Hello! I'm a masc enby and looking for any queer friendly barbers/hair stylists in or near Richardson that are ideally charging around $30 or less. Thank you!
*crossposting elsewhere for more info too
Not DFW, but a chance to help our brothers and sisters in Houston.
Please help us find Camilla. Contact the detective listed in the image if you believe you have ANY information.
Thanks y'all for whoever answers ♥️ I'm a bartender btw, and I won't be looking to start until next year cus I've only been doing this for like 6 months at this point lol.
Based on feedback from another post all 'looking for new friends' posts will be restricted to a new weekly mega thread called New Friends Fridays. This will consolidate all requests in an easier to find thread, and make it easier to find new people to hangout with.
To clarify, this isnt the same as an intro post when you join the sub. Those are welcome anytime from new subs
REJECT THE BILLIONAIRES. VOTE IN EVERY LOCAL ELECTION.
"Christian Nationalists" are not religious people. They're hate-thy-neighbor heretic hate-triots, using Jesus as their own personal shield from the consequences of their hate speech and hate actions, against every teaching of Jesus in the New Testament. It's Christianity without the Christ, for pure performative posturing themselves selfishly as a moral minority. In practice they attack the weak and marginalized, and militarize officers against the elderly defending them. Hate-thy-neighbor anti-Christ values.
Reject their attempt to revive the red scare movement
r/FortWorth/comments/1vhg61b/a_small_group_of_extremists_has_completely_taken/
Vote, donate, block walk, phone / text bank, signup for email updates
Support the grassroots
Let me know in the comments
im 21, in the south area of oak cliff. i usually do things alone but having a partner/buddy/friend wtv you wanna call it would be nice :) maybe get to know someone and we can just do things all over dfw! if this interests you pls lmk! im great company aswell
Hey!
My brother and I both gay males 33 and 29 are looking for friends and things to do with friends in the area.
We don’t drink much, enjoy physical activities like hiking, pickle ball, running, the gym (for health, nothing special there).
We enjoy Hurricane Harbor, Six Flags, and other things like that too! We just like to have fun!
We need friends badddd, we’re starting to drive each other nuts lol
This is probably more vulnerable than what I’d normally post, but let’s try lol. I’m 30 and I’m honestly just really lonely. I have people I know, but I don’t really have a community of people I can randomly text, make plans with, go out with, explore the city with, or just hang out and talk about life. I spend most of my weekends trying to build up the courage to go to certain events by myself because no one ever wants to tag along.
I’ve felt like an outsider for a lot of my life, even within the gay community, and lately it’s been hitting me harder. I look at my peers and see them with their groups of friends and always wonder what that feels like. I’m definitely more of a quality over quantity person, but it would be nice to find people I actually connect with and feel comfortable being myself around.
I’m into music/live music, interior design, art, fashion, good food, going out, and finding cool shit to do around DFW. I’m definitely more into genuine conversations and real connections than surface-level small talk.
I’d love to meet people who are also looking for actual friendships — drinks, dinner, live music, art events, game nights, random adventures, getting dressed up and going somewhere, whatever. I’m not expecting instant best friends, but I do want people who actually make an effort to stay connected.
If you’re also in DFW and feel like making friends as an adult is weirdly hard, DM me 🙏🏾🥹
Hey ya’ll is there a gay bar in Dallas to watch the Cowboys game?
hey everyone reading this, to start off, i was wondering if there were any gay furries such as myself in the dfw area interesting in maybe meeting up and getting to know each other, or making friends! possibly dates as well :) if any are out there feel free to reach out
If you're interested in radio from a perspective of community preparedness or emergency communication, definitely consider reaching out to me directly via p.m. here on reddit.
I don't know about all of yall, but I was living in waco when snowvid happened. My home went without water and electricity for a whole week since a city main line had busted. I had prepared for a lot, but not for anything quite to that level. Fortunately, cell service wasn't overly interrupted, and I was able to find a family friend with both power and electricity that my partner and I were able to temporarily take shelter with... not all emergencies will have the luxury of cell service, though.
If you want to help build parallel systems, strengthen our community, or plan for emergencies, definitely reach out to get added to this event. If you aren't interested in this, but you are interested in a firearms class instead and would like the opportunity to meet folks before handling those firearms, this is also a great opportunity for that!
