Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, October 3, 2008 Page: 1 of 44
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LOCAL LONE STAR RIDE RAISES $120K I LOCAL RESOURCE CENTER REGISTERS VOTERS BEFORE DEADLINE I PLUS VIEWPOINTS I SCREEN I MUSIC I SCENE
Pal^s
BEN BRISCOE
will post video from
Sarah Palin's visit
to Dallas at
DallasVoice.com.
LOCAL
Gay radio host
Jack Jett intercepts
strategic letter
from director of
Eagle Forum.
PAGE 6.
LOCAL
Tarrant County's
weeklong,
family-friendly
Pride kicks off
with parade.
PAGE 9.
VOLUME 25 I ISSUE 20
ESTABLISHED 1S84
dallasvoice.com
OCTOBER I 03 I 2008
ompeting voices
Despite fears that ex-director
Tim Seelig's new group would
hurt TCC, it's actually more
of a harmonious relationship
By Arnold Wayne Jones Staff Writer
This summer, as Jonathan Palant began his
second year as the leader of the Turtle Creek
Chorale, he realized he had to stop using a
word that had seemingly become permanently
affixed to his official title: "New."
"Someone came up to me and said, 'You
have to stop referring yourself as the new artis-
tic director," Palant recalls.
Of course he was right. After a year in his
post, Palant deserved to be treated — even by
himself — as something other than the new-
comer to Dallas. And he needed everyone to
realize he isn't an outsider.
"I'm not going anywhere — I have long-
term plans for the chorale," he says. "We are
going abroad on an international tour in the
summer of 2010. And I want to bring GALA
Choruses [the quadrennial convention of gay
choral groups] to Dallas in 2012." "New" just
doesn't seem appropriate anymore.
During a recent interview, Palant expressed
enthusiasm about how the chorale has contin-
ued to evolve. Under his baton, this season the
group welcomes 35 new members, "one of the
THE PREMIER SOURCE FOR LGBT DALLAS/FORT WORTH
Players allege
SMU coach had
double standard
for gay liaisons
Rompola frowned on them among
teammates, lawsuit says, but is
accused of one with assistant
By John Wright News Editor
UNIVERSITY PARK — SMU women's bas-
ketball head coach Rhonda Rompola was out-
spoken in her disapproval of lesbian relation-
ships between players,
according to a lawsuit
filed last month by for-
mer player Jennifer
Colli.
But Rompola's phi-
losophy allegedly did-
«BWMtNEWES/NMftee
Tim Seelig, who served as artistic director of the Turtle Creek Chorale for 20 years, conducts his new group,
Resounding Harmony, during a recent rehearsal. Resounding Harmony already boasts a roster of 175 singers.
largest freshman classes ever. Interestingly, not
only is the average age of this class significant-
ly younger, it represents a much more balanced
racial profile of the city. Of 35, nine or 10 are
Hispanic — we didn't have that many in the
whole chorus last year," he says.
Palant also recently established Dallas
PUMP, the city's first youth chorus for gay and
questioning teens.
But as with many arts organizations across
the country, the Turtle Creek Chorale has dealt
See VOICES on PAGE 10
Rhonda Rompola
n't apply to the head
coach herself or her
staff. In signed state-
ments released by
Colli's attorney, four other current and former
Lady Mustangs alleged that Rompola had
"long-term relations" with a specific female
assistant coach.
Rompola married former SMU men's basket-
ball head coach Mike Dement last year. Dement
is now head coach at the University of North
Carolina-Greensboro.
See SMU on PAGE 12
Eihepard and Byrd, who died months apart, linked forever
Ten years after two high-profile hate crime murders, federal bill remains
stalled in Congress, while state statute isn't working as intended
Oct. 3 Thestateofthelaw
By Tammye Nash Senior Editor
crimes hivs in Texas and at the federal level.
Subsequent installments will each focus on a specific
anti-gay hate murder in Texas.
man, a father and grandfather, living in his
They were two very different men. One hometown in Southeast Texas.
was a 21-year-old white gay man attend- One was a political science student preparing
ing college at the University of Wyoming to step out into the promise of the future. The
in Laramie. The other was a 49-year-old black other was unemployed, living on disability pay-
Editor's Note: This year marks the 10th anniver-
sary of the hate-motivated murders of both James
Byrd Jr. and Mattheiv Shepard. In recognition of
those anniversaries, Dallas Voice is publishing a fine-
part Gay History Month series on victims of anti-gay
hate crimes in Texas. This first installment in the
series takes a look back at two of the most high-profile
hate murders in recent history, and at the state ofJiate
REMEMBERING THEIR NAMES
Oct. 10 Paul Broussard
Oct. 17 Jack Hampton scandal
Oct. 24 Nicholas West
Oct. 31 Than Nguyen
Matthew Shepard
James Byrd Jr.
PRIDE
'Noah's Arc' and 'Dante's
Cove' star Jensen
Atwood, just in Dallas
for a pre-Black Pride
event, says he proudly
owes his career to gay
men. PAGE 20.
STAGE
What happens when you
take two aging divas,
add a gay playwright
and director and put
them underground? You
get 'Pixie DeCosta' at
Theatre Too. PAGE 22.
FEATURE
Del Shores and Jason
Dottley visit Dallas for
AIDS Arms LifeWalk. The
'Sordid Lives' power
couple are also becom-
ing lawfully wedded
husbands. PAGE 26.
INDEX
ments and trying to step away from a some-
times-troubled past.
See NAMES on PAGE 13
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Tarrant County Pride may have been onto something when they
moved to October. They'll have picture-perfect weather for the
parade on Sunday, and hope for the same for next week's picnic.
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