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Federal prosecutors charge Texas man with hate crime in attack on gay man
DALLAS — Federal prosecutors have charged a 19-year-old North Texas man of a hate crime for an attack that left a gay man hospitalized for 10 days with skull and face fractures.
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Dallas city council committee advances ‘statement of support’ for LGBT residents
DALLAS — A Dallas City Council committee on Tuesday voted in favor of a “comprehensive statement of support” for its LGBT employees and residents in an effort to address inequalities in city employment, healthcare and lobbying efforts.
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Marriage lawsuits could help Davis, hurt Abbott in Texas governors race
AUSTIN, Texas — Greg Abbott’s job as Texas’ top lawyer placed him in the line of fire last week when his likely Democratic opponent in the governor’s race called on him to stop defending lawsuits over same-sex marriage.
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Growing number of attorneys general refusing to defend gay marriage bans
NORFOLK, Va. — The day after a federal judge struck down Virginia’s gay-marriage ban, state Attorney General Mark Herring wasn’t vowing to appeal or insisting his state’s law was sound.
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Texas gubernatorial candidate calls on AG to stop defending gay marriage ban
SAN ANTONIO — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis says she supports same-sex marriage and called on her opponent Attorney General Greg Abbott to stop defending the definition of marriage in the Texas constitution as only between one man and one woman.
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Texas court reverses decision that voided transgender widow’s marriage
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Texas appeals court on Thursday overturned a judge’s ruling that had voided the marriage of a transgender widow whose firefighter husband died battling a blaze.
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Federal judge hears challenge to Texas’ same-sex marriage ban
AUSTIN, Texas — Attorneys for two same-sex couples have faced off with the Texas attorney general’s office over whether a federal judge should lift the state ban on gay marriage.
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Judge to hear challenge of Texas’ same-sex marriage ban
AUSTIN, Texas — Two gay couples challenging Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage will take their case to federal court on Wednesday in the wake of recent legal victories in two other conservative states.
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Texas county benefits plan to cover workers’ same-sex partners
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Bexar County Commissioners on Tuesday unanimously approved a provision that would allow county benefits to be extended to employees’ same-sex partners.
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In Harris County, Texas, jail confronts issue of safety for LGBT inmates
The Harris County Jail in Houston, the third-largest in the country which processes some 125,000 inmates annually, is one of many nationwide implementing changes to the way it treats its gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender population. The changes stem from a law passed by Congress under former President George W. Bush that requires federal, state and local lockups to eliminate rape in part by adjusting regulations about how the population lives behind bars.