The DGA announces the formation of a new organization: The AIDS Resource Center.Dallas prepares for second annual "Freedom Parade," previously called "Gay Pride Parade." Both Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing Co."Bath Owners Split Over AIDS Issue." Bathhouses, led by ones in Dallas, object to their trade organization’s blind eye toward promoting safe sex.… The Dallas Gay Alliance (now the Dallas Gay & Lesbian Alliance) holds a Tupperware party to raise money. Bonnie Pointer performs at the Old Plantation (in what is now Station 4).Tapelenders sells the tape for $10 off the list price of $89.95. "Gone with the Wind" is released on Betamax.Caven publishes its "Crossroads Calendar" for the year, which includes well drinks and beers on Wednesdays for 10 cents.Four years later, Annette Strauss ran for mayor of Dallas, actively courting the gay community she won. Taking a page from Harvey Milk’s playbook, community activist Bill Nelson ran for Dallas city council in 1985 in an open seat, advertising his candidacy in the Voice. The street name, near the notorious Randol Mill Park where the city launched a crackdown on lewd behavior and indecent exposure, has made residents the butt of jokes, they said." "The Arlington City Council, bowing to pressure from red-faced residents of Gaywood Street, changed the street name to Garden Oaks Drive.Twenty-five years later, Club Dallas still advertises its gym and summer cookouts - also with sexy men. One of Dallas Voice’s first advertisers was Club Dallas (then known as Club Body Center Dallas), which used sexy, shirtless men to promote its gym and Sunday barbecue. … Gay clubs, from Cedar Springs to Mockingbird Lane to Fort Worth, include the Snake Pit, Bentley’s, Tarrant County Mining Company, High Country, Contemporary Country, 4001, The Unicorn, Tex’s Ranch and Lifter’s. "Phyllis Diller at the Majestic" is the cover story.Advertisers in the first issue include Club Dallas, the Hidden Door, the Hideaway (which celebrates its one-year anniversary), Throckmorton Mining Company, Crews Inn and the Turtle Creek Chorale moustaches abound.
NEW GAY BARS DALLAS FULL
On the following Friday, May 11, Dallas Voice begins full publication of its newspaper out of offices on Oak Lawn early on, the paper is folded and released in two sections.
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On May 4, the Dallas Voice distributes an "announcement," heralding the arrival of a "New Voice in Dallas" for the gay community.SOMETHING’S COMING, SOMETHING GOOD: On May 4, 1984, a week before the first issue of Dallas Voice hit the streets, this four-page announcement primed readers for what was to come. Here is a snapshot, year by year, of the lifestyles stories - of the images and subjects and even advertisements - that the Dallas Voice has reported on, or which have been contained within the pages of the paper for 25 years. Still, there have been many constants over the years: Bars that have survived everything from the AIDS crisis to the smoking ban groups that have continued to perform (like the Turtle Creek Chorale) that contrast with those that haven’t (Theatre Gemini) local notables who have aged and grown with the city.
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When the newspaper was started, tentpoles of the culture that made up most of the advertising were "the Three Bs: Bars, baths and bookstores." You didn’t see ads for car dealerships, straight political candidates or Frito-Lay.įrom the names of the clubs to the people and groups that entertained us and the institutions that provided the support, comfort and social background for our lives, Dallas has been a lively and tranformative city. Dallas’ gay culture - and the cultural life of gay Dallas - has evolved over the years as much as the Dallas Voice itself.