Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, October 26, 1990 Page: 3 of 40
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This Week
NEWS 3
Gay progressive faces conservative
incumbent for I6tb District bid for
State Senate; Halloween preparations
in Dallas; Fundamentalist declares
war on San Francisco’s Halloween
celebration; Gallo subject of formal
NIH investigation; More.
HEALTH 5
Cocaine speeds growth of HIV in lab
tests; More stringent ban on 'poppers’
apparently headed for failure in this
session of Congress; More.
HALLOWEEN 16
It’s not the way it was when we were
children going out trick-or-treating!
Musings by Nancy Lyn Define.
THEATER 18
A review of 'Love of a Fig, ’ onstage at
Dallas' Pegasus Theatre.
CALENDAR 24
Events scheduled over the next ten
days; Announcements; Gay broad ■
casting listings; Entertainment list-
ings; Letters.
GOSSIP 33
It's Halloween . . . and Heda hasn’t a
thing to wear!
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Candidates worlds apart
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in 16th dist. Senate race
BORDEN, LEEDOM SQUARE OFF FOR STATE SENATE POSITION
By TAMMYE NASH
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"T’oters in the 16th Senatorial
% / District, which includes the
%/ heavily gay Oak Lawn
T precincts and East Dallas
precincts with substantial gay popula-
tions, on Tuesday, Nov. 6 will choose
between two candidates at opposing
ends of the political spectrum.
At one end is the incumbent, Rep.
John Leedom, who has represented the
16th District in the State Senate for 10
years, and who describes himself as
“ready to be the most conservative
member of the Senate.” His opponent is
Jack Borden, an openly gay man who
describes himself as “a coalition builder”
who has been “active in civic affairs
for years.”
In a telephone interview this
week with the Dallas Voice, Lee-
dom cited his five years on the Dal-
las City Council and his 10 years in
the State Senate, “the experience I
have," as his qualifications for re-
election. “I know how to get the
funding we need, and I am ready
to be the most conservative mem-
ber of the Senate," he said.
During his 10 years in the Sen-
ate, Leedom said he has sponsored
“some 200 bills” that were passed
by the Legislature. Among those
were a bill creating an efficiency
program designed to “get the most
bang out of the buck” and a bill
creating Courts of Record for Dallas
County.
Most of the legislation Leedom
has sponsored, he said, deals with
financial issues, such as the bill cre-
ating the state’s “Rainy Day Fund”
and a bill creating a plan that cut
state employees’ salaries while at
the same time called the state to
pay all benefits for its employees.
Leedom's bills also created the En-
ergy Conservation Agency in the
Governor’s Office, a travel office
which arranges for state employees
to have access to discount travel
packages — a bill he said saves the
state $5 million to $6 million a year
— along with legislation creating
the Asset Management Division and the
Capital Trust Fund.
Leedom admitted that “I’m not go-
ing to get a lot of votes” in the gay and
lesbian community because “I am not in
favor of the repeal of the state sodomy
law [Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal
Code which criminalizes private, con-
sensual sexual contact between adults of
the same gender],” he said.
“I understand that there are a lot of
single-issue voters out there who would
not vote for me,” Leedom continued.
“I’m against horse racing in Texas, so
that makes a lot of the horse owners
mad at me, and there are other issues,
Halloween Hits the Streets!
ITS HALLOWEEN TIME once again, and once
again the lesbian/gay community will be out
in force for our favorite event of the year —
the annual Cedar Springs Halloween Prome-
nade Extraordinaire.
Since Oct 31 falls on a Wednesday this
year, the middle of many people’s work week,
the big street party will be on the proceeding
Saturday, Oct. 27. Hundreds of people —
from those attired in the most creative and
outrageous costumes to be seen anywhere to
those who are merely curious — are expected
to begin packing Cedar Springs about 8 p.m.
when police will barricade five intersections
around the Cedar Springs/Throckmorton
Crossroads.
Caven Enterprises, which owns several
nightclubs on the Cedar Springs strip, paid
for the city permit necessary to block the
streets for the celebration, and for the six off-
duty police officers the city requires before
issuing the permit. Gay and lesbian night-
clubs all along the strip and in other parts of
the neighborhood, have special events
planned for the evening as well.
In addition to the six off-duty officers be-
ing paid to keep an eye on things, the Dallas
Police Department will “beef up our man-
power in the area," according to Central Pa-
trol Division Sgt. Bruce McDonald. Also, the
Dallas Gay Alliance’3 Anti-Violence Project
volunteer patrols have planned "unofficial pa-
trols" in the area, according to project
Jack Borden seeks to defeat in-
cumbent state Sen. John Lee-
dom in the 16th Senatorial Dis-
trict race.
too. But by and large, I believe that if.
these people voted according to who
they think will do the best job for the
state financially, I think they’d vote for
me. I am a champion of not wasting the
taxpayers’ money.”
Another group of single-issue voters
from whom Leedom expects no support
are those who cast their ballot based on
a candidate’s stance on the issue of
choice. In a televised interview broad-
cast earlier this week, Leedom said that
he is “pro-life,” and called abortion
^“murder, any way you add it up.” Al-
though Leedom said he would like to
see abortion outlawed completely in
Texas, he said that he expects the only
attempts to restrict abortion that will be
made during the next session of the
CONTINUED ON PAGE 11
spokesperson Rose Padilla.
"We will not officially resume our volun-
teer patrols until Nov. 2, but we will be on the
streets Saturday night doing some unofficial
patrols,” Padilla said. “We want to make sure
no one gets hurt There’s always a lot of
[pedestrian] traffic on Throckmorton between
Cedar Springs and M^-ple, and that can be a
dangerous area. Everybody knows how much
we like to party on our favorite night of the
year, and the people who are looking for
someone to get, theyjtnow it, too. We know
everybody will be out to have fun, but we
want them to remember to be safe, too.”
Certain Christian groups have, in years
past, attended the gay/lesbian Halloween cel-
ebration to protest the “ungodly excesses" of
the celebration. Such protests, at the Hal-
loween celebrations and other gay events,
have sparked heated exchanges and near-
scuffles between the gay revelers and the
Christian protesters. Neither Padilla nor DGA
vice president Bill Hunt have heard of any
such protest plans this year, although neither
ruled out the possibility.
Hunt said that, in case the Christian
groups do show up, “I want to try and come
up with som“ response to them that is high-
spirited and campy, but not antagonistic."
“As long as they [the Christian groups]
are friendly and don't attack anybody, and
nobody attacks them, they’ll be alright,”
Padilla said. ▼
THE DALLAS VOICE T OCTOBER 26, 1990
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