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Ft Worth ordinance could affect Pride, AIDS walk
Council approves higher fees, new
rules on outdoor events, but
attorney says city plans to 'phase in'
enforcement to lessen impact
AVIDTAFFET I Staff Writer
taffet@dal!asvoice.com
The Fort Worth City Council has enacted a new
outdoor event ordinance that changes require-
ments and increaseslees for some outdoor events.
Farewell to
'Dr. Laura'
As right-wing radio talk show host
announces plans to end show,
Dallas actvist looks back a decade
to another protest against her
DAVID TAFFET I Staff Writer
taffet@dallasvoice.com
Right-wing radio host "Dr. Laura" Schlessinger
announced this week that she would end her talk
show when her contract runs out later this year.
The advice show heist gained notoriety in the
1990s with statements that included calling gays
and lesbians "biological errors" and blaming
Mathew Shepard for his own murder.
Rafael McDonnell worked at KRLD at the time,
and he said this week that Dallas made her career.
The Dallas talk radio station was the first to
broadcast Schlessinger's show outside Los
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The changes,
which go into effect
Oct. 1, could impact
future Tarrant County
Gay Pride parades
and picnics held in
October each year,
and it could also af-
fect the Tarrant
County AIDS Out-
reach Center's; AIDS
Walk, held each
spring.
Senior Assistant City Attorney Sarah Fullen-
Tony Coronado
wider acknowledged
that fees for such
I events were in-
1 creased, but the rest of
the ordinance is pri-
marily about codify-
ing rules already in
place.
, "We took current
/ policy and put it into
an ordinance," Ful-
lenwider said.
She noted that the ordinance "doesn't apply to
First Amendment activity," b ut that it does require
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organizers give the city at least 48 hours' notice
for an event that will close a street.
First Amendment activities refer to protests or
other gatherings that are political in nature and
involve exercising free speech rights.
The new Fort Worth requirements are for
events that expect 500 or more participants and
spectators. In Dallas, permits are required for 75
or more people.
The fee in Dallas is on a graduated scale based
on number of expected attendees. For more than
20,000 expected attendees, such as the Alan Ross
Texas Freedom Parade, the city charges $500, plus
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AGAINST THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE | Dallas activist John Selig helped organize this protest in April 2000 outside the Channel 11 studios in Dallas which aired "Dr.
Laura" Schlessinger's television show. Thanks in large part to the protests over Schlessinger's anti-gay comments, advertisers shied away from what turned out to
be a short-lived program. (Tammye Nash/Dallas Voice)
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