Kentucky General Assembly adjourns without passing any anti-LGBTQ laws
The Kentucky General Assembly adjourned on Monday, April 15, without having advanced any of the 10 anti-LGBTQ laws that had been introduced during the session, according to the Fairness Campaign, Kentucky’s LGBTQ advocacy organization. Fairness Campaign...
Appeals court blocks West Virginia law banning trans athletes
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today (Tuesday, April 16) voted to block a West Virginia law banning transgender student athletes from playing on teams consistent with their gender identity, finding the law violates the rights of transgender students under the...
Dallas Wings choose 3 in WNBA draft
The Dallas Wings tapped Jacy Sheldon out of Ohio State, Carla Leite from France and Ashley Owusu from Penn State during the 2024 WNBA Draft, which aired live on ESPN from the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Monday night, April 15. Sheldon, the fifth overall selection in...
Review: The intimate ‘Girl from the North Country’ gets lost on a grand stage
Girl from the North Country opened Tuesday at Music Hall by Broadway Dallas. The Depression-set musical written by Conor McPherson with songs by Dylan was a glimpse into the lives of a variety of characters passing through a boarding house in Duluth, Minnesota by Lake...
News is Out, Word In Black and Comcast NBCUniversal welcomes 16 journalism fellows to cover Black and LGBTQ communities
Philadelphia — News is Out and Word In Black announced the 16 fellows selected for The Digital Equity Local Voices Lab, a new initiative powered by Comcast NBCUniversal to place journalists at 16 Black and LGBTQ serving news publications across the country. During the...
Coexistence is possible
Anti-trans conservatives are up in arms over Biden’s proclamation honoring Trans Day of Visibility, which also happened to be Easter I am writing this on March 31, the 15th annual Transgender Day of Visibility. All over the world, people are celebrating the lives of...
Best Bets • 04-12-24
Pride Frisco and the Dallas LGBT Bar Association are joining forces to offer the first “Name+Gender Marker Change Clinic” in Frisco on April 20, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Register at Eventeny.com. ................. Comedian Karen Morgan performs Thursday, April 18, at the...
Stage Notes: MainStage ILC drops season announcement; review of Cara Mia’s ‘Diosa’
Stage Notes is a weekly aggregate post about theater, classical music and stage news, events, reviews and other pertinent information. Stage Notes Calendar Opening this week: ATTPAC Presents: Bernadette Peters, 7:30 p.m. today at the Winspear. Dallas Symphony...
SPLC condemns NCIA’s change to anti-trans policy
The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics this week changed its policies to ban transgender women athletes from competing in women’s sports, prompting outrage from LGBTQ advocates, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, officials of which noted that...
Dallas Wings announce broadcast schedule; ticket sales start April 18
The Dallas Wings this week announced the team’s 2024 broadcast and streaming schedule featuring all 40 games available on linear television for the second straight year. Highlighting the national television slate are two games on CBS, four on ESPN, two on CBS Sports...
Lambda Legal announces Dallas Women’s Brunch
Lambda Legal announced this week that the Dallas Women’s Brunch returns in June with an event honoring Carol Meyer. Meyer is a “20 year LGBTQ+ ally and advocate, Partner in Equality award winner, board member and long-time Women’s Brunch host.” The brunch is set for...
DVtv: The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Did you get to see the total solar eclipse on Monday, April 8? If you didn't — and even if you did — you'll want to check out this time-lapse video and photo montage from Tom Roma and DVtv.
DoD settles in lawsuit challenging HIV policy
Lambda Legal and co-counsel Winston & Strawn LLP, Perkowski Legal, PC, and Scott Schoettes announced this week that they have reached a settlement with the Department of Defense in a lawsuit filed in 2018 on behalf of former Navy midshipman Kevin Deese, and former...
Review: ‘9 to 5 the Musical’ makes joyful noise in the workplace at Firehouse Theatre
On opening night last Friday, Firehouse Theatre in Farmers Brnach was filled with spirited enthusiasm which made for a palpable buzz throughout the lobby and theater. That energy added to the upbeat vibes of 9 to 5 the Musical when the curtain opened and Dolly Parton...
Arizona Supreme Court reinstates 1864 abortion law
The Arizona Supreme Court ruled today (April 9) that all abortions should be banned by reinstating a near-total abortion ban from 1864. The law also punishes doctors with 2-5 years prison time for providing abortion services and precedes Arizona’s statehood status by...