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})}, onShareButtonClicked: goToCommentBox }; gigya.services.socialize.showShareBarUI(conf_8555,params_8555); </script> <div class="story-body sbd"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/11692521_10153401853479817_971576879557385814_n.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8556" title="episcopalmarriage" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/11692521_10153401853479817_971576879557385814_n.jpg" alt="episcopalmarriage" width="960" height="960"/></a></p> <p>I feel as though I have done nothing over the last few days except to field questions from all of my conservative friends — and for the record, about half of my good friends are much more conservative than I am. “Elizabeth,” they ask me, “How do you reconcile being overjoyed with the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage with your Christian faith?”</p> <p>I remind my conservative Christian friends that in many ways, it was churches that started the movement to recognize gay marriage when they began to conduct non-legally-binding religious commitment ceremonies for same-sex couples decades ago.</p> <p>“My church doesn’t do that!” my friends exclaim.</p> <p>“Mine does,” I say. #NotAllChristians. #NotAllChurches.</p> <p>I’ve never been one to get into a battle of the Bible verses. When the woman who has been my best friend since we were eleven years old asked me, point blank, how I reconciled my pro-gay values with the Biblical view of sexuality, I sent her a link to the Lolcat Bible translation of Leviticus <span data-term="goog_1263207947">18:22</span>: “No can has ghey… srsly. srry, but no.”</p> <p>“You mean this one?” I asked her. Argument derailment achievement unlocked.</p> <p>It’s a difficult conversation to have, even with people we love dearly.</p> <p>I know I am never going to change anyone’s mind about whether it is okay, from a spiritual perspective, to be gay and married. Religious conviction isn’t something you can browbeat someone into having, especially when each of you is convinced that the other is mistaken.<br/> Furthermore, the Bible is pretty clear about Christians not fighting amongst ourselves, even if it makes good soundbites for the 24-hour TV news/entertainment industry.</p> <p>One thing I do believe is that you can never teach anyone anything except by example. #LoveWins has been the hashtag for the weekend, the crowing week for a decades-long struggle in which the pro-gay-rights side has taught us all to accept differences, refrain from judging each other, and seek out ways in which Christians can build community amongst ourselves. Not every Christian believes the exact same thing.<br/> Not every Christian church has the exact same doctrine. We don’t have to agree with each other to still be Christians. We just have to love each other. It’s what binds us together and, through God’s grace, it’s what sets us apart.</p> </div> </article> </div> <div class="simple-separator-top"> <article id="post-8549"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="tf1f2 h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/top-7-questions-after-marriage-equality-qa-with-attorney-jaime-duggan.html/" title="Permalink to Top 7 Questions after Marriage Equality: Q&A with Attorney Jaime Duggan" rel="bookmark">Top 7 Questions after Marriage Equality: Q&A with Attorney Jaime Duggan</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta byline std media"> <div class="pull-left"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/fa621bfe1c0faf5fe0e20899830be436?s=52&d=http%3A%2F%2Fres.dallasnews.com%2Fresources%2Fimages%2FDMNlogoBLK.png%3Fs%3D52&r=G" class="avatar avatar-52 photo" height="52" width="52"/></div> <div class="media-body"> <h6 class="svn"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/author/jonteboucher/" title="View all posts by Johnny Jonte Boucher/LGBTQ Insider" rel="author" class="tf3f1">Johnny Jonte Boucher/LGBTQ Insider</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/https://twitter.com/@johnnyscritches" class="fico icon-twitter" data-show-count="false" data-lang="en" data-size="small"><span class="sr-only">Follow @johnnyscritches</span></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/mailto:jonteboucher.dmn@gmail.com" class="fico icon-envelope"><span class="sr-only">Email jonteboucher.dmn@gmail.com</span></a> </h6> </div> </div> <div class="meta story-dateline std"> Published: <time class="entry-date" datetime="2015-06-29T16:17:20+00:00" pubdate>June 29, 2015 4:17 pm</time> </div> </header> <div class="gig-share-button gig-share-button-top" id="gig-div-buttons-8549-top"></div><script type="text/javascript"> function goToCommentBox(eventObj) { if (eventObj.shareItem.provider.trim() == 'comments') { console.log(eventObj.shareItem.provider + ' | http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/top-7-questions-after-marriage-equality-qa-with-attorney-jaime-duggan.html/ | ' + window.location.href); if ('https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/top-7-questions-after-marriage-equality-qa-with-attorney-jaime-duggan.html/' != window.location.href) { window.location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/top-7-questions-after-marriage-equality-qa-with-attorney-jaime-duggan.html/#comments'; } else { var target = $('#comments').get(0).offsetTop; window.scrollTo(0,target); } return false; } else { new DMNTrackClick((typeof isMobileTheme != 'undefined' ? 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})}, onShareButtonClicked: goToCommentBox }; gigya.services.socialize.showShareBarUI(conf_8549,params_8549); </script> <div class="story-body sbd"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/AX021_214D_9.