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School bans all non-academic clubs to avoid approving gay-straight alliance
A Texas school district has banned all non-academic clubs from meeting on campus to ensure it’s complying with federal law after refusing to allow a student to start a gay-straight alliance.
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Anti-gay measure backfires on El Paso city workers, retirees
EL PASO, Texas — An effort to block same-sex partners of city employees from obtaining health care benefits has back fired, and may strip benefits from thousands of others, including elected officials and partners of retired policemen and firefighters.
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Austin men attacked after leaving gay bar
AUSTIN, Texas — Two men say they were attacked after leaving a gay night club in downtown Austin on Christmas night, by five men who jumped from a vehicle yelling anti-gay slurs.
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Lesbian teen suing Texas school, coaches for harassment, ‘outing’ her
Three Kilgore High School coaches and the Kilgore Independent School District are being sued for outing a lesbian student to her parents, subjecting her to “unnecessary risk of harassment and trauma by disclosing their sexual orientation without consent.”
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Atlanta gay bar gets $1 million for bogus raid; still no resolution in Fort Worth invasion
The Atlanta City Council last week voted 14-0 to award the Atlanta Eagle bar $1 million in response to a federal lawsuit filed by a private attorney on behalf of 19 clients unjustly arrested in a botched police raid last September.
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Texas school board adopts LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying policy
By a unanimous vote, the Dallas Independent School District school board this week approved a new an anti-bullying policy that for the first time included protections for LGBTQ students.
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Texas man charged with murder of classmate over alleged gay ‘sexual overtures’
PEARLAND, Texas — A man charged in the murder of a classmate told authorities he beat the victim to death and burned his body after the victim made “unwanted sexual overtures to him toward him,” according to court records.
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Houston mayor appoints longtime transgender activist as associate municipal judge
HOUSTON — Mayor Annise Parker has appointed Houston attorney and longtime transgender activist Phyllis Randolph Frye as an associate municipal judge. Frye will become the first transgender judge in Texas and only the third in the country.
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Bigoted radio host attacks Joel Burns’ ‘It gets better’ message to gay youth
You may recall that last month, Joel Burns, an openly gay city council member in Fort Worth, Texas, gave a heart-wrenching, impassioned plea to LGBT youth struggling with their sexual identity or facing adversity among their families, community or bullying by their peers. But not everyone was touched by Burns’ message…
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TV station pulls anti-gay segment, radio station apologizes, morning host mum
A radio station has apologized, and a television station has removed from its website a controversial segment in which TV and radio audiences in Tyler, TX were invited to call in and debate the question: “Will the acceptance of homosexuality be the fall of America?”