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San Antonio mayor fires back at LGBT advocacy group over travel warning
SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro has fired back at an LGBT advocacy group for issuing a travel alert advising the LGBT community to avoid San Antonio until the city takes action on a hotly debated non-discrimination ordinance.
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San Antonio councilwoman breaks silence, stands by inflammatory remarks
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Embattled San Antonio city councilwoman Elisa Chan, secretly recorded during a staff meeting describing homosexuality as “so disgusting,” “crazy” and “against nature,” said in a press conference Tuesday that “political correctness will not win the day” and stood by her inflammatory remarks.
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San Antonio councilwoman defends secretly recorded anti-gay remarks
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio city council woman who was secretly recorded during a staff meeting in which she said homosexuality is “so disgusting” and “against nature,” defended her comments Monday in her first public statement on the controversy that erupted last week.
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San Antonio city councilwoman: Homosexuality is ‘so disgusting,’ ‘against nature’
SAN ANTONIO, Texas — A secret recording of a staff meeting to discuss a proposed citywide non-discrimination ordinance captured a San Antonio city councilwoman discussing why homosexuality is “so disgusting” and “against nature.”
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Gay combat vet who lost leg in Iraq booed by anti-gay protesters in San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO — A highly decorated openly gay Iraq war combat veteran was booed by a crowd of anti-gay protesters during his speech to the San Antonio City Council meeting Wednesday evening.
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Candidate for Texas AG files brief opposing marriage equality
AUSTIN, Texas — Candidate for Texas attorney general Dan Branch has filed a legal brief opposing marriage rights for same-sex couples.
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Campaign to raise awareness of HIV testing draws ire of Dallas lawmaker
A campaign to increase awareness of HIV infections has one Dallas city council member fuming. Vonciel Jones Hill, who once stated that “all people are created equal under God, but there are acts that God does not bless,” is angry about a billboard promoting public education about HIV.
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Judge won’t stop Texas county from providing benefits for same-sex partners
EL PASO, Texas — A Texas state judge refused to stop El Paso County from providing health benefits for its employees’ same-sex partners, disagreeing with arguments such benefits violate the Texas Constitution.
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Everything is bigger in Texas – even the homophobia
For those of you who wonder why it is I continue to write about equality issues and continue to ask you all to not give up the fight for what is right and just in this world, and wonder why marriage equality is so very important, it is because of Carolyn Compton, Page Price and their children. They are the reason. And because it could be you or me standing in a court room, watching helplessly as a homophobic judge wields his gavel down on us…
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Texas judge enforces ‘morality clause’ to split up lesbian couple
McKINNEY, Texas — A Texas judge has invoked a “morality clause” in a lesbian mother’s divorce from her husband, requiring that the woman’s current partner of three years vacate their home “in the interest and welfare” of the divorced couple’s children.