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JANUARY 111 I 2008
THE PREMIER SOURCE FOR LGBT DALLAS/FORT WORTH
Gay voters play role in N.H. primary elections
LGBT supporters In Clinton camp happy with former
First Lady's comeback; Obama also popular with gays
By Lisa Keen Keen News Service
From anonymous phone calls
and flyers to public speeches and
debates on the editorial pages of
newspapers, gay issues were
heavily in the news as New
Hampshire held the nation's first
primary of the 2008 presidential
campaign Tuesday Jan. 8.
John McCain took the
Republican lead, but the big news
of the day was Democrats taking
55 percent of the record turnout
and the surprise victory of New
York Sen. Hillary Clinton, whom
pundits had widely predicted was
failing.
Openly gay State Rep. Jim
Splaine said Clinton "did some-
thing in the last two to three days I
have been urging her to do — let
Hillary be Hillary."
While Splaine supported
Clinton, the
state's other
two openly
gay repre-
sentatives
were split
between the
other two
top polling
candidates.
Ed Butler
supported Barack Obama; Mo
Baxley supported John Edwards.
That division appeared to be
true for gays in both Iowa and
Hillary Clinton
John McCain
New
Hampshire.
But Clinton
has enjoyed
the lion's
share of big
name gay
endorse-
ments —
from U.S.
Reps.
Frank and Tammy
to filmmaker Bruce
Barney
Baldwin
Cohen, tennis legend Billie Jean
King, Illinois Human Rights
Director Rocco Claps, and
California State Sen. Sheila Kuehl.
Clinton's victory over Iowa cau-
cus winner Obama was especially
big news Tuesday night because
polls had piled up to predict that
New Hampshire would be a
repeat of her Jan. 3 third place fin-
ish behind John Edwards. But
large numbers of voters were
undecided right down to the wire
and apparently many of them —
especially women — cast their bal-
lots for Clinton.
See NEW HAMPSHIRE on PAGE 18
Finding peace
Dallas artist creates Peace Compass in hopes
of inspiring others to lead non-violent lives
By David Webb Staff Writer
Dallas glass etching artist
Polly Gessell is an advocate
for peace — not to be con-
fused with being just a war
protester.
To that end she has
designed the Peace
Compass, a silver dollar-
Polly Gessell shows off her Peace Compass.
sized metal medallion that is
inscribed with words that
she hopes will inspire people
to search for peaceful solu-
tions to conflicts in their
everyday lives. Written in
parallel circles surrounding
the central message of
"Peace," the
words come
together on the
medallion in
what Gessell
hopes will be a
"fun, interesting"
path to self-dis-
covery.
The outer circle
of the medallion
— which comes
as a necklace, a
bracelet with col-
orful beads, a dog
tag and a coin to
slip in a pocket or
change purse —
reads, "Learn,
Empathize, Pray,
See PEACE on PAGE 13
A VIEW FROM ABOVE
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A Dallas Fire and Rescue firefighter perches on a ladder above the roof of Bibbentuckers Dry Cleaners at 3501 McKinney Ave., ready to battle from above the
blaze that did extensive damage to the Oak Lawn business on Jan. 4. No one was injured in the three-alarm fire apparently caused by an electrical malfunc-
tion in the ceiling, Dallas Fire and Rescue officials said.
Oak Lawn man survives razor attack
Tucker warns against inviting
strangers into one's home
By Tammye Nash Senior Editor
Jerry Tucker has some words of
warning to anyone who might consid-
er inviting a stranger into their home;
"Don't do it."
Tucker is recovering this week after
having his throat slashed in his own
apartment by an assailant he met on
the street.
Tucker, who lives in the 2800 block
of Arroyo Street in Oak Lawn, said he
met the man at a bus stop near the
intersection of Arroyo Street and
Maple Avenue while waiting to catch
the bus to his job to pick up his pay-
check. It was about 5:30 p.m. on
Saturday, Jan. 5, when the man
approached him and first solicited him
for sex and then asked to borrow some
money
"We had talked for a little bit, and he
asked me if I ever messed around. I
told him yes, sometimes, but that I
really wasn't in the mood right then,"
Tucker said in a telephone interview
this week.
See ATTACK on PAGE 12
WEEKEND WEATHER
INDEX
FEATURE
0 FRI Partly Cloudy 64°
Local News 6
National News 14
Viewpoints 22
Life+Style 24
Starvoice 37
Calendar 39
Classifieds 50
It's Stephen Sondheim
mania this week, as
Bernadette Peters sings
his hits at the Meyerson
while Judy Kaye appears
onstage in 'Sweeney
Todd.' PAGE 24.
0 SAT Partly Cloudy 37/62
0 SUN Sunny 38/60
Winter peaks back onto the scene, with weekend lows in the 30s.
But don't break out the fur-lined mukluks just yet Highs will be in
the 60s, with winds up to 15 mph.
WORKSPACE
Cafe society has gone
WiFi. But at Buli. it
seems that everyone
joins an invisible net-
work when they become
part of the queer laptop
crowd. PAGE 26.
SCREEN
'Sordid Lives' has offi-
cially been green-lit by
Logo. Dallas Voice
visited the set in
Shreveport, where Leslie
Jordan kept everyone in
stitches. PAGE 31.
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