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THE PREMIER SOURCE FOR GLBT DALLAS/FORT WORTH
4 gay candidates on ballot for November election
Dupree, Borden win races while Fitzsimmons, Foster go
unchallenged in primary; Bell leads ticket for Democrats
By Tammye Nash Staff Writer
Four gay men are among the 74
local Democrats advancing to the gen-
eral election after wins in Tuesday's
primary.
Precinct 5 Constable Mike Dupree
won re-election over Jaime Cortes,
VOTE TOTALS
House District 108
Jack Borden
601
Torn Malin
496
House District 107
Allen Vaught
1,169
Andy Smith
722
Constable Precinct 5
Mike Dupree
2,192
Jamie Cortes
1,806
with 55 percent of the vote. Dupree
will be on the ballot in November, but
since he has no Republican challenger
his return to office is guaranteed.
In the District 108 state House race,
neighborhood activist Jack Borden
defeated Tom Malin, who is also gay.
Borden faces Representative Dan
Branch, the two-term incumbent
Republican, in November.
Lawyer Allen Vaught defeated gay
candidate Andy Smith with 62 percent
of the vote in the Democratic primary
race for District 107 in the state House.
Vaught now meets Republican Bill
Keffer, who was unopposed in the
Republican primary.
Gary Fitzsimmons, a gay candidate
for Dallas County district clerk, was
unopposed in the primary, as was Jim
Foster, a gay candidate for Dallas
County judge.
Fitzsimmons faces Republican Jim
Hamlin and Foster goes up against
Republican Margaret Keliher.
In the battle for the Democratic
nomination for governor, Houston
lawyer Chris Bell defeated his closest
competitor, longtime legislator and
former Texas Supreme Court justice
Bob Gammage, 64 percent to 29 per-
cent.
Rashad Jafer earned 7 percent of the
vote.
Bell, who was endorsed by
Stonewall Democrats, will face
incumbent Republican Governor Rick
Perry in the general election.
Perry received 84 percent of the
vote in the Republican primary,
despite having three challengers.
Larry Kilgore had 8 percent of the
See PRIMARIES on PAGE 9
Jim Foster, gay candidate for Dallas County judge, talks with Mary Abeyta, Democratic nominee
for justice of the peace in Precinct 4, during the Democrats' election watch party on Tuesday.
Court rules
for military
recruiters
Schools that bar military
recruiters over 'don't ask,
don't tell' risk losing funds
By Gina Holland Associated Press
WASHING-
TON — The
Supreme Court
ruled unani-
mously Monday
that colleges that
accept federal
money must
allow military . . . n u ^
J Justice John Roberts
recruiters on
campus, despite university objections
to the Pentagon's "don't ask, don't
tell" policy.
See RULING on PAGE 20
Tank: Political activity over protest
Gay congressman coming to Dallas to deliver history
lesson to GLBT activists at Stonewall fundraiser
By David Webb Staff Writer
Gay Congressman Barney Frank
is coming to Dallas on March 18 with
a history lesson he plans to deliver at
a Stonewall Democrats fundraiser.
Frank said his message to gay
Democrats will focus on the progress
of the gay rights movement and how
it can best be moved forward.
Political activity, rather than protests,
will achieve the best results, he said.
"It's getting people registered and
voting and supporting candidates,"
Frank said during a telephone inter-
view.
And that's where the history lesson
starts to unfold.
"The biggest difference between
the Democratic Party and the
Republican Party is on GLBT
rights," Frank said. tcYou go back to
1976 and the parties were about
equal."
Presidents Jimmy Carter and
Gerald Ford began leaning towards
tolerance, Frank said.
"You go back before that and both
parties were terrible," Frank said.
"Carter and Ford were not great, but
they were better than the country had
been."
Frank said Ronald Reagan's
administration veered the Republican
Party toward ultra-conservatism
while the Democratic Party began
growing more liberal on GLBT
issues.
"Since then the country as a whole
has gotten better, although not nearly
U.S. Representative Barney Frank, a
Democrat from Massachusetts, is one of
two openly-gay members of Congress.
as quickly we would like," Frank
said. "The Democrats have improved
at a rate greater than the country, and
the Republicans have improved at a
See FRANK on PAGE 8
Coburn bill
re-authorizes
CARE Act
But measure's fate
uncertain; committee still
working on legislation
By Dennis Vercher Staff Writer
Senator Tom Coburn, a Republican
of Oklahoma, introduced a measure to
re-authorize the Ryan White C ARE
Act on Feb. 28, five months after the
previous authorization for the act
expired.
A pediatrician, Coburn played a
major role in the 2000 re-authorization
of the C ARE act when he was a mem-
ber of the House. After retiring as a
congressman, he served as co-chair of
the Presidential Advisory Council of
HIV/AIDS. He won election to the
Senate last year.
See COBURN on PAGE 25
WEEKEND WEATHER
INDEX
TUBE
<p-<S FRI Mostly Cloudy 86°
Local News 6
National News 16
Viewpoints 28
Life+Style 30
Calendar 41
Starvoice 39
Classifieds 54
'Dante's Cove' actor
Charlie David took a risk
by being publicly out.
And his luck seems to
be holding out. He's one
of HERE! TV's biggest
commodities. PAGE 30.
SAT Mostly Cloudy 65/81
SUN Partly-Mostly Cloudy 60/90
Partly cloudy throughout the weekend, with highs reaching the
lower 90s before a cool front comes through Sunday night, send-
ing temperatures back into the 70s.
J
STAGE
Cross-dressers take over
Dallas stages this week
in the thoughtful drama
1 Am My Own Wife' and
the outrageous musical
Rocky Horror (Puppet)
Show.' PAGE 35.
MUSIC
Reality TV made Levi
Kreis' debut a success.
But the queer song-
writer's live gigs fare
better than his studio
work. He plays Dallas on
Friday. PAGE 38.
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