We should also have a medical class in the upcoming weeks, so stay tuned for that
Details on location will be shared privately.
Hi everyone! I wanted to post in the group because I’m interested in working in a trade (specifically electrical but open to any). I’m a transman but without my legal info changed so I can’t exactly be stealth. I was about to start an apprenticeship a few months back but the owner of the company mentioned some of his political stances and I knew it wouldn’t really be a safe situation for me which was super disappointing. Does anyone in the group work in the trades/looking for apprentices or can point me in the right direction of a good company that would be more accepting? I already have my apprentice license so I’m just looking for guidance with that next step, hope everyone has a great weekend 🖤
For anyone who remembers Dallas Pride before it became a June institution at Fair Park, the name Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade carries a particular weight. It belongs to another era of Dallas queer history: the era when Pride meant Cedar Springs Road, the Oak Lawn bars, the Dallas Tavern Guild, and a September parade whose very date was a reminder that Texas once criminalized gay sex.
Today, however, the September parade on Cedar Springs is called Pride in Dallas, and that distinction matters.
The short version is that the Cedar Springs parade is no longer the same organization or event that historically carried Alan Ross' name. It is a successor community parade created after Dallas Pride moved its official celebration away from Oak Lawn.
Alan Ross' name was attached to a specific institution.
Dallas' modern Pride parade grew out of the work of the Dallas Tavern Guild, the organization of gay bar Owners and community leaders that took over the parade in the early 1980s. In 1983, the Guild moved the parade from June to September and renamed it the Texas Freedom Parade. The September date commemorated U.S. District Judge Jerry Buchmeyer's 1982 ruling striking down Texas' sodomy law, a ruling subsequently overturned by the Fifth Circuit.
In 1991, the Tavern Guild renamed the event the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade, honoring Alan Ross, the Guild's longtime executive director and the person who had carried much of the practical burden of producing the parade. Ross died in 1995.
That was not merely a ceremonial naming. Ross was one of the people who made Dallas' Pride tradition function. Contemporary histories describe him as a central organizer and community leader; former Dallas City Councilman Ed Oakley, for example, remembered Ross as an important mentor.
So when older Dallas gays hear Alan Ross Freedom Parade, they're hearing the name of an institution, a neighborhood tradition and a particular generation of activists.
Then Dallas Pride left Cedar Springs
The major break came in 2019. Dallas Pride announced that both its festival and parade would move to Fair Park, beginning in 2020. Dallas Pride's own history gives several reasons: planned Cedar Springs construction, changes in the city's permitting requirements, the desire for more space and parking, and improved accessibility. The COVID pandemic subsequently complicated the actual transition.
The move also changed the calendar. The old Dallas tradition had deliberately been held in September. The Fair Park celebration became a June Pride Month event.
That was much more than a change of address. For some longtime Dallas LGBTQ people, taking the parade out of Oak Lawn effectively took Pride away from the community that had built it. Dallas Voice documented the argument at the time: critics felt that Pride had become detached from the gayborhood and that moving from September to June erased an important piece of Dallas' own LGBTQ history.
Cedar Springs fought back
In 2022, a group of Oak Lawn business leaders and community members organized Pride in Dallas, bringing a September parade back to Cedar Springs Road. It was intentionally a second Pride rather than simply a continuation of the Fair Park event.
That distinction is crucial.
The people marching down Cedar Springs in September are reviving the place and season of the old parade, but they aren't operating the same organization that produced the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade.
Pride in Dallas describes its Cedar Springs event today as a grassroots celebration rooted in the neighborhood. Its 2026 website calls it "The Parade on Cedar Springs" and says the event is built by volunteers and belongs to the people of the neighborhood rather than to a sponsor or brand. The 2026 parade is scheduled for September 20.
In other words:
Alan Ross' parade didn't simply get renamed Pride in Dallas. The Dallas Pride organization moved its own parade elsewhere, and a different organization subsequently created a September Cedar Springs parade.
That is why the two events can have such similar DNA while having different names.
And there is an interesting historical irony The September Cedar Springs parade is arguably closer to the historical meaning of the Alan Ross parade than the modern event bearing his name.
Dallas Pride's Fair Park parade still honors Ross. As recently as 2024, Dallas Voice described the Fair Park event as the parade "formerly known as the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade."
