag shows in the south, possibly the North Texas. win situation; the “girls” got a good check, world! For an entertainer, it is the best and in turn, they put their heart and soul possible venue in which to showcase your We have great movie theaters, concert into entertaining. talent. The high-tech theater has all the venues a plenty, hundreds of fabulous bells and whistles: The LED backdrop restaurants and enough clubs or bars to For some it went from being a hobby to is huge; the lighting, fog machines and satisfy every single one of your moods. being a real job and over time, the club geysers make you feel like you are at a rock And lordy, if you love drag, you came and bar owners realized: “If we have drag concert, and the under stage fans give the to the right place! shows, customers will stick around and girls that very Beyoncé, wind-blown feel. drink.” So even some of the smaller venues I know what you are thinking: “Texas is a started to have drag shows. Today there is a All that is really great, but it means nothing notoriously conservative red state. How drag show of some kind at almost every bar without the endless stream of talented could y’all possibly be such a mecca for or club in the Gayborhood. entertainers performing there. The Rose
38 OUT north texas 2019 that features up-and-coming entertainers. Sundays. It’s a great place to drink, dance Open to all genders, this Wednesday and man hunt. night show wrapped up its first season in November, but was set to return as 1851 CLUB (931 W. Division St.) the year ended. in Arlington has shows on Friday and Saturday nights, hosted by Kiana Lee. TMC: THE MINING COMPANY (3903 Cedar Springs Road) has a If you are way out in Denton, drag show anyone can be a part of on CROSSROADS BAR (1125 E. University Wednesday nights: Wig Wars lets people Drive) has a Sinsational Sunday show from the audience come up, put on a wig hosted by Kylee O’hara Fatale. It is also the and werq it out. If you think you have what home bar of the newly-crowned Miss Gay it takes, you can win a hundred bucks. They Newcomer USofA, Eva DeLeon. also feature hot, young, scantily-clad men working the pole most nights. (That’s pole If you love having brunch on your Sunday dancers, just in case that was unclear.) funday, you can even get your drag fix while you eat. Drag brunches are huge THE ROUND UP SALOON & right now. Who said drag had to be DANCE HALL (3912 Cedar Springs contained to the nighttime anyway? Road) is an amazing country-and-western Twice a month, Dallas’ DON’T TELL dance club. They have karaoke and line- SUPPER CLUB (2026 Commerce St.) dancing classes, and they host a variety of has a stunning drag brunch hosted by the pageants and drag shows. You don’t have hilarious Jenni P. to be a cowboy to have fun at this laidback and unpretentious hotspot. HARD ROCK CAFÉ (2211 N. Houston St. in Dallas) has a fun family-friendly drag DALLAS WOODY’S SPORT AND brunch the second Sunday of the month. VIDEO BAR (4011 Cedar Springs ON PREMISE (2711 Elm St.) and ZATAR Road) has a great drag show on (2825 Commerce St.), both in Dallas, each Thursdays hosted by the uber-talented host their own drag brunch on the third Jada Pinkett Fox. Sunday of each month.
ASIA O’HARA MARTY’S LIVE (4207 Maple Ave.) So all of you that think that drag shows isn’t on The Strip, but that doesn’t mean keep you out too late now have no excuse Room has a cast of seven, each very it doesn’t have it’s own fabulous shows. to miss out on a great drag show! different from the others — including Chanel Champagne hosts a show there me, the regular emcee. From comedy to every Monday Night. Texas really has some of the best drag in glamour, dancing queens and productions, the world, and Dallas is the crown jewel. the Rose Room has something for Hell, even Deep Ellum is getting in on the The people of Dallas might not even know everyone. They feature special guests from drag action! The DOUBLE WIDE BAR how lucky we are to have so many fabulous all over the country, bringing in a different (3510 Commerce St.) hosts various odd performers here. And to make it even big-name entertainer every weekend — drag shows — from the Garbage Kids better, the drag entertainers here in from RuPaul girls to pageant queens and of drag trying to gross you out to Bleach Dallas and the rest of North Texas are every type of drag in-between. hosting vibrator races. It’s definitely not some of the most caring and Thursdays thru Sundays, the Rose Room is your average Saturday night drag show. compassionate people around; hardly always a sure bet for a great time. a week goes by that there isn’t a drag THE NINES (2911 Main St.) has a very show benefitting a good cause happening J.R.s BAR & GRILL (3923 Cedar QWEIRD drag and burlesque show some somewhere. There is even an entire Springs Road) is a great place for a cold Thursday nights, hosted by creepy glamour pageant system headquartered here (The cocktail and a hot show. Each Monday clown queen May May Graves. She brings Miss Gay Texas State and State At Large they host Cassie Nova’s Freakshow. That’s you Halloween all year long. pageant system) that gives its proceeds my show, and like the name says, it’s a each year to charitable causes. buncha freaks ready to party. You never The IT’LL DO CLUB (4322 Elm St.) has know what you are going to get! And on drag shows and more on most Fridays. They say in New York that if you can make it Thursday, J.R.’s features an amazing cast in The queens that work in the Deep Ellum there, you can make it anywhere. Well, when a show called “The Amazing Technicolor clubs say that they can get away with a lot it comes to drag and female impersonation, Dreamgirls.” more on stage. They push the boundaries that is much more of Dallas. of drag for your entertainment. SUE ELLEN’S (3014 Throckmorton St.) Keep calm and drag on! features live bands on the weekends and Let’s say you don’t live in Dallas and you a show called the Tuesday Tease on — you still need your drag fix. Well, Fort Worth, By Cassie Nova guessed it — Tuesday nights. It features Arlington and Denton have you covered. [email protected] drag queens, drag kings and some fabulous burlesque entertainers. It is gender THE URBAN COWBOY SALOON Cassie Nova is show director for The Rose Room and emcees fluidity to the extreme. The Queer-Off is a (2620 E. Lancaster Ave.) in Fort Worth has shows there weekly. She also hosts Cassie’s Freak Show each Monday at J.R.’s Bar and Grill, and is a regular advice RuPaul’s Drag Race-style competion show a killer drag show on Friday nights and on columnist for Dallas Voice.
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THE GANG AT SUE ELLEN’S The top must-visit lesbian hotspots Food and Drinks in Dallas Voice If you’re looking to grab a cocktail or two, Or maybe you need a jolt of java to get you your first stop should definitely be to the going in the morning or help power you only historic LGBTQ district in Texas: through the mid-afternoon slump. Head One of the things I love to do when the Cedar Springs Strip. While all of our a little further down Cedar Springs, past I’m traveling out of town is to look up all bars on “The Strip” (as we gay Dallasites Oak Lawn, and visit Mudsmith for one of the LGBTQ-owned businesses so I can like to call it) are as heavily mixed as our the best cups of coffee in all of Dallas. Mine stop by and show them some love. But I queer acronym, if you’re looking for the and my wife’s personal favorite is their especially look for those owned by self- lesbian hotspot in Dallas, it’s Sue Ellen’s. signature cold drink, the Van Gogh Spritzer. identifying queer women. Dallas has tons Established in 1989, Sue Ellen’s is the place Get it. You won’t be sorry! of awesome queer- and lesbian-owned and to be for good drinks and a big dance floor, -run businesses, restaurants and shows. every day and every night of the week! Brooke Humphries owns both Mudsmith In fact, you could fill your entire weekend Sue Ellen’s is also home and host to the and the quant little burger shop Pints with visits to any number of the places annual Dallas Lesbian Festival, now in its and Quarts right by it. She is also the listed below and still have more to see and sixth year. The fifth annual Lez Fest was owner of some of Dallas’ favorite off-the- experience on your next trip back to Big D! held in May 2018, so make sure to check strip themed bars: Barcadia, where you If you’re new to the Dallas LGBTQ scene, their website, SueEllensDallas.com, to get can sip on a drink and play old school here are some of the hottest “it spots” to all the details for this year and plan your video games, and Beauty Bar, where you eat, drink, and be merry for lesbians and trip around the next festival! can drink, kiki and get your nails done. queer women. 40 OUT north texas 2019 Meet new friends! If you’re new in town and looking for a way to meet more people and check out the best happy hours spots Dallas has to offer, Chick Happy Hour is the once-a-month, self-proclaimed “floating cocktail party for lesbians and straight allies.” Started by Dee Pennington, Chick Happy Hour has grown into the top monthly event for women. Visit their Facebook page @ChickHappyHour to find out when and where their next cocktail party will be.