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8551" title="whitehouse" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/AX021_214D_9.jpg" alt="whitehouse" width="1024" height="682"/></a></p> <p>Following celebration of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of same-sex marriage, we have burning questions! Rather than take our best guesses, I spoke with family law attorney <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://thedugganlawfirm.com/">Jaime Duggan</a>, former co-chair of the<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.dfwfederalclub.org/"> Dallas chapter of the Human Rights Campaign Federal Club</a>:</p> <ol> <li><em>If I was married out-of-state prior to the SCOTUS ruling, do we need to be remarried in my state? Does our marriage “backdate” to the out-of-state wedding?</em></li> </ol> <p>According to SCOTUS, legal marriages conducted outside of a marriage-equality state should be immediately recognized in every state. There will likely be a lot of litigation in the future, but for right now, your existing marriage should be immediately valid in every state without any further action.</p> <ol start="2"> <li><em>Can we get married again? For example, in my home state if we were married out-of-state? Or, as applies to transgender spouses, again in the current legal gender and name, so that those correct items will be printed on the marriage certificate?</em><br/> As far as I know, there is no prohibition against it, if you want to have a marriage license issued from your home state. You are already considered married, but it is not a crime. That seems very possible.</li> <li><em>Greg Abbot, the governor of Texas has promised to prioritize the First Amendment over this ruling. Are our marriages “safe”? Is it “done”? </em></li> </ol> <p>I liken it to Roe v. Wade and the abortion battles that continue. The Supreme Court has spoken, but we anticipate someone coming along who will try to find another argument or loophole to challenge marriage equality. We can’t tell the future, but it is like the Religious Freedom Frustration Act—states may continue to try to make “illegal” laws and waste taxpayer money to circumvent what SCOTUS has decided today.</p> <ol start="4"> <li><em>What should people with same-sex marriages do if the marriages are not recognized by a group or organization? What course of action do we have?</em></li> </ol> <p>We would like to believe that everyone is ready to comply, but let’s be realistic.</p> <p>Start with whatever government official or supervisor you can speak to—try to escalate locally within that framework. If that does not work, call an attorney for advice on what to do. There will likely be a bit of confusion for a while. Things like the family code which defines marriage in the state will now be in conflict with federal law. And it will take time for all of this to get sorted out. In Texas, for example, the legislature only meets every two years, so states and local government may need time to get these things in harmony.</p> <ol start="5"> <li><em>Is there now such a thing as same-sex common law marriage? </em></li> </ol> <p>It is possible now. Common law determinations in many states, like Texas, are very difficult to prove. It is now a possible avenue for granting legal rights related to marriage onward into the past. They should, in that case, contact a family law attorney.</p> <ol start="6"> <li><em>If I have a concerns, should I be able to talk to any family law attorney about this? Or do I need an LGBT specialist attorney? </em></li> </ol> <p>Any family law attorney <em>should</em> know about this, but LGBT family law specialists have expertise in this area that could save time and money, in some cases.</p> <ol start="7"> <li><em>As an activist yourself, you know that people are saying: Celebrate Friday’s Marriage Equality Day, but let’s get to work starting Saturday. What do you see as the next big area for work now? </em></li> </ol> <p>Yes, you can now get married if you couldn’t before, but you can’t live wherever you want because of legal housing discrimination. You can get that marriage license, take a picture with your spouse, and your employer could fire you for it. The same for transgender people in this country who face higher rates of discrimination. We must continue to be outspoken and educate others about what the issues are. Continue the conversation. 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The Supreme Court rarely announces the date upon which it will issue an opinion in a case and there are never any leaks of that information. However, several clues are leading everyone to the conclusion that it will be Friday.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">First, the Supreme Court usually issues opinions on Mondays. Toward the end of the term they add dates to issue additional opinions. Usually, additional opinions are released on Thursdays. Last week they announced an additional opinion issue date on Friday, June 26, 2015.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">Second, it is likely that they will want to issue the <em>Obergefell</em> decision independently of any other decisions. There’s so much attention focused on this decision. It could be disruptive to have other opinions issued the same day.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">Third, June 26 is a significant day in the history of LGBT rights in America. Twelve years ago on that date June 26, 2003, the US Supreme Court issued its opinion in <em>Lawrence v. Texas</em>. Authored by Justice Kennedy, <em>Lawrence</em> held unconstitutional the statutes that criminalized homosexual conduct. Ten years later, on June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in <em>U.S. v. Windsor</em>. This case was significant for LGBT rights in America because it held a portion of the federal defense of marriage act unconstitutional. It made federal government benefits applicable to LGBT couples. Interestingly, the <em>Windsor</em> opinion was also authored by Justice Kennedy.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">Most believe that Justice Kennedy will be the swing vote in deciding the <em>Obergefell</em> decision. Out of the nine justices, four are known to be liberal-leaning. Another four are known to be conservative-leaning. Justice Kennedy tends to be the moderate in the middle.