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DIRTY MOVIE THEATER

Technology now puts practically any vice into the palms of our hands, but Dallas used to be pimpled with spicy movie theaters.

We knew Downtown and East Dallas had grindhouses. But who knew there was one at the Plaza at Preston Center?

A 1976 news story by WFAA features two theaters that showed rated-X movies in what the story describes as University Park.

One was the Fine Arts Theater at Snider Plaza, which started out as the Varsity Theater in 1927.

The other was Preston 2 Theatre. Old advertisements list its

address at 4011 Villanova, which is now the site of Muchacho.

Families in the neighborhood, obviously, wanted the theaters to stop showing “high-grade soft-core pornography,” as the reporter calls it.

Preston 2 didn’t just show skin flicks, though. A 1978 brief mentions a midnight showing of Top Hat.

Search “Fine Arts Theater” atprestonhollow.advocatemag.com to read more.

coming & going

[+] Walgreens will open up a location in Preston Hollow at 5301 W. Lovers Lane later this

year. [+] Fajita Pete’s is open at Preston Forest Shopping Center.

[+] Bad Ass Coffee is coming to the area, with three Dallas locations opening starting in 2023.

MONEY PROBLEMS

The Dallas-based company MoneyGram is under fire from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The most serious allegations have to do with customers’ wire transfers not making it to their destinations and “leaving families high and dry.”

A federal lawsuit argues that “as one of the country’s largest international money transfer services, MoneyGram engaged in unfair practices which largely impacted immigrant communities who relied on the company to send money back home to loved ones.”

MoneyGram argues in its press release that, while the CFPB is right to focus on the very real issue of consumer fraud in the financial services industry, MoneyGram “cares deeply about this issue” and has made “tremendous achievements” to protect consumers.

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HOW ‘DR. HENRY NOBODY’ MADE A ‘STONEWALL MOMENT’ AT A DALLAS CONVENTION

Story by RACHEL STONE Photography courtesy of the NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

The 50th anniversary of a big moment in gay rights passed recently. The New York Times acknowledged Dr. John Fryer, the psychiatrist who took the stage at convention of the American Psychiatric Association at the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas on May 2, 1972, and said “I am a homosexual. I am a psychiatrist.”

Fryer was wearing the disguise of an oversized tuxedo, a rubber mask and wig, and he introduced himself as “Dr. Henry Nobody.”

From the newspaper: The 10-minute speech, delivered 50 years ago May 2, was a tipping point in the history of gay rights. The following year, the A.P.A. announced that it would reverse its nearly century-old position, declaring that homosexuality was not a mental disorder.

The story describes how activist Barbara Gittings convinced Fryer to speak on the topic, as well as how his life and career were hindered by discrimination.

He was fired from a residency at the University of Pennsylvania and had to complete it over many years at a state-run psychiatric hospital, the only place that would accept him.

After that, he remained quasi closeted and never had a close romantic relationship, the newspaper reports. Those who knew him say he rarely talked about the speech.

The Kentucky native was recognized in his home state of Pennsylvania before his death in 2003, and This American Life told his story in 2002.

Fryer did eventually find professional success, gaining tenure at Temple University and helping to pioneer hospice care. But he never became part of the gay movement, and he always felt that his career was not what it could’ve been if not for discrimination, the newspaper reports.

As he told the Historical Society of Pennsylvania: “I did this one isolated event, which changed my life, which helped change the culture in my profession, and I disappeared.”