Lesbian Happy Hour Dallas is newer to the scene, but their meetups include vegan potlucks, parties, poetry and the return of the infamous First Friday. Follow them on LESBIAN HAPPY HOUR Instagram @LesbianHappyHourDallas or on Facebook @LesiiHappyHourDallas to has all the above covered. Owned by find out more! another lesbian couple, Jennifer Bonner and Lara Whittington, this modern day And if sports is more of your thing, Dallas tavern has become a hot spot for the has you covered there, too! Everyone food and drinks, but their Sunday Funday knows Dallas for our Cowboys and brunch menu is to die for — and so is their Mavericks, but what you may not know is dog-friendly patio. Dallas is also home to a WNBA team, the Dallas Wings, as well as the North Texas Entertainment Women’s Softball Association. If you’re If you’re looking for a night of glitter, looking to venture outside the usuall sports sparkles, lots of rhinestones, and sass after norm, these two are the best places to start. your fantastic dinner, Dallas is home to Schedules and events can be found on some of the best Queerlesque artists and their respective websites Wings.wnba.com shows in Texas! and ntxwsa.com. For those venturing into Big D during the Maybe you’re more of a bookworm week, Tuesday Tease — a queer variety (like me), or maybe you are looking to show, hosted by Sue Ellen’s — is the place volunteer your time to serve and better to be on Tuesday night to catch the best our community? Resource Center, the in Dallas drag kings, lesbian drag queens third-largest LGBTQ center in the country, and non-binary performers serving up a offers a monthly book club where they different theme each and every week. feature self-identified woman authors, and their Women with Pride group includes Staying through the weekend? Sue’s also meetings, potlucks and parties! Visit is host to Mustache Envy, a monthly Friday RCDallas.org to find out about the events night show featuring some of Dallas’ top THE GANG AT SUE ELLEN’S happening during your visit. entertainers. Both are must visit destination spots for Whether you’re here for a day, week, or their great vibe and utter uniqueness. But if you want to sit down and bask in you’re a lifer like me, Dallas always has Now if you’re looking for some of the best a Las Vegas-style Burlesque show, then something spectacular to offer everyone sliders in the business, look no further than head right down Oak Lawn to the Design across the spectrum of our LGBTQ Easy Sliders, owned by partners Caroline District, home to Viva’s Burlesque. It is the community. Perini and Miley Holmes. Easy Sliders place to see not only the some of Dallas’ started out as a food truck (and it still is), best burlesque artists but some of the best And if you really want to get all the Tea but the demand for those small, little round burlesque artists from around the world! on what’s happening the week/weekend bits of goodness was so high that they To find out more about the venue and you’re here, make sure to pick up the latest opened up a freestanding store in Deep upcoming shows, visit their website at issue of The Dallas Voice and turn to the Ellum in 2018. And of course, my wife and VivasLounge.com. I were some of the first people to test it out. Gay Agenda page, where you can find everything you need to know about any If you’re looking for a good patio and great And while you’re enjoying a night out and everything gay, rainbow, queer and sliders that are vegetarian friendly, Easy on the town, make sure you’re paying LGBTQ happening in North Texas! Enjoy Sliders is the place. attention to who’s valeting your car, your visit! because Pinky’s Valet is the first and only Maybe you want a more sit-down dinner all-female valet service, owned by Chelsie atmosphere but still want a great drink? Paine. They are one of Dallas’ finest! By Brandi Amara Skyy Full Circle Tavern located on South Lamar
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the megahit Hamilton, the Tony Award- from June 25–30. A Bronx Tale runs PLAYS AND MUSICALS winningest show of all time, July 23–28). And Fiddler on the Roof DALLAS SUMMER MUSICALS April 2–May 5. Miss Saigon runs May closes the season with a Aug. 20–25 run. AND PERFORMING ARTS 14–26, followed quickly by the Disney stage Performances are at Bass Performance Hall. FORT WORTH version of Aladdin, June 6–23. Local icon BassHall.com. (BROADWAY AT THE BASS) Betty Buckley leads the national touring The two companies again share marketing cast of the classic revival of Hello Dolly! AT&T PERFORMING and booking this season, with plenty of July 17–28, and the season ends with ARTS CENTER overlap. DSM’s season, which started in Fiddler on the Roof on stage Aug. 7–13. The Broadway Series started in December November, continues with a season extra, All performances take place at Fair Park and continues in the new year with A the return of the irreverent musical The Music Hall. Bronx Tale, the musical based on Chazz Book of Mormon, Jan. 29–Feb. 3. DallasSummerMusicals.org. Palmintieri’s biopic, which opened in December and continues through Jan. 2. The DSM mainstage season began Four of those shows will also make their The classic, Tony-winning gay musical by in December with the encore of The way to Bass Hall this season, which kicks William Finn, Falsettos runs Feb. 12–17, Phantom of the Opera, which runs off with The Book of Mormon Jan. 22–27, followed by the only play of the season, through Jan. 6. followed by Jersey Boys Feb. 12–17, and the award-winning farce The Play That On Your Feet! from April 10–14. Then Goes Wrong, running June 11–16. Then it’s Then comes the stage adaption of the Anastasia crosses the Trinity to run May back to musicals with the Meat Loaf/Jim animated musical Anastasia, Feb. 19– 28–June 2, followed by Les Miserables Steinman jukebox musical Bat Out of Hell March 3, followed by the local debut of
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from June 27–July 7. The final subscription March 6–April 14 at the Wyly Studio. Moody Performance Hall for a multi- show of the series is Roald Dahl’s Charlie cultural production of Spring Awakening and the Chocolate Factory on stage Aug. Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty returns Jan. 31–Feb. 3. The Moody is also the site, 22–Sept. 1. Also booked is the add-on to one of his passions, Shakespeare, for for the first time, of the annual Broadway return of Beautiful: The Carole King Twelfth Night, which runs March 29–April Our Way fundraiser running May 10–12. Musical from June 18–23. 28 at the Wyly. Then Real Women Have All performances are at the Winspear Curves runs April 26–May 19 at The other mainstage shows at the Kalita Opera House. ATTPAC.org. the Kalita. are Disaster!, the musical parody of disaster flicks running March 22–April 7; DALLAS THEATER CENTER The season ends with the world premiere The musical The View UpStairs, about an The Tony Award-winning regional theater of Penny Candy, local gay playwright arson fire at a New Orleans gay bar that began its season in September. It continues Jonathan Norton’s story about life in killed dozens, running June 21–July 7, and with local playwright Will Power’s Fetch Pleasant Grove, at the Studio Theatre from the timely comedy The Cake, on stage Aug. Clay, Make Man, the story of Muhammad June 5–July 14. And as always, the holiday 9–25. UptownPlayers.org. Ali and Stepin Fetchit on stage through add-on A Christmas Carol is back at the Jan. 13 in the Wyly’s Studio Theatre. Wyly Nov. 21–Dec. 30. WATERTOWER THEATRE DallasTheaterCenter.org. WaterTower Theatre company kicked off The 2017 winner of the Pulitzer Prize its current season in October. The season for Drama, Lynn Nottage’s Sweat runs UPTOWN PLAYERS continues with Detour: A Festival of New Jan. 18–Feb. 10 at the Kalita Humphreys The gay-centric troupe began its 18th Work, running Jan. 17–20, followed by five Theater. Then The Wolves is on stage season in December, but returns to the more female-centric shows: Guadalupe
OUT north texas 2019 43 in the House, on stage Feb. 22–March 17; STAGE WEST productions of Porgy and Bess from Everything Is Wonderful, on stage April Stage West in Fort Worth began its 40th April 26–30, the world premiere of 19–May 12; The Ballad of Little Jo, on season — a season of all regional premieres Companionship from May 1–5, El Pasado stage June 7–30; Unveiled: A One Woman — in October, and the season continues Nunca Se Termina from May 10–12 and a Play, running June 12–30, and Origin with Everybody on stage through Jan. 27. Frontiers special presentation of The Last Story, running Aug. 2–25. Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been, set Dream of Frida and Diego on May 31. All performances at the Addison Theatre during the McCarthy-era witch hunts, runs FWOpera.org. Centre. WaterTowerTheatre.org. Feb. 14–March 10. Following is Holmes and Watson from May 30–June 30, and BALLET AND DANCE THEATRE 3 then Lungs on stage July 25–Aug. 18. TEXAS BALLET THEATER Theatre 3 continues its 57th season with The final show of the season will be the As usual, many shows perform both at the musical The Manufactured Myth of add-on musical First Date (Sept. 12–Oct. Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall and Eveline Flynn, co-written by locals Ian 13), a co-production with Theatre TCU. Dallas’ Winspear Opera House. The season Ferguson and Michael Federico, on stage StageWest.org. continues with a program of three short Jan. 31–Feb. 24. ballets by various composers at Bass Hall LYRIC STAGE March 1–3, followed by a program of three Foxfire follows from March 14–April 7, The musical theater company continues its more, also at Bass Hall, March 29–31. then comes Raptured: A Sex Farce at 20th season with the Schmidt and Jones the End of the World, co-written by Matt two-hander I Do! I Do! from Feb. 14–17, The season concludes with Pinocchio at Lyle and Matt Coleman, and concludes the season with Man of La the Winspear from May 17–19, then at Bass running April 25–May Mancha from June 14–16. Hall from May 24–26. 19. The season ends LyricStage.org. TexasBalletTheater.org. with The Armor Plays: Cinched OPERA AND MUSIC TITAS and Strapped, on DALLAS OPERA TITAS continues its season of dance with stage June 6–30. The Dallas Opera began the 2018- Dorrance Dance on Feb. 1, followed by the Theatre3Dallas. 19 season under the direction of Beijing Dance Theater in its Dallas debut com. maestro Emmanuel Villaume in on Feb. 8. October. The season continues with Puccini’s often-overlooked Kyle Abraham A.I.M. presents a tribute to Manon Lescaut, on stage March David Bowie March 1–2. Ezralow Dance 1–9, followed by Puccini’s enduring performs March 29–30, and Pilobolus ends La Boheme from March 15–31. the season with performances April 5–6. The season concludes with Verdi’s comic Falstaff from April 26–May 4. The Command Performance Gala on Performances at the Margot and Bill June. 1 is a fundraising add-on. Dorrance, Winspear Opera House. Beijing, Ezralow and the gala take place DallasOpera.org. at the Winspear. All others at Moody Performance Hall. ATTPAC.org. FORT WORTH OPERA This list is not, and cannot be, exhaustive. North Texas’ oldest For more season information, visit the opera company following arts organizations’ websites: returns to Bass KitchenDogTheater.org. Hall with STT.co. its spring Undermain.org. festival WingspanTheatre.com. from April CircleTheatre.org. 26–May 31, TurtleCreekChorale.com. featuring MBSProductions.net. mainstage TheWomensChorusOfDallas.com. EisemannCenter.com. DBDT.com. DMA.org. KimbellArt.org. TheModern.org. TicketDFW.com. ATTPAC.org. BassHall.com.
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What’s your cultural poison … er, passion? Theater, opera, dance, spoken word, comedy, art, music, film? North Texas has it all.
So how do you choose? We’ve this list of events to highlight the likely standouts.
WINTER/SPRING 2019 Falsettos at the Winspear Opera House, Feb. 12–17. Composer William Finn’s two one-act musicals — March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland — combined into a single, hilarious, poignant show about modern gay urban relationships in the era of HIV. Presented by ATTPAC. The Wolves at Winspear Opera House, March 6-April 14. “You throw like a girl” might still be a playground taunt, but not “you kick like a girl” … at least not in this play about a high school girls’ soccer team. A Pulitzer finalist, this fierce play puts women as athletes at the center of attention. Presented by Dallas Theater Center. Hamilton at Fair Park Music Hall, April 2– May 5. “This doesn’t sound very interesting to me,” said no one … at least, not since Hamilton became the biggest thing to hit Broadway since neon lights. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop history of the most complex Founding Father is a juggernaut. Presented by Dallas Summer Musicals. Raptured: A Sex Farce at the End of the World at Theatre 3, April 25–May 19. We’ll turn out for anything Matt Lyle takes pen to … even when, as here, he’s only a co-author. But the words “farce” and “sex” are always enough to get us interested. Presented by Theatre 3. HAMILTON
SUMMER 2019 the most acclaimed farces in a decade, this Hello, Dolly! at Fair Park Music Hall, Penny Candy at the Wyly Theatre, June elaborate Broadway smash makes its North July 17–28. The recent Broadway revival 7–July 14. Local gay playwright Jonathan Texas debut. Presented by ATTPAC. starred Bette Midler and then Bernadette Norton wrote this play — one of three The View UpStairs at the Kalita Peters; North Texas audiences get the treat specifically commissioned by the DTC as Humphreys Theater, June 21–July 7. The of another Tony winner, local gal Betty world premieres by North Texans — about off-Broadway musical, about the arson of a Buckley. (See our review of Buckley’s latest life in Pleasant Grove. Presented by the gay club in New Orleans that for decades album, Page 28). Presented by Dallas Dallas Theater Center. was the largest mass-murder of gay Summer Musicals. The Play That Went Wrong at the people in history, makes its regional debut. Presented by Uptown Players. Winspear Opera House, June 11–16. One of By Arnold Wayne Jones [email protected]
