Texas

“That is a set up. We’re going to get treated sh**ty and then get no tipped and possibly hate crimed.”

The policies ban books that reference transgender people, as well as the use of gender-congruent restrooms.

Books would have a rating on their covers in what free speech activists call “a dangerous escalation in the movement to censor public education.”

They’re using their favorite trick: linking LGBTQ equality to child sex abuse.

The incident follows the anti-LGBTQ senator getting booed at Yankee Stadium last month.

He said being gay is worse than eating Indian food.

The Texas lawmaker got bent out of shape after he mocked a queer teen’s body and she shot back an insult about his hair.

The day after Governor Greg Abbott’s order to investigate families with transgender kids, he was assigned the very first case.

“I can’t imagine a situation where I would attempt to undo one of their marriages. So what makes them think that they are fit to pronounce upon mine?”

Houston police arrested Salih Alhemoud following a separate assault.

Apparently, letting gay men die from HIV is a form of religious freedom.

The state’s capital city is without water for the foreseeable future because the state’s Republicans were too busy fighting the culture wars.

There have only been 12 reported deaths of people with the virus among the nearly 50,000 cases reported worldwide.

State law now requires schools to display donated “In God we trust” posters. So one parent tried donating rainbow and Arabic posters.

One employee called Greg Abbott’s order to investigate the parents of trans kids “effing bull poop.”

Hundreds of residents showed up to the contentious meeting Monday night, with a majority speaking out against the proposed restrictions.

Many of the 41 challenged books focus on LGBTQ and Black characters. But the Bible was also a challenged book.

Saying the state has transformed “into a juggernaut of right-wing conservatism,” Bob McCranie is helping LGBTQ people get out.

His mom baked a pan of brownies that she claimed included “a little bit of dog poo” when he was a kid to explain what happens if you expose yourself to harmful ideas in books.

One lawsuit says insurance covering PrEP forces religious employers to “encourage homosexual behavior.”