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">There are two questions that are before the Supreme Court in the <em>Obergefell</em> case. The first is whether LGBT couples should have the same right to marry as heterosexual couples, giving rise to a right of equal protection under the law. If Justice Kennedy sides with the four liberal justices in answering this question yes then the second question does not even matter.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">If a majority of the justices vote “no” on question one then the court could consider question two. The second question is whether States must recognize gay marriages performed where they are lawful, even if unlawful in the state where the couple seeks recognition. Based on the tenor of the justices questions in oral argument it seems possible that one or two of the conservative block of justices could even agree to question two.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">Most court watchers believe it is highly unlikely that the justices will answer questions one and two with a no.</p> <p style="color: #000000;">And so the country waits for Friday, June 26, 2015. Most likely this will be another significant day in LGBT rights in America.</p> <p style="color: #222222;"><em><span style="color: black;">Board certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 1997, Michelle May O’Neil has over 20 years of experience representing men, women, and children in family law matters such as divorce, child custody, and complex property division. An </span></em><span style="font-style: normal; color: black;">advocate and ally of gay rights including marriage equality, </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.lgbttexasfamilylaw.com/2015/06/expected-marriage-equality-decision-on-friday-june-26/" target="_blank"><b><i><span style="color: #3071a9;">she blogs regularly on LGBTQ legal issues on her law firm’s website. </span></i></b></a></span></p> </div> </article> </div> <div class="simple-separator-top"> <article id="post-8516"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="tf1f2 h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/a-real-face-and-family-behind-the-quest-for-marriage-equality.html/" title="Permalink to A real family behind the quest for marriage equality" rel="bookmark">A real family behind the quest for marriage equality</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta byline std media"> <div class="pull-left"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/063dab8126c05202d3858ea355bedc3c?s=52&d=http%3A%2F%2Fres.dallasnews.com%2Fresources%2Fimages%2FDMNlogoBLK.png%3Fs%3D52&r=G" class="avatar avatar-52 photo" height="52" width="52"/></div> <div class="media-body"> <h6 class="svn"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/author/markbrinkerhoff/" title="View all posts by Mark Brinkerhoff/LGBTQ Insider" rel="author" class="tf3f1">Mark Brinkerhoff/LGBTQ Insider</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/https://twitter.com/mbrinkerhoff" class="fico icon-twitter" data-show-count="false" data-lang="en" data-size="small"><span class="sr-only">Follow mbrinkerhoff</span></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/mailto:think.brink@gmail.com" class="fico icon-envelope"><span class="sr-only">Email think.brink@gmail.com</span></a> </h6> </div> </div> <div class="meta story-dateline std"> Published: <time class="entry-date" datetime="2015-06-22T14:26:12+00:00" pubdate>June 22, 2015 2:26 pm</time> </div> </header> <div class="gig-share-button gig-share-button-top" id="gig-div-buttons-8516-top"></div><script type="text/javascript"> function goToCommentBox(eventObj) { if (eventObj.shareItem.provider.trim() == 'comments') { console.log(eventObj.shareItem.provider + ' | http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/a-real-face-and-family-behind-the-quest-for-marriage-equality.html/ | ' + window.location.href); if ('https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/a-real-face-and-family-behind-the-quest-for-marriage-equality.html/' != window.location.href) { window.location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/a-real-face-and-family-behind-the-quest-for-marriage-equality.html/#comments'; } else { var target = $('#comments').get(0).offsetTop; window.scrollTo(0,target); } return false; } else { new DMNTrackClick((typeof isMobileTheme != 'undefined' ? 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The case of Obergefell v. Hodges hinges on whether state laws that ban same-sex marriage violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, namely equal protection of the law. Narrow or broad, the court’s decision promises to have enormous <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/marriage-equality-watch-waiting-for-a-ruling.html/">ripple</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/dallas/headlines/20150611-dallas-county-will-issue-licenses-to-gay-lesbian-couples-if-supreme-court-oks-same-sex-marriage.ece">effects</a> in the social strata of modern-day America.</p> <p>Often lost in the shuffle of cases like this are the actual faces and the real families who will be affected most directly by the real-world consequences of landmark decisions made by the highest court in the land. It’s families like Mary Ann and Maureen Hurley, who, with their daughter Elizabeth, represent as powerfully as any not only deep love, sacrifice and commitment, but also the practical realities and concerns of day-to-day living and decision making amid the vagaries and inconsistencies of public policy. Here’s a snippet of their story.</p> <div id="attachment_8517" style="width: 424px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/i-GmPtTKp-L.jpg"><img class="wp-image-8517 size-full" title="Mary Ann, Elizabeth, and Maureen" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/i-GmPtTKp-L.jpg" alt="Mary Ann, Elizabeth and Maureen Hurley" width="414" height="304"/></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mary Ann, Elizabeth and Maureen Hurley</p></div> <p>Mary Ann and Maureen moved to Dallas from Boston two years ago. The two have been together for more than three decades, celebrating their 30th anniversary last November. They welcomed their daughter in 1994, and were in fact one of the first second-parent adoptions in Boston (“the first wave, the first generation of ‘gaybies’ around,” as Elizabeth ["Lizzy"] likes to say).