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  The Life of Justin Johnson, aka Alyssa Edwards, Is Now a Netflix Docuseries, Dancing Queen

  October 16 at 4 a.m.

  It’s about 40 minutes after 7 p.m. and the Beyond Belief Dance Company dance moms are wondering where owner and director Justin Johnson is. “You know he always has to make an entrance,” one mom says to the other. Johnson is fashionably late to his own party celebrating the opening...

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  Flying the Rainbow High: Dallas Pride Parade 2018

  September 17 at 4:54 a.m.

  Paraders packed the streets along Cedar Springs for the annual Dallas Pride Parade on Sunday. Photos by Melissa Hennings

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  Wave Your Rainbow Flag: Things to Do During Dallas Pride Week

  September 12 at 4 a.m.

  Despite taking place three months after most major cities host their Pride celebrations, Dallas’s LGBTQ+ community always comes together every mid-September for a celebration of epic, queer proportions. While thousands crowd Cedar Springs Road and Oak Lawn Avenue every year to watch the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade, a lot...

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  Dallas Pride's Rainbow Needs a Touch of Black and Brown

  August 22 at 4 a.m.

  Glenn Hunter's reason for moving to Dallas from Oklahoma City was simple. "There was a life here," Hunter says. Life, he means, for a gay man and his partner in the 1980s — an active, vibrant community centered then as it is now on Cedar Springs Road, whose gay-friendly clubs...

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  Jacob Chaput, Miss Gay Texas America, Reflects on Life in Drag

  July 9 at 4 a.m.

  After four years of competing, Violet S’Arbleu, née Jacob Chaput, was crowned Miss Gay Texas America in 2017. This year, he’s traveled to every city preliminary in Texas to help 27 drag contestants prepare to take the stage in Dallas and compete for the crown. “It’s an educational experience that...

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  Ken Paxton Pressures Fort Worth ISD on Sexuality and Gender

  July 3 at 4 a.m.

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding Fort Worth ISD show him a sixth-grade sexuality and gender curriculum that has been taught for about five years now. In a letter to the school district, the sixth-largest in the state, Paxton said the district had told some parents that their kids could...