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AMERICAN AIRLINES CENTER DEE AND CHARLES MUSIC HALL AT FAIR PARK 2500 Victory Ave. Dallas, 75219 WYLY THEATRE 909 1st Ave. Dallas, 75210 Ticketmaster 214-373-8000 2400 Flora St. Dallas, 75201 214-565-1116 Event Hotline 214-665-4200 214-880-0202 DallasSummerMusicals.org Box Office 214-665-4797 attpac.org AmericanAirlinesCenter.com RANGERS BALLPARK IN EISEMANN CENTER ARLINGTON AT&T STADIUM 2351 Performance Drive, 1000 Performance Place 925 N. Collins St. Arlington, 76011 Richardson, 75082. Arlington, 76011 817-892-4400 972-744-4650 Ticket Office 817-273-5100 DallasCowboys.com EisemannCenter.com Texas.Rangers.MLB.com
BASS PERFORMANCE HALL FORT WORTH GEXA ENERGY PAVILION 525 Commerce St., CONVENTION CENTER AT FAIR PARK Fort Worth, 76102 1111 Houston St., 1818 First Ave. Dallas, 75210 Information Hotline Fort Worth, 76102 214-421-1111 817-212-4325 817-392-6338 DallasPavillion.org Toll Free Number 877-212-4280 MAJESTIC THEATRE VERIZON THEATRE AT BassHall.com 1925 Elm St. Dallas, 75201 GRAND PRAIRIE 214-880-0137 1001 NextStage Drive COTTON BOWL AT FAIR PARK LiveattheMajestic.com Grand Prairie, 75050. 1300 Robert B. Cullum Blvd. General Information & Dallas, 75210 THE MORTON H. MEYERSON Box Office 972-854-5050 SYMPHONY CENTER VerizonTheatre.com KAY BAILEY HUTCHINSON 2301 Flora St. Dallas, 75201 CONVENTION CENTER 214-670-3600 MARGOT AND BILL WINSPEAR 650 S. Griffin St. Dallas, 75202 MeyersonSymphonyCenter.com OPERA HOUSE 214-939-2750 2403 Flora St. Dallas, 75201 DallasConventionCenter.com 214-880-0202 ATTPAC.org
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Say you are looking for a good place Winspear Opera House, The Meyerson Public transit in Dallas may not be as for lunch. Just hop on the and go from Symphony Center, which is home to the accessible as in New York City or London, but downtown to West Village trolley. Along Dallas Opera and the Nasher Sculpture you can definitely make it around the city. the trolley route are all the necessary spots Center. If you’re a fan of the arts, this is the in Uptown — bars, a grocery store, many perfect little day jaunt. DFW is a little more spread out than the places to eat, places to go shopping and average metropolitan area, being about places to just go and have fun. THE D-LINK 60 miles across and about 40 miles north The TRE doesn’t go to Dallas’ southern to south. So knowing your way around I like to stop by Klyde Warren Park, grab an sectors, but the free D-Link bus route the bus and light rail and trolley and train ice cream cookie and take a stroll around provides easy transportation to the system can certainly come in handy. the park. I like to tell myself that I work attractions south of downtown. For a while, I was taking the train into the off all those ice cream cookie calories by office on a regular basis. Taking the train to walking around the park! That gives me a One of my favorite places to go is the work meant I was able to get some work great excuse to indulge. Dallas Farmers Market. The main outdoor done that I wouldn’t have been able to do part of the market, The Shed, is mainly sitting in traffic on I-30 or Highway 183. You can find several food trucks at Klyde only open on weekends. You can find all And if you live in DFW or have spent any Warren Park as well as games to play, a dog your local goods, fruits and vegetables and time here, you know the traffic is a pain, park and fountains for the little ones. more there. especially on Highway 183, because of the Just adjacent to the park is the Dallas Arts never-ending construction. District, the largest district of its kind in the Inside the market you’ll find restaurants United States. The Dallas Museum of Art and a variety of local shops where you From where I lived in Euless, I was able to is there, and admission is free — except, can pick up items like specialty soaps and hop on the Trinity River Express commuter of course, for the fancy exhibits that come Dallas-themed knickknacks. This is also train — aka the TRE — and ride all the through every so often. If you are looking where you’ll find one of best coffee spots way to downtown Dallas where my office for a great idea for a date, start at Klyde and one of the best snowcone places in is. And if you work or live or just visit in Warren Park, take the trolley around Dallas. I mean, what more could you ask downtown, you probably have the same Uptown and a walk though a museum. for? issue I do in finding a parking spot that’s How romantic is that?! less than $15 for the day. Taking the train is I could go on and on all day and all night DEFINITELY less expensive than parking Also in walking distance from the trolley telling you about tall the wonderful food downtown! stop are the iconic Margot and Bill items you can find at Dallas Farmers An added bonus is the free Uptown Trolley. 48 OUT north texas 2019 Market. If you can’t tell, I am highly Their grilled burgers are absolutely don’t have to bother your mom to get her motivated by food! delicious, and they have tater tots! Need I to drop you off at five in the morning. Let say more? her sleep; she deserves it. As for Love Field, The D-Link route will also take you to one you take the bus to the Inwood station of Dallas’ most popular neighborhoods, (By the way, there is also a Hunky’s in the then catch most rail lines from there. Deep Ellum, where you’ll find a variety of Bishop Arts District. Both restaurants are bars, restaurants and eclectic shops offering gay-owned.) My business partner Mia and I went on up a cool, relaxed vibe. a day trip around the Metroplex recently GO WEST! and ended up in this cute little place in If you want brunch then Cane Roso is the The TRE can also take you from Dallas downtown Fort Worth called Uno’s. We place to go. They have $1 mimosas — and across the Trinity River to Fort Worth where were walking around Sundance Square, if you’re anything like me, you love a good you will find Sundance Square downtown. and stumbled upon — what do you know cheap mimosa — and breakfast pizza to There are a TON of restaurants, bars, clubs —FOOD! Actually, I am sitting in Uno’s die for. Here I am talking about food again! and stores in and around downtown Fort right now as I right this, and Mia keeps But Deep Ellum is such a great place to Worth and Sundance Square, and during reminding me at how amazed she is that meet friends to grab a bite and a drink, I the holiday months, there is an enormous she started in Carrolton this morning; we can’t help myself! Christmas tree right in the middle of stopped in West Village for lunch, and now square. I highly recommend going to we are in Fort Worth — and we never even The D-Link will take you to the famous checkout the festivities. set foot in a car! Sixth Floor Museum and Dealey Plaza, so you can see where JFK was assassinated, A quick bus ride from the TRE station Texas is a very car-centered place, it’s true. and to the Dallas Convention Center, downtown gets you to Fort Worth’s West But if you know the transit system, you can where there is always something 7th Street area. This is another area that has get almost anywhere. Whether you want interesting happening, whether it’s one exploded with cool restaurants, shopping brunch, night life, or — like Dolly Parton — of the many conventions the city hosts or, and — my favorite — brunch spots. The you work nine-to-five, you can get where every March, the big auto show. centerpiece is the old Montgomery Ward you need to go on public transit. building, which has been renovated to Sean Davis is a sales associate with Briggs Just take a two-minute walk from a D-Link house shops, restaurants, condos and Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, stop to hop on the Dallas Streetcar, which more. Come one, come all — OK, maybe with offices on Cedar Springs Road in takes you across the Trinity River to Oak not all. I do want to be able to find a seat Uptown Dallas. Visit their website at Cliff’s Bishop Arts District. This is another and grab a mimosa (again). BriggsFreeman.com. excellent place to spend the day, with coffee shops, bars, live music and food Just a few blocks over from West 7th is galore! Jonathan’s Oaklawn is right there, the Fort Worth Cultural District, boasting and they have the best chicken and waffles world-class museums ranging from the in the city. A stop in Jonathan’s is an Kimbell Art Museum to the Modern Art absolute must any time you are in the area. Museum of Fort Worth to the National Cowgirl Museum and the Fort Worth Barbara’s Pavilion, a laidback LGBT bar that Museum of Science and History — and draws a loyal crowd of locals, is just down more. The Will Rogers Coliseum is over the block from the Bishop Arts District. Go there, as is the Fort Worth Botanical over on a Saturday afternoon for a comfy Gardens, which feature the spectacular place to drink and chat with friends, then Japanese Gardens. stay for karaoke that night. Hop a bus heading north of downtown OAK LAWN Fort Worth to check out the renowned Fort For LGBT visitors to Dallas, Oak Lawn is Worth Stockyards. Again, you’ll find shops, THE place to go. Head down to the Cedar restaurants and bars and clubs — including Springs Strip — Cedar Springs Road at the world-famous Billy Bob’s — along Oak Lawn Avenue — to find the beating with the historic Tarantula Steam Train, a heart of Dallas’ Gayborhood. In fact, a western museum, and the iconic longhorn Texas state historical marker was erected in herd featured in the twice-daily cattle October 2018 detailing the importance of drive by real-life cowboys on horseback. the neighborhood in the history of Dallas’ Fort Worth is “where the West begins,” vibrant, thriving LGBT community. and nothing says Old West more than the Cedar Springs Road is lined with bars, Stockyards. clubs and restaurants. It’s the perfect place for a night out with friends. GETTING HERE FROM DFW INTERNATIONAL Of course, I have to mention the food on From DFW International Airport,you can The Strip. Cafe Brazil is open 24 hours take the orange line into Dallas, or you a day, so if you’re hungry for some solid can take the shuttle to Centreport Station food after a night of partying, you can walk then hop on the TRE to Fort Worth. It’s a down the block for a bite. There are several lot less confusing than it sounds, trust me. By Sean Davis other restaurants on The Strip, too, but for The orange line takes you directly from [email protected] me, it’s all about the burgers at Hunky’s! downtown Dallas to DFW airport, so you
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In 2003, Dallas pharmacist Wayne Falcone friend of the LGBT community, hosting The city of Dallas understands the value bought the home and hired interior such events as the annual Black Tie Dinner, of LGBT tourism, and the city’s hospitality decorator Gerald Tomlin to bring it back the largest LGBT fundraising event of industry is sophisticated and welcoming. to life. The home has been granted status its kind. Sheraton Dallas is just minutes And while most major hotel chains — as as an historic landmark and given special from some of the city’s main attractions, well as many smaller chains and boutique dispensation to be operated as a B&B. including the American Airlines Center and hotels and B&Bs — are familiar with and Today, the Daisy Polk Inn is Dallas’ only Fair Park. The DART Light Rail is across helpful to their LGBT clientele, there are gay bed-and-breakfast, located just a block the street and Dallas Convention Center is some accommodations that stand out off the Cedar Springs Strip. It features six close by as well. The rooms and suites are as being especially welcoming to LGBT beautifully-appointed rooms full of luxury spacious, meticulously designed and pet- travelers. and old-school charm. The inn, along with friendly, with large work spaces and great the more private Dickason Cottage in back downtown views. Amenities include the HILTON ANATOLE offers comfort and convenience. Draft Media Sports Lounge, The Kitchen The Hilton Anatole is a Dallas legend, 2917 Reagan St. Table restaurant and 230,000 square feet sitting on 45 lush acres on the edge of 214-522-4692 of meeting and event space with four the Design District and just minutes from DaisyPolkInn.com expansive ballrooms. downtown. The Anatole offers a variety 400 N. Olive St. of indoor and outdoor facilities including HOTEL ZAZA 214-922-8000 V Spa, Verandah Health Club, the new Located in the heart of Uptown, the Zaza is SheratonDallasHotel.com JadeWaters resort pool complex and a boutique hotel with a large gay following. It private Sculpture Park. There are also four is tucked away on a side street within a few W DALLAS — VICTORY exclusive dining venues ( a total of nine paces of the hubbub of Uptown nightlife, W Dallas Victory is situated in the heart on-site dining options), more than 600,000 but its own Dragonfly restaurant (and of Dallas, just minutes away from the square feet of event space, stylish and popular Urban Oasis pool bar) give you American Airlines Center and some of the elegant rooms and suites with amenities plenty of things to do without leaving the city’s best shopping and dining options. including comfortable beds, WiFi and grounds. On select weekends, the Sunday It offers boutique accommodations with HDTV. 2201 N. Stemmons Freeway. School brunch is a