Omar Narvaez and his subversion of the LGBT
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Introduction
There are serious issues concerning the welfare of the LGBT+ in Dallas and in regards to them Narvaez has avoided these issues. I think the LGBT community needs to stop being run by a smug clique, which doesn’t do anything for the LGBT. It is time to get rid of the Pink Mafia which grovels for approval from the Dallas establishment.
If you want to know about the origin of the term of Pink Mafia for Dallas you can read this article online.
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc947403/
Narvaez avoids doing anything to get a Dallas Human Rights Commission
Fort Worth has had a human rights commission since 1967. They call it the Human Relations Commission. This following link has detailed history.
After the notorious hate crime shooting at the beauty shop in Koreatown the Dallas Police Department and Omar Narvaez was there. I was asked by a Korean friend to come and observe and was encourage to ask questions.
So, I brought up the issue that the Dallas Police Dept. need a hate crimes unit and why hadn’t Dallas gotten a human relations commission, since Fort Worth has had one since 1967.
Omar Narvaez resorted to this evasion that he was supportive of having a Human Rights Commission but there weren’t eight votes on the Dallas City Council for one. This is an old scam in Dallas politics. The elected official presents himself as a supporter of the idea, but regrets that there aren’t eight votes.
This is disingenuous. Is Narvaez telling us that in 2023 we can’t get eight votes out of fifteen Dallas City Council members for a Human Rights Commission. Really!
If we can’t there is something really seriously wrong with Dallas. In 2023 we should be able to get twelve votes out of fifteen, if not fifteen out of fifteen, for a human relations commission.
There are three African American city council members, four Latino city council members and two LGBT council members at least. One is both LGBT and Latino.
Summing this up, 3+4+1 = 8. We have eight votes just from the minority members on the council alone.
Of the remaining members, Paul Blackmon, Adam McGough, Jaynie Schultz, Cara Mendelson, Gay Donnell Willis and Paul E. Ridley, does Narvaez think they would all vote against a human rights commission. Paul E. Ridley, unlike Narvaez, came to the BuzzBrew protest in defense of the drag queens.
Could Narvaez state the nine Dallas City Council members who would vote against a Human Rights Commission, he can’t, because there isn’t nine members of the Dallas City Council members who would go on record being against a human rights commission for Dallas.
A section of Lamar St. got renamed Botham Jean Blvd. unanimously in 2021, and yet we don’t have eight votes out of fifteen for a human rights commission in 2023.
However, for purposes of argument, that in 2023 there isn’t eight votes out of fifteen for a human rights commission, even though Fort Worth got a commission in 1967.
I think we out to know who on the city council would vote against a human rights commission in 2023!
I think that an ordinance should be submitted for a vote so we can find out who are the people on the City Council against having a human rights commission, to see if this mythical nine votes against a human rights commission exists.
Further, even if these nine votes against a human rights commission exists, we need to know who these enemies of human rights are. We need to know to cast intelligent votes for candidates that support getting a human rights commission.
A letter was written to Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson about getting a human rights commission and a copy of my essay arguing for a human rights commission was enclosed. I copied all of the members of the Dallas City Council and did not hear back from any of them.
Omar Narvaez for all his posturing doesn’t want to be on the naughty list of the Dallas establishment. He might say this or that, but there are forces in Dallas opposed to a human rights commission and Narvaez is skeered.
If an LGBT bar gets shot up I am sure we will see all the Dallas city council members saying all sorts of fine speeches and showing for the camera’s their agonies. I have an idea, why not get a human rights commission and a hate crimes unit to prevent a massacre of LGBT in the first place?
This is my post on the need for a human rights commission.
The letter written to Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson.
BuzzBrew Protest
Nationally, statewide and locally the LGBT are under attack. Drag shows are being targeted. Kelley Neidert and her Protect Texas Kids targeted BuzzBrew and in addition to her group, fascist and Christian nationalists showed up.
We needed the strongest showing possible that the leadership of the City of Dallas show their opposition to Kelley Neidert and her extremist friends.
Letters were sent by certified mail to all the members of the Dallas City Council. Only Dallas city council members Paul E. Ridley and Jesse Moreno showed up. Texas House Rep. Venton Jones showed up. His Dist. 100 doesn’t include BuzzBrew, but Venton Jones knew this was a serious attack on the LGBT for all of North Texas. Jones was there even though he had faced a vicious anti-Gay campaign when he ran for office in 2022.
The prior protest which caught the LGBT community by surprise was in the very heart of the community on Cedar Springs at Mr. Misster. The police had to be called.
The next anti-drag protest could strike anywhere in Dallas. Anti-drag protests are shutting down drag shows all over North Texas.
