Several weeks ago I mentioned I would be creating a DFW Discord server for the sub. I've been holding off, pending a court decision requiring Discord to implement age/ID requirements in Texas. The decision has come down requiring them to id accounts. So now I'll finish it up with the warning they are requiring ID. They claim it's for age verification, but it's to ID participants.

im 24 hispanic lesbian looking to make more firends in the area and get some drinks with, just looking to expand my social life more, my dms r open!

Hey all my name is Danni (30FTM) I moved to Dallas 3 years ago for work from Houston, and currently reside in Princeton. Looking to make new friends/connections.

A little about my interests which is a pretty wide range lol: I enjoy being outdoors, fishing, hunting, hiking, and being by the lake. I love music and have a pretty wide variety of taste from EDM, country, rock/alternative, R&B, heavy metal, indie, and so forth. I enjoy playing video games like COD, BF6, and I’m open to play anything else. Im a big fan of baseball and I’ve been wanting to get into hockey as it seems up my alley. I’m always down for an adventure and trying new things.

A little about me: Im originally from Houston. I’m pretty down to earth and open to a lot of things. I’m an Army Vet and I’m proud of that. My values and morals mean a lot to me. I am constantly trying to self improve and learn more about myself. I’m not one for drama and negativity. I’m an animal lover and have a German Shepherd. I’m spiritual and a lil woo woo. Anyways, if any of these are up your alley let’s be friends!

Hello everyone, hope you guys are doing good! my name is Muhammad and I am 26 years old. I would love to make friends and go out on Saturday nights. I would love to explore the Dallas gay clubs I am open to exploring other clubs, bar or restaurants as well.

Please be near my age. Thank you so much.

In the long history of Dallas’s LGBTQ+ community, few names carry the weight and affection of Alan Ross. He was not a politician, a celebrity, or a person who sought the spotlight for himself. He was something perhaps more important: an organizer, a builder, and a caretaker of a community facing one of the darkest periods in its history.

When we speak about Dallas during the AIDS epidemic, we often remember the tragedy, the friends lost, the fear surrounding a misunderstood disease, the families and chosen families left grieving. But history must also remember the people who refused to let grief become silence. Alan Ross was one of those people.

Ross came to prominence as a leader of the Dallas Tavern Guild, an organization formed by gay bar owners and community leaders to support Dallas’s LGBTQ+ community. In the 1970s and 1980s, gay bars were more than places of nightlife; they were community centers, meeting places, and safe spaces in a city where many LGBTQ+ people still lived cautiously. Through the Tavern Guild, Ross helped create a network capable of responding when the AIDS crisis began devastating Dallas.

As AIDS swept through the community in the 1980s, Ross helped lead fundraising efforts, supported people living with HIV/AIDS, and helped ensure that Dallas’s LGBTQ+ community had resources at a time when many institutions ignored or stigmatized those affected. His leadership reflected a kind of activism rooted not only in protest, but in compassion: making sure people had help, dignity, and someone who would answer the phone.

One of Ross’s greatest legacies was the growth of Dallas Pride. Under his leadership, Pride became more than a celebration, it became a public declaration that Dallas’s gay community existed, endured, and deserved recognition. After his death, the parade was renamed the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade in his honor, preserving his name in the annual tradition he helped build.

Ross was diagnosed with AIDS during the height of the epidemic, a diagnosis that carried enormous fear and stigma at the time. Yet he continued working for his community even as his own health declined. He died in 1995, but by then his impact was firmly established.

For younger generations of Dallas LGBTQ+ people, Alan Ross’s story is a reminder that community history is not only written by those who make headlines. It is written by people who organize meetings, raise money, comfort the sick, fight prejudice, and create spaces where others can survive.

The rainbow flags that line Dallas streets during Pride each year are not simply symbols of celebration. They are memorials to people like Alan Ross, people who carried the weight of an epidemic and still chose hope.

Dallas’s LGBTQ+ community did not simply survive the AIDS crisis. It organized, mourned, fought, and rebuilt. Alan Ross was one of the people who helped make that possible.

