Tag: Texas

A customer says he won’t go back to a restaurant in Texas after a server described him as “fat” and “gay” on the receipt. The customer, who hasn’t been identified, told KTRK that he was confused and angry when he saw that “to go dude with dreads, fat, gay” was written on his receipt after spending a few hours at the Plush Daiquiri Bar and Grill in Houston. “That’s like stereotyping, for her to not even know and say fat, gay...

Stephen Bratton was a successful pastor at Grace Family Baptist Church in Cypress Station Texas, but he harbored a dark and sinister side, according to his family and friends. Now he finds himself charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child after he admitted the crime to church elders and his wife.  Bratton 43, has been accused of inappropriately touching a teenaged relative, actions that escalated into “sexual intercourse multiple times a day or several times a week” according to...

Kristian Cardenas (image via Instagram @ktaay)Kristian Cardenas — a hair stylist and makeup artist from Lubbock, Texas — had a recent tweet of hers go viral after she shared screenshots of a client who asked if Cardenas was gay and then fired and lectured her after Cardenas said she was. Naturally, the client was Christian (because of course she was — did you even have to ask?). In the text exchange, the unnamed woman wrote, “I have a few questions...

A man has been arrested in connection to three murders, including that of Muhlaysia Booker, 23, a Black transgender woman. The Dallas Police Department arrested Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 34, who has been charged with three counts of homicide. “During the investigation of two other homicides, detectives realized Lyles drove the same type of car that is believed to have picked up Muhlaysia Booker on May 18, 2019,” said Dallas police officer Max Geron. “We don’t know the motive for murder at...

A county commissioner in Texas has come under fire for refusing to sign a Pride proclamation. Nueces County Commissioner Carolyn Vaughn read a statement prior to a vote on a proclamation supporting the Mosaic Project of South Texas’ Fourth Annual Pride Week. Nueces County includes Corpus Christi, Texas. “I want it in the record that I do not support this proclamation or agree with the statements in it,” she stated. Some people at the meeting supported her. “What she said was just right....

A still from Heredia’s video of his trans friend being ejected and shoved by bar security.Last night, Dallas, Texas resident Daniel Heredia posted a video showing his trans female friend Blair Jirousek being kicked out of JR’s, one of the largest gay bars on the city’s gay strip, for seemingly no reason. In a public Facebook post, Heredia wrote that when he, Jirousek and another friend walked up to the bar to order drinks, the bartender (who was also the...

A state attorney general is suing a city for refusing to give Chick-fil-A a contract to operate at their local airport. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in state court against the city of San Antonio, alleging the city’s choice to refuse to give Chick-fil-A a contract at its airport violates Chick-fil-A’s religious freedom. This past March, the San Antonio City Council voted to allow several restaurants to open locations at their airport, but stipulated that Chick-fil-A could not...

A second black transgender woman was found dead over the weekend in Dallas. This past Saturday, police found the body of Chynal Lindsey, 26, in White Rock Lake after someone called police to report a body in the lake. At a press conferences, Police Chief U. Reneé Hall said Lindsey’s body had “obvious signs of homicidal violence.” Hall said that Dallas Police have reached out to the FBI to help with the investigation because of a possible connection to another trans woman...

Image via Twitter: Craig BrooksCraig Brooks — a gay, 26 year old employee of a Holiday Inn Express hotel in Austin, Texas — went viral after posting images of himself calmly denying a room to a woman who had called him a “f*cking n*gger” when making a reservation over the phone. The video is priceless, but just as other web users began applauding him, others quickly unearthed a handful of transphobic tweets he had made in the past. Brooks has since...

A new mural depicting the transgender pride flag along with portraits of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera is taking shape in a Dallas suburb. The mural marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, and is believed to be the largest transgender-specific mural in America. The mural, painted on the side of a tattoo and piercing shop on Cedar Springs Road, is the brainchild of artist Brian Kenny. “I wanted this mural to be a positive reinforcement that we are...

The Texas House has passed an extreme religious liberty bill this week that could legalize discrimination against LGBTQ people. What’s been called the “Save Chick-fil-A” bill passed the state house on a nearly party-line vote, 79 to 62. Only one Republican voted against it. “This bill is going to pass; let’s face it,” said Texas Representative Celia Israel (D), moments before voting began. “It’s been cloaked in religious freedom, but the genesis, the nexus of this bill, is in hatred.” The bill...

Pop star Ariana Grande made a surprise visit to a Texas gay club. Last week Ariana visited HEAT nightclub in San Antonio. Fans spotted her and one even caught a video of her tipping Miss Toni Andrews, a drag queen. ariana grande really went to our local club and was tipping queens $100 bills i fuckin love her pic.twitter.com/IzWtj1KI9E — #teamyvie (@70skyliejenner) May 16, 2019 One of the queens saw that Ariana was in the club and went backstage to tell the others. “I...

Yesterday, the Texas House passed HB 3172, a bill known as the s0-called “Save Chick-fil-A” bill. It forbids any level of government from taking actions against any group based on their religious or political beliefs. Because the bill already passed the Senate, it’s now headed to the desk of Republican state Governor Greg Abbott where he’ll almost certainly sign it into law. And it’ll also most certainly blow up in Republicans’ faces too. Basically, the bill is sort of a back-door...

Now he's being bullied at school A teacher in Texas allegedly told a student, in a classroom full of other students, that her boyfriend is gay and he’s using her as a ‘cover’. The moment occurred at Nixon-Smiley High School in Nixon, Texas. The father of the student at the center of the rumor was the first person to bring up the incident, and called out the teacher for her behavior and words. ‘She expects those kids to carry themselves a certain way,’...