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Customer carrying gun arrested at S4
Less than two weeks after five people were shot to death and 25 others injured at a gay bar in Colorado Springs, a man was arrested at S4 for carrying a gun. Signs on the doors of all bars on Cedar Springs Road clearly mark them as places where guns may not be carried. Christian […]
Resource Center hosts two virtual legal clinics
LGBTQIA+ Family Estate Planning Legal Clinic Is your LGBTQIA+ family protected under the law? Join this virtual estate planning and legal clinic to ensure your wishes are respected. Resource Center and the UNT Dallas College of Law are joining together for a LGBTQIA+ family estate planning and legal...
We stand with Club Q
Tyler Johnston, right, comforts his friend Joshua Thurman at a makeshift memorial near Club Q, Sunday, Nov. 20. Thurman was inside the nightclub when a gunman walked in and opened fire the night before. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via AP) On Saturday, Nov. 19, shortly before midnight, a ...
Are we winning the war on AIDS?
New HIV infection rates are falling, and treatments are improving. But do we have the political will to end HIV/AIDS? TAMMYE NASH | Managing Editor [email protected] In 2019, according to the U.S. government’s HIV website HIV.gov, there were an estimated 34,800 new HIV infections in the United ...
BTD founder has died
Dickie Weaver, right, with friends Bill Nelson, Terry Tebedo and Mike Anglin skiing in Breckinridge in 1980. (Photo courtesy of Mike Anglin) Dickie Weaver helped create Razzle Dazzle Dallas, Resource Center and more DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer [email protected] Black Tie Dinner founder D...
The Thunder rolls
Alaska Thunderf**k’s first extensive tour brings sci-fi drag to Dallas RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer [email protected] History is being made as drag performer/singer Alaska Thunderf**k 5000 is on her first-ever North American tour this season. Her new live show is a music extravaganza in support of...
Dallas is Bern-ing
Q***r legend Sandra Bernhard is back on the road RICH LOPEZ | Staff writer [email protected] Actor/comedian/singer/advocate and icon Sandra Bernhard is having a moment. This year, she was in Netflix’s Stand Out: An LGBTQ+ Celebration comedy special as well as the latest season of American Horro...
A Bullet Bar for Gun Barrel City, get it?
Longtime Cedar Creek Lake gay bar turns straight, sends drag queens packing DAVID WEBB | Contributing Writer [email protected] GUN BARREL CITY — For three decades, a gay nightclub featuring drag shows operated on Cedar Creek Lake, but that tradition ended this fall when the straight owner t...
Are you smarter than a second grader?
A show at The Perot Museum explains Pixar’s animation process with interactive exhibits DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer [email protected] “I wish I could be an animator,” second-grade student Arturo said to me at the press preview of the Perot Museum’s new exhibit, The Science Behind...
This is NOT a ‘tragedy’
People gather around a memorial Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022, for the victims of Saturday’s fatal shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colo. (Christian Murdock/The Gazette via AP) Merchants of death-speech continue to egg on crimes against humanity such as the Club Q shooting The murderous attack on t...
Pet of the week • 11-25-22
Meet Cleopatra, the queen of cat condo! Actually, she is a somewhat timid little kitty who is hoping for the perfect home while she waits at the SPCA of Texas. Cleopatra is almost 4 years old and weighs a mere 7 pounds. She is covered in a regal black coat with big yellow eyes. She […]
Plan Your Week • Nov. 25, 2022
Have an event coming up? Email your information to Managing Editor Tammye Nash at [email protected] or Senior Staff Writer David Taffet at [email protected] by Wednesday at 5 p.m. for that week’s issue. Plan Your Week The Gay Agenda is now color-coded: Red for community events; blue for ar...
Scene • 11-25-22
Scene • 11-25-22 Nov 25, 2022 | 0 Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo Gaybingo A Gathering of leaders at A Gatherning Anyone for a shot at Round Up Saloon? Fun at The Lorenzo Hotel Happy 40th! Jacket on or off? Neil grabs a selfie with Martha S...
