Relationships

Ask a Geto Boy: Is It Wrong For Parents to Smoke Weed With Their Kids?

Welcome to Ask Willie D, where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! LOVING ORANGE COUNTY Dear Willie D: I'm a newly single divorcée with lots of time and money on my hands. After dating ... More >>

Ask Willie D: Kids Today are Out of Line Because Adults are Spineless

Welcome to Ask Willie D, where the Geto Boys MC answers reader questions about matters, in his own words, "funny, serious or unpredictable." Something on your mind? Ask Willie D! LONG DISTANCE LOVE FADING Dear Willie D: I'm in a long-distance relationship with a good man, but the miles are starti ... More >>

Greg Abbott's Domestic Partner Benefits Ruling Greeted With a Shrug

At first glance -- and second, and third -- Attorney General Greg Abbott's opinion on Monday that cities, counties, and school districts are barred by the Texas Constitution from offering health benefits to the domestic partners of employees would seem to be a stumbling block on the road toward equa ... More >>

LGBT Advocates Vow to Protest until DART Quits Stalling on Domestic Partner Benefits

In February, a DART committee gave preliminary approval to a plan to extend employment benefits to employees' domestic partners, both gay and straight, and their children. It was a welcome decision, and it gave hope that, after six month of debate over costs and morality, approval by the full DART b ... More >>

Nuts Will Be Cracked

Let's Hear It For The Boys

Dallas Gay Man's Protest of Marriage Laws Once Again Ends in Arrest

It's been almost a month since Beau Chandler and Mark "Major" Jiminez walked into the Dallas County Records building to apply for a marriage license. Chandler and Jiminez being men, and this being Texas, they were denied, but the couple had the foresight to bring handcuffs, which they placed on thei ... More >>

Former Cop Wants DART to Offer Domestic Partner Benefits

Offering benefits to the partners of LGBT workers is gradually becoming a standard thing for large public employers in North Texas. The city of Dallas included domestic partner benefits in 2004, DFW Airport in 2010 and Parkland this year. Dallas County is poised to follow suit at the first of next y ... More >>

In '07, Peter Burks Was Killed in Baghdad. Now His Photo's Being Used to Sell Dating Website.

​Peter Burks, as you can see here, was the very model of The American Hero: a Trinity Christian Academy and Texas A&M graduate (he was also president of Pi Kappa Phi) who, after stints working for, among others, the Dallas Desperados and FC Dallas, decided to join the U.S. Army in 2006. Accord ... More >>

35 Denton Tries Its Hand at... Matchmaking?

Looking for love in all the wrong places? Looking for 35 Denton wristbands? If you find yourself clumsily walking behind pretty girls (or chasing a choice piece of man-tail) like the video above, then come out to the Mellow Mushroom on Monday, February 13. 35 Denton and The Indie-Verse have partne ... More >>

Guilty Pleasures of 2011: Robyn's "Call Your Girlfriend"

Over the next couple weeks, we'll be trotting out our 2011 music lists in print and on the blog, but I've been thinking a lot about guilty pleasures this year. Songs that get stuck in your head whether you like it or not. Foster the People's "Pumped Up Kicks" fell into that category, though it's re ... More >>

Liberty Institute's Still Working Hard to Keep Gay Dallas Couple From Getting a Divorce

Attorney Pete Schulte and the petitioner still known as J.B. on The Daily Show last year​Surely you recall the case of J.B. and H.B., two Dallas men who went to Massachusetts to marry in 2006, only to separate two years later and then try to get a divorce. In October 2009, Judge Tena Callahan gav ... More >>

"I Just Hope You Floss" and Other Pearls of Wisdom From Dan Savage's Kessler Appearance

Dan Savage at the Kessler as seen in one of two videos Jeff Liles shot last night. Both videos are after the jump.​Last night's Dan Savage appearance at the Kessler Theater, his first ever in Dallas, took the form of a Q&A session. Unsurprisingly to anyone who reads his weekly sex-advice colu ... More >>

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Don't Wait Till Valentine Day for Lovers

​All right, I know it's not Valentine's Day, but for those of you who like to plan for the future, I have a theme date for you. The first two words are Lover's Pizza. I recently shared a booth with a date at the great place on Lovers Lane. If you're going to a place with "lovers" in the title ... More >>

Love Convection: The Common Table

Editor's note: Monica Berry is a Dallas dater who's bravely agreed to file dispatches from her dining expeditions with eligible bachelors. Berry, City of Ate's resident date place scout, will size up restaurants from a dater's perspective. Enjoy. When I recently passed The Common Table on my way ho ... More >>

Copeland, Person L, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business

Friday, April 2, at The Prophet Bar

(Soap) Opera, Via Verdi

Polygamy and Me

Seven months have passed since the polygamist raid in Eldorado, but for one mainstream Mormon, the effects linger

Ask a Mexican

Telling your Catholic, Mexican parents you're gay? How could that go badly?

What God Says About Dirty Old Men

Golden Wishes

Macbeth kicks off a big birthday

It Takes Two

Bible Girl's Bringing Sexxy Back

Laura Miller and Bill Ceverha, Cutting Down a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G

Bible Girl: Three Points and a Lame Joke

Erotic City

¡Ask a Mexican!

Sideburns and Frowns

Pay tribute to Luke Perry at the Fallout

The Mystery of Sexual Orientation

Platinum Plus

Ne-Yo snaps to it

Walk the Walk

Venus Claptrap

Gotta get me some of those good vibrations--or maybe just a vibrator

A Diva All Our Own

Mild Wilde

A Good Woman would benefit from a good actor or two

Down for the Count

Does speed dating really work?

Letters

The Zero Effect

Km. 0 tries a little tenderness, and it works

Phight Phair

Liz Phair is once again an exile in guyville

Girl on Girl

Me Without You is a cursory look at the complexities of female friendship

"Keep It In Your Pants"

David Cohen, matrimonial investigator

From Russia, with Love

Just $25,000 gets you a bundle of hot Russian babes from one Dallas matchmaking firm. What more could a rich American geek ever ask for?

Hot Lunch

Or, how to find love among the dishes

Best Rivalry

Mickey Spagnola vs. Craig Miller

Love unlimited

KRNB-FM's Rudy V is the smoothest operator on the air, whether you're a man in trouble or a woman in love

Buzz

Buzz's holiday gift guide; Another way to suck; R.D. explains it all

Porn to lose

Dress it up as art, but Romance is still a dry hump

Prime cut

Religious circumciser Rabbi Michael Rovinsky is skilled, funny, and popular among both his Jewish and gentile clients. But is this mohel a brazen self-promoter who is maiming our children by doing God's work?

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Giving good book

Dallas 'Love Goddess" sex guide goes big time