2 dallasvoice.com █ 01.11.19 toc01.11.19 | Volume 35 | Issue 36 8 headlines █ TEXAS NEWS 8 A look at opening day of the Lege 9 What to expect in the 86th Legislature 10 CfA, Resource Center get donations 11 Candy Marcum advice column returns █ LIFE+STYLE 18 2018’s best new restaurants 10 20 Best vehicles of 2018 22 Drawing Dallas: Jeffrey Hunter █ ON THE COVER The LGBT Caucus of the 86th Texas Legislature. Photo by David Taffet. Design by Shawn Weston 18 departments 6 The Gay Agenda 25 Best Bets 8 News 28 Ask Howard is now 16 Voices 29 Scene 18 Life+Style 32 MarketPlace A Specialty Medication Accredited Pharmacy with ACHC We have a new name but still offer the same excellent customer service from the same great staff! 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Legislature in 2017 to force lawmakers to pass In 2014, Dallas Voice reported on Donnie an anti-transgender bathroom bill, up to and Romero, who moved to Fort Worth to plant including holding important legislation vital to hate at Stedfast Baptist Church with a mes- the operations of the state hostage to try and sage of violence against the LGBT community. get his way. The video he posted at the time showed him Thanks to a lot of hard work on behalf of standing in front of a wall in his living room LGBT activists and their allies, and thanks preaching mostly to his own family. Following to the fact that there were some reasonable our story and other local reports, the South- Republicans — like then-House Speaker Joe ern Poverty Law Center named Stedfast an Straus — in the Legislature, none of the sev- anti-LGBT hate group. eral bathroom bills introduced and pushed In 2016, Romero condemned the victims of by Patrick and his minions were passed into the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando with law. words that got him lots of the publicity he was But since the legislature is still under GOP craving. It also prompted a group of North control, and since Patrick is still in office, we’ve Texas activists to protest the following Sunday all been worried that the bathroom boogey- Two Dallas Police Department officers appear in an LGBT-specific recruiting video filmed morning outside his church, located in a strip man bills would be back this time around. outside Resource Center. center in Sansom Park. Gov. Greg Abbott said during a debate last Now Romero has resigned after his own DPD wants You! from the LGBT community. summer with Democratic gubernatorial candi- moral behavior has come into question. Dallas Police Department is targeting the A video posted on Twitter is narrated by date Lupe Valdez that such measures weren’t Preaching violence wasn’t enough to disqualify LGBT community — but only in a good way. Roman and shows images in Oak Lawn. a priority on his agenda for 2019. But still we him from the pulpit, but sleeping with those No bar raids; no entrapment — DPD is looking “One of the things I love about Dallas is that worried. prostitutes will do it every time. for and hiring LGBT recruits. the department needed a police force that’s Republican who has told LGBT advocates Romero is very sorry for the hurt he may “We have begun a campaign to recruit representative of the communities it serves,” he would not support a bathroom bill, Patrick have caused people in his church. No word on specifically to the LGBTQ community,” said Roman says on the video. A tweet announcing said Wednesday, “When you win the battle, the hurt he caused people outside his church. DPD police liaison Officer Amber Roman, who the effort declares: “We are hiring! Come be a you don’t have to fight the battle again. I think He plans to remain a member of his church. worked hard to make this recruiting effort a part of our diverse and inclusive family!” To ap- it’s been settled, and I think we’ve won. … Again, no word on whether anyone else plans reality. 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