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Contents:
- ON BEG BLACK AND GAY
- MOVG TO LGBT DALLAS, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
- LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS DALLAS, TX
ON BEG BLACK AND GAY
AUSTIN — The number of Black LGBTQ state lawmakers Texas is about to triple. In May, Jolanda Jon beme the state’s first openly gay and Black state... * gay black dallas *
Dallas Southern Pri, the anizatn that prents Dallas’ huge Black Gay Pri celebratn each fall, this weekend prents s annual Jueenth Celebratn, three days and more of parti celebratg LGBT Pri Month and Jueenth, the memoratn of June 19, 1865, the day that slav Texas learned that Lln had issued the Emancipatn Proclamatn two years earlier, eeg all slav the U. “Often tim, black folks don’t necsarily have a lot of the privilege beg gay that the whe gay muny has, ” said Kirk Myers, bs advisor and lead anizer for Dallas Southern Pri. “It’s easy to segregate yourself away a gay enclave like Oak Lawn, but black and brown folks often still live the neighborhoods where they were born.
And [beg openly gay] isn’t so easy there. “The larger [LGBT] muny wants you to embrace beg gay whout addrsg the fact that you are also black. “And a lot of tim, thgs that the black and brown people started, the whe gay men would take over.
It was black trans women that started Stonewall, but whe gay men got the cred. They say, ‘You’re gay. I am black and gay; I am black and queer.
MOVG TO LGBT DALLAS, TEXAS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
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But what you had was a bunch of whe gays e and take over a non-whe muny.
“Jueenth is motivatn for our people to overe tribulatns we currently face by beg uny jt wh each other, but wh everyone — black, whe, brown, straight or gay.
While other bars have lnched Ain-Amerin-themed nights, nightclub Deep Ellum remas cy’s only black-owned gay venue. Glenn Hunter and Ricky Baker said they’re old enough to rell the discrimatn black patrons once faced at gay bars Dallas. Although everyone their party had Oklahoma driver’s licens, the Amerin Indian iend was allowed to a gay bar on Cedar Sprgs, while the others were told they need Texas IDs.
LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS DALLAS, TX
“Based on all those thgs, we felt like we did not have a voice, so we started our own gay club. After Hunter and Baker, who’ll celebrate 30 years as a uple December, moved to Dallas om Oklahoma Cy 1987, Hunter would bee one of the origal employe of the Metro, a gay black nightclub on Elm Street ntled between downtown and Deep Ellum. While other gay bars Dallas, cludg Havana and The Brick, offer Ain-Amerin themed nights, the Elm & Pearl remas the cy’s only black-owned gay club.
Metro cid to lnch what was origally lled Dallas Black Gay and Lbian Pri. And on Sunday nights for the last few months, the Elm & Pearl has been blazg yet another trail, as the only gay bar to host a straight night. "For , as a muny, I thk Jueenth is important, pecially beg important for gay people, " Dupree said.
"There's Cedar Sprgs, primarily like the 'gayborhood' of Dallas, and a lot of the Ain Amerin LGBTQ members here Dallas jt really don't feel fortable down there, " Goree said. "Many also say there are drs s at gay bars and clubs that they nsir discrimatory. "Not havg spac, and needg to create spac to celebrate our own thgs is how ballroom was created, and started off as a thg for black trans women, and black gay men, " Christen said.