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like BET's "Comic View" and HBO's "Def
Comedy Jam" — as Amazing Grace. These per-
formances caught the eye of a producer who
worked with the Wayans Brothers, which led to
an audition for a role in the 1994 comedy "A
Low Down Dirty Shame,'1 Coincidentally, the
part was originally written for RuPaul.
"When Grace got that part, it was a huge deal.
Absolutely huge!" Davenport remembers.
■"Nowadays, Dallas drag queens get bit parts in
movies every once in a while. But this was a big
Hollywood movie. And that never happened
back then."
In the lackluster comedy about a private
investigator, which also starred a young Jada
Pinkett, Hawkins' scenes are the film's only
bright spots. He's undeniably
hilarious as Wayman, the effeminate, sassy
roommate of Peaches (Pinkett). For a while, it
looked like Hawkins' star was about to soar.
After the release of "Low Down Dirty
Shame," Hawkins was tapped for a role in the
next Wayans Brothers' project, the 1996 comedy
"Don't Be a Menace to South Central While
Drinking Your Juice in the Hood." But complica-
tions due to AIDS sidelined Hawkins during the
film's rehearsal period. He died of pneumonia on
Aug. 5, 1994 at Baylor University Medical
Nov. 7,1991
Lakers star Earvin "Magic" Johnson becomes the first
prominent sports figure to publicly acknowledge being HIV-
positive. Although he immediately retires, he is still voted
to the 1992 All-Star team and later becomes a member of
"The Dream Team," the U.S. Olympic Basketball Team that
went undefeated on its way to a gold medal. Johnson con-
tinues to work for public awareness of AIDS.
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DALLAS TWOSOME: In 1991, David Nelson painted 'The Joker," a portrait of his friend and creative conspirer, the late Brooks Tuttle.
Center. He was 29.
Divine inspiration
Champion of avant-garde stimulated David
Nelson's creative flair for Dallas Collection
This year was one of David Nelson's most
challenging. As a multi-disciplinary designer,
Nelson is one of Big D's busiest stylists. But
Nov. 23,1991
Queen frontman Freddie
Mercury, who had long toyed
with his sexual image, issues a
statement announcing that he is
HIV positive. He dies the next day,
becoming the most prominent
rock star to die of the disease.
somehow, he made the time to chair the Design
Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS Dallas
Collection.
Seizing the creative reigns for what's
arguably Texas' fiercest and biggest runway
show is no small feat. This year's event, held
March 18 at the Hilton Anatole, was titled "Live,
Laugh, Love." And Melson broke practically
every record in the Dallas Collection's 17-year
history: luring close to 2,000 guests and raising
more than $ 1 million for North Texas AIDS char-
ities, according to DIFFA.
Never short on ideas, Nelson's vision was
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July 1992
Elizabeth Glaser, who became
an AIDS activist after contract-
ing the disease and who found
ed the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric
AIDS Foundation, speaks at the
Democratic National Convention.
She dies in 1994.
May 3,1993
Tony Kushner's "Angels
in America: Millennium
Approaches"opens on
Broadway to universal
acclaim, winning him
the Tony Award and the
Pulitzer Prize.
Dec. 23,1993
"Philadelphia," about a gay
lawyer who sues his firm when
they discover he has AIDS,
opens to sizeable box office.
Tom Hanks' Oscar acceptance
speech becomes a touchstone
for compassion towards gays.
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