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- From: exukev@exu.ericsson.se (Kevin Autrey)
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- Subject: Dallas (was Re: Austin, TX joins Colo. Boycott)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.163206.10489@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:32:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec30.140427.2820@convex.com> cgraham@convex.com (Chip Graham) writes:
- >>It's very simple. Dallas is Dallas, and Austin is not.
- >>
-
- >By the way, Dallas is the only major city in Texas to actively persecute gays.
-
- Are you talking about the police questionnaire regarding sexual
- orientation or citizen oppression of gays or just what? While what
- you said about Dallas being a buckle in the Bible Belt is very true,
- and while the Dallas police do question potential members about their
- sexual orientation, I'm not sure I have seen the widespread official
- oppression which you imply.
-
- Police, at the gay community's request, have increased their patrols
- of the gay club district in an effort to reduce crime: gay-bashings,
- drugs, public sex, etc.
-
- Two of our 15 members of the city council are gay - one (Chris Luna)
- so open about it as to actually be seen in the Homo Heights district
- pretty frequently. Councilwoman Lori Palmer is, from everything I can
- tell, gay-friendly. During the last mayor's race, they stopped the
- music at The Village Station one Friday night so that a mayoral
- candidate could make a pitch to the Gay Community (Dance Club
- Division) - unfortunately she lost.
-
- Our newspaper (The Dallas Morning News) has been featuring a *lot* of
- positive gay coverage lately. The city hall beat reporter (Dave
- Evans) on TV Channel 8 news is a homo (with *lots* of attitude, even).
- Channel 8 (and Dave Evans, no less) did a story about the Turtle Creek
- Chorale last year that was not only relatively long (about 5 minutes -
- an eternity for broadcast news), but was brilliantly written and
- produced. It'd be hard to imagine a dry eye in Dallas after that
- story was shown.
-
- Pink Triangle stickers and Rainbow Flag stickers are becoming almost
- even slightly prevalent (well, I see at least one a week in such
- conservative places as Richardson and Plano).
-
- Most bookstores (Bookstop, Taylors) around town carry a pretty good
- selection of Gay Studies books. Even the Plano Bookstop has one of
- the more impressive arrays of gay books I've seen outside of the gay
- bookstores in Oak Lawn (official name for Dallas' Boy's Town).
-
- I mean, a gay mecca Dallas ain't (Austin comes close) - but it's
- getting better - you've got to give some credit there. We're getting
- attention - some good attention even.
-
- What are you doing to enhance the situation? I trust that you aren't
- just sitting back criticizing without taking an active role in some
- aspect of community involvement in an effort to improve things, right?
-
- By the way Chip - this post isn't meant as a flame directed towards
- you - I just think Dallas has a lot to offer - and I think that with
- some work, Dallas could become another Austin.
-
- >--
- >Chip Graham cgraham@convex.com +1 214 497 4642
- >Convex Computer Corporation
- >3000 Waterview Parkway
- >Box 833851, Richardson,Tx,75083
-
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