Category: From Dallas Voice

Pride in Dallas joins the fight to preserve Oak Lawn’s LGBTQ history Community and history are two words frequently bandied about in many LGBTQ+ conversations. The rainbow of ages, ethnicities and backgrounds among the Pride in Dallas board members seems to have impressed a common belief in the sacredness of historic communities, and debate on Read More

Brittney Griner plays for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury. She has been detained in Russia since Feb. 17. Houston native and Baylor graduate Brittney Griner was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Russian court. She was also fined 1 million rubles or about $16,000. The 31-year-old WNBA star was convicted of drug possession. President Read More

One day after being introduced, the Respect for Marriage Act has passed the U.S. House of Representatives on a 267-157 vote with bipartisan support, the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus announced today (Tuesday, July 19) in a press release. H.R. 8404 would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and “ensure critical protections for same-sex and interracial Read More

A Travis County District Court entered a second injunction today (Friday, July 8) against the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services and Commissioner Masters, barring them from implementing the agency’s rule expanding the definition of child abuse to presumptively treat the provision of gender affirming care as child abuse against two more families: Mirabel Read More

Vote them out before they burn us down Even when you know something terrible is coming, you’re never quite prepared for the moment it happens. And here we are: The United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade. Pregnant people no longer have the right to an abortion. It’s up to individual states now. Read More

Protesters outside the Dallas Arboretum during a March demonstration. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) Less than a week after Cece Cox, Steve Atkinson and Kate Newman sent a letter to the board to the Dallas Arboretum, board chair Jim Ryan has responded. Cox said the letter also went to members of the Dallas City Council and the Read More

Two people were killed and eight others hospitalized with injuries in a shooting near the London Pub in Oslo, Norway’s gay district early this morning (Saturday, June 25), prompting organizers to cancel the city’s annual Pride parade that had been scheduled for later today. Another 14 people reportedly received minor injuries. According to CNN, police Read More

The Texas GOP adopted a 40-page platform at its biennial convention in Houston over the weekend that pushes the party even further to the right. Even John Cornyn, Ted Cruz and Dan Crenshaw came under fire for not being “conservative” enough from some at event. In addition to pushing Trump’s “Big Lie” with its declaration Read More

A handful of right-wing protesters gathered outside Texas Live in Arlington this afternoon (Sunday, June 12)  as supporters of HELP Center for LGBT Health and Wellness and the Arlington Museum of Art  gathered inside at Troy’s for the Disney Drag Brunch. Today’s protest comes on the heels of last weekend’s protest outside of Mr. Misster Read More

Drag Race star Alyssa Edwards spoke to TMZ about her thoughts about a proposed bill to make it illegal for parents to bring their kiddos to a drag performance. Obviously, she’s outraged and said for some kids, it could save lives. Click here to see the video. — David Taffet   The post Alyssa Edwards Read More