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Westboro bigots protest at NBA finals over league’s policy against gay slurs
The Westboro Baptist bigots brought their special brand of hate to game three of the NBA Finals on Sunday to protest the league’s policy against gay slurs.
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Texas legislature approves bill to improve school bullying-prevention policies
The Texas legislature on Thursday gave final approval on a bill designed to crack down on bullying and require schools to have improved bullying-prevention policies.
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Bigotry backfires: El Paso anti-gay ordinance leaves many without benefits
A federal judge has upheld a voter approved initiative that was intended to block same-sex partners of city employees from obtaining health care benefits, but actually strips away benefits from elected officials and partners of retired policemen and firefighters.
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Three suspects in custody following attack outside El Paso gay bar
Police have arrested three suspects in connection with the brutal beating of a man outside an El Paso, Tex., gay nightclub earlier this month.
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Dallas County adds gender identity, expression to non-discrimination policy
Dallas County commissioners on Tuesday voted to include transgender employees in the county’s non-discrimination policy.
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LGBT advocacy groups say Texas killings should be prosecuted as hate crime
LGBT advocacy groups are calling for the shooting deaths in of a lesbian and her mother Austin, Texas, earlier this week, to be prosecuted as a hate crime.
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Feud over daughter’s lesbian relationship leads Dad to commit double homicide
A Texas man — distraught over his daughter’s lesbian relationship — was arrested Tuesday for killing his daughter’s girlfriend and the girlfriend’s mother.
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Texas budget proposal includes anti-gay measure, would strip HIV/AIDS funding
The Texas House of Representatives has approved a budget provision that would required state colleges and universities, if they use state funds to support “a gender and sexuality center,” to spend equal amounts on money promoting “family and traditional values.”
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Chair of Texas College Republicans resigns after gay slur caught on video
A Southern Methodist University student has resigned his post with the Texas College Republicans after a video was posted of him describing getting “hammered,” “hooking up” with a young woman and referring to political opponents using a gay slur.
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Texas, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma: states hold onto laws defining gay ‘conduct’ illegal
“Homosexual conduct” is still a crime in Texas — and at least three other states — eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down the state’s sodomy law, and invalidated similar laws across the country.