dance party/meal that state-of-the-art amenities and luxury 214-748-1200 attracts a gay-straight crowd. touches, like the Bliss® Spa Dallas, Cook HiltonAnatole.com 2332 Leonard St. Hall gastropub and The Living Room. 214-468-8399 The hotel’s 11,00-square-feet-plus of CROWNE PLAZA HotelZaza.com event space includes panoramic views of DALLAS MARKET CENTER downtown. Crowne Plaza Dallas Market Center has OMNI DALLAS HOTEL 2440 Victory Park Lane 354 air-conditioned rooms featuring The city-owned Omni Dallas Hotel, 214-397-4100 flat-screen TVs, free WiFi and cable located just steps away from Dallas’ Kay WHotels.com/Dallas programming. Conveniences in the rooms Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center and include desks, hair dryers in the bathrooms, Pioneer Plaza, shows its Pride often by WARWICK MELROSE DALLAS complimentary week-day newspapers and bathing its exterior in rainbows, thanks to Sitting at the corner of Oak Lawn Avenue phones with free local calls. The hotel also the hotel’s hi-tech computer-aided lighting and Cedar Springs Road the 1924 red brick offers an indoor pool and fitness center, system that has marked many milestones, Melrose is the grande dame of the Dallas gift shops, complimentary area shuttle, a like the Supreme Court’s marriage equality gayborhood, located conveniently close to restaurant and a bar and, of course, room ruling in 2015. The Omni’s 1,001 air- others of the city’s must-see attractions. service, along with daily buffet breakfasts conditioned rooms feature iPod docking The elegant rooms feature flat-screen TVs, for a fee. Crowne Plaza has 12,000 square stations, LCD televisions, pillowtop beds, coffeemakers and WiFi (for a surcharge), feet of meeting and event space, and a pay movies with wired and wireless while upgraded suites offer separate living complimentary round-trip airport shuttle Internet access available for a surcharge. and dining rooms with crystal chandeliers. at scheduled times. An added advantage is Amenities include a spa offering massages, The Presidential Suite includes a full- the hotel’s close proximity to Dallas Love body treatments and facials, an outdoor size kitchen. The hotel also includes a Field and Dallas Market Center. pool, a spa tub and a sauna, plus three restaurant serving classic American dishes 7050 Stemmons Freeway. restaurants and a coffee shop/café. that is open for breakfast, lunch and 214-630-8500 Other featured amenities include a dinner, plus a classy piano bar offering live business center and 110,000 square feet of entertainment. Other amenities include DAISY POLK INN meeting and event space and a conference an exercise room and free transportation The Daisy Polk Inn dates back to the center. for local trips. There are also five meeting early 20th century when banker Lynn P. 555 S. Lamar St. rooms and a ballroom. As befits its place Talley had it built for his growing family. 214-744-6664 as the grande dame of the gayborhood, It changed hands several times over the OmniDallasHotel.com the Melrose over the years has embraced years until professional opera singer Daisy the LGBT community, hosting many Polk purchased it in 1944. Miss Daisy, SHERATON DALLAS HOTEL community events. who made a name for herself as a singer Sheraton Dallas Hotel, looming 42 stories 3015 Oak Lawn Ave. internationally, lived in the house at 2917 high over downtown and now in the midst 214-521-5151 Reagan St. until she died at the age of 91. of extensive renovations, has long been a WarwickMelroseDallas.com 52 OUT north texas 2019 SHOPPING
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FORT WORTH STOCKYARDS Fincher’s White Front Western Wear, Maverick Fine Western Wear, M.L. Leddy’s. and more than 20 shops at Stockyard Station. FortWorthStockyards.org DALLAS FARMERS MARKET GALLERIA DALLAS MOCKINGBIRD STATION SKIVVIES 13350 Dallas Parkway., Ste. 3080 5307 E Mockingbird Lane 4001 Cedar Springs Road Dallas, 75240 | 972-702-7100 Dallas, 75206 | 214-891-6860 Dallas, 75219 | 214-559-4955 GalleriaDallas.com MockingbirdStation.com SkivviesMensUnderwear.com GIFTED NEBRASKA FURNITURE MART SUNDANCE SQUARE 4001 Cedar Springs Road, Ste. C 5600 Nebraska 35-block shopping and entertainmnet Dallas, 75219 | 214-347-8165 Furniture Mart Drive district in Downtown Fort Worth. Shops The Colony, 75056 | 972-668-3000 include LOFT, Coyote Urban Boutique, GRAND PRAIRIE NFM.com Papagallo Classiques, Earth Bones, Retro PREMIUM OUTLETS Cowboy, Dallas Cowboys Pro Shop, Texas 2950 W. I-20, Ste. 480 NEIMAN MARCUS Rangers, Team Shop and more. Grand Prairie, 75052 | 972-602-8383 1618 Main St. Dallas, 75201 SundanceSquare.com PremiumOutlets.com/mall/ 214-741-6911 grand-prairie NeimanMarcus.com TANGER OUTLETS FORT WORTH 5853 N. Freeway Service Road E. IKEA FRISCO NORTHPARK CENTER Fort Worth, 76177 | 800-406-4490 HOME FURNISHINGS 8687 N. Central Expressway 7171 Ikea Drive, Frisco, 75034 and Dallas, 75225 | 214-363-7441 TAPELENDERS 1000 Ikea Place, Grand Prairie, 75052 NorthParkCenter.com 3926 Cedar Springs Road 888-888-4532 Dallas, 75219 | 214-528-6344 NUVO TheStripOnCedarSprings.com J. DOUGLAS DESIGN 3311 Oak Lawn Ave. 3301 Oak Lawn Ave. Dallas, 75219 | 214-522-6886 TRADERS VILLAGE LTD Dallas, 75219 | 214-522-8100 NuvoDallas.com 2602 Mayfield Road jdouglasdesign.com Grand Prairie, 75052 | 972-647-2331 OUTLINES TradersVillage.com JUSTIN BOOT OUTLET STORE 3906 Cedar Springs Road 717 W Vickery Blvd. Dallas, 75219 | 214-528-1955 WEST VILLAGE Fort Worth, 76104 | 817-885-8089 3699 McKinney Ave. JustinBoots.com THE SHOPS AT CRESCENT COURT Dallas, 75204 | 214-219-1144 400 Crescent Court. WestVillageDallas.com LEATHER MASTERS Dallas, 75201 | 214-880-4500 3000 Main St. Dallas, 75226 214-528-3865
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THE DALLAS COWBOYS Home games are played in College Park Center at North Texas’ professional football team plays in UT Arlington, 601 Center St., Arlington. For more the Eastern Division of the National Football information, visit Wings.WNBA.com. Conference in the National Football League. They are five-time Super Bowl champions and were FC DALLAS named the highest-valued sports franchise North Texas’ professional soccer team, Football by Forbes Magazine in 2009. Home Club Dallas, was founded in 1996 and is based in games are played at AT&T Stadium, Frisco. The team plays in the Western Conference 900 E. Randol Mill Road, Arlington. in Major League Soccer and was previously For more information and tickets, visit known as the Dallas Burn. Home games are DallasCowboys.com played at Toyota Stadium, 9200 World Cup Way, Frisco. For more information and tickets, visit THE DALLAS MAVERICKS FCDallas.com. Dallas’ NBA team, owned by Mark Cuban, plays in the Southwest Division LONE STAR PARK of the Western Conference of the Lone Star Park is the horseracing track of North National Basketball Association. Texas. Every Memorial Day, the park hosts Since their inaugural Lone Star Million Day, a thoroughbred meeting 1980–81 season, the with six stakes races and the Fall Meeting of Mavericks have Champions for American Quarter Horses been in the September through November at 1000 Lone Star playoffs in 21 Parkway, Grand Prairie. For more information, seasons, visit LoneStarPark.com.
MESQUITE CHAMPIONSHIP RODEO The Mesquite Championship is the area’s permanent professional rodeo and is held in Mesquite at Resistol Arena, 1818 Rodeo Drive, Mesquite. The rodeo season runs April through September. For more information, visit MesquiteProRodeo.com.
and have won three division titles TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY (1987, 2007, 2010), two conference Texas Motor Speedway measures 1.5 miles in championships (2006, 2011), and one an oval design with an asphalt surface. The NBA Championship (2011). Home speedway is host to the NASCAR Sprint Cup games are played at American Airlines Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series, NASCAR Center, 2500 Victory Ave. For more Camping World Truck Series and the IZOD information and tickets, visit IndyCar Series. Texas Motor Speedway is at DallasMavericks.com 3545 Lone Star Circle, Fort Worth. For more information, visit TexasMotorSpeedway.com. THE DALLAS STARS The Dallas Stars have been the city’s professional THE TEXAS RANGERS hockey team since moving here in 1993 from North Texas’ professional baseball team plays in Minnesota. The Stars play in the Pacific Division the Western Division of the American League of of the Western Conference of the National Major League Baseball. They have made seven Hockey League. The Stars have won seven appearances in the MLB postseason, winning division titles in Dallas, two President’s Trophies division championships in 1996, 1998, 1999, as the top regular season team in the NHL, the 2010, 2011 and 2015. Texas won the American Western Conference championship twice, and the League pennant in 2010 and 2011. Home games Stanley Cup in 1998–99. Home games are played are played at Globe Life Park in Arlington,1000 at American Airlines Center, 2500 Victory Ave. For Ballpark Way, Arlington. The Rangers’ minor more information, visit DallasStars.com. league team, the Frisco RoughRiders, play at Dr Pepper Ballpark, boasting the Choctaw Lazy DALLAS WINGS River feature that allows spectators to float Dallas’ WNBA women’s basketball team moved around the perimeter of the park while watching SKYLAR to Arlington from Tulsa in 2016 and plays in games. For more information and tickets, visit the Western Conference. They advanced to the TexasRangers.com. DIGGINS- playoffs in 2018, their third season in Dallas. SMITH 54 OUT north texas 2019 RELOCATION GUIDE
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Oak Lawn, Uptown, never live elsewhere. Homes in Oak Cliff EAST DALLAS TURTLE CREEK run the gamut of architectural styles. Most East Dallas is, broadly speaking, everything Long known as Dallas’ Gayborhood, were built before the 1960s, and some date east of Central Expressway and still Oak Lawn and the adjacent Uptown and back to the early 1900s. The gorgeous — inside the city limits. This is a huge area Turtle Creek areas offer many options, and pricey —neighborhoods of Kessler with many distinctive neighborhoods mostly condominiums and townhouses Park and Stevens Park are located just offering homes in a wide variety of styles built in the past 10 years. Living in the southwest of downtown Dallas. Many of and at a wide range of prices. Many of Gayborhood means you are close to those homes sell for more than $500,000, the neighborhoods are convenient to wonderful restaurants, plenty of shopping, and some top the $1 million mark. But White Rock Lake, a true gem in our city. the Arts District, Katy Trail and all the there are still plenty of neighborhoods Lakewood is adjacent to and west of hottest nightlife spots. Options range from offering more affordable homes in Oak White Rock Lake and a short drive from smaller condos in older buildings available Cliff, including Beckley Club. It’s an the downtown area. It includes many for under $200,000 to newly-constructed up-and-coming neighborhood where neighborhoods with beautiful streets residences along Turtle Creek priced well more and more of the homes are being and homes of various architectural styles, above $1 million. remodeled, but you can still find deals for ranging from 1920s and 1930s mansions well under $300,000. mostly in the Tudor, Mediterranean and NORTH OAK CLIFF Hollywood styles, to quaint bungalows. Oak Cliff, which was once a separate city, And if you are looking for a diamond in the Lakewood Shopping Center offers a variety is home to many LGBT folks these days. rough that you can remodel yourself then of restaurants and shops, and Lakewood And the “Cliff Dwellers” absolutely love Oak Cliff is the place to look. Elementary is highly-acclaimed. Old East their neighborhoods, often swearing they’d Dallas includes the Munger Place and
56 OUT north texas 2019 Swiss Avenue historical districts and other NORTH DALLAS/ Preston Hollow is a great neighborhood neighborhoods with homes dating as far FAR NORTH DALLAS where prices range from about $300,000 back as the earliest 1900s. North Dallas includes a number of fantastic to the millions. Most homes here are neighborhoods, like Preston Hollow with traditional or ranch-style, but there are a The M-Streets area, adjacent to Central its mostly traditional and ranch-style older sizeable number of mid-century modern Expressway, includes a variety of charming homes mixed in with a good number homes about neighborhoods like Midway homes, from small bungalows and cottages of newer homes on lots where smaller Hollow, often referred to as the Disney to much larger, more-recently-constructed original, smaller homes were torn down. Streets, because of the street names. homes built on tear-down lots. Mansions dominate parts of Preston Far North Dallas — north of 635 — LAKE HIGHLANDS Hollow, which includes some of the priciest includes neighborhoods in the Richardson Lake Highlands, north of White Rock real estate in the city — such as Strait Lane, and Plano school districts. People often Lake and south of 635 Freeway. While where Ross Perot lives. mistakenly think of this area as a sea of the neighborhood is inside the Dallas large, characterless tract homes and bigger city limits, most of the area is in the McMansions. But in fact, there are many well-respected beautiful neighborhoods with winding, heavily-treed streets and gorgeous — not cookie-cutter — homes. Homes here are generally in the range of $400,000 to $1 million or above.
The Suburbs RICHARDSON/GARLAND Just north and east of Dallas are Richardson and Garland, the very definition of bedroom communities — small, quaint and pleasant. But most of the activities around the Metroplex are located outside their city limits.
