3 decades of beautiful music Women’s Chorus of Dallas marks 30th anniversary by David Taffet, Page 8 2 dallasvoice.com █ 10.11.19 toc10.11.19 | Volume 36 | Issue 23 10 headlines █ TEXAS NEWS 9 Apple skipping LGBT media with ads 10 LGBTQ History Month: Joe Brainard 11 Buttigieg on his place in history 12 ANALYSIS: How will SCOTUS rule? Employment █ LIFE+STYLE Discrimination Lawyer 16 Winn Morton’s last hurrah 11 18 Antonio Banderas’ new films Law Office of 20 Sofi ukker’sT red hot music Rob Wiley, P.C. █ ON THE COVER The Women’s Chorus of Dallas with Hugh Jackman. Photo courtesy TWCD. 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He has also helped • Executive actions she will take in her first director of TACA develop individually a new musical, The End of 100 days as president to ensure that LGBTQ+ the Rainbow. people can live free from discrimination. — Arnold Wayne Jones • Fight to end the murders of trans women of color, including but not limited to creating a Warren, Buttigieg issue non- new grant program within the Office of Violence Against Women that will specifically channel discrimination platforms resources into organizations by and for trans- During the week the U.S. Supreme Court gender people, especially people of color. heard three landmark employment discrim- • Move to publicly manufacture PrEP in her ination cases, and in advance of the CNN/ first year as president, ending this uncon- Simon Lokodo Human Rights Campaign presidential debate, scionable price-gouging in the transition to Democratic candidates Elizabeth Warren and Medicare for All. a rise in “unnatural sex.” Pete Buttegieg on Thursday, Oct. 10, issued • Fight for LGBTQ rights in our foreign Local activists confirm that it is to be tabled comprehensive LGBT non-discrimination policy, including reversing Trump’s military on Oct. 28, according to Outright Action platforms. transgender ban on day one, appoint a Special International, an international LGBTQ advocacy Buttigieg’s plan includes these major points: Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons organization. Uganda’s “Anti-Homosexuality Act” was first Terry Loftis • Ban “conversion therapy” nationwide in the State Department, and more. • End the HIV/AIDS epidemic by 2030 Her full plan can be found on her website. passed by the parliament in 2013 and signed TACA — The Arts Community Alliance, a • Enact policies that not only require cover- — David Taffet into law by President Museveni in early 2014, group that supports the arts through grants age of gender-affirming care but also address only to be invalidated by the Constitutional and leadership — has appointed Terry Loftis as the shortages of transition-related care Court of Uganda on procedural grounds the its new president and executive director. • Allow a third gender option (X) on U.S. Uganda plans to re-introduce same year. Loftis, a long-time singer, spent much of passports ‘anti-homosexuality act’ According to Thomson Reuters, the gov- his career in marketing and advertising, but in • Ban unnecessary genital surgeries on Simon Lokodo, the Ethics and Integrity ernment now plans to resurrect the act in the recent years has carved out a second career intersex infants and children minister of Uganda, announced in an interview coming weeks, with a death penalty foreseen as a theatrical impresario: He was Tony-nom- • Launch the We Belong National Mentor- with Thomson Reuters today (Thursday, Oct. not only for same-sex relations, but also for inated as a producer of the musical The Visit, ship Program for LGBTQ young people. 17) that he plans to introduce to the Ugandan “promotion and recruitment” of homosexuality and has worked for the Broadway Fund of His full plan can be found on his website. parliament a bill imposing the death penalty Outright Action International noted in a press New York for several years, raising money Warren writes, “Fifty years after transgender for same-sex relations and “promotion and release. for shows such as Bandstand, Hadestown women of color Marsha P. 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