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Plan Your Week • May 6, 2022

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Have an event coming up? Email your information to Managing Editor Tammye Nash at nash@dallasvoice.com or Senior Staff Writer David Taffet at taffet@dallasvoice.com by Wednesday at 5 p.m.

for that week’s issue. Plan Your Week The Gay Agenda is now color-coded: Red for community events; blue for arts and entertainment; purple for sports; green for nightlife and orange for civic events and holidays. • Biweekly: Hope Cottage Foster Parent Information Meeting Hope Cottage holds information meetings for those interested in becoming foster parents.

The meetings are held alternately on Saturdays at 10 a.m. and Thursdays at 6 p.m. For information email Clyde Hemminger at chemminger@hopecottage.org. • Every Monday: THRIVE Resource Center’s THRIVE Monday Support Group for LGBTQ adults 50 and older meets virtually and is led by interns from the SMU counseling program.

For more information on the support group and how to join, please send an email to THRIVE@myresourcecenter.org. • Weekly: Frontrunners Running club for the LGBTQ community and allies of DFW.

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