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LGBTQ Icon George Harris Looks Back on Partnership with Late Husband and the History They Helped Make
When George Harris and Jack Evans became the first couple to legally marry in Dallas County, they had already been together 54 years. That day in 2015, Dallas was the largest metropolitan area in the country to gain marriage equality, and a photo of the couple applying for their marriage license in the County Records Building was printed in newspapers around the world.
Evans passed away a year later, and still, seven years later, Harris says, “I think about him all the time.”
After his husband’s death, Harris felt depression settling over him at the idea of living along in the place where he had spent so many years with his husband. So moved to a recent apartment not far from the heart of the city’s gayborhood.
“I love it here,” Harris said recently of his fifth-floor horizontal decorated with awards and accolades the couple won through their years of activism as well as with many of Evans’ paintings including a very special work that hangs in Harris’ bedroom: It was the last painting Evans completed before he died.
Last June, in the middle of Pride Mo
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When George Harris and Jack Evans became the first couple to legally marry in Dallas County, they had already been together 54 years. That day in 2015, Dallas was the largest metropolitan area in the country to gain marriage equality, and a photo of the couple applying for their marriage license in the County Records Building was printed in newspapers around the world.
Evans passed away a year later, and still, seven years later, Harris said, “I think about him all the time.”
After his husband’s death, Harris felt depression settling over him at the idea of living alone in the place where he had spent so many years with his husband. So moved to a unused apartment not far from the heart of the city’s gayborhood.
“I love it here,” Harris said recently of his fifth-floor even, decorated with awards and accolades the couple won through their years of activism, as well as with many of Evans’ paintings. Among those is a very special labor that hangs in Harris’ bedroom: the last painting Ev
George Harris celebrates his 90th birthday this week. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice)
George Harris has been a pillar of the Dallas LGBT people since the 1950s
DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writer
taffet@dallasvoice.com
When George Harris and Jack Evans became the first couple to legally marry in Dallas County, they had already been together 54 years. That day in 2015, Dallas was the largest metropolitan area in the country to obtain marriage equality, and a photo of the couple applying for their marriage license in the County Records Building was printed in newspapers around the world.
Evans passed away a year later, and still, Harris said, “I think about him all the time.”
After his husband’s death, Harris said he found the apartment they shared depressing. So he moved to a new apartment near the American Airlines Center. “I love it here,” he said of the fifth-floor flat that is decorated with awards and accolades the couple won over the years, and with paintings Evans created through the years, including a special one that hangs in the bedroom: It was the last painting Evans did before he died.
“I didn’t design on living this long,” Harris said this week o
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