ADDISON/FARMERS BRANCH/CARROLLTON These small, independent cities sit just north of LBJ Freeway (aka I-635), roughly between the Dallas North Tollway and I-35. They tend to be conservative, but that has been noticeably WHITE ROCK LAKE
Richardson School District. Lake Highlands offers many great neighborhoods with all types of architectural styles. Most homes range in price from $300,000 to $800,000.
HIGHLAND PARK & UNIVERSITY PARK Referred to as The Park Cities, Highland Park and University Park are actually small towns surrounded by central Dallas. The prices are quite steep here, and the schools are outstanding. There are gorgeous, multi- million dollar mansions in the Park Cities, but even the smaller, older homes in need Other Preston of updating can cost more than $500,000. Hollow neighborhoods are not so exorbitant, offering homes for about $400,000 and up, but it’s getting OAK CLIFF harder to buy homes here at that price point. Hillcrest Road. West and north of
OUT north texas 2019 57 changing over the last few years. Addison, in particular, has embraced aspects of the LGBT community: Its gay-run WaterTower Theatre frequently produces queer-themed plays and musicals. These areas are convenient to DFW International Airport and the Galleria shopping center.
FRISCO As more and more people filter into the Metroplex, this once-distant suburb has grown in popularity — and with the opening of the first IKEA in North Texas, become a frequent day trip destination for gay Dallasites. And for LGBT parents with children looking to get away from the big-city hubbub, Frisco and the surrounding areas are becoming more and more attractive, thanks to the efforts of GALA (Gay And Lesbian Alliance) North Texas. Frisco is also the location of the Dr. Pepper Ballpark, home of the Frisco RoughRiders minor league baseball team and the “lazy river” water feature that lets fans float while cheering on their team. FC Dallas, the professional soccer team, also calls Frisco home, playing their games there in Toyota Stadium.
PLANO One of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, Plano has also been considered one of the more conservative suburbs of Dallas. But the hub of Collin County isn’t quite the bastion of homophobia some folks think, with gay-friendly organizations like GALA North Texas and Stonewall Democrats, as well as professional-quality performing arts at the Collin County Community College and nearby Richardson’s Eisemann Center for the Performing Arts.
Mid-Cities: Arlington/Grand Prairie/ Irving/Hurst/Euless/Bedford The Mid-Cities is a general term used to describe those independently-incorporated areas within Dallas and Tarrant counties that lie between the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth. Each has its own identity and appeal.
Arlington, the largest among them, is home to two of the most iconic professional sports teams around: the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, who play at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, and the MLB’s Texas Rangers, currently playing at Globe Life park in Arlington while their new $1 billion stadium is under construction. A third pro sports team now calls Arlington LAS COLINAS home, as well: The WNBA’s Dallas Wings are headquartered at College Park Center on the campus on UT-Arlington. 58 OUT north texas 2019 and regular festivals, such as the Native the-century gingerbread homes, as well as Not far from AT&T Stadium and Globe American Championship Pow Wow held Scarborough Renaissance Faire, a two- Life Park, the Six Flags Over Texas there every September. month-long renaissance festival held on a amusement park stands on the south side 165-acre site just southwest of downtown. of I-30 in Arlington, and just across the IRVING The renaissance festival is open every interstate is Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Sitting between Dallas and the DFW weekend in April and May each year, but water park. International Airport is Irving, home of the each October the festival site converts to Las Colinas development and business a haunted theme park for the Halloween UT-Arlington, a part of the University park and two theater companies: Lyric season. of Texas system with about 35,000 Stage and ICT MainStage. students, sits right in the middle of the Fort Worth city. Arlington’s Entertainment District is HURST-EULESS-BEDFORD Fort Worth is the 16th largest city in the growing quickly, with the recent addition In Tarrant County, this triumvirate of United States and has been called one of the Texas Live! complex, and downtown, cities are frequently referred to as H-E-B. of America’s most livable communities. on the edge of the UTA Campus is the free A growing area with many businesses Today, it is a thriving center of culture outdoor venue, Levitt Pavilion. and new family homes, they also border and commerce with plenty to offer: the Haltom City. Historic Stockyards, remarkable museums, GRAND PRAIRIE a dazzling downtown area, the Texas Motor The closest of the Mid Cities to downtown SOUTHERN SECTOR Speedway, spectacular annual events and Dallas boasts the Verizon Theatre, which DESOTO, CEDAR HILL, more. hosts many top musical acts. Just across the LANCASTER, street from Verizon Theatre sits the Lone DUNCANVILLE, WAXAHACHIE The LGBT community in Fort Worth Star Park horse race track, and just over If you’ve gone to Waxahachie, you’ve gone is active and growing, with the older a mile away are Ripley’s Believe It or Not too far! Actually, that city is on the outer neighborhoods of Meadowbrook and and Palace of Wax. Grand Prairie Premium edge of the Metroplex. These smaller Handley on the eastern side of the city Outlets offers bargain prices on high-end towns south of Dallas have grown in home to a large number of gay residents brand-name products, but the city is also popularity with North Texans, though attracted to historic homes and friendly home to the gigantic every-weekend flea more slowly than northern suburbs like neighbors. market called Traders Village where you’ll Plano, Addison and Frisco. Waxahachie, in find a different kind of bargain shopping, particular, is known for its many turn-of-
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UT ARLINGTON North Texas is awash in institutions of SOUTHERN METHODIST TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE higher education, public and private, most UNIVERSITY 1201 E. 13th St. offering opportunities and a welcoming 6425 Boaz Lane Fort Worth, 76102 attitude toward LGBT-identified students. Dallas, 75205 TCCD.edu Here are some of the major colleges that SMU.edu Tarrant County College is a community have gay-friendly policies or groups on SMU, a nationally-ranked private college serving Fort Worth and other campus. university of 11,000 students, offers small cities in Tarrant County, providing degree classes, seven degree-granting schools and programs toward an Associate of Arts, Colleges a strong alumni association. The school an Associate of Science, an Associate of DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY offers a variety of programs through the Applied Science or Associate of Arts in COLLEGE DISTRICT Women & LGBT Student Center. SMU Teaching. As of 2008 the institution was DCCCD.edu has LGBT student and alumni groups and ranked as the sixth largest in Texas among With seven colleges on 13 campuses in an LGBT Panels and Speaker’s Bureau community colleges and universities with the Dallas area, DCCCD is the largest Program, and each year holds the LGBT student enrollment for credit hours of undergraduate institution in the state of Equality Forum. In 2018, the school held 100,000. Five physical campuses, a virtual Texas. DCCCD excels in health-related two separate programs on transgender campus and a centralized office make up fields, including nursing, EMS, and issues during the week of Transgender the TCC District. There are LGBT student paramedic programs. Each credit hour is Remembrance Day, and it works with groups on some campuses. just $52. LGBT and gay-straight alliance Resource Center to offer counseling to groups are available on some campuses. LGBT clients.
60 OUT north texas 2019 close to 15,000 students). The public university is known for its liberal arts and healthcare programs, with a large emphasis in occupational and physical therapy programs. There is an active lesbian population on campus and a strong campus organization for LGBT students. Women’s volleyball and basketball programs are popular.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS 1155 Union Circle #311277 Denton, 76203 UNT.edu Denton’s largest university, UNT is home to 36,000 students (including other satellite campuses around the region). One of this public university’s biggest claims to fame is its College of Music and Grammy Award- winning One O’Clock Lab Band. For LGBT students, there are plenty of official welcoming organizations. UNT is also home of the LGBT archives — which has the LGBT newspaper Dallas Voice digitized, searchable and available online — plus LGBT studies programs, GLAD Dallas and a resource center called Pride Alliance.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT ARLINGTON (UTA) 701 S. Nedderman Drive Arlington, 76019 UTA.edu UTA, at 34,000 students strong, has a strong reputation as a leading research university. It offers increasing expertise in SMU bioengineering, medical diagnostics, micro- manufacturing and defense and Homeland TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY founded by the Methodist Episcopal Security technologies, and is well-known 2800 S. University Drive Church, South, in 1890. The 75-acre main for its engineering school. UTA has no Fort Worth, 76129 campus is located in the Polytechnic football team, but there are a variety of TCU.edu Heights Neighborhood of Fort Worth. The unique sporting opportunities, including The TCU Horned Frogs football team is so school has 27 areas of undergraduate study, a mud volleyball tournament, bed races popular that all of Fort Worth joins in on as well as honors and pre-professional and a national-championship wheelchair the action, even dyeing the Trinity River programs, and it offers graduate programs basketball team. UTA’s College Park Center purple when the team is on a winning in business, education, counseling, nurse is also home to WNBA’s Dallas Wings. A streak. At only 9,500 students, this private anesthesia and law. Sports include baseball, gay-straight alliance and LGBT programs university has a real community feel basketball, cross-country, football, golf, aim to enhance the college experience for on campus. With nine degree-granting soccer and track & field, softball, tennis anyone identifying as non-heterosexual. schools, including a well-respected nursing and volleyball. Co-ed teams include cheer program, there is plenty of academic and dance and internationally-known table UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS diversity. A gay-straight alliance also has tennis teams. The school has an active (UTD) a strong presence. Brite Divinity School LGBT student group. 800 West Campbell Road at TCU is considered a liberal school with Richardson, 75080 several LGBT faculty including a lesbian TEXAS WOMEN’S UNIVERSITY UTD.edu dean. 304 Administration Drive UTD offers 130 academic programs across P.O. Box 425589, seven schools focused on a science and TEXAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Denton, 76204 technology curriculum. Men’s soccer and 1201 Wesleyan St. TWU.edu basketball, as well as women’s volleyball, Fort Worth, 76105 One of two large universities in Denton, are teams to watch. Pride at UTD, their TXWes.edu TWU is the nation’s largest university LGBT diversity group, is active on campus. Texas Wesleyan University is a private, primarily for women (men are allowed, co-educational, liberal arts university but represent a small minority of the
