Texas

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 → ]

WASHINGTON -- More than 100 people gathered in Dupont Circle on Friday for a vigil in honor of a lesbian couple who was shot last week in a Texas park. [ Read more → ]

I’m going to Texas on Friday to mourn the loss of a beautiful young girl at a vigil in the park where she and her girlfriend were shot. But I’m also hoping this tragedy wakes people up to the nightmares on the horizon that are sure to come if our foes don’t halt their rancid and reactionary rhetoric. [ Read more → ]

ARLINGTON, Texas — Police in Arlington, Texas on Wednesday announced they have identified five suspects in connection with a crime spree earlier this month that included nearly a dozen incidents of anti-gay graffiti. [ Read more → ]

A new study tries to show that the kids of gay and lesbian parents are worse off than the kids of straight parents. We'll take a look at all of the problems with that study, and there's a lot of them. Montana Democrats endorse marriage equality, while Montana Republicans call for throwing gay couples in jail. [ Read more → ]

EL PASO, Texas — Another bullied gay youth lost to suicide. El Paso teen Brandon Elizares, 16, took his own life on June 2, according to family and friends. [ Read more → ]

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Jacob Candelaria is poised to become the first openly gay man to serve in the New Mexico state legislature. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS — The Dallas Morning News on Thursday weighed in on ExxonMobil’s 13-year refusal to add workplace protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity. [ Read more → ]

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, including a name that may be different from their legal name. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS -- Two gay men were the victims of a brutal early morning attack on Tuesday and were beaten with baseball bats in what Dallas police are classifying as a hate crime. [ Read more → ]

HOUSTON — A high profile Houston pastor wants openly lesbian mayor Annise Parker to resign, or stop “promoting” the legalization of same-sex marriage. Parker is a co-chairperson of a bipartisan coalition of more than 80 U.S. mayors who have publicly stated their support for marriage equality. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS -- An openly lesbian judge in Dallas County, Texas says she refuses to perform marriage ceremonies for heterosexual couples until the state of Texas allows same-sex partners to wed. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS -- A GOP candidate running for the U.S. Senate from Texas, told his opponents and the audience during a Republican debate in Dallas Wednesday night that he feels that believes being gay is a choice and gays will have to answer to God. [ Read more → ]

EL PASO, Texas -- A Texas appeals court on Friday ruled against a coalition of anti-gay Christian groups who sought to recall El Paso mayor John Cook and two city representatives after they voted to restore health benefits to gay and unmarried partners of city employees. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS -- A spokesperson for the Dallas Veterans Affairs Center has confirmed that nurse practitioner Lincy Pandithurai would "retire from federal service" effective Jan. 21 after being accused of anti-gay harassment. [ Read more → ]

During a December 11 segment on Fox News, host Shannon Bream invited former Macy’s employee Natalie Johnson and Mathew Staver, founder of the anti-LGBT Liberty Counsel, to discuss Johnson’s recent termination from her job in San Antonio, Texas. [ Read more → ]

DALLAS -- In an effort to defuse a whisper campaign about his sexual orientation, a member of the Texas State Board of Education has acknowledged in an email to media organizations that he is gay. [caption id="attachment_40533" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="George Clayton"][/caption] George Clayton (R-Richardson), who... [ Read more → ]

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. [ Read more → ]