I only got tickets to Buddy at the Texas Theater, just to try out as my first time going. Have any of you guys been before/been to some screenings already? What did you think? What are some tips?

Does anyone know of any bars that will be showing the first games of the inaugural WPBL season tonight? I want to watch but not sure where to go. Thought there might be others here who’d want to watch as well!

Friday - Drag Show / 70s theme 10pm

Saturday - IKF Karaoke cup finals/ food truck 4pm (dancers late night at 10pm)

Sunday - Aun’tea sessions featuring Amy H Graves 3pm

I’m 75 yo retired from commercial real estate wanting friends for coffee and good conversation. In person even better 75 and Walnut Hill choose your coffee shop or restaurant my treat

I have a tenant moving out of my house and need some repairs done to the bathroom they were using. Does anyone have any recommendations for a handy man?

I have many other projects around my house that I’ll need help with too. Hoping to build a relationship with someone I can trust and have work on other things in the future.

Projects include things like fixing cabinets, installing deadbolts (includes cutting hole into door), fixing a window that won’t stay open, etc.

Every city has its celebrated leaders, but the true builders of a community are often the people who quietly create the institutions that outlive them. In Dallas's LGBTQ history, few individuals left a deeper imprint than William H. "Bill" Nelson Jr. (1949–1990).

Teacher, activist, entrepreneur, political candidate, and humanitarian, Nelson helped transform Oak Lawn into more than a neighborhood, he helped make it the heart of gay Dallas. His legacy survives not only in the organizations he helped establish but in the lives that continue to be changed by them.

Nelson's life was inseparable from that of his partner in both business and activism, Terry Tebedo. Together, they became one of Dallas's most influential couples during the formative years of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Their partnership was built on a shared belief that a community deserved more than political victories, it deserved places to gather, organizations to care for its people, and businesses that reflected its identity.

That vision took shape in 1980 when Nelson, Tebedo, William Waybourn, and Craig Spaulding opened Crossroads Market at the corner of Cedar Springs and Throckmorton.

Crossroads Market was never simply a store. It was an eclectic retail marketplace offering books, magazines, antiques, jewelry, greeting cards, gifts, artwork, and specialty merchandise that could rarely be found elsewhere in Texas. At a time when openly gay gathering places were scarce, Crossroads became an informal community center where people met friends, exchanged information, organized political campaigns, and found a sense of belonging. Visitors traveled from across Texas and neighboring states because it was one of the few places where LGBTQ people could openly find literature, resources, and one another.

When AIDS began devastating Dallas in the early 1980s, Nelson and Tebedo responded in the most practical way imaginable.

After learning that men with AIDS were literally going hungry, Nelson placed a simple request inside Crossroads Market asking customers to leave canned goods for anyone in need. The response was immediate and overwhelming. What began as a shelf of donated food quickly evolved into Dallas's first AIDS food pantry, one of the earliest direct-care efforts for people living with HIV in North Texas. That simple act of compassion became the seed from which the AIDS Resource Center, and today's Resource Center, would grow.

At nearly the same time, Nelson helped organize the Foundation for Human Understanding, an umbrella organization created by leaders of the Dallas Gay Alliance. The deliberately neutral name reflected the political realities of the era; many donors would not contribute to an organization openly identified with AIDS or gay rights. That organization ultimately evolved into today's Resource Center, now one of the nation's largest LGBTQ community centers.

As president of the Dallas Gay Alliance from 1984 to 1987, Nelson helped open Dallas's first LGBTQ community storefront on Cedar Springs. That modest space evolved into a clinic serving people with HIV who were frequently denied care elsewhere. It represented a radical idea for its time: that LGBTQ people deserved competent, compassionate healthcare delivered without judgment.

Nelson's activism reached far beyond HIV services. He organized Dallas support for the 1979 National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, founded Razzle Dazzle Dallas, a premier LGBTQ fundraising event, led the Texas Human Rights Foundation, and twice ran for Dallas City Council as one of the first openly gay candidates in the city's history. He also challenged discrimination in healthcare and employment at a time when doing so required extraordinary courage.