</p> <p>In 2003 Mary Ann and Maureen were among the first 200 couples to get married in Massachusettes, which was the first state in the country to legalize gay marriage.</p> <p>“When marriage equality was passed in Massachusettes, we thought nothing about our relationship would change but, in fact, it did,” Maureen recalled. “The psychological ramifications of having a real ceremony that was legal…in a surprising way, we felt accepted.”</p> <p>Yet despite the state’s leading progressive policy on marriage equality, Maureen, who gave birth to Lizzy, had to to give her parental rights to the state temporarily in order to process Mary Ann’s legal “adoption” of Lizzy so that they could share joint parental rights of their daughter.</p> <p>When Lizzy, now a 20-year-old junior at Georgia Tech, was young, the family moved abroad for a few years to a country that didn’t have marriage equality. Because of this discrepancy, Maureen couldn’t travel on Mary Ann’s work visa (although Lizzy could), nor could she use a tourist visa. She was required to get a job just to stay in the United Kingdom, cumulatively a most trying time for the family according to Maureen.</p> <p>“When people think about marriage equality, they sometimes forget about the basic necessities of life—healthcare, visas, ability to travel and stay together as a family,” Maureen said.</p> <p>Back in Massachusettes, because Mary Ann and Maureen were married legally, there was no issue with property ownership. However, once the couple relocated to Texas for work purposes, Maureen said they had to “jump through a lot of hoops to make sure [they were] protected. Wills and things like that have to be airtight.” In Texas, Mary Ann and Maureen also currently have no claim on each other’s social security.</p> <p>Beyond wills and social security and property rights, the family has encountered hurdles large and small such as with the federal financial aid form, which Maureen recalled “doesn’t have any fields for recognition of families like ours.” Lizzy therefore was obligated to apply for financial aid under Maureen’s name (as her birth mother).</p> <p>Maureen added that marriage equality nationwide, expanding the legal recognition of family units a little larger, should “make it easier for us to define our family.”</p> <p>“For our everyday lives, not so much [will change with total marriage equality],” Maureen noted. “We do have issues every time I use my health insurance card. The immediate response is, ‘What’s your husband’s name?’ There is no check box for that.”</p> <p>“Our daughter jokes that we’ve destroyed her ability to use a standardized form for the rest of her life,” Maureen said, tongue in cheek.</p> <p>Lizzy, for her part, belongs to a vanguard generation that has a mature, post-modern view of gay marriage and LGBT rights.</p> <p>“Many years ago [my mothers'] marriage, that was the most pivotal moment for me personally,” Lizzy recalled.</p> <p>Having interned as a senior in high school (and since volunteered with) the Family Equality Council also has afforded Lizzy opportunities to participate in social programs, help organize the group’s annual “Family Week,” as well as be part of the “Outspoken Generation” for young people who happen to have gay parents.</p> <p>One of her fellow Outspoken Generation members is <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/irving/headlines/20130521-tension-mounts-as-boy-scout-delegates-prepare-to-take-historic-vote-on-gay-scouts.ece">Zach Wahls</a>, the LGBT <span style="color: #252525;">equality activist, author and co-founder of <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.dallasnews.com/news/headlines/20150521-gates-calls-for-end-to-banket-ban-on-gay-boy-scout-leaders.ece">Scouts for Equality</a> who famously addressed the Iowa House Judiciary Committee in 2011 during a public hearing on a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in the state. Lizzy</span> recalled speaking with with him on a panel, “hearing how things have changed between him and me and the youngest kid on the panel, who is a decade younger [than we are].” From just that one generation to the next, the cultural and social progress towards LGBT acceptance has been extraordinary.</p> <p>“We hope the Supreme Court will make marriage equality the law of the land, for this generation and generations to come,” Maureen concluded. “We want this to <em>not </em>be newsworthy, that it doesn’t make news, that it’s not a big deal. 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Friday, June 26<sup>th</sup>, for the monthly LGBT themed film screening hosted by CineWilde. “The Celluloid Closet”, a 1996 documentary from the 1986 novel by Vito Russo will be screened and immediately following the event will be an after party featuring Queer Bomb Dallas. In my opinion, “The Celluloid Closet” is a rare connection to the romantic and sexual minorities in old Hollywood, and for that, it’s a valuable time-capsule.</p> <p>Past CineWilde screenings include “The Birdcage”, “Cabaret,” “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” and the also brilliant documentary film “Paris is Burning”. The evenings not only include cinema but also afterparties that blend burlesque performance with live music, true community-building events.</p> <p>Preceding the event will be a Q&A with Dr. Oliver Blumer, trans community leader and representative of the Human Rights Campaign’s community outreach steering committee. The Queer Bomb afterparty will be hosted by Nikki Trash and features some of the community’s best queerlesque perfomers including Desi 5, Dj DQ, Damien Dupree, Elle Ay’Elle, Helena Isis, Kitty Sangria, May May, and more.</p> <p>Says Queerbomb, “The Texas Theatre had long supported LGBT cinema before giving a home to CineWilde. We’re happy to provide an event where local film lovers and the LGBT community can educate, entertain, and engage one another over our shared love of art, performance and cinema.”