Dallas Voice: News editor wins ‘Best Column’ award for article about bipolar gay man’s religious struggles
FROM THE DALLAS VOICE:
Winning entry detailed bipolar gay man’s ordeal with religious group, ‘ex-gay’ therapy, and his road back home to his supportive family
By Arnold Wayne Jones
As Dallas Voice news editor John Wright sat in the audience of the Sixth Floor Museum, listening as the winners of the Katie Awards were read, his heart sank a little. When he heard “best column” awarded to someone other than himself, he considered leaving right then.
“I didn’t know about the large market/medium market newspaper distinction, so when they announced that ‘best column’ went to the Dallas Morning News, I figured I must have lost,” he says.
He’s glad he stuck around. A few minutes later, Wright found himself on the podium, accepting a Katie Award — his first — from the Press Club of Dallas.
“I’m very happy. It’s gratifying. It’s not the first time I’ve won something, but it is the biggest in terms of prestige and just physical stature,” he says, referring to the more-than-a-foot-tall statuette. “And it made the five-dollar sports jacket I bought for the ceremony from the Salvation Army a good investment.”
Wright received the award for a column he wrote in last year’s Dec. 14 edition of Dallas Voice called “Purity sieges lead gay man into bipolar hell.” In it, Wright examined how a local man had been exploited by anti-gay protesters.
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