OUT north texas 2019 61 COMMUNITY EVENTS GAY BINGO Third Saturday of every month (except December). The ping-pong balls fly as fast as the wit at the Rose Room, inside the gay club Station 4, for this monthly fundraiser for Resource Center. Every month features a different theme. myresourcecenter.org
DIFFA/DALLAS Throughout the year. The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS is one of the oldest and most vigorous awareness and fundraising organizations in the United States, and the Dallas chapter is among the liveliest. Various parties and benefits are held throughout the year, with its signature gala set for the spring. DIFFA.org
TEXAS BEAR ROUND UP Each spring the Dallas Bears host the Texas Bear Round Up, one of if not the largest such event in the country, with about 1,000 or more bears and bear lovers coming to town for social events, top name entertainers, field trips and fellowship. In 2017 and 2018, TBRU was moved to late May-early June due to scheduling conflicts with its new host hotel, the luxurious Hyatt Regency Downtown, but in 2019 the event returns to its traditional March schedule, and will be held March 14-17. TBRU.org
TOAST TO LIFE The 21th annual Toast to Life, will be held March 30, 2019 at The Empire Room in the Dallas Design District. The event features fine food and drink and numerous silent auction items, and it raises money for Resource Center. myresourcecenter.org
EVENING OF HOPE AIDS Outreach Center in Fort Worth holds its signature gala each May, with national/local celebrities, a keynote speaker and entertainment. The elegant evening MAIN STREET ART FEST includes a sit-down dinner, silent auction and VIP reception. This year’s event will be Rodeo Association. One of its largest throughout the year. TGRA rodeos are also held May 11 at the Hilton Fort Worth. events each year is the Texas Tradition known for their “camp” events, including AOC.org Rodeo held each springs in different goat dressing and the Wild Drag Race. locations around the Metroplex. The TGRA.org TGRA TEXAS TRADITIONS 2019 rodeo will be held May 24-26 at RODEO the Denton County Fairgrounds, 2217 N. DALLAS PRIDE The Texas Gay Rodeo Association, with Carroll Blvd. in Denton. One of TGRA’s Previously held each year on the weekend local chapters around the state, hosts primary missions is to raise funds for of the third Sunday in September in Oak several events every year, sometimes in community organizations, with TGRA Lawn to celebrate Judge Jerry Buchmeyer’s conjunction with the International Gay royalty contestants holding events 1982 ruling striking down the Texas
62 OUT north texas 2019 JUNETEENTH DALLAS PRIDE Dallas Southern Pride, the organization which organizes Dallas Black Pride each fall, TARRANT COUNTY PRIDE each June celebrates the The Tarrant County Pride celebration is uniquely southern holiday held each year on the first weekend in of Juneteenth, marking June October, with the Pride parade through 19, 1865, two years after downtown Fort Worth, followed by a President Lincoln issued the festival at the Fort Worth Water Gardens, Emancipation Proclamation, held on Saturday morning, and the Pride when Union soldiers led by picnic held at Trinity Park the following day. Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger The 2019 event will mark Tarrant Pride’s landed at Galveston to 38th year. announce that the Civil War was over and all slaves LIFEWALK were free. DSP’s Juneteenth Prism Health North Texas is one of North includes a variety of parties Texas’ most active AIDS-based charities, and traditionally ends with a holding many events throughout the barbecue at Bachmann Lake in year, leading up to LifeWalk, its biggest Dallas. fundraiser, held on the first Sunday in DallasSouthernPride.com October each year. The event includes a 5K run/walk, starting in Oak Lawn Park and DALLAS BLACK winding through the Uptown area before PRIDE ending up back at the Park. Since starting One of the top five Black Pride in 1991, LifeWalk has raised and distributed events in the country, Dallas more than $6 million for area HIV/AIDS Black Pride spans the end of charities and individuals. TARRANT COUNTY PRIDE September through the first LifeWalk.org weekend in October, and Sodomy Law, the Dallas Pride celebration, includes workshops, parties NATIONAL COMING OUT DAY organized by the Dallas Tavern Guild and and picnics. The annual Ball/House and The Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter of the the Pride Steering Committee, is moving Pageant Communities Conference, hosted Human Rights Campaign’s Coming Out to the first weekend in June at Fair Park, by Abounding Prosperity Inc., is also held Project started in 1993. Although the beginning in 2019. The Miller Lite Music during Black Pride weekend. The “official” NCOD-DFW operates year-round with Festival will be held on Saturday, June 1, Dallas Black Pride is organized by Dallas education and support, the actual “day” — in the Centennial Building and on the Southern Pride, but other organizations Oct. 11 — is the focus. In 2019 NCOD will Esplanade at Fair Park, and the 36th annual and businesses hold events as well. mark its 32nd anniversary. Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade will be DallasSouthernPride.com Comeout.org. held Sunday, June 2, also at Fair Park. DallasPride.org OUT north texas 2019 63 THE 5 FACTOR October. This event finds five individuals to watch who have worked on behalf of the LGBT community in categories, such as fashion, journalism, media and cuisine, as well as an icon award for an established hero of the community. It benefits Resource Center. myresourcecenter.org
BLACK TIE DINNER Although the Human Rights Campaign’s Black Die Dinner — the largest event of its kind nationally — takes place each fall, usually in November, you should plan to get your tickets by summer because the event always sells out. The fundraiser TGRA RODEO typically features silent and live auctions of violence and hate at disturbingly high fundraising event each year and includes and presentations from A-list celebrities, rates. Each year on Nov. 21, Transgender live entertainment, vendor booths and a and proceeds are divided by the Human Day of Remembrance is held to honor and children’s area. Proceeds go to support the Rights Campaign Foundation and local mourn those trans men and women who programs and services provided by AIDS beneficiary organizations. This year’s dinner have died violently over the previous 12 Outreach Center. is Nov. 2 at the Sheraton Dallas Hotel. months. AOC.org BlackTieDinner.org HOPE WALK WORLD AIDS DAY AIDS Outreach Center’s family- and pet- World AIDS Day is held each year on Dec. TRANSGENDER DAY friendly 5K walk is now held each year 1, and North Texas organizations such as OF REMEMBRANCE on the weekend closest to World AIDS Resource Center and C.U.R.E. always hold Transgender people, especially transgender Day. It is AIDS Outreach Center’s largest events marking the day. women of color, continue to be the targets
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CELEBRATION COMMUNITY AIDS RESOURCE CENTER CHURCH 908 Pennsylvania Ave. | Fort Worth SPECTRUM MOTORCYCLE CLUB UNITED COURT OF THE LONE 817-335-3222 214-289-1179 STAR EMPIRE [email protected] Spectrum-MRC.com P.O. BOX 190865 | Dallas Celebration-Community-Church.com DallasCourt.org STRENGTH IN NUMBERS DALLAS CELEBRATION ON THE LAKE FORT WORTH VALOR LATINO CHURCH [email protected] 214-540-4430 | [email protected] 9120 S. Highway 198 | Mabank Groups.yahoo.com/group/ 903-802-0670 | [email protected] sindallasftworth COTLChurch.org
70 OUT north texas 2019 CONGREGATION BETH EL BINAH THE GATHERING PLACE NORTHAVEN UNITED 11211 Preston Road | Dallas 500 Furlong Drive | Dallas METHODIST CHURCH [email protected] 214-643-3250 11211 Preston Road | Dallas BethElBinah.org TheGatheringDallas.org 214-363-2479 | [email protected] Northaven.org CROSSROADS COMMUNITY GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CHURCH OAK LAWN UNITED METHODIST 2800 Routh St. | Dallas 4105 Junius St. | Dallas CHURCH 214-520-9090 214-824-2533 3014 Oak Lawn Ave. | Dallas [email protected] [email protected] 214-521-5197 | [email protected] CrossroadsCommunityChurch.us GraceUMCDallas.org olumc.org
DALLAS MEDITATION CENTER GREENLAND HILLS UNITED PATHWAYS CHURCH UNITARIAN 810 West Arapaho Road | Dallas METHODIST CHURCH UNIVERSALIST 972-432-7871 5835 Penrose Ave. | Dallas 481 W. Harwood Road | Hurst DallasMeditationCenter.com 214-826-2020 817-803-5941 | [email protected] GreenlandHills.org PathwaysUU.org DIGNITY DALLAS 972-729-9572 HARVEST MCC PROMISE UNITED CHURCH OF 2281 N. Masch Branch Road, Ste. 100 | CHRIST EAST DALLAS CHRISTIAN Denton 2527 W. Colorado Blvd. | Dallas CHURCH 940-484-6159 214-623-8400 629 North Peak St. | Dallas HarvestMCC.org 214-824-8185 | [email protected] ST. FRANCIS ANGLICAN CHURCH EDCC.org HORIZON UNITARIAN 3838 Walnut Hill Lane | Dallas UNIVERSALIST CHURCH 214-351-1401 1641 W. Hebron Parkway | Carrollton StFrancisDallas.org 972-492-4940 | [email protected] HorizonUU.org ST. STEPHEN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INTERFAITH MINDFUL 2520 Oates Drive | Mesquite MINISTRIES: AWAKENING HEART 972-279-3112 P.O. Box 832412 | Richardson ststephenumctx.org 972-432-7871 [email protected] TRINITY MCC InterMindful.com 933 E. Ave. J | Grand Prairie 817-265-5454 KESSLER PARK UNITED TrinityMCC.org METHODIST CHURCH 1215 Turner Ave. | Dallas UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST 214-942-0098 CHURCH OF OAK CLIFF kpumc.org 3839 W. Kiest Blvd. | Dallas 214-337-2429 | [email protected] LESBIAN & GAY UNITARIANS OakCliffUU.org 214-691-4300 UNITY CHURCH OF LIVING FAITH COVENANT CHRISTIANITY CHURCH 3425 Greenville Ave. | Dallas 3403 Shelley Blvd. | Dallas 214-826-5683 | karenromestan@ EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST. 972-546-0543 | [email protected] dallasunity.org THOMAS THE APOSTLE LivingFaithDFW.org DallasUnity.org 6525 Inwood Road | Dallas 214-352-0410 | [email protected] LUTHERANS CONCERNED UNITY OF DALLAS TheDoubter.org 6411 LBJ Freeway | Dallas 6525 Forest Lane | Dallas 214-855-4998 | [email protected] 972-233-7106 FELLOWSHIP OF LOVE ReconcilingWorks.org UnityDallas.org OUTREACH CHURCH 1500 Circle Park Blvd. | Fort Worth METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY WHITE ROCK COMMUNITY 817-921-5683 CHURCH OF GREATER DALLAS CHURCH FOLOchurch.org 972-243-0761 9353 Garland Road | Dallas 214-320-0043 FIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF MIDWAY HILLS CHRISTIAN [email protected] DALLAS CHURCH WhiteRockChurch.info 4015 Normandy Ave. | Dallas 11001 Midway Road | Dallas 214-528-3990 | [email protected] 214-352-4841 | [email protected] DallasUU.org MidwayHills.org
OUT north texas 2019 71 SPORTS SUPPORT GAY AND LESBIAN ANGER MANAGEMENT GROUP DALLAS DIABLOS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS 469-328-1980 P.O. Box 190862 | Dallas LAMBDA GROUP [email protected] [email protected] 6162 E. Mockingbird, Ste. 209 | Dallas DallasDiablos.com 214-264-0222 IMPULSE GROUP DALLAS 2924 Lucas Drive, Ste. 3066 | Dallas DIVA | DALLAS INDEPENDENT AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION 424-672-5567 VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATION 7272 Greenville Ave. | Dallas impulsegrp.org/dallas (DIVA) 800-242-8721 214-578-6206 heart.org LAMBDA GROUP OF NICOTINE DIVADallas.org ANONYMOUS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH 2438 Butler St. | Dallas Individual Counseling, Intensive 214-629-7806 DIFFERENT STROKES GOLF Outpatient Program, Medication NICADFW.org ASSOCIATION Management 720 Rockingham Drive | Irving 214-393-3640 LEZ TALK DALLAS [email protected] [email protected] 815-905-2985 | [email protected] DSGADallas.org MyResourceCenter.org LezTalkDallas.com