However, Chad West and Omar Narvaez weren’t there at BuzzBrew!
This following post has the links to all the posts regarding the BuzzBrew protest and counter-protest.
Anti-Gay Dallas city council invocation speakers.
The Dallas city council had invocation speakers who were with horrifically anti-Gay groups. Look at this tweet by Jim Dennison, a person from his group came to give an invocation. Fortunately for the Gay community mpox was brought under control. There were groups ready to pounce on the Gay community to exploit mpox.
The entire documentation and my presentation to the Dallas City Council is online in three posts. Dallas was having a lot of invocators with deep histories of being anti-Gay.
This post has a link to the second post and that to the third post. There was so much, it couldn’t be done in one post on Substack.
It is not clear whether we are not going to have persons from anti-LGBT groups giving invocations in the future. The Dallas Observer article interview with Mayor Johnson’s office seem to indicate that, but it seems it might not be the case.
I am getting zero help on this from Narvaez and West. They haven’t spoken out on this.
You have to wonder why wasn’t this whole issue wasn’t dealt with years ago? A human rights commission could deal with the powerful forces of homophobia that lurk below the surface in this city. I am still working on documenting the groups. For example, I haven’t added in the contemporary activities of the 1st Dallas Baptist Church.
How much support is there really for the LGBT in this community when we can’t get the Dallas City Council to stop having anti-LGBT invocators. How much support do we really have when we can’t get the Dallas City Council to stop even when we are facing Christian Nationalist attacks nationally!
The Botched Don Maison Signs
The whole use of toppers was proposed by the Dallas Morning News to shut down the renaming of streets after civil rights leaders in 2015.
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2015/01/17/editorial-hits-and-misses/
This means that Dallas streets remain named after Confederates, slave owners, Klansmen, and other vicious characters and minorities get tokenism.
You would think that at least the token toppers would be done right like toppers are done in other cities. In the following report you can compare it to the Atatiana Jefferson toppers in Fort Worth.
I am going to go out and see if they have been fixed and if so, I will have an update. However, they should have been done right in the first place. Even the tokenism was done wrong.
Botham Jean Blvd. and Omar Narvaez
The rest of Lamar St. hasn’t been renamed to Botham Jean Blvd. One obstacle that we faced is Narvaez saying Botham Jeans mother was against it. So as a member of the Facebook messenger group conversation advocating the rest of Lamar St. being renamed, which includes the Jean family I brought this question up and was told they support renaming the whole length of Lamar St.
This isn’t a Gay issue, but I think it tells us how committed Narvaez is to carrying water for the Dallas establishment and what he might do to carry that water.
Santos Rodriguez Blvd. effort and Omar Narvaez
Santos Rodriguez’s mother was against having a street named after him according to Narvaez. This seems at variance with this article in the Dallas Observer article.
https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/should-a-dallas-street-be-named-after-santos-rodriguez-12090562
In 2008, though, The Dallas Morning News ran an editorial saying the city should name a street after Rodriguez since it failed to name a prominent boulevard after civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. But that never happened.
“Bessie was promised a lot in the last 48 years as amends for this horrific tragedy that befell her,” Jawad said. “She told me one time that she was promised Pearl Street, that Pearl Street would be renamed Santos Rodriguez Boulevard or road.” But that didn’t happen either. “Her story, if you’ve listened as I have, is a story of betrayal after betrayal after betrayal,” he added.
When Narvaez made his claim, I contacted Hadi Jawad and Jawad in the most emphatic terms said it was not true. Actually, that was the 2nd time, the first time was over the phone, but the 2nd time I have screen captures of a written response by Jawad.
The elderly are preyed upon, maybe they had a conversation with her and influenced her to make some statement which the Dallas city administration could then carry around as a shield against any demands for a street named after Santos Rodriguez.
Jawad says that the story is “of betrayal after betrayal after betrayal,” and I think that it seems to be a story that never ends.
This claim of Narvaez has resulted in people backing away from the project.
This isn’t a Gay issue, but it shows how Narvaez carries water for the establishment.
Summary
We need elected LGBT leaders who are advocates for our community downtown and at City Hall, and not just when they need our votes and speaking to the Dallas (Vichy) Voice. They need to deal with real issues in real ways and not just speeches and drama.
The LGBT is facing a rapidly deteriorating situation and we will need people who fight for our community and have an agenda of substantiative actions and plans.
The re-election of Omar Narvaez will mean a continuation of the unfortunate LGBT politics of Dallas of show without substance, begging not demanding, acquiescing and not fighting.
We need to bring LGBT liberation to Dallas. We need to see Narvaez defeated.