But the Cedar Springs event has reclaimed several elements that made the old Alan Ross parade distinctive: September rather than June, Cedar Springs Road rather than Fair Park, Oak Lawn rather than a large municipal venue, a connection to the neighborhood's bars, businesses and residents.
The historical memory of why Dallas originally chose September. That last point is especially important. The September date wasn't arbitrary. It was a political statement about Texas' sodomy law and the struggle for gay liberation. Dallas' official Pride history explicitly traces the September tradition to Buchmeyer's ruling.
So was Alan Ross erased?
I don't think the historical record supports saying that. His name remains attached to the institutional Dallas Pride tradition, and the organization that produces the Fair Park/Dallas Pride event continues to recognize his legacy But it is equally fair to say that Alan Ross' name no longer belongs to the September Cedar Springs parade because that parade belongs to a different organization.
And perhaps that is the more interesting Dallas gay history story.
The controversy wasn't really about whether Dallas should have Pride. It was about who gets to define Pride, where Pride belongs, and what history Pride is supposed to remember.
For longtime Dallas community members, Cedar Springs wasn't just a convenient parade route. It was home. It was where the bars were, where people met, where the AIDS crisis was lived, where political organizing happened, and where generations of gay Dallas learned that they were not alone.
When Pride in Dallas put a parade back on Cedar Springs in September, it wasn't simply creating another festival.
It was making a historical argument:
Pride can move to Fair Park. But the history of Dallas Pride never left Cedar Springs.
And that is why, today, the September parade is Pride in Dallas, not the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade, even though anyone who remembers the old days can still recognize what came before it.
I wanna go to texas and celebrate, which city has more play??
Im Anna, 21 transfem, I'll be moving back in just a couple weeks so im hoping to get the jump on socializing. I like going outside on walks, playing video games, writing, and hanging out with friends (AHEM this could be u???) If youre around my age dm me I need friends ! ^^
edit: multiple people have already hit me up about hookups. didn't say that. stop that. practice common etiquette please im a real person not a piece of code on the screen
i'm going to be in Arlington this weekend for a concert, and it's been a hot minute since i've put myself out there, so i'd like to do that now that i have the chance! i'll be in the Arlington area but Dallas is close, and i've heard it has more of an LGBTQ scene. any recs near the Arlington area are fine too! i'm 24 years old, lesbian, and single :) looking to meet some people, have a good time, and overall, celebrate my birthday a lil early (aug 22!) thank you in advance!!!!
Hi everyone,
Would anyone know of any resources for an older trans woman with no job (I was terminated due to my housing instability and unreliability using DART from two and a half hours away), no car or anything at this point as I sit writing this from an IHOP in Mesquite while a police officer watches me.
I've been through just about everything at this point since losing everything last April 10th:
- My Fiancee
- My 23yo Brother to Fentanyl
- My Cats
- My Job
- My Friend Groups
- My Dignity
I would genuinely appreciate any sort of help or just a safe place to sleep, I don't really eat anymore and have gotten used to fasting for days at a time.
I'm currently waiting for a Unemployment Benefits Determination while I walk and apply to jobs wherever I've found myself lately.
I'm really, really tied and don't know what to do after trying almost everything and not being accepted to women's shelters, and age-gated queer shelters.
Paying my phone bill is a distant concern now, and I really don't have anything to lose anymore.
I'm that numb to it all sometimes, and would really like to regain my sense of security, establish stability and regain my independence again overtime during these trying times.
I have my own estrogen, progesterone and injection supplies and should be getting EBT soon at a padsplit I stopped having the money to maintain.
I've really tried to do so much to keep myself afloat, but now I'm in apart of the metro I'm not familiar with and just sitting across from this Whataburger wondering what I can do at this point?
Mostly now, just focusing on staying positive because it really helps more than anything I can express sometimes when things get heavy. I would sincerely appreciate any kind of help, please.
UPDATE: AN AMAZING HUMAN BEING JUST HELPED ME IN A WAY I CANNOT FATHOM, OMG THANK YOU FRIEND I WILL REPAY YOUR KINDNESS OR PAY IT FORWARD ON GOD A!!!
Hey I am a Latino gay male, older and mature 62yrs looking for friendship with a younger male that can hang out with me on occasion. Very safe clean friendly and looking for same. I am going through some health issues but slowly getting and feeling better. I enjoy chatting, movies and eating out. Hope to hear from someone soon.