NORTH TEXAS WOMEN’S BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LGBTQ+ SUICIDE PREVENTION SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION LONE STAR RESOURCES 3500 Shorecrest Drive | Plano 450 E. John Carpenter Freeway | Dallas National Suicide Prevention Lifeline | 899- 817-823-1839 866-405-2447 273-8255 ntxwsa.net bbbstx.org Trans Lifeline | 877-565-8860 SAGE LGBT Elder Hotline | 888-234-SAGE OAK LAWN BOWLING BLACK TRANSMEN afsp.org/lgbtq ASSOCIATION 3530 Forest Lane, Ste. 312C | Dallas 10920 Composite Drive | Dallas 1-855-BLK-TMEN OVER THE RAINBOW 214-358-1382 BlackTransMen.org 214-358-0517 [email protected] OakLawnBowling.com CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY PFLAG-DALLAS NORTH TEXAS P.O. Box 190193 | Dallas OAK LAWN SKI AND SCUBA CLUB P.O. Box 601744 | Dallas 972-77-PFLAG P.O. 190993 | Dallas 8196 Walnut Hill | Dallas [email protected] 214-521-5342 ext. 1769 214-345-8230 [email protected] PFLAG-FORT WORTH CEDAR SPRINGS MERCHANT 817-428-2329 OAK LAWN TENNIS ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION 3824 Cedar Springs Road, Ste. 369 | Dallas SEX & LOVE ADDICTS 2807 Allen St., #385 | Dallas thestriponcedarsprings.com ANONYMOUS 701-335-6582 6525 Inwood Road | Dallas OLTADallas.org CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS 972-458-7762 | 214-673-8092 214-766-8939 | Dallas PEGASUS SLOWPITCH SOFTBALL 817-834-2119 | Fort Worth SHARED HOUSING CENTER ASSOCIATION [email protected] 402 N. Good Latimer Expressway | Dallas P.O. Box 191075 | Dallas CoDependents.org 214-821-8510 | [email protected] 972-879-7900 sharedhousingcenter.weebly.com DallasPSSA.org FAMILY PRIDE COALITION 817-881-3949 STONEWALL GROUP OF RAINBOW ROLLERS BOWLING NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS LEAGUE FOOD ADDICTS IN RECOVERY 5910 Cedar Springs Road | Dallas 817-540-0303 ANONYMOUS [email protected] 781-932-6300 | [email protected] TREVOR PROJECT foodaddicts.org 866-488-7386 | [email protected] TEXAS GAY RODEO ASSOCIATION TheTrevorProject.org DALLAS CHAPTER GEAR | GENDER, EDUCATION, P.O. Box 191168 | Dallas ADVOCACY & RESOURCES YOUTH FIRST 214-346-2107 214-540-4498 LGBTQ teens age 12-18, Gender Identity TGRA.org Group, Suicide Prevention Support, GAY AND LESBIAN ALLIANCE Family Dinners TEXAS GAY RODEO OF NORTH TEXAS 5750 Cedar Springs Road | Dallas ASSOCIATION, FORT WORTH [email protected] 214-540-4471 CHAPTER GALANorthTexas.org [email protected] P.O. Box 786 | Fort Worth MyResourceCenter.org 214-346-2107 | TGRA.org
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OUT north texas 2019 75 ACCOMMODATIONS ADULT NOVELTIES ATTORNEYS – CONTINUED Daisy Polk Inn Alternatives DebnamRust, PC & Dickason Cottage (Enter in rear behind New Fine Arts) An Inclusive Law Firm Historic Bed & Breakfast in Oak Lawn 1720 W. Mockingbird Lane debnamrust.com 2917 Regan St. | daisypolkinn.com 214-630-7071 214-775-0628 214-522-4692 (See display ad on page 94) North Texas GLBT Chamber Member
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(See display ad on page 75) ATTORNEYS Olinger Law Immigration ADULT ENTERTAINMENT Covell, Rebecca S. LSOLaw.com covellpc.com 3710 Rawlins St., Ste. 950 Club Dallas - A private men’s club / 3710 Rawlins St., Ste. 950 214-396-9090 sauna 214-443-0300 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member theclubs.com North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on page 77) 2616 Swiss Ave. (See display ad on page 78) 214-821-1990 (See display ad on page 93)
76 OUT north texas 2019 ATTORNEYS – CONTINUED ATTORNEYS – CRIMINAL ATTORNEYS – IMMIGRATION Adam L. Seidel, P.C. LAW - CONTINUED Olinger Law Immigration www.adamseidel.com Adam L. Seidel, P.C. LSOLaw.com 5910 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 980 adamseidel.com 3710 Rawlins St., Ste. 950 214-528-3344 5910 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 980 214-396-9090 Past President - Dallas LGBT Bar Assoc. 214-528-3344 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Past President - Dallas LGBT Bar Assoc. (See display ad on page 77) (See display ad on page 77) North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on page 77) ATTORNEYS – West, Chad, PLLC PERSONAL INJURY chadwestlaw.com West, Chad, PLLC Domingo Garcia Law 3606 S. Tyler St. chadwestlaw.com domingogarcialaw.com 214-509-7555 3606 S. Tyler St. 400 S. Zang Blvd., Ste. 600 214-509-7555 214-941-8300 ATTORNEYS – ADOPTION (See display ad on page 9) Hall, Stephanie Attorney at Law ATTORNEYS –EMPLOYMENT ladylawsah.com Law Office of Rob Wiley, PC Law Office of Julie Johnson, PLLC 4514 Cole Ave., Ste. 600 robwiley.com juliejohnsonlaw.com 214-522-3343 2613 Thomas Ave. 12222 Merit Drive, Ste. 1202 (See display ad on page 75) 214-528-6500 214-290-8001 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member ATTORNEYS – West, Chad, PLLC BUSINESS LAW ATTORNEYS – FAMILY LAW chadwestlaw.com Covell, Rebecca S. DebnamRust, PC 3606 S. Tyler St. covellpc.com An Inclusive Law Firm 214-509-7555 3710 Rawlins St., Ste. 950 debnamrust.com 214-443-0300 214-775-0628 ATTORNEYS – PROBATE North Texas GLBT Chamber Member North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Covell, Rebecca S. (See display ad on page 78) covellpc.com Hall, Stephanie Attorney at Law 3710 Rawlins St., Ste. 950 ATTORNEYS – ladylawsah.com 214-443-0300 COHABITATION 4514 Cole Ave., Ste. 600 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-522-3343 Hall, Stephanie Attorney at Law (See display ad on page 78) ladylawsah.com Law Office of David C. Cole, PC ATTORNEYS – 4514 Cole Ave., Ste. 600 adoptlegal.com 214-522-3343 Services for adoptive parents & people SERIOUS INJURY (See display ad on page 75) pursuing family building through assisted Domingo Garcia Law reproduction domingogarcialaw.com ATTORNEYS – 214-363-5117 400 S. Zang Blvd., Ste. 600 CRIMINAL LAW 214-941-8300 Adam L. Seidel, P.C. | adamseidel.com Domingo Garcia Law (See display ad on page 9) 5910 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 980 domingogarcialaw.com 214-528-3344 400 S. Zang Blvd., Ste. 600 Law Office of Julie Johnson, PLLC Past President - Dallas LGBT Bar Assoc. 214-941-8300 juliejohnsonlaw.com North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on page 9) 12222 Merit Drive, Ste. 1202 (See display ad on page 77) 214-290-8001
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OUT north texas 2019 77 ATTORNEYS – WILLS, BEER COMPANIES CATERING TRUSTS & ESTATE Revolver Brewing nerdvana food + spirits PLANNING Brewed in the Texas Countryside nerdvanafrisco.com Covell, Rebecca S. revolverbrewing.com 5757 Main St., #112 | Frisco, TX (See display ad on page 21) 214-618-9732 covellpc.com 3710 Rawlins St., Ste. 950 214-443-0300 BOOKKEEPING SERVICES Salum Restaurant North Texas GLBT Chamber Member J Chester & Associates, Inc., CPA salumrestaurant.com (See display ad on page 78) jchestercpa.com 4152 Cole Ave., Ste. 103 8140 Walnut Hill Lane, Ste. 430 214-252-9604 Hall, Stephanie Attorney at Law 214-330-4682 ladylawsah.com North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Start Restaurant | Real food fast! 4514 Cole Ave., Ste. 600 (See display ad on page 75) startrestaurant.net 214-522-3343 4023 Lemmon Ave. | 4814 Greenville Ave. (See display ad on page 75) BREWERIES 214-599-7873 | 214-265-1411 Revolver Brewing BANKS Brewed in the Texas Countryside Wendy Krispin Caterer wendykrispincaterer.com Capital One Bank revolverbrewing.com Planning, creating and catering events from capitalonecareers.com (See display ad on page 21) lunches and dinners to wedding feasts. 4208 Lemmon Ave. 214-748-5559 972-728-3900 BUS LINES North Texas GLBT Chamber Member DART BATH HOUSE | GYMS dart.org CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE Club Dallas - 214-979-1111 (See display ad on page 51) North Texas GLBT Chamber of A private men’s club / sauna Commerce theclubs.com Achieving equality through business 2616 Swiss Ave. CALENDARS glbtchamber.com 214-821-1990 Dallas Voice 214-821-4528 (See display ad on page 93) Check out our Plan Your Week calendar dallasvoice.com/plan-your-week CHIROPRACTIC DOCTORS BEAUTY 214-754-8710 Hair Today Gone Tomorrow – DC htgtelectrolysis.com DFW Gay Live! Tutt, Steven J. 4245 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 450 Your online source for all LGBTQ Events Doctor of Chiropractic 682-593-1442 DFWGay.com drtuttdc.com (See display ad on page 82) 214-450-8238 4245 Cedar Springs Road (See display ad on page 86) 214-528-1900 BED & BREAKFAST Daisy Polk Inn & Dickason Cottage CAMPGROUNDS Uptown Chiropractic uptownchiropractic.com Historic Bed & Breakfast in Oak Lawn Rainbow Ranch Campground Lynne Auerbach - Doctor of Chiropractic 2917 Regan St. | daisypolkinn.com rainbowranch.net 2909 Cole Ave., Ste. 205 214-522-4692 1662 LCR 800 | Groesbeck, TX 888-875-7596 214-979-9013
78 OUT north texas 2019 CHORALES CONVENTION & VISITORS COUNSELORS – LICENSED Turtle Creek Chorale BUREAUS PROFESSIONAL – Exceptional performing arts experiences to Arlington Convention & Visitors CONTINUED over 20,000 North Texans annually. Bureau Caswell, Eddie MEd, LPC TurtleCreekChorale.com Welcome to a World of Wonderful! 6500 Greenville Ave., Ste. 185 214-526-3214 arlington.org/lgbtq 214-559-7077 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 800-342-4305 (See display ad on page 26) Martin, Randy, LPC COFFEE SHOPS martinlpc.com nerdvana coffee + shop Visit Dallas 3626 North Hall St., Ste. 530 nerdvanafrisco.com visitdallas.com/things-to-do/trip-ideas/ 214-392-8247 5757 Main St., #112 | Frisco, TX dallas-lgbt.html North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-618-9732 325 North St. Paul St., Ste. 700 800-232-5527 Owen, Jimmy LPC CONCIERGE MEDICINE North Texas GLBT Chamber Member jimmyowen.com Medical Practice of (See display ad on page 16) 3838 Oak Lawn, Ste. 1000 Dr. Steven M. Pounders 214-546-8852 • Concierge Medicine • Primary Care COPY/GHOST WRITING North Texas GLBT Chamber Member • HIV Specialist Brandi Amara Skyy 3500 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 600 Intersectional Creative, Biz, Writing Coach Uptown Psychotherapy | 214-520-8833 brandiamaraskyy Deborah Beckman, MS, LPC, NCC North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 469-865-9181 Tim Myrick, Med, LPC, NCC (See display ad on page 64, 88) uptownpsychotherapy.com COSTUMES –MASQUERADE 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 520 CONSTRUCTION – & THEATRICAL 214-824-2009 (See display ad on page 79) ADDITIONS, RENOVATIONS Dallas Costume Shoppe NorthStar Roofing | Fencing | Gutters dcshoppe.com Fully Insured | Massive Experience 3905 Main St. CRUISES northstarroofing.biz 214-428-4613 The Pauer Group, LLC - Randy Pauer 214-274-5596 Creating Exquisite Travel Memories North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Norcostco Texas Costume thepauergroup.com 972-241-2000 norcostco.com Renowned Renovation 1231 Wycliff, Ste. 300 renownedrenovation.com 214-630-4048 DELIVERY SERVICES Kitchens, bathrooms, cabinets, countertops, (See display ad on page 79) The UPS Store on Lemmon Ave flooring and windows theupsstore.com | Store #5254 972-232-7122 COUNSELORS – LICENSED 4848 Lemmon Ave, Ste. 100 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member PROFESSIONAL 214-780-0877 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member, Candy Marcum, LPC, LMFT Certified LGBTE COACHING Supervision Brandi Amara Skyy CandyMarcum.com Intersectional Creative, Biz, Writing Coach 4228 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 225 brandiamaraskyy 214-521-1278 469-865-9181 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on page 79)
