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great if Piano got a councilmember because it's
just going to open the door in Frisco, Allen,
Carrollton and everywhere else for people to
realize that we're not aliens with antennas on
our heads. We're not the scary people they make
us out to be."
Denis Dison, a spokesman for the Gay and
Lesbian Victory Fund, said a win for Nichols
would continue a trend the group has witnessed
across the country over the last three or four
years. The Victory Fund is the only national
organization dedicated to increasing the num-
ber of openly LGBT elected officials at all levels
of government.
"If people stay on their message and they talk
about the things that are important to their com-
munities, we've found they can get elected in
places where we never thought they could get
elected," Dison said.
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RESOLUTIONS
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Once those changes were made, that resolution
also passed easily, he said.
Terrell said reports he has received indicated
that in Democratic precincts where the resolu-
tions were introduced, "they usually passed
without much bother."
But that wasn't the case in every precinct. In
fact, according to Stonewall Democrats of Dallas
President Jesse Garcia, in some precincts people
didn't even have the chance to introduce resolu-
tions because of the chaos created by the huge
crowds.
"It was such a difficult night across the board
in some places," Garcia said. "I heard from sev-
eral people who couldn't introduce their resolu-
tions. I was one of them. I didn't get to do it
because the people in charge of my precinct con-
vention wouldn't allow us the time for resolu-
tions.
"It's a shame I couldn't do it," he continued.
"But lots of other people could and did, in
precincts all over the area. I have heard from
people who got these resolutions passed in
places like Rowlett, Grand Prairie, Piano and
Richardson. The majority came from precincts
in Dallas, but there were other places,; too —
places you wouldn't think of really as being gay
friendly."
Garcia also noted that while most people he
talked to said the anti-bullying resolution met
with little resistance, "there were some people
who were not that cool with the non-discrimina-
tion resolution."
"You could tell there are people out there in
the Democratic Party who are still not with us
on that issue," he said. "That's why it will be
important to have people who do support them
as delegates as the senatorial district conven-
tions. It's an education process."
Both Garcia and Terrell said they have high
hopes that the two resolutions will make their
way into the state party platform.
"I think both the Democratic resolutions
stand a very good chance of making it all the
way to the state convention. There are a number
of Democratic legislators who will stand up for
the resolutions," Terrell said. "I am pretty opti-
mistic."
The Republicans
The long-term picture might not be as
bright for the resolution introduced in
Republican precinct conventions. But Terrell
and Log Cabin Republicans of Dallas
President Rob Schlein said they were pleased
with the positive reaction in many precincts
— including at least one very unlikely one.
"I am in Precinct 1800 with Cathy Adams,
who is president of the Eagle Forum," Schlein
said. "I had expected to have stacked the
deck against me, and I expected to have a
hostile audience. But I introduced the resolu-
tion anyway. I went in there and made my
case, and I won.
"Afterwards, I had several people come up
to me and say, 'You did something no one has
ever done. You went up against Cathy
Adams. No one ever stands up to her.' They
were thrilled," Schlein said.
He said he knows of at least 10 Republican
precincts where the resolution passed,
including a notoriously conservative precinct
near White Rock Lake where it was intro-
duced by a non-gay ally of the community.
In each place, Schlein said, the story was
the same: "When people actually read the
[anti-gay] language that is in the platform,
they had the same reaction. They either did-
n't know that language was in there, or they
didn't realize that it was so inflammatory.
And they said it needs to come out of the
platform."
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