Taft decided that their best option was to create the Gay and Lesbian Study Group. Taft recalls, “It was our intention to see that the phrase ‘gay and lesbian’ became a part of the vernacular at the DBA.” Mr. A full copy of the newspaper above is available courtesy of the University of North Texas Libraries, Special Collections here.Īs Mr. Both men thought it was long overdue.Īt that time, several of the gay and lesbian attorneys in Dallas were infrequently meeting in private homes as part of a group called “The Stonewall Legal Society.” The idea was to formalize the group’s existence and eventually gain a voice in the legal community for issues affecting gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender attorneys and their clients.Īn April 30, 1993, Edition of the Dallas Voice Newspaper listing the “Stonewall Legal Society” in its Directory as an LGBT+ organization. It was at that lunch that the topic of a gay and lesbian bar association was first discussed. In January of 1992, Lee Taft asked Ed Ishmael to lunch.
