Posts Tagged ‘rainbow lounge’
Where the Bears Are …
(Hint: Here)JIMMY FOWLER, PHOTOS BY LEE CHASTAIN
When you ask someone to imagine a gay man, images from TV and in movies have provided a pretty rigid stereotype: extremely appearance- and fashion-conscious, slender and gym-going, flamboyant, probably under 35 with an “artis...
Rainbow Lounge Documentary Screens
Notes from the Fort Worth premiere of Robert Camina’s film.KRISTIAN LIN
A great many things started on June 28, 2009, when Fort Worth police officers and Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents conducted mass arrests at the Near Southside gay bar The Rainbow Lounge. One of them came to fruition ...
Rainbow Lounge Doc Update
Kristian LinThis bit of news comes from Dallas filmmaker Robert Camina, whom we’ve profiled in our pages. His documentary Raid of the Rainbow Lounge will now feature narration read by Meredith Baxter, the former Family Ties star and ...
City Coughs Up Rainbow Cash
Jimmy FowlerBravo to city leaders for settling with Chad Gibson and George Armstrong for more than $400,000 in the wake of the historic Rainbow Lounge raid, although I’m not sure they had a choice. My colleague Jeff Prince missed the poi...
Rainbow Lounge Raid Leads To City Coffer Raid
Jeff PrinceWeekly staff writer Dan McGraw recently wrote about the Innocence Project and two wrongly convicted men who served long prison sentences because they wouldn’t accept plea bargains. Neither could force themselves to confes...
Mother Jones Sees Brown In Rainbow Lounge Story
Jeff PrinceThe latest edition of Mother Jones spotlights the police raid on Rainbow Lounge, which has already faded in memory around these parts. The lead paragraph gives a pretty good impression of the writer’s thoughts on the raid: â€...
TABC Fires Agents
dan.mcgrawThe Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission announced today that it is terminating the two agents who participated in the Rainbow Lounge raid, as well as the supervisor above them. We don’t have the official press release yet...
Rainbow Lounge Backpedal Part II
Jeff PrinceFort Worth’s top cop is still doing the Rainbow Lounge backpedal, which is refreshing since police are sometimes slow to admit any fault. This morning, Chief Jeff Halstead released a preliminary summary of the investigation i...
Observations on the TABC Report
dan.mcgraw              Having gone through the 32-page TABC report on their agents’ actions at the Rainbow Lounge, not much to report. The three agents did violate TABC policy, the report says, but these were for weari...
TABC Admits Policy Violations At Rainbow Lounge
Jeff PrinceToday the news media is getting the results of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) investigation into the Rainbow Lounge raid, and after a quick look at the report here in the Fort Worth Weekly newsroom, it appears t...
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