Cassie Nova • 11-25-22
It’s the little things … Hey y’all. Hope you had a fabulous Thanksgiving, and I hope you had fun if you ventured out for a Black Friday sale. I know some people love that s**t, but the thought of an overcrowded store with grown folks acting like shop-hungry cannibals freaks me out. No thank yo...
Best Bets • 11-25-22
Members of the Lost Souls Rugby Football Club are known as champions on the field and off. And one of the reasons for that is their dedication to community service, including their annual holiday toy drive, benefitting the children at Adelfa Callejo Elementary School. This year the players will be a...
Crossword puzzle • 11-25-22
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Stage Notes: NTPA marks a landmark ‘Scrooge’ with a gift to the community
NTPA’s Scrooge marks 100 performances North Texas Performing Arts will offer again it’s Gift to the Community performances of Scrooge the Musical for veterans and underprivileged and disadvantaged children, families and groups by offering two special No Admission shows on Dec. 7 and 14. More tha...
Lawyers say Aldrich is nonbinary as details emerge of shooter’s troubled life
Anderson Lee Aldrich, the 22-year-old charged with murder and hate crimes in connection with the Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, his attorneys said in a Tuesday night, Nov. 22, court filing. Aldrich was released from the hospital Tuesday...
World Cup players threatened with sanctions over ‘One Love’ armbands
GRAHAM DUNBAR | AP Sports Writer DOHA, Qatar — FIFA’s threat of on-field punishment for players pushed World Cup teams to back down Monday, Nov. 20, and abandon a plan for their captains to wear armbands that were seen as a rebuke to host nation Qatar’s human rights record. Just hours before t...
Purple Foundation announces its largest donation yet
Purple Foundation Inc. on Nov. 19 announced its largest donation in a single year — a total of $200,000 to its three beneficiaries, Resource Center, AIDS Services of Dallas and Legacy Cares. Purple Foundation President Blake Baker noted that is total is a $50,000 increase over the foundation’s p...
Lambda Legal’s Pizer receives American Bar Association’s Stonewall Award
The American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity this week recognized Lambda Legal Chief Legal Officer Jennifer C. Pizer with its Stonewall Award for “considerably advancing the legal professions of le***an, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and successfull...
Fundraising starts to build new Pride Center in Colorado Springs
In the wake of the Nov. 19 mass shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Summer Westerbur, a q***r business owner who splits their time between Colorado and Florida, announced today (Tuesday, Nov. 22) that she is working in partnership with Sunserve and local LGBTQ community leaders to build a Pride....
Retired Army officer tackled Club Q gunman
From the very first reports about the shooting Saturday night, Nov. 19, at club q in Colorado Springs, authorities stressed that it was the quick action of two people in the bar that saved countless lives that night. Five people were murdered when the 22-year-old gunman stepped inside armed with a s...
4 victims, 3 survivors of Club Q shooting identified
Four of the five victims killed in the Saturday night, Nov. 19 shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs have been identified. Two of the three identified so far were employees of the bar, bartender Derrick Rump and supervisor Daniel Davis Alston. They were both working Saturday night when the shooting...
Club Q shooter had troubled background, is related to California Assemblyman
While police have yet to publicly comment on the motive for the shooting Saturday night at the Colorado Springs LGBTQ bar Club Q, a report in the U.S. edition of the U.K. newspaper Independent, along with other news outlets, says that the shooter, 22-year-old Anderson Lee Aldritch, is the grandson o...
Services set for longtime community leader Dick Weaver
Dick Weaver, a longtime activist and leader in the Dallas LGBTQ community has passed away, hi friend Mike Anglin announced Saturday, Nov. 19. Anglin said memorial services will be held Saturday, Dec. 3, at 4 p.m. at Northaven United Methodist Church, 11211 Preston Road in Dallas. — Tammye Nash
Club Q releases statement on shooting
Colorado Springs’ Club Q has just released to the Gay and Le***an Alliance Against Defamation the following statement on the shooting there last night that claimed at least five lives: “Club Q is in shock, and in deep mourning, with the family and friends who had loved ones senselessly taken fro...
