Dallas - Gayborhood Buzz

Contents:

• BREAKING: SHOCKG SCEN EMERGE OM ‘CHILD-IENDLY’ DRAG SHOW DALLAS GAY BAR
• MOVG TO LGBT DALLAS, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS DALLAS
• GAY DALLAS
•  TEXAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• DALLAS GAY SNAS
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

BREAKING: SHOCKG SCEN EMERGE OM ‘CHILD-IENDLY’ DRAG SHOW DALLAS GAY BAR

Whether you’re lookg for a laid-back jazz bar wh craft cktails or a clubby spot wh mic perfect for dancg, Dallas-Fort Worth’s gay bar scene has a spot that will su your needs. Many of the bars are loted Dallas’ famo "gayborhood" Oak Lawn, but you’ll also fd more off-the-beaten-path optns.

MOVG TO LGBT DALLAS, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Newly-opened Dallas gay bar "Mr.

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Life, he means, for a gay man and his partner the 1980s — an active, vibrant muny centered then as is now on Cedar Sprgs Road, whose gay-iendly clubs offered a safe, lively space for gay people that he didn't fd Oklahoma Cy.

RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS

Before the mid-2000s, gay travel wrers stuck to the ual queer hnts — Hollywood, San Francis, New York, Washgton, D. Around 2004, the Dallas Tavern Guild, the group of gay bar owners who throw the annual Dallas Pri celebratn and pose one of the cy's most fluential queer anizatns, ved the gay travel prs to tour Dallas.

The guild set up viss to gay bars. Michael Doughman, executive director of the guild, says the travel prs explored the fantasi they had of Texas through a gay lens. Hunter and his partner were black, and they uld not get to the gay club.

It was black gay-owned and attend. He was an archect who helped sign for Caven Enterpris, which owns several gay clubs and bars on Cedar Sprgs.

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Okan already owned a gay club lled the Wave. For the next three years, black gays and lbians poured to the club on Monday nights, he says. In Dallas' gay bars today, black, brown and whe people dance and drk together.

But one don't have to turn back the clock 40 years to fd stori of lgerg bias Dallas' gay bars. Supreme Court lgs strikg down anti-sodomy statut and laws agast gay marriage.

In Philalphia last year, a vio surfaced of a club owner that cy's Gayborhood g a racial slur, promptg the Philalphia Commissn on Human Relatns to issue a report that said women, mori and transgenr people felt unwele and unsafe Philalphia's gay neighborhood, acrdg to a story on NBC News.

GAY-FRIENDLY RTRANTS DALLAS

In Atlanta this year, drag performers the cy's gay clubs anized to bat what they say is racism and poor pay, NBC reported. Back home, Mieko Hicks, a black transgenr woman, has seen Dallas gays over the years turn a bld eye to the stggl of trans people. She has no memory of any gays, not bs owners nor bar patrons, prottg or llg for the police to stop the arrts.

When trans woman Nile Hall was found ad near Whe Rock Creek this sprg, a small clter of gays and trans people met a park for a ndlelight vigil. He is the owner of Alexanr’s, a gay bar, and the director of Take Back Oak Lawn, a neighborhood watch group servg the Cedar Sprgs area. Hall’s ath me about the time of two asslt and robbery attempts of people leavg gay bars.

For Shannon Newton, who planned the vigil for her fallen sister, the verage served as another example of how the gay muny here has nflated “gay” wh “LGBTQ” prri. It seems to her, and to others who talked to the Observer, that gay lears here have been most terted buildg up their mercial terts rather than empowerg queer people of all genrs, lors and enomic backgrounds. The issue of who gets to gay bars is beg ls relevant as more people e datg apps, but racism has found s way onle, too.

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Neal moved to Dallas 1979, and a year later started workg the gay clubs on Cedar Sprgs. Now, is possible the bartenr was ready to leave after workg a long shift but the man thought, rightly or wrongly, that the bartenr would have rather not had the black gays at the bar.

The suggtn the Dallas LGBTQ muny that black people who are unsatisfied wh their service at whe-owned gay clubs should take their black dollars elsewhere is an sult, Niecee says. Niecee, wh her iend Imani Jon, 26, are workg to open a fe and bookstore, bee when she Googl about gay history, “the first pictur that pop up don’t look like me, ” Niecee says.

 TEXAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Some don’t volve themselv the polil procs, bee queer polics have featured whe (mostly gay men) stori about queer issu. It is said to be among the first mastream acunts of the impact black queer people have had on gay culture overall and how black queer people have been stolen om by whe people for mercial ga. Unrground ballrooms were formed by queer people New York who found themselv unwele at whe gay-owned tablishments.

J Roc, a black gay Dallase, teach class on how to vogue, a dance that me om ballroom.

Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told Michael Stto @ HoopsHype. Reportg on tra talks surroundg Jam Harn and how they uld affect Joel Embiid and PJ Tucker, not on the Lakers, Warrrs, Bucks, and Mavericks, pl ee agency updat on Rudy Gay, Edmond Sumner, and more on @hoopshype.

DALLAS GAY SNAS

The Thunr officially sign Jack Whe and waive Rudy Gay: – 6:07 PM.

Thunr officially signs Jack Whe, waiv Rudy Gay – 6:07 PM. Oklahoma Cy Thunr waived Rudy Gay sportando.

#YeaVsNayFlow Should the Sixers nsir signg Rudy Gay? Rudy Gay is the first of several roster partur the Thunr will need to make (via @The_ThunrWire):.

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

The Oklahoma Cy Thunr has signed forward Jack Whe to a multi-year ntract and waived forward Rudy Gay, was announced today by Executive Vice Print and General Manager Sam Prti. Shams Charania: The Oklahoma Cy Thunr have waived Rudy Gay, sourc tell @TheAthletic @Stadium.