It was a big night for many openly gay and lesbian candidates across the nation, with several races resulting in first-time victories for openly LGBT candidates in several state and local governments.

Mayor Annise D. Parker was been re-elected to a second term on Tuesday, barely avoiding a runoff despite a poll conducted last month which showed her with the lowest approval rating of any Houston mayor in nearly fifty years, and with only 37 percent of the poll's respondents saying that they would vote for her.

HOUSTON — In a strongly worded editorial, the Houston Chronicle on Sunday retracted its endorsement of a school board candidate after his campaign released an anti-gay flyer directed at his opponent, calling it “obvious gay bashing.”

On September 23, 2010, Asher Brown returned home from school while his parents were at work. He shot himself in the head after enduring what his mother and stepfather say was constant harassment from four other students at Hamilton Middle School in Houston.

A Houston gay couple said they will appeal a ruling in a child custody case because the judge ordered that the divorced father of three is prohibited from ever leaving his children alone with his husband, or any other man who is not related to the children “by blood or adoption.”

In a stunning case of bigotry from Houston Judge Charley E. Prine, Jr., a married gay man has been forbidden from ever leaving his children alone with his husband, reported the Houston Chronicle.

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 [...]

The City of Houston officially has a new mayor as of Saturday. Annise Parker was sworn in as Mayor of Houston in a private ceremony at City Hall, making Houston [...]

From CNN on Sunday, Annise Parker, the mayor-elect of Houston. Speaking on her historic win becoming the Houston's first openly gay mayor, and making Houston the largest U.S. city to [...]

Annise Parker has been elected mayor of the nation's 4th largest city, making Houston the largest U.S. city to ever have an openly gay individual serve as mayor. Recognizing the [...]

Houston voters head to the polls Saturday to vote on several runoff races, and final polls indicate they could elect the city's first openly gay mayor. City Controller Annise Parker [...]

Houston's openly gay city controller has pulled ahead in the race to be mayor of the nation's fourth largest city, just two days before a runoff election, according to a [...]

Another day, another horrifying report of violence against a gay teenager, reports the Dallas Voice. Jayron Martin, a 16-year-old high school freshman from Houston, tells KHOU-TV that he was chased [...]

HOUSTON -- A group of socially conservative Houstonians is planning a campaign to discourage voters from electing City Controller Annise Parker in the December mayoral runoff because she is a [...]