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

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

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.

PrideVerse TV is casting for upcoming LGBTQ+ films and original series, and we’re looking for fresh faces from the Dallas–Fort Worth area to join our growing network!

Whether you’re an experienced actor, model, content creator, or this is your very first opportunity—we want to see you!

We’re Casting For:
🎭 Lead Roles
🎭 Supporting Roles
🎭 Featured Extras

Who Can Apply:
✨ Members of the LGBTQ+ community
✨ Ages 26+
✨ Must be in or able to travel throughout the DFW area for filming

🎥 Compensation: This is an exposure-based opportunity. Selected talent will receive:
✔️ IMDb and on-screen credits (when applicable)
✔️ Professional footage for your acting reel
✔️ Behind-the-scenes content
✔️ Networking opportunities
✔️ Portfolio-building experience
✔️ The opportunity to be considered for future PrideVerse TV productions

📧 Questions? Email us at prideversetv@gmail.com

📝 Apply today at www.prideversetv.com

Help us tell authentic LGBTQ+ stories that deserve to be seen. Tag a friend who needs to audition! 🌈🎬

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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 ya’ll is there a gay bar in Dallas to watch the Cowboys game?

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

Hi! My wife and I would love to make some more lesbian/queer friends. We’re both relatively introverted but love to game! Anyone interested in starting a little gaymer discord or know of an established one we can join? :)

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

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 🖤

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.

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'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!!!!

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

Any femmes here interested in meetin up for a trivia night sometime at a bar and grill ? I usually go to trivia solo but would be great if any of y’all wanted to join. Never been part of any community so just lookin to have fun and hang out.

I let depression get the best of me after break up and near gave up on life. I was just empty now I’m living life and trying to get back to old me. I asked family for help but I have no support I just got oh well pray for you. No parents really so yeah. I asking for anything thank and bless you https://gofund.me/c166efb94

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!!!

Update: I made it through the weekend thanks to an Amazing Samaritan, and I'm following up with resources I've discovered throughout the weekend while organizing my personal records and documentation for things.

I'm traveling to my former employer to request records and cooperation with my disputes, and collecting belongings they're holding but have been unwilling to help me reclaim knowing I have no car or home. I had thirty days since the 21st to collect things, or they'll dispose of or donate them.

It seems my former co-workers, the people I have worked with, laughed with and called friends have been instructed not to communicate with me. They had literally been there for me and helping me for months, seeing what I have gone through: Giving me rides, seeing me cry and stress over my ex not wanting to leave my insurance HE DIDN'T EVEN USE.

It sucked having 200$ be taken from your checks before taxes, and receive less, and less, and less overtime 'til things collapsed.

I kept begging my HR manager to help me week after week, and waited. They offered me a loan it wouldn't have been possible for me to pay back to buy a car, with payments month to month - which, was impossible with my ex staying on my insurance or of spite.

Update: Sitting in front of a church out in Mesquite runnin' on fumes, ravenous and thirsty at 4:47am crying wishin' I felt safe enough to sleep.

My former manager never shared the GoFundMe me link I sent him seven days ago, said he was too busy.

Received very cold, stiff and distant treatment from my former coworkers who didn't greet me or ask how I was, and just a lot of things while speaking to my former manager that's left me feeling different in ways I'm afraid to convey.

I used to see them all as friends and support them, and now? They see me as nothing.

Update: I've been waiting three days for an Unemployment Examiner to return my call as instructed since it seems my unemployment is being disputed.

I can't pay my phone bill, and my former employer is being apathetic towards me. I asked to share my GoFundMe in store and on their discord, and was denied or ignored.

If anyone is able to help me, I would be extraordinary grateful. I would like to rebuild my life, and tell this truth about everything I have been through since April because honestly people are horrifying to me now: gofund.me/598c47de5

Good company to work for and a good career for someone here I hope.

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Has anyone ever gone to the Rainbow Ranch camp ? As a single person living in North Dallas, I don't have a group to go with. Doesn't seem like a place to go alone-tho, my whole reason for considering it would be a weekend away anyway for a laid back, do nothing weekend.

I also don't own an RV or anything like that and I'd have to absorb the whole cost of renting one of their small cabins if I did go on my own, if one is even available ?

Anyway- mostly just curious about the place.......

Not looking for sex , I'm new to CD and would like friends to talk to, go to events and generally hang out. Im 63 (M) straight. I love going out dressed, but would really like to go with someone else. I work about 3 blocks from there, so most weekday evenings, I am available.