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OUT north texas 2019 79 DENTISTS DISC JOCKEYS ELECTROLYSIS Boyd, Carole Ann, DDS, PC DJ DELUXE PRODUCTIONS Dallas Electrolysis Clinic drboyd.net Professional mobile DJ music for parties, Permanent Hair Removal 4514 Cole Ave., Ste. 905 weddings, fashion & special events, electrolysisformen.com 214-521-6261 karaoke and more 214-766-8939 214-823-1424 Terrell, Kevin, DDS, PC North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Hair Today Gone Tomorrow terrelldental.com htgtelectrolysis.com 2603 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 100 Video Transfer and DJ Music Sounds 4245 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 450 214-329-1818 videotransfer4u.net 682-593-1442 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 469-222-6659 (See display ad on page 82) (See display ad on page 80) DRUG STORES EMERGENCY ROOMS Tseng, Eugene, DDS, PC Avita Pharmacy Uptown ER eugenetseng.com avitapharmacy.com uptownerdallas.com 3300 Douglas Ave., Ste. A 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 118A 3607 Oak Lawn Ave. 214-855-0789 214-943-5187 | 877-943-5187 214-217-1818 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member North Texas GLBT Chamber Member DENTISTS – COSMETIC (See display ad on page 2) (See display ad on page 73) Boyd, Carole Ann, DDS, PC drboyd.net DUCT CLEANING ENTERTAINMENT 4514 Cole Ave., Ste. 905 Rescue Air Heating and Cooling DJ DELUXE PRODUCTIONS 214-521-6261 Serving the Metroplex | rescueair.com Professional mobile DJ music for parties, 972-351-8307 weddings, fashion & special events, Terrell, Kevin, DDS, PC North Texas GLBT Chamber Member karaoke and more terrelldental.com (See display ad on page 80) 214-823-1424 2603 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 100 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-329-1818 DVD SALES North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Alternatives Turtle Creek Chorale (See display ad on page 80) (Enter in rear behind New Fine Arts) Exceptional performing arts experiences to 1720 W. Mockingbird Lane over 20,000 North Texans annually. DENTISTS – 214-630-7071 TurtleCreekChorale.com PROSTHODONTISTS 214-526-3214 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Boyd, Carole Ann, DDS, PC EGG DONOR PROGRAMS drboyd.net Fertility Specialists of Texas 4514 Cole Ave., Ste. 905 fertilitytexas.com EVENT VENUES 214-521-6261 Jerald S. Goldstein, MD 7 for Parties by Wendy Krispin Caterer Locations in Dallas, Frisco, and Grapevine Sophisticated yet whimsical event space DIETETIC CONSULTATION 214-750-5500 7forparties.com | wendykrispincaterer.com Sundrops Vitamins & Nutrition (See display ad on page 3) 150 Turtle Creek Blvd. | Design District sundrops.com 214-748-5559 4306 N. Central Expressway The Donor Solution North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-521-0550 The solution for extraordinary egg donors thedonorsolution.com 713-827-0301
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VOTED BEST MOVERS 7 YEARS & COUNTING! We can move you across Dallas town or across the country Voice Readers Voice Lambda Awards EXPERIENCE winner Weekly 7 Years MATTERS! 10610 Metric Drive and #175 Dallas, TX 75243 Counting! America’s longest running LGBT radio show 20+ YEARS SUPPORTING TXDMV 000521440B Sundays @ 1pm on 89.3 KNON-FM THE COMMUNITY USDOT 1032910 with Lerone Landis, Patti Fink and David Taffet 214.349.6683 FantasticMoves.com OUT north texas 2019 85 PACKING SUPPLIES PHOTOGRAPHERS PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS Fantastic Moves Spayse Studios – GENERAL PRACTICE FantasticMoves.com A production studio Daly, Patrick W., MD 10610 Metric, Ste. 175 1200 sq. ft. facility dedicated to the Internal/HIV Medicine 214-349-6683 (MOVE) entertainment industry from infinity walls 25+ years experience North Texas GLBT Chamber Member to sound stages and more 3629 Fairmount St. (See display ad on page 85) spaysestudios.com 214-526-3566 1499 Regal Row, Ste. 308 PAYROLL SERVICES 469-709-8114 Graneto, Donald, MD Aishman, Rick, PC Uptown Physicians Group Phipps, Tom Terry Thompson Photography 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 4228 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 225 TerryThompsonPhotography.com 214-303-1033 214-520-7363 1001 Belleview St. North Texas GLBT Chamber Member North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-629-7663 (See display ad on back cover) (See display ad on page 76) PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS Hays, Anthony, MD, ATC, LAT J Chester & Associates, Inc., CPA – FAMILY PRACTICE Uptown Physicians Group jchestercpa.com Medical Practice of 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 8140 Walnut Hill Lane, Ste. 430 Dr. Steven M. Pounders 214-303-1033 214-330-4682 • Concierge Medicine • Primary Care North Texas GLBT Chamber Member North Texas GLBT Chamber Member • HIV Specialist (See display ad on back cover) (See display ad on page 75) 3500 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 600 214-520-8833 Medical Practice of PHARMACIES North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Dr. Steven M. Pounders Avita Pharmacy (See display ad on pages 64, 88) • Concierge Medicine • Primary Care avitapharmacy.com • HIV Specialist 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 118A Philips, Kay L. , MD 3500 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 600 214-943-5187 | 877-943-5187 Internal Medicine 214-520-8833 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Dallas Diagnostic Association North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on page 2) A Baylor-HealthTexas Affiliate (See display ad on pages 64, 88) ddadoctors.com/Providers/Pages/philips PHARMACEUTICAL 9101 N. Central, Ste. 300 Philips, Kay L. , MD CONSULTANTS 214-363-2305 Internal Medicine Dallas Diagnostic Association Avita Pharmacy A Baylor-HealthTexas Affiliate avitapharmacy.com PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS ddadoctors.com/Providers/Pages/philips 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 118A – EMERGENCY ROOM 9101 N. Central, Ste. 300 214-943-5187 | 877-943-5187 Uptown ER 214-363-2305 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 3607 Oak Lawn Ave. (See display ad on page 2) 214-217-1818 Uptown Physicians Group North Texas GLBT Chamber Member uptowndocs.com uptownerdallas.com 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 (See display ad on page 73) 214-303-1033 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on pages 87, back cover)
86 OUT north texas 2019 PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS – GYNECOLOGY – HIV SPECIALISTS – – HIV SPECIALISTS – Conceive Fertility Center CONTINUED CONTINUED 6750 N. MacArthur Blvd., Ste. 209 McLaud, Mary, FNP Sinclair, Gary, MD Irving, 75039 Prism Health North Texas Prism Health North Texas conceivefertilitycenter.com 4922 Spring Ave. 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A | 4922 Spring 214-224-0778 214-421-7848 214-526-3566 | 214-421-7848 (See display ad on page 75) (See display ad on pages 4, 95) (See display ad on pages 4, 95)
PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS Medical Practice of Tribble, Marc, MD – HIV SPECIALISTS Dr. Steven M. Pounders Uptown Physicians Group Barrier, Amy FNP • Concierge Medicine • Primary Care 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 Prism Health North Texas • HIV Specialist 214-303-1033 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A 3500 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 600 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-526-3566 214-520-8833 (See display ad on back cover) (See display ad on pages 4, 95) North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on pages 64, 88) Uptown Physicians Group Daly, Patrick W., MD uptowndocs.com Internal/HIV Medicine Prism Health North Texas 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 25+ years experience Oak Cliff Health Center 214-303-1033 3629 Fairmount St. 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-526-3566 214-521-5191 (See display ad on pages 87, back cover) (See display ad on pages 4, 95) Gillman, Jason, MD PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS Prism Health North Texas Prism Health North Texas – INFECTIOUS DISEASES 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A PrismHealthNTX.org Barrier, Amy FNP 214-526-3566 351 West Jefferson Blvd., Ste. 300 Prism Health North Texas (See display ad on pages 4, 95) 214-521-5191 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-526-3566 Graneto, Donald, MD (See display ad on pages 4, 95) (See display ad on pages 4, 95) Uptown Physicians Group 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 Prism Health North Texas Gillman, Jason, MD 214-303-1033 South Dallas Health Center Prism Health North Texas (See display ad on back cover) 4922 Spring Ave. 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A 214-421-4848 214-526-3566 Klein, Jennifer, FNP (See display ad on pages 4, 95) (See display ad on pages 4, 95) Prism Health North Texas 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A Rivera, Rachel, MD Klein, Jennifer, FNP 214-526-3566 Prism Health North Texas Prism Health North Texas (See display ad on pages 4, 95) 4922 Spring Ave. 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A 214-421-7848 214-526-3566 Lee, David, MD (See display ad on pages 4, 95) Uptown Physicians Group Rosenthal, Emilija FNP 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 Prism Health North Texas 214-303-1033 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A (See display ad on back cover) 214-526-3566
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OUT north texas 2019 87 PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS PRINTING SERVICES – INFECTIOUS DISEASES – – INTERNAL MEDICINE PrintBurner CONTINUED Daly, Patrick W., MD printburner.com McLaud, Mary, FNP Internal/HIV Medicine 208 N. Market St., Floor 2, Ste. 250 214-702-5135 Prism Health North Texas 25+ years experience North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 4922 Spring Ave. 3629 Fairmount St. (See display ad on page 93) 214-421-7848 214-526-3566 (See display ad on pages 4, 95) Hays, Anthony, MD, ATC, LAT The UPS Store on Lemmon Ave Prism Health North Texas Uptown Physicians Group theupsstore.com | Store #5254 4848 Lemmon Ave, Ste. 100 Oak Cliff Health Center 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 214-780-0877 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A 214-303-1033 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member, 214-521-5191 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Certified LGBTE (See display ad on pages 4, 95) (See display ad on back cover)
Prism Health North Texas Lee, David, MD PRIVATE CLUBS PrismHealthNTX.org Uptown Physicians Group Club Dallas - 351 West Jefferson Blvd., Ste. 300 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 A private men’s club / sauna 214-521-5191 214-303-1033 theclubs.com North Texas GLBT Chamber Member North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 2616 Swiss Ave. (See display ad on pages 4, 95) (See display ad on back cover) 214-821-1990 (See display ad on page 93) Prism Health North Texas Medical Practice of South Dallas Health Center Dr. Steven M. Pounders PREP TREATMENT 4922 Spring Ave. • Concierge Medicine • Primary Care AIDS Outreach Center 214-421-4848 • HIV Specialist aoc.org (See display ad on pages 4, 95) 3500 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 600 400 North Beach St., Ste. 100, Ft. Worth 214-520-8833 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member Rivera, Rachel, MD North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 817-335-1994 Prism Health North Texas (See display ad on pages 64, 88) (See display ad on page 65) 4922 Spring Ave. 214-421-7848 Philips, Kay L. , MD Health Education Learning Project (See display ad on pages 4, 95) Internal Medicine helpfw.org Dallas Diagnostic Association 1717 S. Main St. | Fort Worth Rosenthal, Emilija FNP A Baylor-HealthTexas Affiliate 200 E. Division St. | Arlington Prism Health North Texas ddadoctors.com/Providers/Pages/philips 817-332-7722 | 817-200-6500 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A 9101 N. Central, Ste. 300 (See display ad on page 6) 214-526-3566 214-363-2305 (See display ad on pages 4, 95) Medical Practice of Tribble, Marc, MD Dr. Steven M. Pounders Sinclair, Gary, MD Uptown Physicians Group • Concierge Medicine • Primary Care Prism Health North Texas 4144 N. Central Expressway, Ste. 750 • HIV Specialist 219 Sunset Ave., Ste. 116A | 4922 Spring 214-303-1033 3500 Oak Lawn Ave., Ste. 600 214-526-3566 | 214-421-7848 North Texas GLBT Chamber Member 214-520-8833 (See display ad on pages 4, 95) (See display ad on back cover) North Texas GLBT Chamber Member (See display ad on pages 64, 88)
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