By a unanimous vote, the Dallas Independent School District school board this week approved a new an anti-bullying policy that for the first time included protections for LGBTQ students.

PEARLAND, Texas -- A man charged in the murder of a classmate told authorities he beat the victim to death and burned his body after the victim made "unwanted sexual overtures to him toward him," according to court records.

HOUSTON -- Mayor Annise Parker has appointed Houston attorney and longtime transgender activist Phyllis Randolph Frye as an associate municipal judge. Frye will become the first transgender judge in Texas and only the third in the country.

You may recall that last month, Joel Burns, an openly gay city council member in Fort Worth, Texas, gave a heart-wrenching, impassioned plea to LGBT youth struggling with their sexual identity or facing adversity among their families, community or bullying by their peers. But not everyone was touched by Burns' message...

A radio station has apologized, and a television station has removed from its website a controversial segment in which TV and radio audiences in Tyler, TX were invited to call in and debate the question: “Will the acceptance of homosexuality be the fall of America?”

A Texas television station is asking its viewers whether they think homosexuality will cause the downfall of the United States. KETK-TV, an NBC affiliate in Tyler, TX, has partnered with KTBB-AM radio station to poll its audiences on the subject.

Asher Brown’s uncle told a gathering of mourners and family supporters on Saturday that school bullies “ripped him up and tore him down everyday.” A crowd of hundreds blanketed a Houston park beside Moore Elementary School to express grief over the death by bullying of 13-year-old gay teen.

[caption id="attachment_10976" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Asher Brown"][media-credit name="FAMILY PHOTO" align="alignleft" width="260"][/media-credit][/caption] Another teenage victim of anti-gay bullying has committed suicide. Asher Brown came home from school last Thursday while his parents [...]

A Texas appeals court has ruled same-sex couples legally married in other states can’t get divorced in Texas, and also ruled that the Texas same-sex marriage ban is constitutional.

[caption id="attachment_7410" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Promotional still from 1998 New York production."][/caption] Tarleton State University has canceled Saturday's performance of four student-directed plays, including "Corpus Christi," the controversial production which portrays [...]

A class project depicting Jesus Christ as gay has hit a nerve in Stephenville, Texas. Tarleton State University is adding security for expected demonstrations Saturday when students perform the production, [...]

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 [...]

[caption id="attachment_6612" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="June 28, 2009 raid on the Rainbow Lounge"][/caption] City prosecutors in Fort Worth have decided to press ahead with criminal charges against at least two patrons [...]

Two gay softball players in Austin were assaulted over the weekend in what they are calling a hate crime. [caption id="attachment_6619" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Winston (left) and Morgan"][/caption] Matthew Morgan and [...]

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 County state district judge granted a divorce in court to Sabina Daly [...]