William Waybourn and Mike Anglin in 1986 Remembering the early days of Black Tie With the death of Dick Weaver in November 2022, Mike Anglin and I are now the last remaining original founders of the Dallas Black Tie Dinner, created in 1982.
With enormous pride, we celebrate the overwhelming success of an event that has served, united and benefitted the Dallas LGBTQ community for these past 42 years.
The weekly “dinner” planning sessions of that early era of the dinner were conducted in John Thomas’s living room near North Central Expressway.
Our meetings were held every Saturday morning, regardless of weather or other circumstances. You didn’t miss the meetings; after a few minutes of sharing lives, we got down to business.