Dallas is home to the sixth largt LGBTQ+ muny the natn and is one of the most welg, gay-iendly ci the untry. Here are a few ways you n celebrate the LGBTQ+ muny this month.
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- ON BEG BLACK AND GAY
- RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
- ON BEG BLACK AND GAY
ON BEG BLACK AND GAY
Dallas is home to the sixth largt LGBTQ+ muny the natn and is one of the most welg, gay-iendly ci the untry. Here are a few ways you n celebrate the LGBTQ+ muny this month. * dallas gay juneteenth *
“The Black muny is only as strong as s Black Gay brothers and sisters.
Trevon Mayers, senr director of advocy and muny engagement at New York Cy's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenr Communy Center, said addg a Jueenth celebratn to the center's Pri month ftivi allows one to nsir what eedom looks like “for the tersectns of our muny. "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.
RUDY GAY EXPECTED TO DRAW TERT OM WARRRS, LAKERS, MAVERICKS, BULLS, PELINS
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 HoopsHype. * dallas gay juneteenth *
"It was so hard for people to actually accept , " Yayo said of beg a black gay man. Attene Rickey Pickett said that sometim pri events feel like they’re divid between the “whe gays and the black gays. Organizers of the Jueenth Uny Ftival took extra preutns to ensure the safety of everyone attendance at downtown's Bungalow Beach Club, mdful of what happened last Sunday at a gay club Orlando where 49 people were massacred and 53 others were wound.
"She said that the Orlando attack shook her — pecially as someone who's gay — and that she hoped spir people to love one another. In 2022, a new LGBTQ+ anizatn formed to brg a Pri event back to the Cedar Sprgs gayborhood September wh s own para and other muny events.
Gaybgo.
ON BEG BLACK AND GAY
Enjoy a night of legendary Gaybgo, prented by Rource Center and hosted at Statn 4 (S4), every third Saturday of January through November. 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.