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- GAY LBIAN FUND DALLAS
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GAY AND LBIAN FUND FOR DALLAS DALLAS, TEXAS (TX)
GAY LBIAN FUND DALLAS
The Gay and Lbian Fund for Dallas works hard to distguish the LGBT muny as a major source of philanthropy the DFW area. Enrique MacGregor and Mark Niermann this week received Southern Methodist Universy Human Rights Program’s Triumph of the Spir Award for their work foundg Gay and Lbian Fund for Dallas more than 20 years ago. MacGregor and Niermann me to Dallas om Colorado, where the Gay and Lbian Fund for Colorado granted money to anizatns that clud nondiscrimatn polici their human rourc manuals that clud sexual orientatn.
Th was born the Gay and Lbian Fund for Dallas. Now the sculpture garn at the Lato Cultural Center is named for the Gay and Lbian Fund for Dallas. So om then until the mm closed a few years later, everyone g though the door passed through the Gay and Lbian Fund for Dallas Orientatn Theater.
You may remember KERA openg some of s programmg wh, “The followg program is brought to you by a genero grant om the Gay and Lbian Fund for Dallas. But there was a qutn at first about whether KERA would accept the donatn bee if the rad statn accepted the group’s donatn, the statn have to e the words “gay and lbian” on the air. GLFD was one of the few anizatns at the time that ed “gay and lbian” purely for fundraisg purpos.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
MacGregor said a goal of the fund was to “normalize” the terms so that people would hear “gay and lbian” and thk of LGBTQ people as jt another group society, whout polil or sexual overton. MacGregor add that by seeg the words “gay and lbian” at the Dallas Children’s Theater, the Whe Rock YMCA or the SPCA, sex and polics are removed, and all that remas are people om Dallas helpg other people om Dallas. The lounge outsi the an’s office is named the Gay and Lbian Fund For Dallas Dean’s Lounge.
Wasn’t SMU named a most homophobic school by the Prceton Review? While stunts voted to list the school as anti-gay, the admistratn was workg diligently to rid the school of that reputatn.
GAY AND LBIAN FUND FOR DALLAS DALLAS, TEXAS (TX)
When the Caldwell School of Edutn opened, David Chard, a gay man, was s an. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.
They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients.
In 1991, he lnched the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund (now the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund) to elect openly gay policians to office. He served as managg director of the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn, or GLAAD, which he helped turn to a natnal group.