Annise Parker

You have the right to get married, but not the right to spousal benefits now.

She explained why it took almost week to respond to Coulter, and… ouch!

For some conservative religious leaders, the flood was a prayer finally answered and a sin finally addressed.

After Ann Coulter suggested Houston electing a lesbian mayor was a better explanation for Hurricane Harvey than the most obvious one, Annise Parker beautifully clapped back.

She blames the rejection of the ordinance on “fear mongering” and “deliberate lies” by opponents.

After a drawn-out showdown between Houston’s popular lesbian mayor and a coalition of conservative pastors, voters in the nation’s fourth-largest city will soon decide whether to establish nondiscrimination protections for LGBT people.

The ruling Wednesday over ballot wording for a November referendum was another stumble for Mayor Annise Parker.

HOUSTON — A state court judge in Texas on Wednesday ordered the city of Houston to stop providing benefits to the same-sex spouses of city employees, but city officials say a federal court has already ruled that the benefits can continue.

Fox News helped turn a bogus story about subpoenas sent to a handful of Houston pastors into a national rallying cry for religious liberty. Now the network is helping promote an event that will pit some of the country’s most extreme anti-LGBT voices against the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance. In May, the city of Houston made history by enacting the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), a measure that prohibits discrimination in housing, employment, and public accommodations on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and several other categories…

HOUSTON — Houston city attorneys have withdrawn subpoenas that sought speeches and other information from five pastors who publicly opposed an ordinance banning discrimination of gay and transgender residents, the mayor said Wednesday.