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Letter -
MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT 'DALLAS CARES'
I need to correct some misconceptions
your readers may have formed based on a
recent letter from Don Baker [Dallas Voice,
April 15, 1988, No. N/51, p. 23] and an
advertisement by Larry Lingle, consultant to
Lobo/After Dark bookstore [Dallas Voice,
April 8, 1988, No. N/50, p. 20], about "Dallas
Cares ... A Show of Support," the million-
dollar AIDS fundraiser scheduled for Dallas
in October.
First, Baker implies that this is a project of
the non-gay community. In reality, there is
extensive involvement by lesbians and gays
in the event. I myself am on the disburse-
ments committee. When I was asked to serve,
I agreed if two conditions were met: 1) that
the majority of the revenues must stay in
Dallas, and 2) that the funds be earmarked for
those agencies providing the bulk of AIDS
services in Dallas, service providers who also
happened to be gay.
As a result, 75 percent of the monies will
stay in Dallas, with 25 percent going to the
American Foundation for AIDS Research
(AmFAR). This percentage is a departure for
AmFAR, as it provides most of the celebrities
for these events, and usually receives over 50
percent of the proceeds. AmFAR readily
agreed to the Dallas formula for this event,
thanks to the organizers.
The disbursements will be based on an
equitable formula to benefit those agencies
doing the work. There has never been any
doubt that these are gay-operated, gay-man-
aged, gay-supported agencies; specifically,
the AIDS Resource Center, the AIDS Project of
the Oak Lawn Counseling Center and the
PWA Coalition of Dallas. There are other
agencies which will receive funds, and all of
them are involved in the AIDS battle.
As for Lingle's charge that the high ticket
price should permit Dallas "society" to avoid
"major rubbing of shoulders with gays," you
"The benefit will not
succeed without the
scores of volunteerswho are
the deta
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this eve
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-WILLIAM WAYBOURN
at it was because of direct
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nst AIDS that this fundraiserL e fe4-Ai'!e e rr
Fran andJack McNulty, the society organiz-
ers of "Dallas Cares," are volunteers at the
Dallas Gay Alliance-run AIDS Resource Cen-
ter. They have participated in two weekends
of training and are qualified in their own right
as active volunteers. It was because of what
they found working in the trenches that they
decided (since they had connections to Dal-
las' "elite") that they could better utilize their
efforts to recruit their friends into the battle
against AIDS.
* Don Baker's comment that "we [lesbians
and gays] should give others a chance to be
creative and responsive" reveals an unfortu-
nate naivete about the realities of the AIDS
crisis in Dallas. Gays and non-gays have
worked together from the very beginning. I
guess when you're not involved directly, all
you know is what you read in the newspaper
- and often those reports concern only
moments of confrontation.
The "Dallas Cares ... A Show of Support"
benefit will not succeed, however, without
the scores of volunteers, both gay and non-
gay, who are willing to do the detail work
necessary to pull off an event of this magni-
tude. Without volunteer labor, it would also
be cost-prohibitive and raise very little
money.
Many gay men and lesbians have already
called in an endeavor to volunteer their own
time, materials and resources. One such
volunteer said he was willing to pay to rent a
tux to park cars or wait tables for the evening.
Several florists and designers have called to
volunteer their resources. All of them are gay.
I encourage everyone, gays and non-gays,
to become involved in this benefit. I find it
disheartening that some prominent gays, in
the seventh year of the AIDS crisis, have
nothing to show for their own involvement
other than their public criticism of or com-
ments about someone else's efforts.
William W. Waybourn
President, Dallas Gay Alliance
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