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Texas Senate committee advances bill to equalize protections for gay teens
AUSTIN, Texas — Parents of gay teens urged Texas lawmakers on Tuesday to give their children the same legal protection as heterosexuals when it comes to prosecuting sex crimes — pleas that helped push a key Senate committee to cast a vote bucking the state’s long history of opposing the expansion of gay rights.
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Texas lawmakers consider new legal protections for sexually active gay teens
AUSTIN, Texas — In Texas, where attempts to expand gay rights have run into strong opposition from Republican leaders, state lawmakers are considering new legal protections for sexually active gay teens.
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Texas A&M student president vetoes LGBT funding ‘opt-out’ bill
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The student body president at Texas A&M University on Friday vetoed a religious freedom bill passed by the student senate earlier this week that opponents said had only one intent — defunding the LGBT student center.
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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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Texas A&M student government approves LGBT funding ‘opt-out’ bill
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The student senate at Texas A&M University on Wednesday approved a bill that allows students to opt out of paying fees that fund the school’s LGBTQ campus center based on religious grounds.
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Texas Senate panel takes no action on bill to ban LGBT workplace discrimination
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas state Senate panel on Wednesday began formal consideration of a bill that would ban discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation of gender identity, but the committee chair said the measure does not have the votes to pass.
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Congressman Louie Gohmert opposes gun control because gay marriage leads to bestiality
Speaking on gun control, U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas says why limit the number of rounds in a magazine because “it’s kind of like marriage when you say it’s not a man and a woman any more, then why not have three men and one woman, or four women and one man, or why not somebody has a love for an animal?”
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry rallies opponents of same-sex marriage at state capitol
AUSTIN, Texas — Gov. Rick Perry rallied opponents of gay marriage and abortion on Tuesday, calling for support for what he called traditional values on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court heard a challenge to California’s ban on gay marriage.
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Prisoner gets 6 more years for hate crime attack on inmate he thought was gay
DALLAS — A member of the Aryan Brotherhood will serve an extended prison sentence after admitting he committed a federal hate crime by severely beating another inmate he believed to be gay.