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Houston to offer benefits to same-sex spouses of city employees
HOUSTON — Houston will provide health care and life insurance benefits to legally married same-sex spouses of city employees, officials announced Wednesday.
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Texas county adopts sweeping policy to protect LGBT inmates
HOUSTON — The sheriff of Houston’s Harris County has adopted a sweeping policy designed to protect and guarantee equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inmates, including allowing transgender individuals to be housed based on the gender they identify with instead of their biological sex.
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Annise Parker wins re-election in Houston mayoral race
HOUSTON — Houston Mayor Annise Parker was elected on Tuesday to a third and final term as the leader of the nation’s fourth largest city.
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Victory Fund announces ‘Ten Races to Watch’ featuring LGBT candidates
The Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund has announced its annual “Races to Watch” list featuring openly LGBT candidates, naming 10 candidates involved in groundbreaking runs for political office this year. Victory has endorsed a total of 85 out candidates for 2013, an all-time high for an odd numbered year.
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Houston mayor: Passing a non-discrimination law is ‘something we should do’
HOUSTON — San Antonio’s recent passage of an LGBT-inclusive non-discrimination ordinance leaves Houston, the nation’s fourth largest city, as the only major metropolitan area in Texas without its own citywide ordinance, and mayor Annise Parker says the city should follow suit.
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Transgender woman denied marriage license due to Texas’ gay marriage ban
HOUSTON — The transgender widow of a Texas firefighter, whom a judge ruled in 2011 was not entitled to her late husband’s death benefits because she was born a man, is now challenging Texas law once more by attempting to get married again.
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Student gov’t candidate targeted in anti-gay smear campaign wins election
HOUSTON — A student government candidate at University of Houston-Downtown, who was the subject of an anti-gay smear campaign that also revealed his HIV status, has been elected student body vice-president.
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Gay student’s HIV status revealed in student council smear campaign
HOUSTON — Campus police at the University of Houston-Downtown have launched an investigation over flyers that surfaced on campus that detailed private medical information about a gay student’s HIV status.
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Transgender high school senior wins battle to wear dress to school prom
HOUSTON — A transgender high school senior in Houston, Texas, has won a fight to wear a dress to the senior prom.
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Soccer player Colin Clark under fire for calling ball boy a ‘fucking faggot’
Houston Dynamo winger Colin Clark is under fire for calling a ball boy a “fucking faggot” in Friday night’s soccer match in Seattle after he wasn’t issued a new ball as quickly as he wanted on a throw-in situation.