In the Late 1980s, the Gay Urban Truth Squad Took Dallas to Task Over the AIDS Crisis longreads by simcarttweets
. Media swarmed the makeshift potter’s field, which was featured on the evening news. The city was so embarrassed by the demonstration that they left the crosses up for a couple of days, Waybourn says, laughing.The group’s genesis rested in another gay rights organization called ACT UP , which was located in cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Waybourn explains. Being the “good Dallas boys that we were,” he says, they asked for permission to use the name. No luck.
, according to LGBTQ+ history website The Dallas Way. The city threatened to sue them for damages before a donor offered to cover the cleanup. One of the demonstrators, LGBTQ+ community leader Terry Tebedo, was seriously ill at the time and eventually died from AIDS. But Tebedo passed hot chocolate out to participants despite his poor health. “I can still taste it,” Monroe said sometime before his own AIDS-related death last year.in 1989, Waybourn says.
“Dallas bears the shame for every day [Hampton] sits there, and the world is watching,” said Waybourn, who served as Dallas Gay Alliance president, according to the“It is not the first time that gays and minorities have been brutalized and victimized by the Dallas County judicial system.” Discrimination also wormed its way into the workforce. People would lose their jobs for being gay, Waybourn tells the. Lone Star Gas fired male waiters assigned to the executive dining room for fear they would expose the bigwigs to AIDS. Servers were still allowed to work in the employee dining rooms, though, Waybourn says.
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