</p> <p>Doors at 8:00pm, Q&A at 8:30, film at 9:00 and afterparty at 11:00. Since this event is on the 46<sup>th </sup>anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, QueerBomb Dallas will be having a rally at 7:00pm to commemorate this event. Their march at 9:00pm and the coinciding events will share the afterparty at the Texas Theatre.</p> <p>As for “The Celluloid Closet”, it’s a kind of miracle of a film that digs deeply into the history of gays on the silver screen. Being made in the mid 1990’s, there are valuable interviews with the actual actors and screenwriters who made these now legendary films. They were forced to work around things like heavy censorship and the <em>Hayes Code</em>. The film would be fascinating for a first time viewer of these old films, and cinema veteran will find it a nostalgic and enlightening visit to characters we know and love, now seen in a different way.</p> <p>Some standouts for the film– getting to see a host of brilliant actors: Tom Hanks, Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg, and others, talk about their careers up to that point. For me, the best treat is seeing 50’s era screenwriters, like Gore Vidal, speak openly about their intentions of gay subtext in many films for the first time. That conversation had never been allowed before. The file captures more interest with almost twenty years of hindsight, knowing what the following decades would bring. We also get a clear sense of just which taboos have been broken and which ones have fallen away already and have been forgotten. By 1996, things were moving forward but momentum would still take a while to gather.</p> <p>While this film does a thorough enough job of representing the emergence of gay and lesbian visibility in film, it lacks in representation of transgender themes. It’s much more an LGB movie, in other words. While there have even to this date been staggeringly few films to feature gender non-conforming people, there have been themes of gender difference and gender variation in many films well before 1996 such as Orlando, Myra Breckinridge (written by Vidal), and Dog Day Afternoon—if you’re looking for this conversation in “The Celluloid Closet”, you won’t find it. As in most things, we are very proud of how far we come but also humbled by how far there is left to go. All in all, we recommend you get out and see the film and the show.</p> <p>For more information, check out <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.thetexastheatre.com/movies-events/cinewilde-presents-the-celluloid-closet-in-35mm">Texas Theater Events</a>.</p> </div> </article> </div> <div class="simple-separator-top"> <article id="post-8500"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="tf1f2 h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/photos-gay-for-good-volunteers-do-shoreline-spruce-up-at-white-rock-lake.html/" title="Permalink to Photos: Gay For Good volunteers do “Shoreline Spruce Up” at White Rock Lake" rel="bookmark">Photos: Gay For Good volunteers do “Shoreline Spruce Up” at White Rock Lake</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta byline std media"> <div class="pull-left"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/063dab8126c05202d3858ea355bedc3c?s=52&d=http%3A%2F%2Fres.dallasnews.com%2Fresources%2Fimages%2FDMNlogoBLK.png%3Fs%3D52&r=G" class="avatar avatar-52 photo" height="52" width="52"/></div> <div class="media-body"> <h6 class="svn"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/author/markbrinkerhoff/" title="View all posts by Mark Brinkerhoff/LGBTQ Insider" rel="author" class="tf3f1">Mark Brinkerhoff/LGBTQ Insider</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/https://twitter.com/mbrinkerhoff" class="fico icon-twitter" data-show-count="false" data-lang="en" data-size="small"><span class="sr-only">Follow mbrinkerhoff</span></a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/mailto:think.brink@gmail.com" class="fico icon-envelope"><span class="sr-only">Email think.brink@gmail.com</span></a> </h6> </div> </div> <div class="meta story-dateline std"> Published: <time class="entry-date" datetime="2015-06-22T10:25:19+00:00" pubdate>June 22, 2015 10:25 am</time> </div> </header> <div class="gig-share-button gig-share-button-top" id="gig-div-buttons-8500-top"></div><script type="text/javascript"> function goToCommentBox(eventObj) { if (eventObj.shareItem.provider.trim() == 'comments') { console.log(eventObj.shareItem.provider + ' | http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/photos-gay-for-good-volunteers-do-shoreline-spruce-up-at-white-rock-lake.html/ | ' + window.location.href); if ('https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/photos-gay-for-good-volunteers-do-shoreline-spruce-up-at-white-rock-lake.html/' != window.location.href) { window.location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/photos-gay-for-good-volunteers-do-shoreline-spruce-up-at-white-rock-lake.html/#comments'; } else { var target = $('#comments').get(0).offsetTop; window.scrollTo(0,target); } return false; } else { new DMNTrackClick((typeof isMobileTheme != 'undefined' ? 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The environmental cleanup is in partnership with <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #3071a9;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.whiterocklake.org/">For the Love of the Lake</a>, a volunteer group dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of White Rock Lake Park as an urban oasis.</p> <p style="color: #2e2e2e;">As part of the cleanup efforts, Gay For Good volunteers worked alongside other concerned citizens to pick up and sort trash and other debris from the shoreline and along the walking, running and biking paths that encircle the lake.