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LACEY BRUTSCHEY
talks to people
about their New
Year's resolutions.
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Relive highs and
lows of 2007 with
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"+i ,Sheets waiting on new lease to keep shop open
Coffee shop owner says property management has not
come through with paperwork for Crossroads Market
By John Wright Staff WriterThe future of Crossroads
Market, the gay-oriented retail
establishment that's been a fixture
on the Cedar Springs strip for
more than 27 years, remains
uncertain.
In November, current
Crossroads Market owner Richard
Longstaff announced he didn't
plan to renew his lease on thebuilding at 3930 Cedar Springs
Road, which expires Dec. 31,
because the property owner was
asking too much money.
Don Sheets, who subleases the
coffee shop inside Crossroads, has
said he wants to stay open and
take over the rest of the store -
which houses things like books,
magazines and gifts - fromongstaff.
Thursday,
Dec. 27,
Sheets said
he has ver-
b all y
agreed to
the terms
of a new
lease with
Don Sheets E a g i e
Management, the company that
manages the property for thelit~
Richard Longstaff
o w n e r.
However,
Sheets said
a g 1 e
Equity had
not yet
produced
a copy of
the lease
for him to
s i g n .
Represen-
_a_ tativesfrom Eagle Equity Management
did not return a phone call seekingcomment.
"They've promised me a lease,"
Sheets said. "We're coming down
to the wire."
Sheets said even if there is no
new lease in place, he intends to
remain open as long as he can after
the new year. In fact, he said he
already plans to offer free coffee on
Jan. 2 for First Wednesday, a
monthly promotional event organ-
ized by the Cedar Springs
Merchants Association.
Longstaff, who's owned
See MARKET on PAGE 9Sex and politics
Compiled by Tammye Nash
David Webb and John Wright
Dallas Voice News StaffSex or politics - and sometimes
both - played a major role in
most of Dallas Voice's top stories
of 2007.
While Congress was playing
politics with employment rights
and hate crimes protections for
LGBT people in Washington, D.C.,
U.S. Sen. Larry Craig was playing
footsy with an undercover police-
man in a Minnesota airport bath-
room.
Here at home in the DFW
Metroplex, favorite gay son and
longtime Dallas City Council
member Ed Oakley made head-
lines around the country as he
made a serious run for mayor. But
gay Dallas County Constable Mike
Dupree was running for cover as
new accusations of harassment
and criminal activity were aimed
his way on an almost weekly basis
in the first half of the year.
Add into that mix a well-known
gay political activist who got
caught allegedly having sex in a
public park, a feud over the future
of the Trinity River Corridor
Project and the desperate scrambleby AIDS service organizations fac-
ing drastic cuts in federal funds,
and it is obvious that an old politi-
cal cliche certainly held true this- the top stories of 2007
sen as our top
read on and
that was..'h _
Ed Oakley survived a cuowced ne u TI CO Uflo bCLi;ui i iW.3i6 wn LVe 1ua 0 u o opp L i eLu ,
mayor of Dallas. The openly gay candidate's campaign made headlines around the country.year: Politics do, indeed, make
strange bedfellows.
It is those stories, plus the tragic
murder of a man in Oak Lawn thatgalvanized the community and
the ongoing debate over the future
of the "gayborhood" that the news
staffers at Dallas Voice have cho-10 stories of 2007. So
remember the yearEd Oakley narrowly misses in
run for mayor's office
Gay Dallas City Councilman Ed
Oakley made headlines across the
country when he won a spot in the
runoff for Dallas mayor. He was
the first openly gay person to be a
serious contender for mayor of a
major city.
Oakley lost the election to retired
businessman Tom Leppert on June
16, but his candidacy rallied the
LGBT community to a pitch never
before seen in Dallas. Five precincts
with heavy LGBT populations
reported voter turnout at double
what was seen during the regular
election on May 12.
After he lost, Oakley said the
news he made for being a gay can-
didate possibly on the verge of
winning the top elected seat in the
nation's ninth-largest city proba-
bly cost him the election. His sexu-
al orientation became the "talk of
the town," he said.
See TOP 10 on PAGE 16In 2007, DFW said adios
to some longtime culture
honchos. Newbies
Jonathan Palant and
Kevin Moriarty address
the challenges of Dallas'
arts future. PAGE 32.Bareback porn is boom- f
ing, so Albert Lujan
launched a MySpace
page to urge condom
use. Hey, what a great
idea for a New Year's>
resolution. PAGE 34.'A year in concerts: The
Indigo Girls serenaded
Dallas' Pride. Rufus did
Judy drag at Nokia. A.>
the 'True Color lnw
was like a gay
Woodstock. PAGE 41.Local News
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