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The Community Newspaper for Gay and Lesbian Dallas
FRIDAY, APRIL 2 , 19 9 3
VOLUME IX, NUMBER 49
Mixner chides Clinton in Dallas speech
Fighting the good fight
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L-R: Petty Officer Keith Meinhold and Lieutenance Tracy Thome, along with William Waybourn of the Gay and
Lesbian Victory Fund, spoke of the military's ban on gay and lesbian soldiers at a community forum held last
Saturday evening at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center. Story on Page 11.
'Only our total freedom will do,1
declares President Clinton's top
openly-gay personal adviser
By Dennis Vercher
In a defiant speech mingling hope and despair, a
personal friend, adviser and fundraiser for President
Clinton -warned that gays would not accept many of
the compromises being discussed as a way to end the
impasse over gays in tire military.
David Mixner's address before a conference called
by the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan
Community Churches drew national press attention,
and was discussed on some political talk shows on
Sunday.
Mixner's remarks came in the wake of comments
the President made at a press conference last Tuesday,
at which Clinton stated he would be willing to consider
the idea of segregating gay and straight troops. The
speech is also believed to be aimed at Administration
members who are floating several ideas as compro-
mises between the President, who favors an end to the
ban, and Congress, which largely favors its retention.
"Mr. President, our friend, hear us carefully,"
Mixner declared. "Only our total freedom will do.
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A thoroughly modern Mikado
Opera theater re-sets the Gilbert & Sullivan classic in current-day Deep Ellum
Reviewed by Peter Whipkey
CONTRIBUTING WRITER OF DALLAS VOICE
In the 1870s and 1880s Victorian
England was entranced by the Orient.
The fad swept the land with the subtlety
and verve of a delicate hand-painted
Japanese fan. Art, fashion, interior
design, even the applied arts reflected
this fascination.
It came as absolutely no surprise,
then, when the light operettic
powerhouse of Sir William S. Gilbert
(story) and Sir Arthur Sullivan (music)
embraced the fad in :885 with The
Mikado — a tale of true love between
Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo thwarted and
THEATER
united, with all the twists to be expected
of Victorian melodrama.
Gilbert and Sullivan represented the
Establishment musical theater of their
day. Their collaboration represents the
fashionable and, therefore, light
entertainment of the high Victorian era.
As such, their works evoke a certain
glib, attitudinal humor characteristic of a
supremely self-confident imperial
culture. Their metier stands, perhaps, as
a precursor to the heady days of Oscar
Wilde’s slightly precious 1890s
comedies. An age in which Britannia
raised her lorgnette loftily to examine
anything different, and therefore exotic,
which may have swum into view —
hence the original 1885 production
setting on the fringe of Court in the
CONTINUED ON PAGE 18
Inside
NEWS: DC hotel cancels Dallas
reservations; Profile of Dist. 14
contender Sharon Boyd;
Hutchison optimistic; More ......
OPINION: A new column,
'Freedom Corner,' takes up
racial issues as they relate to
gay and lesbian community...........
TRAVEL: A user's guide to
Washington, and suggestions
for convenient sites to visit
during the March ............................
SPORTS: Men's, women's
softball leagues get underway
this week; Sports standings;
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Vercher, Dennis. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, April 2, 1993, newspaper, April 2, 1993; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth616188/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.