The Gay Squad - Metro Weekly

Contents:

• IN THE LATE 1980S, THE GAY URBAN TTH SQUAD TOOK DALLAS TO TASK OVER THE AIDS CRISIS
• THE GAY SQUAD
• GAY SQUAD
• GAY
• THE GAY SQUAD (DO EE CTOMS)
• 58+ GAY TEAM NAM | LGBTQ, TRIVIA, FUNNY GAY CLUB NAME IAS
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

IN THE LATE 1980S, THE GAY URBAN TTH SQUAD TOOK DALLAS TO TASK OVER THE AIDS CRISIS

Members of the Gay Urban Tth Squad (GUTS), a Dallas activist group, drove the... Members of the Gay Urban Tth Squad (GUTS), a Dallas activist group, drove the woon stak to the dirt at the tersectn of Lemmon and Cole avenu.

The group’s genis rted another gay rights anizatn lled ACT UP (AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power), which was loted ci like New York, Los Angel and San Francis, Waybourn explas. So, GUTS was born, which some joked stood for “Gay Urban Terrorist Squad.

THE GAY SQUAD

Dallas’ gay and lbian muny realized they weren’t as safe as they thought they were. But days before Christmas that year, protters wh the Dallas Gay Alliance and other groups ma known that they were fed up wh the unequal treatment they received unr the law.

LGBTQ+ activists acced Hampton of makg “anti-gay statements, ” acrdg to a Dallas Morng News article published December that year. They believed he’d hand down a light punishment to an 18-year-old who fatally shot two gay men. “Dallas bears the shame for every day [Hampton] ss there, and the world is watchg, ” said Waybourn, who served as Dallas Gay Alliance print, acrdg to the News.

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“It is not the first time that gays and mori have been btalized and victimized by the Dallas County judicial system. People would lose their jobs for beg gay, Waybourn tells the Observer. Later that summer, the public began referrg to as “gay ncer.

”) The stigma surroundg AIDS ma difficult to fd accurate rmatn, and the unty was limed what uld say, so the Dallas Gay Alliance lnched s own tn program to teach people about how to stay safe. Some believed that the gay muny had created AIDS via s “alternate liftyle, ” the Universy of North Texas’ library not on s webse.

LaRouche Jr., an fluential and equent printial ndidate known for his homophobic and anti-Semic views, speculated that the U.

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Dallas Gay Alliance sued the late 1980s wh claims that Parkland Hospal had jt one physician who managed more than 700 AIDS patients every month. Earlier this month, uncil members unanimoly voted to memorate the late, legendary gay rights activist Don Maison wh street toppers.

) click to enlarge William Waybourn lead the Gay Urban Tth Squad (GUTS) the late '80s Dallas. Texas has turned creasgly bative toward gay and transgenr rights durg the past two years.

Many advot say Texas has turned back the clock on gay rights.

THE GAY SQUAD (DO EE CTOMS)

The North Texan had served as an adviser on the school’s Gay-Straight Alliance. In the District, the award-wng Gay and Lbian Liaison Un of the Washgton Metropolan Police Department has been a much ed rource for the cy’s GLBT muny, pecially tim of high-profile crime spre, when seekg a liaison to the MPD, when fightg muny dg addictn, or a host of other reasons.

58+ GAY TEAM NAM | LGBTQ, TRIVIA, FUNNY GAY CLUB NAME IAS

Is a lot more urban, ” says Officer Loreann Grim of the Arlgton County Police Department, who wrote the proposal to lnch Arlgton’s own Gay and Lbian Liaison Un more than two years ago. Has an obv gay area wh a lot of clubs.

So far the un has relied on donatns cludg those om the Arlgton Gay and Lbian Alliance. The gay squad starts wh the one gay but a few years they're is only one straight member. The one gay member don't turn them gay.

They help them relise they're hella gay jt by beg really fuckg gay around them. The first gay is ually the most open gay. A gay preacher if you "that's the gay one".

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

1st gay: "you right". 1st gay: "that's the straight one". Stranger: "wa are the rt of you all gay??