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...
View ArticleTwo 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...
View ArticleHundreds 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....
View ArticleAustin 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.
View ArticleFeud 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.
View ArticleLGBT 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.
View ArticleTransgender 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,...
View ArticleAustin 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.
View ArticleAustin 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.
View ArticleFacebook 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...
View ArticleAustin 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.
View ArticleNBA 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.
View ArticleAustin 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...
View ArticleNo 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.
View ArticleProbate 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...
View ArticleTexas 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.
View ArticleTexas 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."
View ArticleTexas 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...
View ArticleTexas 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.
View ArticleTexas 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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