For rising musician Nehemiah Akbar, being black and gay in the R&B music world isn’t the contradiction it once was ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Life+Style Editor For a lot of young gay men — especially, it seems, those reared in the African-American community — coming out is a process fraught with risk and tension. Add [...]
Celebrations across North Texas commemorate National Pride Month Although the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade is still a few months off, Dallas can still get out to celebrate National Pride Month. Special events have sprouted around North Texas to offer fellowship and fun — and maybe a cocktail or two. Resource Center Dallas get [...]
Spotlighting events this weekend from seminars to sexiness YOU ROCK | Adult film actor and entrepreneur Rock Rockafella is one of several African-American porn stars who will appear at Dallas Black Pride events. Two organizations have made Dallas Black Pride into an enhanced experience for the local queer community. DFW Pride Movement puts emphasis on education while Dallas [...]
Comedian/drag queen P.T. may look like Wendy Williams, but his message to queer youth is no gimmick HOW YOU DOIN’? | P.T.’s spot-on impersonation of talk show host Wendy Williams got producers’ attention and could be a step toward the comedian’s dreams. RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com Dallas drag queen P.T. has his [...]
Solo Voice of Pride vets Angie Landers and Robert Olivas finally hit their stride as a team BRIDESMAIDS NO MORE | Landers and Olivas found two really is better than one, as their duo Spare Parts won the Voice of Pride group competition. (Arnold Wayne Jones/Dallas Voice) RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com Always bridesmaids, never [...]
RIDERLESS CARRIAGE | Ten years after 9/11, the American landscape looks far different — for gay rights as well. What a difference a decade makes. In September of 2001, days after the loss of lives on 9/11 scarred America, the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade had a first: Instead of a grand marshal riding in the [...]
DANCING IN THE STREETS | Dallas Pride Cheer marches in last year’s Texas Freedom Parade, but will debut a new act at Razzle Dazzle, before moving to a national showcase in San Francisco next month. (Gregory Hayes/Dallas Voice) Dallas Pride Cheer gets its razzle dazzling — for Dallas and San Francisco JEF TINGLEY | Contributing Writer jeftingley@sbcglobal.net As anyone [...]
West Point rejects readmission of lesbian cadet Katherine Miller, who left last year because she said she could no longer lie about her sexuality. Royal alternative. Check out the trailer for the UK's adaptation of Jersey Shore! Twenty-year-old gay Utah man attacked outside of Club Pure in Salt Lake City: "The assault is being treated [...]
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive,” said Twain, “but it’s lightning that does all the work.” The same is true with Dallas Pride: Everyone talks about the parade, but it’s the festival in Lee Park, with food, concerts and booths, that provides the best views of gay life in town. Dallas Voice will have a [...]
Two Cedar Springs institutions — 1 new, 1 old —make their debuts in this year’s Pride parade RICH LOPEZ | Staff Writer lopez@dallasvoice.com MAKING AN ENTRANCE | Jorge Rivas’ shot of prominent LGBT faces, above, will be marched out Sunday on the ilume float; the staff of Hunky’s, below left, retooled their float idea in a hurry. [...]
