Texas

A pair of Republican Texas lawmakers have introduced two pieces of anti-gay legislation, one which would cut funding for schools and universities that have policies in place that support LGBT students, faculty, or staff, and another measure that would allow discrimination based on religious beliefs. [ Read more → ]

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A gay couple in Fort Worth, Texas said that a local meeting and party facility has refused to lease them space for their upcoming wedding reception because they are gay. [ Read more → ]

AUSTIN, Texas — A Democratic lawmaker has introduced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage in Texas, 10 years after the Legislature proposed a constitutional amendment banning it. [ Read more → ]

The owner of a Dallas comic store said Tuesday he will not carry the print edition of DC Comics' "Anthology of Superman" in his store after learning that the comic book publisher had hired an anti-gay activist and board member of the National Organization for Marriage, to write for their new digital “Adventures of Superman" series. [ Read more → ]

AUSTIN, Texas -- Three Texas lawmakers are seeking to reverse the state's ban on same-sex marriage by repealing a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as between one man and one woman. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS -- The Dallas County Commissioners on Tuesday voted to begin giving a stipend to unmarried and gay employees whose partners purchase individual health insurance because they aren’t eligible for coverage under the county’s benefits program. [ Read more → ]

A Texas gay couple say that the national media attention they received after finding “leave or die fags,” painted on their Clarendon, Texas home only made matters worse, until readers of an LGBTQ blog pitched in to give the couple a new start. [ Read more → ]

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 its LGBT users’ private information. [ Read more → ]

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. [ Read more → ]

CLARENDON, Texas -- A gay couple in this small, north Texas town said they think that a spray painted hate message found on their front porch is linked to an anti-gay newspaper advertisement written by a local minister. [ Read more → ]

FORT WORTH, Texas -- A grand jury on Monday indicted four teens who stand accused of writing anti-gay slurs and other vulgar messages on vehicles and homes in an Arlington, Texas neighborhood earlier this year. [ Read more → ]

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. [ Read more → ]

BEAUMONT, Texas -- The principal of the Beaumont Independent School District’s Taylor Career and Technology Center has cancelled the school's Adult Cosmetology class that the center has offered for ten years rather than admit a student he perceived was gay, according to the program's instructor. [ Read more → ]

AUSTIN, Texas -- A University of Texas advisory panel consisting of four senior faculty members has concluded that the author of an anti-gay parenting study had not published nor committed falsification of data, plagiarism or other ethical breaches constituting scientific misconduct. [ Read more → ]

EL PASO, Texas -- An El Paso, Texas school district has strengthened its anti-discrimination policies to prevent bullying of LGBT students and employees after an El Paso teen committed suicide last month after enduring two years of anti-gay bullying. [ Read more → ]

PORTLAND, Texas -- Texas Rangers and the Portland police department have released a new sketch of the suspected shooter in the June 22 attack that claimed one young woman's life and left her partner struggling to recover in a Texas neurological rehabilitation center. [ Read more → ]

AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas-Austin announced it is investigating a gay parenting study published last month that touched off a firestorm of criticism by LGBT advocacy groups, and a formal complaint by New York-based freelance writer Scott Rosensweig. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS -- A gay couple was arrested on Thursday when they launched a planned protest of Texas' ban on same-sex marriage after being denied a marriage license. [ Read more → ]

PORTLAND, Texas -- Investigators in Portland, Texas have released a sketch of a suspect in the shooting of a lesbian teen couple at a public park in suburban of Corpus Christi last month. [ Read more → ]

PORTLAND, Texas -- A teen-aged lesbian couple has been found shot in a public park in this small Texas resort community just northeast of Corpus Christi. [ Read more → ]