The victims, survivors, and family members that have been impacted by the unspeakable violence at Club Q last night will remain heavy in our hearts and minds.
This is the result of dehumanizing people. It is imperative that we stand together against harmful propaganda and call it out. Do not believe the lie that words can not hurt.
THIS is why we must celebrate Pride.
Ned Rorem, composer and writer who outed famous musicians in his published prose, dead at 99
NEW YORK (AP) — Ned Rorem, the prolific Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning musician known for his vast output of compositions and for his barbed and sometimes scandalous prose, died Friday at 99. The news was confirmed by a publicist for his longtime music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, who said he died of...
Dallas Voice among recipients of Google News Equity Fund
Dallas Voice has been chosen as one of 450 newsrooms from 52 countries as a recipient in Google’s News Equity Fund, a global commitment by Google to provide financial support and opportunities to news organizations primarily serving under-represented communities. According to a statement from goog...
Congressional equality caucus members introduce resolution acknowledging Trans Day of Remembrance
Today (Sunday, Nov. 20), the co-chairs of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus’ Transgender Equality Task Force, Rep. Marie Newman of Illinois, Rep. Jennifer Wexton of Virginia and Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington, announced the introduction of a resolution commemorating November 20, 2022, a...
Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2022: Say Their Names
Statement by President Joe Biden on Transgender Day of Remembrance “There is no place for violence, hatred, and bigotry in America. Yet, tragically, as last night’s attack in Colorado Springs reminds us, too many LGBTQI+ people in the United States — and around the world — continue to face u...
Are You OK? The Lives of Young Trans Texans
In Jesse Friedin's photos, viewers glimpse the bravery of transgender youth and the power of unconditional family support.
We are updating our post about the shooting in Colorado whenever we get new information, so keep checking back to find the latest information.
We also have a separate post compiling reactions to the shooting from around the country. That post includes links to two GoFundMe accounts created to raise money for the survivors and the families of victims to pay for expenses.
UPDATE: Joshua Thurman told CNN affiliate KOAA he was at Club Q dancing when he “heard gunshots and saw a muzzle flash. ‘I thought it was the music, so I kept dancing. Then I heard another set of shots, and then me and a customer ran to the dressing room, got on the ground and locked […]
Today, as we mourn the hundreds of trans lives lost over the past year, we also mourn those we lost in Colorado Springs last night. We’re trying to wrap our heads around this tragedy, as we know you all are too, and it seems all there is to do right now is grieve. We’re grieving with you today. 🏳️⚧️💙💗🤍💗💙
Club Q shooting: The nation responds
In this space, we will post responses to the shooting last night/early this morning at Club Q in Colorado Springs: A former Club Q employee and the owner of Good Judy Garage, a small business in Denver, have both started GoFundMe pages to benefit those who were injured and the families of those who....
Shooting at Colorado gay bar leaves 5 dead, 18 injured
At least are dead and 18 injured after a 22-year-old suspect entered Club Q in Colorado Springs Saturday night, Nov. 19, and started shooting, according to reports from numerous news outlets. CNN reports that several of the wounded are in critical condition. Quick action by who customers moved to st...
News is Good: Q***r Grammy nods, "L Word: Gen Q" returns and more - News Is Out
Welcome to our weekly column, News is Good, featuring positive news about the LGBTQ+ community. Too much of what we see in mainstream media coverage focuses on the challenges we face and not the celebrations. Here are five things we’re excited about this week. A bipartisan group of Senators votes ...
White House holds DFW monkeypox briefing
The White House held a briefing on monkeypox with DFW leaders this afternoon (Friday, Nov. 18). Monkeypox cases have declines 93 percent since the height of the outbreak in August, according to Dr. Demetre Dashkalakis, part of the White House response team. And while Houston continues to have more c...
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