</p> <aside class="DMNReferWrapper pull-right panel-flat-medium content-aside sld tf1f1" style="color: #212121;"> <div class="label-related" style="font-weight: 600;">Related</div> <ul class="story-related"> <li><a style="font-weight: bold; color: #3071a9;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/01/photos-gay-for-good-volunteers-help-dallas-animal-services-find-pets-forever-homes.html/">Volunteers receive crash course in equine therapy at Equest cleanup</a></li> <li><a style="font-weight: bold; color: #3071a9;" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2014/05/gay-for-good-teams-with-groundwork-dallas-to-clear-a-path-for-environmental-preservation.html/">Volunteers clear a path for environmental preservation at Elm Fork Green Belt</a></li> </ul> </aside> <p>White Rock Lake is a 1,254-acre reservoir and recreational fixture of east Dallas that was formed in the early 1900s by the damming of White Rock Creek, which is part of the Trinity River watershed.</p> <p>To learn more about For the Love of the Lake, visit <a style="font-weight: bold; color: #3071a9;" href="www.whiterocklake.org">whiterocklake.org</a>. 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.mckinneyisd.net/">McKinney ISD</a> were asked <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.wfaa.com/videos/news/local/collin-county/2015/06/03/students-wearing-gay-ok-tshirts-punished/28455691/">to leave for wearing ‘Gay is OK’ t-shirts in support of a bullied classmate</a> points out the glaring lack of LGBTQ-specific anti-bullying and anti-harassment protections for public school students across North Texas. Now that the school year has ended across the region, the time is now to make changes and improve protections for LGBTQ students.</p> <p>Put yourselves in the shoes of an LGBTQ youth, and you will see how pervasive the problem is. According to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/GLSEN%202013%20Texas%20State%20Snapshot.pdf">2013 School Climate Index</a> published by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.glsen.org/">Gay, Lesbian and Straight Educators Network (GLSEN</a>), 79% of students in Texas experienced verbal harassment based on sexual orientation and 56% were harassed based on their gender identity. Nearly nine out of ten students heard homophobic remarks or negative remarks about gender identity. Just under four in ten students were physically harassed based on sexual orientation, and one in four were harassed based on gender identity.</p> <p>Finally, 56% of Texas students never reported that harassment to school officials. This may be due to what students hear from staff: the survey found over one in four students regularly heard school staff make negative remarks about someone’s gender expression and over one in five regularly heard staff make homophobic remarks. Think back to that LGBTQ student; constant fear is the overwhelming emotion those students feel as part of their school experience.</p> <p>In the 10-county Dallas Fort Worth area, there are 93 independent school districts. Based on research conducted by Resource Center last fall, only two — <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.dallasisd.org/">Dallas ISD</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.fwisd.org/pages/FWISD">Fort Worth ISD</a> — have LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies for students, teachers and staff. Two more districts, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.gpisd.org/site/default.aspx?PageID=1">Grand Prairie ISD</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.leisd.ws/pages/leisd">Little Elm ISD</a>, provide LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying policies for students only. The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.chisd.net/">Cedar Hill ISD</a> has an anti-harassment policy for lesbian, gay and bisexual students only.</p> <p>None of the 88 other school districts in North Texas provide any other enumerated, specific LGBTQ anti-bullying or anti-harassment protections for students, teachers or staff. The numbers are equally bleak across Texas. Of the 1,029 school districts across the state, around a dozen districts have anti-bullying and/or anti-harassment policies that are explicitly LGBTQ-inclusive. Last year <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.uplifteducation.org/">Uplift Education</a>, an operator of charter schools in Dallas and Tarrant Counties, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.dallasvoice.com/uplift-education-institutes-anti-bullying-policy-10177964.html">adopted LGBTQ-inclusive anti-bullying policies</a> for students after meeting with representatives from the Center and Fairness Fort Worth.</p> <p>It is unclear why school districts have not adopted more LGBTQ-inclusive student policies. This past spring, the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.ed.gov/">U.S. Department of Education (DOE)</a> released what’s called a “Dear Colleague” letter. That document <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/24/education-department-lgbt-students-title-ix_n_7137718.html">reminded schools</a> they must investigate sexual orientation or gender identity harassment <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/dcl-title-ix-coordinators-guide-201504.pdf">as a potential violation of the sex discrimination protection found in Title IX</a> of the Education Amendments of 1972.</p> <p>This year’s letter is a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/qa-201404-title-ix.pdf">follow-up to a 2014 letter from DOE</a> that found Title IX protects LGBT students. Many, but not all, North Texas school districts have language on gender-based harassment and how that relates to the LGBTQ community. However, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/361?filename=FFH(LOCAL).pdf">anti-harassment </a>and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://pol.tasb.org/Policy/Download/361?filename=FFI(LOCAL).pdf">anti-bullying</a> are considered two separate polices in Texas. Furthermore, to quality as gender-based harassment, the student can’t simply be called a slur or face physical violence. There has to be a specific challenge to the LGBTQ student’s lack of conformity to traditional gender stereotypes—and that is not only a high bar to meet, it may not be completely understood by districts or educators.