Dallas to promote "Gay-friendly tourism"

Washington Post ^ | January 7, 2007

[nwrep]

Dallas, long known as a Baptist stronghold and home of Stetson-wearing business types, is touting a new image: gay travel destination. The city has joined other locations, such as Philadelphia and Fort Lauderdale, in actively reaching out to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender visitors.

"Our secret is out," says a page at www.dallascvb.com, the city's official tourism Web site. The page lists venues of special appeal to gay travelers, including Oak Lawn, a neighborhood with a predominantly gay population, bars, museums and more than 20 gay-friendly hotels.

[lentulusgracchus]

Hi, waggle. Hi, lj. Ping to my last.

[RockinRight]

And yet...the Dems keep repeating the lie that the GOP is the party of the rich.

[little jeremiah]

I'll try to get it later if you don't. Got overwhelmed again.

[little jeremiah]

Duh. And watch out for the individual who authored comment #20.

[Old Professer]

Shouldn't that draw be drawl?

[3AngelaD]

They just had to use the picture of the fat chicks!

[LibFreeOrDie]

Shouldn't that "draw" be "drawl"?

Not in the new, gay, artistic Dallas!

[Wil H]

Conversation between two gay cowboys....

"Y'up?"

Yup!

[Wil H]

And just what the f*** is a "gay museum"?

I'll be bug**red if I know!

[Torie]

What on God's green earth would attract tourists to Dallas, except as a transit point via its hub airport? I visited once, for a bridge tournament. What a dump. But there was this mavelous steak place, the Golden Eagle. Just fantastic.

[WideGlide]

"Damn! The secret's out. There goes the neighborhood. I told you we should never have moved to Texass."

[freedomfiter2]

That is part of it. But there are also activities, stickers in store windows, rainbow flags displayed, things like that, that define it as gay friendly. Nauseating but true.


Oh, they are looking for places where people tell them that they are normal.

[Torie]

Strike Golden Eagle. It is Double Eagle. Its the jewel of the Dallas crown.

[Msgt USMC]

Ain't no real Texans in Dallas anyway. That place was dropped on the planet by one of them giant space-alien ships ya hear about in the tabloids. Thank God I'm from Fort Worth! Dallas???...Sheeeeeeit!

[lentulusgracchus]

Interesting choice of headgear by the dude on the right. That's a Nazi storm trooper's cap.

But then, the Nazi leadership was rich with homosexuals in its earlier days. Until Hitler killed a lot of them because they were making the Army hard to deal with (the generals were urping on their uniforms).

[lentulusgracchus]

We have quite a few gay friends, and the majority of them are educated professionals or business owners.

I put your statement together with the material and links you put up on your FR homepage, and I don't think you're a conservative at all. "Liberaltarian" is more like it. You quote Barry late in his life, reacting to the Pat Robertsons et al., but you don't quote Barry from his '64 campaign on the subject of moral rot and ruin, which is the fountainhead of contemporary social conservativism. JMHO.

Welcome aboard, liberal.

[ozaukeemom]

:) I am not that good of a cook. lol That was the only thing worth anything in Hillcrest then it moved out too!

[Spirochete]

Funny, I thought it meant being accepting of people whose lifestyles don't happen to jive with yours.

You are mistaken, sir.

Vive ut Vivas is right.

[Nachoman]

oakcliff is the hillcrest of dallas

Oak Cliff is more like the Compton of Dallas.

[RichInOC]

True, but if I recall correctly, as Mayo's heading off base after he graduates, he runs across Foley doing the same spiel with a new class, and the kid in the new class is from Texas.

:-D )))