Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 2011 Page: 4 of 48
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SEASONS GREETINGS | Equality Texas encourages LGBT families to include their elected
officials on their holiday card lists.
Holiday greeting card activism
If you're like me and you still haven't yet sent out
those holiday greeting cards — or if you just have a
few left over — consider this idea from Equality
Texas:
Holiday cards are inherently personal — they are
a meaningful way to share a part of your life with
other people. When you are thinking about who you
want to send cards to this year, consider adding
your State Senator and State Representative to
your list. For those who do not have lesbian, gay, bi-
sexual, or transgender people in their lives, it can be
easy to label us as an "other." /As long as LGBT
people remain only an idea to our representatives,
they are unlikely to fight for us. When they receive
your card, your family will become real and personal
to them. When they consider legislation affecting
LGBT people, they will no longer see something in-
tangible and distant — they will see you and your
family. This simple action can be extremely power-
ful. If we show more people what we are really like,
we stand to gain many more allies. Use your holiday
card to put a face to LGBT equality.
— John Wright
Gun Barrel City bar Friends closing
Leo Bartlett, owner of Friends in Gun Barrel City,
announced Tuesday, Dec. 20, on his Facebook
page that the bar is closing.
"Due to uncontrollable events, the clubs doors
must be closed," he wrote.
The bar has been a center of activity for the
LGBT community around Cedar Creek Lake for
about 20 years. Pageants, shows, food drives and
charity events took place regularly at Friends. The
most recent charity drive was a collection for Toys
for Tots.
The closing was announced suddenly. Events
were posted through January.
"From the bottom of my heart, I have never
thought that this notice would go out," Bartlett
wrote. He called the closing a "heartbreaking deci-
sion."
A number of financial factors apparently con-
tributed to the closing of Friends but this summer's
drought, the worst in Texas' history, was also likely a
contributing factor. The lake level was down almost
8 feet — far enough that many boat ramps were
closed so weekend residents stayed away. Friends
is in Gun Barrel City, located centrally on Cedar
Creek Lake, which is about 60 miles southeast of
Dallas. The lake was built by the city of Fort Worth
to supplement its water supply in 1964 and is the
fourth-largest lake in Texas.
The area began attracting LGBT lake house buy-
ers in the 1980s. Many Dallasites bought weekend
houses there but the area has also attracted a num-
ber of LGBT retirees and other full-time residents.
Since Friends opened almost 20 years ago,
other LGBT businesses and organizations have
grown around the lake. LGBT-friendly Celebration
Church on the Lake in nearby Mabank grew with
help from Celebration Church in Fort Worth. Gar-
lows, a second LGBT bar in Gun Barrel City,
opened several years ago. Gay campground Circle
J Ranch is near the lake in Eustace.
In addition, two cities on the lake have elected
gay mayors.
The gay bars draw not only from lake residents
but also from nearby Corsicana and Athens as well
as a number of other smaller towns in Navarro,
Henderson and Kaufman counties.
— David Taffet
Get gay married. It's good for
your health
Same-sex marriage may be destroying "tradi-
tional" marriage according to groups like the Na-
tional Organization for Marriage, but the American
Journal of Public Health found that gay marriage is
good for your health.
A study was conducted in Massachusetts at a
clinic that specializes in serving the health needs of
gay men after same-sex marriage was legalized,
CBS reported. It found that over that first 12-month
period, visits to the clinic dropped 13 percent and
healthcare costs decreased by 14 percent.
The journal said that the LGBT community re-
ceived "compromised health care delivery" com-
pared with the general population and suffered from
"minority stress" leading to "negative mental and
physical health effects."1
"Reports in the medical and social science literature
suggest that legal and social recognition of same-sex
marriage has had positive effects on the health status
of this at-risk community," the report says.
So allowing same-sex couples brings down
healthcare costs for everyone and helps people live
longer. Those standing in the way of allowing same-
sex couples to marry aren't just denying gays and
lesbians equal rights, they're killing us.
— David Taffet
dallasvoice.com
12.23.11
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