</p> <p>Furthermore, the lack of these policies could be costing school districts money—and they may not even realize it. School districts in Texas receive state funding <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.mytexaspublicschool.org/The-School-System/Funding.aspx">based in part on per-pupil average daily attendance figures</a>. If a student feels that the harassment or bullying that they endure at school is so bad, and that they have little or no confidence that school administrators or leadership will do anything about it, they may skip school or drop out. That affects attendance numbers—and school finances.</p> <p>Last week, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.myresourcecenter.org/">Resource Center</a> and <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.fairnessfortworth.org/">Fairness Fort Worth</a> called on all school districts across North Texas to adopt policies explicitly protecting LGBTQ students, teachers and staff. But merely adopting these policies is only the first step. The best-written policy is simply words on paper if there are not active steps to implement it. Both Resource Center and Fairness Fort Worth want to work with local districts on LGBTQ-inclusive and enumerative policies and will be reaching out to engage them on this issue in the coming months. We anticipate <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://www.galanorthtexas.org/">GALA North Texas</a>, in Collin County, will join us in a later phase of the project. 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This is part of TeCo Theatrical Productions speaker series.</li> <li>More information: 214-948-0716</li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/https://buy.ticketstothecity.com/purchase.php?event_id=3348%20" target="_blank">BUY TICKETS HERE.</a> Advanced ticket price $20 each, at the door $25 each.</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/03-Jesus-Chairez-PRpic.jpg"><img class="alignright wp-image-8497 size-medium" title="JesusChairez" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/03-Jesus-Chairez-PRpic-300x293.jpg" alt="JesusChairez" width="300" height="293"/></a>Dallas, Texas – TeCo Theatrical Productions, Inc., announces an exciting artist and author , Jesus Cháirez, as a part of its acclaimed speaker series. Native Dallasite, Jesus Cháirez helped organize and was first president of DFW’s first gay Latino organization: Gay Hispanic Coalition de Dallas, 1982. Later he produced and hosted U.S.’s first GLBT bilingual Latino radio show, Sin Fronteras on KNON 89.3 FM –‐ The Voice of the People; July 4th 1993 –‐ July 2005. Cháirez is also an artist having established Dallas’ first Latino arts collective A.R.T.E. (Artists Relating Together & Exhibiting; 1991).</p> <p>Cháirez, retired and reinvented himself as a writer where his works have been featured in The Dallas Morning News, the Dallas Voice, Los Angeles Times and CNN.com, Chicago Free Press and Chicago Gay Magazine. Cháirez , who now lives in México City, will be coming to Dallas to make this presentation that will be facilitated by Sylvana Alonzo. Cháirez, along with 13 other GLBT Latino activists, from across the U.S. and Puerto Rico, will be releasing “Queer Brown Voices,” in August 2015. Cháirez will be performing a reading from his chapter of the book, titled “From the Closet to LGBT Radio Host in Dallas.”</p> <p>Queer Brown Voices is a collective of essays chronicling the experiences of fourteen Latina/o’s LGBT activists during 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s In the last three decades of the twentieth century, LGBT Latinas/o’s faced several forms of discrimination. The greater Latino community did not often accept sexual minorities, and the mainstream LGBT movement expected everyone, regardless of their ethnic and racial background, to adhere to a specific set of priorities so as to accommodate a “unified” agenda. To disrupt the cycle of sexism, racism, and homophobia that they experienced, LGBT Latinas/o’s organized themselves on local, state, and national levels, forming communities in which they could fight for equal rights while simultaneously staying true to both their ethnic and sexual identities.</p> <p>Yet histories of LGBT activism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s often reduce the role that Latinas/o’s played, resulting in misinformation, or ignore their work entirely, erasing them from history. Queer Brown Voices is the first book published to counter this trend, documenting the efforts of some of these LGBT Latina/o activists. Comprising essays and oral history interviews that present the experiences of fourteen activists across the United States and in Puerto Rico, the book offers a new perspective on the history of LGBT mobilization and activism.</p> <p>The activists discuss subjects that shed light not only on the organizations they helped to create and operate, but also on their broad–‐ranging experiences of being racialized and discriminated against, fighting for access to health care during the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and struggling for awareness.</p> </div> </article> </div> <div class="simple-separator-top"> <article id="post-8481"> <header class="entry-header"> <h1 class="tf1f2 h2"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/transgender-people-face-alarming-violence-trend.html/" title="Permalink to Transgender people face alarming violence trend" rel="bookmark">Transgender people face alarming violence trend</a></h1> <div class="entry-meta byline std media"> <div class="pull-left"><img alt="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/3a7d6932318b7b10b631e92b9cae9d18?s=52&d=http%3A%2F%2Fres.dallasnews.com%2Fresources%2Fimages%2FDMNlogoBLK.png%3Fs%3D52&r=G" class="avatar avatar-52 photo" height="52" width="52"/></div> <div class="media-body"> <h6 class="svn"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/author/guestblogger/" title="View all posts by Guest Blogger" rel="author" class="tf3f1">Guest Blogger</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/mailto:voices@dallasnews.com" class="fico icon-envelope"><span class="sr-only">Email voices@dallasnews.com</span></a> </h6> </div> </div> <div class="meta story-dateline std"> Published: <time class="entry-date" datetime="2015-06-12T12:39:42+00:00" pubdate>June 12, 2015 12:39 pm</time> </div> </header> <div class="gig-share-button gig-share-button-top" id="gig-div-buttons-8481-top"></div><script type="text/javascript"> function goToCommentBox(eventObj) { if (eventObj.shareItem.provider.trim() == 'comments') { console.log(eventObj.shareItem.provider + ' | http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/transgender-people-face-alarming-violence-trend.html/ | ' + window.location.href); if ('https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/transgender-people-face-alarming-violence-trend.html/' != window.location.href) { window.location.href='https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/2015/06/transgender-people-face-alarming-violence-trend.html/#comments'; } else { var target = $('#comments').get(0).offsetTop; window.scrollTo(0,target); } return false; } else { new DMNTrackClick((typeof isMobileTheme != 'undefined' ? 