" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SPCA-expansion.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SPCA-expansion.jpg?fit=780%2C585&ssl=1" />The SPCA of Texas this week announced the launch of a $31 million capital campaign, Care Unleashed, to fund a major campus expansion and facility reimagining. The announcement came Thursday morning, Oct. 9, at a “Cornerstone Unveiling” event at the SPCA’s facilities at 2400 Lone Star Drive. According to a press release about the announcement, […]

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HEADER.jpg?fit=300%2C225&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/HEADER.jpg?fit=694%2C521&ssl=1" />More than 1,500 people showed up for the first-ever Kel-So Pride event held Oct. 4 at St. Martin in the Field Episcopal Church, which is in Southlake but has a Keller address, according to organizers April and Shaina Dreyson. They described the event as a huge success, despite statements from Keller Mayor Armin Mizani condemning […]

LISA KEEN | Keen News [email protected] The argument before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday morning, Oct. 7 revisited the days between the 1950s and 1970s when the psychiatric profession considered homosexuality to be a mental disorder. CNN News’ headline boldly declared afterwards that the “Supreme Court [was] prepared to rule against conversion therapy ban.” […]

Oak Lawn Band is celebrating its 45th anniversary on Oct. 11 with special concert at Moody Performance Hall benefitting Resource Center, OLB officials have announced. “In a time when LGBTQIA+ visibility and rights remain at the center of cultural conversation, … Dallas’ vibrant symphonic band for the LGBTQIA+ and ally community — is stepping boldly […]

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Texas-Attorney-General-Ken-Paxton-stepped-up-his-attacks-on-transgender-Texans-especially-trans-youth-in-2024.jpg?fit=300%2C207&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Texas-Attorney-General-Ken-Paxton-stepped-up-his-attacks-on-transgender-Texans-especially-trans-youth-in-2024.jpg?fit=400%2C276&ssl=1" />As the right-wing continues to try and make political hay out of the murder of Charlie Kirk, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is snatching the chance to fluff up his own political aspirations for the Senate by “launch[ing] undercover investigations into various groups affiliated with left-wing political violence known to be operating in Texas.” The […]

Drag icon Kennedy Davenport is facing a devastating personal tragedy. While she was performing in Las Vegas, a fire tore through her childhood home in Texas, leaving her family displaced and their home badly damaged. For years, Kennedy has been the sole provider for her mother, grandmother, two sisters with health challenges, and her nieces. […]

Oak Lawn United Methodist Church launches Living with Loss: Queer & Beloved on Monday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. The grief support group will meet on the second and fourth Mondays each month at the church on the corner of Oak Lawn Avenue and Cedar Springs Road. In a press release, the church said the […]

Attention all Texas theaters, dance companies, visual arts groups and other similar organizations. Last week, Texas Women for the Arts (TWA) — a statewide giving program of the arts advocacy nonprofit Texas Cultural Trust (TXCT) — opened up its applications on Oct. 1 for its FY26 grant cycle, inviting arts education organizations across Texas to apply for funding.  TWA […]

To celebrate National Coming Out Day, Texas Stonewall Democrats put together a panel featuring leaders from across Texas. Stonewall Texas President Robert Vargas III hosts. Guests include state Rep. Jessica Gonzalez from Dallas. Also on the panel are Eagle Pass Councilman Elias Diaz, Bell County Commissioner Louie Minor, state Rep. Jolanda Jones who is running […]

The inaugural Foreword Literary Festival has big queer ties through its co-founder and guest authors

Time for area chefs to step up their finest burger creations for DIFFA’s Burgers+Burgundy

Resource Center rebrands a variety of programs

Melissa Etheridge and Indigo Girls on tour together make for the lez event of the century in North Texas

Meg Gaines, left, and Margaret Mooney with their son Reed and daughter Grace when the children were young A new anthology of essays by lesbian mothers who raised children in the 1980s, ’90s and early 2000s not only sheds light on the past but also offers wisdom for today. For LGBTQ History Month (October), I […]

LISA KEEN | Keen News [email protected] With the LGBTQ+ community seemingly under constant attack these days, and with court battles and discriminatory policies, executive orders and legislation getting the lion’s share of the public’s attention, here is a brief round-up of the latest information on some high-profile LGBTQ+ people in the public and corporate realms. […]

What to give a man who demands everything? A pink slip.

Say hello to Winifred, a 4-year-old Belgian malinois/shepherd mix with a personality as big as her 94-pound heart, a walking dose of joy. She’s a social butterfly who thrives on human connection from greeting you at the door like you’re the best thing she’s ever seen or following you around the house to make sure […]

One recent evening, I sat down to dinner with Christians and Jews and Muslims, black and brown and white, men and women — people ranging in age from their 20s to their 60s.The next morning, as my dog dashed out to chase a heron from our lawn; I saw a Monarch butterfly, a hummingbird and […]

David Archuleta performs in the Cambridge Room at House of Blues on Friday, Oct. 3. See listings for details. (Photo by Zach Knudson) ……………. OctoberOct. 3: David ArchuletaDavid Archuleta performs new tracks from his Earthly Delights EP and some other fan favorites in the Cambridge Room at House of Blues in Dallas. Rachel Bochner opens. […]

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" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled-8.jpeg?fit=300%2C169&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Untitled-8.jpeg?fit=780%2C439&ssl=1" />After 25 years as the Two x Two for AIDS and Art in Dallas, the event celebrates rebrands into a new beginning as amfAR Dallas on Saturday, Oct. 4. The event will shine big with huge stars attending the event. On Wednesday, organizers announced the appearances of  Nicole Kidman, Taylor Sheridan, Dirk Nowitzki with Teri Hatcher serving as host. The […]

" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ken-Paxton-Header.jpg?fit=300%2C183&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/dallasvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Ken-Paxton-Header.jpg?fit=780%2C475&ssl=1" />Texas’ rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Attorney General Ken Paxton today (Wednesday, Oct. 1) “issued a formal legal advisory to all Texas public school districts regarding their obligations under Senate Bill 10, which requires the display of the Ten Commandments in every public elementary and secondary school classroom,” according to a press release from the Office of the […]