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Arts + Culture
Test case
The early days of AIDS — from someone who lived it on the inside Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival by Sean Strub (Scribner 2014) $30, 420 pp. In the early 1980s, when AIDS was barely understood, Sean Strub faced a conundrum: He was…
Arts + Culture
Mraz-matazz
Perpetually sunny musician Jason Mraz hates labels, but vague pronouns and taking up causes for gay rights does little to dissuade speculation about his own sexuality CHRIS AZZOPARDI | Contributing Writer [email protected] I won’t tell you what Jas…
Arts + Entertainment
Best Bets • 08-29-14
Wednesday 09.03 Urie sells Babs in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ Dallas’ Michael Urie, whom we profiled in the recent Applause issue of Dallas Voice, makes his professional stage debut in North Texas in his off-Broadway one-man show, set in Barbra Streisand’s famed base…
Arts + Entertainment
Best Bets • 08-29-14
Wednesday 09.03 Urie sells Babs in ‘Buyer & Cellar’ Dallas’ Michael Urie, whom we profiled in the recent Applause issue of Dallas Voice, makes his professional stage debut in North Texas in his off-Broadway one-man show, set in Barbra Streisand’s famed base…
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Throwback Thursday: From the first issue of Dallas Voice
As we were packing papers from the storage room, we found a few pages from the very first Dallas Voice printed May 11, 1984.
Arts + Culture
‘Normal Heart,’ ‘Modern Family’ and Jim Parsons win Emmy Awards
In what could have been a night for firsts, the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards last night stuck with the predictable. The night was still a great night for LGBT characters, stars and media, however. Houston native Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper on The Bi…
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Tossback Tuesday: G*U*T*S stopped Sanus from withholding treatment
Think your insurance company is killing you now? In 1989, Irving-based HMO Sanus almost killed dozens of its customers in Dallas and thousands more across the country by refusing payment for one of the first drugs that prevented an opportunistic infection…
Arts + Culture
Iggy Azalea: The gay interview
Iggy Azalea: The gay interview
Arts + Culture
Memory Monday: Mayor Annette Strauss visits the AIDS Resource Center
In February 1988, Mayor Annette Strauss visited the AIDS Resource Center on Cedar Springs Road, which was located about where TapeLenders is now.
Arts + Culture
Cocktail Friday: Cherry POM Bomb
Cocktail Friday: Cherry POM Bomb
Arts + Culture
LULAC’s LGBT school supply drive
Dallas City Council members Adam Medrano and Philip Kingston, Dallas County Schools board member Omar Narvaez and DISD School board President Miguel Solis were at Havana last night to accept donations of school supplies from LULAC, Congregation Beth El Bina…
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre appoints new director
Dallas Black Dance Theater announced the appointment of April Berry, a former principal dancer, as its new artistic director. Berry will be only DBDT’s second leader. Founding director Ann Williams retired in May after 37 years of leading the company. Berry…
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