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})}, onShareButtonClicked: goToCommentBox }; gigya.services.socialize.showShareBarUI(conf_8481,params_8481); </script> <div class="story-body sbd"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/nypd-780387_1280.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8482" title="" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133im_/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/files/2015/06/nypd-780387_1280.jpg" alt="" width="1280" height="854"/></a></p> <p><strong>The following is a press release from the Trans Pride Initiative, a nonprofit that works to provide advocacy for trans* and gender noncoforming people in the Dallas region.</strong></p> <p>DALLAS, June 9, 2015—Trans Pride Initiative, a Dallas-based nonprofit organization working on social justice issues important to the transgender community, notes with concern data provided in the National Coalition of of Anti-Violence Programs’ (NCAVP) report <em>Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and HIV-Affected Hate Violence in 2014,</em><em> </em>released today. Trans Pride is a reporting member of NCAVP.</p> <p>Although the total number of violence incidents (1,359) for the year 2014 were substantially lower than the prior reporting year, this can be largely attributed to the decline in reports from the two largest reporting organizations in New York and Los Angeles. The lower numbers may be attributed more to declining awareness of the reporting programs than an actual decline in violence.</p> <p>In spite of the lower numbers overall, the report shows a continuing trend of violence disproportionately affecting transgender persons, persons of color, and youth. Reports of homicides increased 11% in 2014, and 80% of the homicide victims were persons of color. Over half (55%) were trans women, most of whom were transgender women of color, yet trans persons represent only 19% of the total reports during the year. Other data showing the disproportionate effect of violence against the trans community include:</p> <ul> <li>Transgender women were 1.6 times more likely to experience physical violence and 1.6 times more likely to experience sexual violence, when compared with other survivors.</li> <li>Transgender persons of color were 1.6 times more likely to experience any physical violence and 1.9 times more likely to require medical attention, when compared with other survivors.</li> <li>And trans persons faced the highest rates of police violence of any category. Compared to other survivors:</li> </ul> <blockquote> <ul> <li>Transgender survivors were 6.1 times more likely to experience physical violence from police.</li> <li>Transgender persons of color were 6.2 times more likely to experience police violence.</li> <li>Transgender women were 6.1 times more likely to experience physical violence from police.</li> </ul> </blockquote> <p>NCAVP recommends the following actions to address the severe and too-often deadly violence against trans persons as well as the entire LGBTQ and HIV-affected community:</p> <ul> <li>End the homophobic, transphobic, and biphobic culture that fuels violence.</li> <li>End root causes and social determinants of violence by ending poverty and discrimination.</li> <li>Increase access to anti-violence support and prevention.</li> <li>End police profiling and police violence disproportionately affecting these communities.</li> <li>Enact comprehensive, humane, and LGBTQ-inclusive immigration reforms.</li> <li>Collect data and expand research on these communities overall and their experience of violence.</li> </ul> <p>Trans Pride Initiative supports, and where possible contributes to advancing, each of these recommendations.</p> <p>For the NCAVP media release and the full report, please see Trans Pride Initiative’s home page (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://tpride.org/">http://tpride.org</a>) for links.</p> <p> </p> </div> </article> </div> <nav id="nav-below"> <h3 class="assistive-text">Post navigation</h3> <div class="nav-previous pull-left"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133/http://lgbtqblog.dallasnews.com/page/2/"><span class="meta-nav">←</span> Older posts</a></div> <div class="nav-next pull-right"></div> </nav>  </div> </div> <div id="right" class="right-column narrow-column blog-column col-sm-4" role="complementary"> <aside id="text-15" class="widget widget_text"><span class="hide">Ad:TopLeftBlog</span> <div class="textwidget"><div class="positiondfpTopLeftBlog adPosition" id="dfpTopLeftBlog"> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20150709015133js_/http://res.dallasnews.com/resources/cobrand/js/blogs/position-topleftblog.js"></script> </div> </div> </aside><aside id="text-2" class="widget widget_text"><span class="hide">About this blog</span> <div class="textwidget"><div class="tf1f3 r5 sbd groupHeadline simple-separator-top">About This Blog</div> <div> <p>About LGBTQ Blog</p> <p>This blog has been created by The Dallas Morning News and is run by a dozen of the most passionate, knowledgeable people we could find within the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. 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