At West Texas Historical Assoc. talking about Dallas Police refusal to release raid records & gave my presentation.
It seems almost all of them have never seen a Gay historian before.
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Introduction. Was out in Lubbock, Texas at the West Texas Historical Association.
I gave a presentation on Hatton Sumners. I used the occasion to alert historians that the City of Dallas was refusing to release records about the 2010 raid.
This was my topic. I am going to be delivering a draft biography in Nov. 2024 to be published by a university press. My presentation was filmed for release to the East Texas Historical Association.
As I become more and more known locally I am going to use my position to help fight for the LGBT in Dallas.
The cover of the conference program and the flyer I handed out.
I carried my flyers and also my schedules in these folders.
Religious zealot owner of hotel used for the convention.
I thought it was a really poor hotel. They had their religious convictions confronting you. Why a supposedly professional society would choose this type of place, I don’t know. We are in Lubbock, Texas though, and it is West Texas.
Then when you came in the door this was the first thing you saw.
On the Counter.
I wasn’t quite sure whether I was at a hotel or a Baptist University dormitory.
I handed out this flyer at some of the convention meals about the 2010 Dallas Bath house raid.
About 80% of the attendees are older than 60 and I think about one-third to one-half are over 70. They were polite, but you could see that they had never met a Gay historian.
One person tried to make up excuses for the refusal to release records and he was just hostile to my effort, but wanted to discourage me. He claimed that the records probably didn’t exist. I pointed out that they asked for $67.50 in payment for the records and then when paid refused to release them. He was just trying to throw dust.
My purpose is to start making it generally known among historians that the Dallas Police department is refusing to release records and to get signatues for the petition. (I will put a link to the petition after these flyers. Please sign.)
Now that I got my presentation done regarding Hatton W. Sumners, I will have more time to do a steady campaign to release records. I likely will be writing all the historians in the State of Texas bringing this to their attention. I have other plans also.
I will be going out to a conference of the Alliance for Texas History this coming week and be handing out flyers to them. I will know a fair number of people there.
This is the link to the petition to the City of Dallas.
Please sign and share.
https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-the-victims-of-the-2010-vice-squad-club-bath-raids
