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Texas Attorney General steps in to block same-sex divorce

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is trying to stop the divorce of two women in Austin on grounds their Massachusetts marriage is not legally recognized in the Lone Star state. Last week, a Travis...

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Two Austin men say attack was a hate crime

Two gay softball players in Austin were assaulted over the weekend in what they are calling a hate crime. Matthew Morgan and Emmanuel Winston say and were physically attacked by four men yelling...

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Hundreds march in support of Austin men attacked in alleged hate crime

Trailing a banner that read “Austin March Against Hate,” hundreds of people walked from a downtown gay bar to City Hall on Saturday to retrace the path of two gay men who were attacked last weekend....

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Austin men attacked after leaving gay bar

AUSTIN, Texas -- Two men say they were attacked after leaving a gay night club in downtown Austin on Christmas night, by five men who jumped from a vehicle yelling anti-gay slurs.

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Feud over daughter’s lesbian relationship leads Dad to commit double homicide

A Texas man -- distraught over his daughter's lesbian relationship -- was arrested Tuesday for killing his daughter's girlfriend and the girlfriend's mother.

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LGBT advocacy groups say Texas killings should be prosecuted as hate crime

LGBT advocacy groups are calling for the shooting deaths in of a lesbian and her mother Austin, Texas, earlier this week, to be prosecuted as a hate crime.

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Transgender students can now use preferred name on University records

AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas at Austin is set to implement a new policy this summer that will allow transgender students to list their preferred names on all official University records,...

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Austin city council approves resolution supporting same-sex marriage

AUSTIN, Texas -- The Austin city council on Thursday adopted a resolution supporting marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples, the first such measure from a Texas city.

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Austin police release video of alleged anti-gay assault during gay pride

AUSTIN, Texas -- Police in Austin, Texas on Friday released surveillance video which shows a violent attack on two men in the city’s downtown that occurred during last month gay pride.

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Facebook privacy glitch outs LGBT users

The outing of University of Texas-Austin students to their parents as a consequence of a little-known Facebook privacy glitch has reignited longstanding concerns over the social network’s treatment of...

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Austin dentist provides free dental reconstruction for hate crime victim

AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas man who had nine of his teeth knocked out in a violent assault during Austin's gay pride weekend in 2012, is sporting a new smile thanks to the goodwill of an Austin dentist.

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NBA Hall of Famer says gay athletes face same question black athletes once faced

AUSTIN, Texas -- NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell says the fight for equality for gay athletes reminds him of the civil rights movement of African-Americans in the 1960s.

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Austin police department has its first openly transgender officer

AUSTIN, Texas — The city of Austin, Texas now has it’s first openly transgender police officer. KXAN-TV reports that officer Greg Abbink has been on the police force for ten years, but it wasn’t until...

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No prison time for Army veteran who attacked gay men at Austin pride

Lambert Borgardt was sentenced to 10 years probation and 200 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty to assault charges.

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Probate judge rules Texas same‑sex marriage ban unconstitutional

A judge in Travis County, Texas, on Tuesday ruled that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, but the impact of the ruling remains unclear and the County Clerk declined to take any...

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Texas faith leaders gather at state capitol in support of marriage equality

Faith leaders rallied for marriage equality Tuesday at the Texas Capitol, seeking to convince lawmakers that expanding rights to LGBT Texans won't compromise their religious beliefs.

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Texas AG seeks to block probate judge’s same-sex marriage ruling

Ken Paxton says Probate Judge Guy Herman's "misguided ruling does not change Texas law or allow the issuance of a marriage license to anyone other than one man and one woman."

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Texas AG asks state Supreme Court to void same‑sex couple’s marriage

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Friday the state's same-sex marriage ban has been "needlessly cast in doubt" after a judge gave a lesbian couple from Austin permission to tie the...

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Texas lawmaker files complaint against judge who allowed same-sex wedding

A state lawmaker's complaint has prompted the Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct to investigate a judge who ordered the issuance of a marriage license to a same-sex couple.

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Texas lawmakers, conservative leaders celebrate 10 years of marriage inequality

Several Texas lawmakers joined conservative leaders at the state capitol in Tuesday for a controversial slice of symbolic wedding cake in a 10th anniversary celebration of the state's constitutional...

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