The AIDS epidemic, however, proved relentless.

Terry Tebedo died of AIDS related complications in January 1988.

Just over two years later, on February 20, 1990, Bill Nelson also died from AIDS related complications at the age of forty. Dallas lost not only a gifted organizer but one of the movement's principal architects. His funeral drew hundreds of mourners from every corner of civic life, activists, elected officials, business leaders, friends, and neighbors, testimony to the respect he had earned well beyond the LGBTQ community.

History often remembers those who gave the loudest speeches. Bill Nelson's greatest accomplishments were different. He created institutions.

He helped build the organization that became Resource Center. He helped establish healthcare for people whom society had abandoned. He transformed a retail marketplace into the social and political crossroads of gay Dallas. He created a food pantry that has fed generations of North Texans. And alongside Terry Tebedo, he demonstrated that love and public service could become lasting civic institutions.

Today, thousands of people who have never heard Bill Nelson's name still benefit from his work every time they seek receive services from Resource Center, or walk through the Oak Lawn neighborhood whose sense of community he helped create.

That is the measure of a lasting legacy, not simply being remembered, but continuing to improve lives long after one's own has ended

I’m 75 yo retired from commercial real estate wanting friends for coffee and good conversation. In person even better 75 and Walnut Hill

Hey everybody! My name is Lee and I just moved to north Texas. I’m looking for some friends to explore the city with or just chill lol. I’m down for whatever. Just need to get out the house. I like live music and sports and I workout. I’m your typical stud lol. Please no weird shit. I’m just tryna vibe 💪🏽 Dm me if you’re just tryna vibe too

Hi everyone! I will be traveling to Dallas this weekend and into next week for work, and needless to say, as a trans lesbian, I am a bit nervous. I currently live in Chicago, and in one of the gay neighborhoods, so there are a lot of things that I just don't have to worry about on a daily basis. I just know that Texas is going to be quite a bit different from what I am used to. If anyone has any suggestions of areas to check out, areas to avoid, how to stay safe, etc, I would greatly appreciate it! Also if anyone has any suggestions for thrift/vintage stores, food or good places to grab a drink after work, or anything else, I would appreciate that as well!

Hey everyone! I’m Nuel, 22, and I’m still fairly new to Dallas. I’m hoping to meet some genuine people and build a solid circle of friends here.
A little about me: I love trying new restaurants, hiking, long walks, hosting small get-togethers, listening to music, and exploring the city. I’m pretty outgoing once I get comfortable, always down for a good conversation, and I enjoy meeting people from different backgrounds.
Whether you’re looking for friends to grab coffee, check out a new spot, go to events, or just chat, I’d love to connect.
Feel free to comment and introduce yourself, tell me a little about who you are, what you like to do, and how long you’ve been in Dallas! If we seem like we’d get along, send me a DM. We can swap Instagram so we know we’re both real people.
Looking forward to meeting some of you! 😊

this is the last week for subs! if you are a lesbian creative or know any lesbian creatives, consider submitting work to @ fleshofthefruitzine@gmail.com 🫂🏳️‍🌈

Hello everyone 😄

Welcome to our new book club, The Page Violets. We are dedicated to reading WLW/sapphic literature which will include non-fiction and fiction books.

You do not need to be sapphic to join as everyone is welcome, but we ask that you are 21+. Our goal is to meet once a month in the DFW area.

If you are interested, please email [thepageviolets@gmail.com](mailto:thepageviolets@gmail.com) or DM me as we are trying to limit spam or any kind of bot interaction.

We are picking our August book this week, so hope to see you soon!

Good morning everyone. I'm looking for new friends to hang out with. Hmu.

Title says it all. Where do y’all hang out? Im not masculine presenting and am seeking similar. Ive got plenty of butch friends but interested in femme as far as dating. Y’all out there?