What a year!
Here are the highlights from my first full year in Dallas.
Work: After seven years at Thomson Reuters, I made the jump to The Dallas Morning News in July.
Home: This spring, I moved into a new apartment in the same building. My building’s original management company also had a very ugly decline which culminated in a sale. (Sadly, the new company isn’t much better.)
ilume Park’s small dog park, covered in poop.
Life: I turned 30 years old this year, but celebrations were muted because of the Pulse nightclub attack and downtown Dallas police ambush. Around that time I also came across a dead body on the morning dog walk. So there’s that.
This fall, I also bought a new phone which happened to be recalled.
A reporter at the scene of a suicide near Katy Trail.
Celebrations: Here are some of the events that I made it to this year:
- Texas Bear Roundup (TBRU): including a performance by Willam on a hoverboard.
- St. Patrick’s Day by SMU: Complete drunkfest, which was fun to attend sober.
- Oak Cliff Mardi Gras: A cute neighborhood festival featuring a ton of beads.
- Easter in Lee Park: A bizarre event featuring a puppy parade and some serious outfits.
- Independence Day Weekend: Including a pool party.
- Dallas Gay Pride: Massive, as always.
- Fort Worth Gay Pride: A poorly organized, production.
- Texas Latino Gay Pride: A small festival featuring some of the neighborhood’s most prominent gay leaders.
- State Fair of Texas: Featuring lots of questionable food and a frightening moving cowboy puppet.
- Oak Lawn Halloween Block Party: Which was insanely busy.
There were also countless drag shows and pageants, brunches with friends, and very long dog walks.
I’m probably leaving a lot out, but those were the high points of the year. Here are some of my favorite pictures:
Gunter the Chiweenie in Perry Heights.
African penguins at the Dallas Zoo.
Ingrid the Labradoodle playing with a chocolate lab mix in front of the Oak Lawn Starbucks.
I wasn’t the only one who dressed up as Ken Bone for Halloween.
Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas.
Rainbow Lounge had a charity drag show at Tarrant County Gay Pride.
Kennedy Davenport performs at Dallas Pride.
Asia O’Hara at the Miss Gay Texas America pageant at the Rose Room / Station 4 in Oak Lawn.
Cocktails at the iLume Park pool in Oak Lawn, Dallas.
A man getting tased at Italia Express in Oak Lawn, Dallas.
The iLume Pool Party on 4th of July weekend.
Visiting the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Brunching at the Green Door Public House near downtown Dallas.
Exploring downtown Lewisville, Texas.
A man fell and hit his head at the Round-up Saloon in Oak Lawn.
The struggle is real at Winslow’s Brunch.
Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas with Reunion Tower in the background.
Flowers and candles at the Orlando / Pulse memorial in Oak Lawn.
The end of Pulse rally in Dallas.
The Texas State Capitol building in Austin, Texas.
Cher-e-oke at Alexandre’s bar.
Awkward meeting in the iLume Park lobby with upset tenants.
A view of the theme park at the center of Minneapolis’s Mall of America.
Oak Cliff Mardi Gras 2016
IRS Booklet 6744 at tax law training.
#FineDining
Guys with matching outfits and bunny ears at Easter in Lee Park.
A chihuahua prancing at the Easter dog parade in Dallas.
Ingrid the Labradoodle at Lee Park / Arlington Hall in Dallas
The massive crowd in front of the Dallas St. Patrick’s Day concert.
Gay Bingo for the February 2016 event at S4 – Oak Lawn.
TBRU’s Furball event was packed at S4.
Willam performing on a hover board while singing live at Station 4.
National Showman Pageant at the Round-up Saloon in Dallas, Texas.
Erika Jayne performing at Brick Nightclub in Dallas, Texas.
The spread at the Imperial Court event at Urban Cowboy outside of downtown Fort Worth.
Ingrid glaring after her bath.
Beyonce and Interior Design Wall (including Ikea Pendant light) in our new apartment.
The Giant eyeball sculpture across from Hotel Joule in downtown Dallas.
A man blasting music from a segway on the Katy Trail
A super awkward brunch at the Cedar Springs Tap House.
Gunter the chihuahua being a diva during an iLume Park happy hour.
Michael watching a Dallas Stars game in the Thomson Reuters suite.
The dogs by Trinity River Bridge.
Crowning the winner of the Round-up Saloon’s employee drag pageant.
Cowboys putting underwear on goats at the Dallas rodeo.
Exploring downtown Dallas in summer
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