Dallas is Unsafe for Gays.
When you are victimized, you might also find the local Gays justifiying your victimization and piling on.
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Gay people elsewhere should be warned.
Dallas has a church which is the organizer of a conversion “therapy” network where Gays are supposedly made un-Gay or resist being Gay. This is the 2nd network we have found in the Dallas area.
Besides organizing a conversion network they are homophobic in other ways.
This is about their homophobia.
They have been asking for zoning ordinance variances for their South Dallas center from the City of Dallas and Dallas has denied them.
So the Dallas Morning News, our local major newspaper published this puff piece on their South Dallas center written by the Elders of Watermark.
The Dallas Morning News knows who these people are. They know what they do. This will establish another pipeline into their conversion therapy network. Also, Watermark wrote of how they provide meeting spaces for other homophobic groups there, without mentioning that they are homophobic.
This isn’t the first time they have aided a homophobic group. They did an article which mislead people into believing the “He Gets Us,” campaign wasn’t homophobic.
The Dallas Morning News repeatedly writes about local Christian groups omitting their homophobia or actively misrepresenting them. I have a listing of their stories.
We still don’t know who or what was behind the 2010 Raid on the Club baths.
The baths were raided in 2010 and eleven men were arrested. The local leadership is quietly letting this go down the memory hole. If you are victimized in Dallas, you can expect the local so-called leadership to want to pretend the victimization didn’t happen and to forget that it happened.
Crowne Plaza throws Gay hotel guests out on the streets at 5pm in July 2024
They had reserved rooms and they were just expelled onto the streets with no place to go late in the day on a weekend. What was worse is the local Dallas Voice attacked the organizer on the basis of an ex-employee who was clearly disgruntled. The local Gay community attacked the organizer, the event, and the Gays attending. If you are victim in Dallas, the local Gays will attack you!
In this 2011 Dallas Voice article we learn that the war on terror and Osama Bin Laden somehow justifies assaulting a Gay man.
A marine assaulted at the Anatole hotel for a Gay Republican conventionat a bar from the story. From the article, “Lessons Learned,” by David Webb in the Dallas Voice.
Although police cited the suspect for an alleged Class C misdemeanor assault at the scene, the victim reportedly advised police the next day he would not be pressing charges after the suspect apologized to him. That in effect gave the suspect a pass for allegedly slamming the victim’s face on a bar table.
Webb suggests that perhaps it was an justified assault by starting the article with:
It’s hard to understand exactly what happened at a Dallas Hilton Anatole hotel bar last weekend when a Log Cabin Republican conventioneer was allegedly called a “faggot” and assaulted. Everyone involved seems to be engaging in high-gear damage control.
It seems that the police persuaded the victim to not persue charges which David Webb feels was a good thing. Officer Laura Martin who got the victim to drop charges was the same Laura Martin that defended the raid on the Club Baths, a year ago, Fall 2010.
What is extraordinary about this development is that the police apparently acted as mediators between the victim and the suspect the day after the incident. The negotiations reportedly involved the Dallas Police Department’s liaison to the LGBT community, Laura Martin, who described the suspect as 27-year-old member of the U.S. Armed Services.
Then Webb decides to give the Dallas Gay community a “lesson.”
What’s more, we learned that the suspect might be a member of the U.S. Marines who was staying over at the Anatole after a tour in the Middle East. Ironically, all of this began coming to light just as reports circulated about the Marine Corps conducting seminars aimed at smoothing the way for gay men and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. Armed Services.
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On top of all that, we learned during the same weekend that U.S. Navy Seals had finally managed to take out Osama Bin Laden, the mastermind behind the al-Qaida attacks on the U.S. in 2001. It’s not exactly the best time to be criticizing a member of the military.
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Likewise, the victim acknowledged being intoxicated.
Webb also explains.
On the other hand, members of the LGBT community need to be respectful of heterosexuals and be on guard not to offend anyone through their actions or words. With all of the gains the community has made in recent years, we are more recognizable and subject to more scrutiny and criticism.
With the end of the military’s anti-gay “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy quickly approaching, members of the U.S. Armed Services are likely to be more on edge and prone to taking offense.
Also, Webb reports:
Astonishingly, the victim took a real verbal beating in the comments sections of the Dallas Voice’s blog, Instant Tea, where the alleged assault was reported. It was interesting that so many LGBT people took the position that the victim deserved to not only be viciously assaulted, but to be humiliated in public as well.
If you are subjected to a Gay bashing in Dallas you can expect that the Dallas Gays will find every excuse to justify the assualt and viciously attack you.
Dallas is the capitol of the self-hating Gays.
Dallas Gays are always worried, “What will the straight people think?,” “What will my Baptist cousin thing?”
The story is still online and it is saved in the Internet Archive.
https://dallasvoice.com/lesson-learned/
Saved at the Internet Archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231229160926/https://dallasvoice.com/lesson-learned/
I am sure there is more half-wit articles like this in the Dallas Voice, but I think one example should show you what the mentality of the Dallas Voice is.
This is why I call them the Dallas (Vichy) Voice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
Texas for Gay Republican pleading for removal of an anti-Gay plank.
Excerpts from actual pleading in Texas for Gays which was posted at YouTube. Watching it I thought, “With friends like this, you don’t need enemies.”
Yes as I said I think it's a needlessly, uh, antagonistic toward a, a subset of voters and we're likely to turn them off.
I am a sinner. Sa[v]ed by grace through, through, through faith in Christ. [E]veryone here is also a sinner in need of a savior we are apparently here to to single out someone else's Behavior without listening our own.
[S]omething like 20% of J gen Z voters or gen Z generation is identifies as lgbtq and we are turning them away, basically saying you know don't vote for our party.
[I]f we're attacking them yes you homosexual acts are a choice but same sex attraction is often, you know, unwanted. [A] recent survey showed 94% of same sex attraction those with same sex attractions have prayed that God would take away their attraction. 94%. [D]o you really think that those having same sex attraction is a lifestyle choice to them. I don't. [Interruption.] many are celibate.” [Boldface added.]
You can read about the details here:
This abject pleading and the idea that somehow being homosexal is wrong, but should be pitied isn’t not uncommon here. If you are a victim, they will be straining their brains to find you in the wrong and justifiably victimized.
Fort Worth has had a human rights commission since 1967, Dallas still doesn’t have one.
If you are victimized, there will be no recourse for complaint.
You come to Dallas at your own risk.
Thanks for the info.