Tag: Texas

A typical night at one of San Antonio’s gay watering holes, Pegasus Nightclub, turned into a nightmare for patrons. According to My San Antonio, a customer was kicked out of the bar around 12:30 a.m. on Monday October 8th and returned shortly after and opened gun fire on patrons outside of the bar near a taco stand. Two men and one woman were struck by the gun fire that sent San Antonio’s gay strip running in a frenzy. According...

L.A. County police shared that they will not be charging political donor Ed Buck for the overdose of 26-year-old Gemmel Moore. On July 27, 2017, Moore was discovered naked on a mattress in the living room of Buck’s home. (Buck is known for enjoying the company of young black men, some of whom were escorts). Once they arrived, paramedics quickly realized that Moore had overdosed. The L.A. County Coroner’s office later shared that Moore overdosed of methamphetamine. As Knock LA reports,...

Cross Coburn, a 19-year-old city councilman from Groves, Texas, is speaking out after his nude Grindr photos were mailed to City Hall and to local media outlets KFDM and The Port Arthur News in an attempt to shame him. See report above. The photos came with a note that read: “Is this in any way proper behavior of a councilman to represent himself online or a ‘dating’ app? I felt the city council should be made aware of the situation.” Said Coburn...

And it's straight guys' fault. New research from the University of Texas suggests that straight women are more comfortable opening up to gay guys than heterosexual men. A report published in Psychological Science, surveyed more than 150 heterosexual women about their comfort levels around men, and combined the results with videotaped encounters between 66 pairs of straight women and gay men. Researchers found that the women conversed more easily and openly after learning the men they’d been paired with were gay. Their...

The saying is "everything in Texas is bigger", and that may just relate to its ever growing LGBTQ community as it was just revealed that at least 44 LGBTQ Texans are running for office in 2018! Yee haw! The number is the most in the state's history, tripling the previous record. The bulk of the challengers this year are Democrats, where a smattering of others are running in other parties or non-partisan races. One of the people running happens to also...

AUSTIN, Texas — A man who sued over the right to marry his partner said Tuesday that he is running as a Democrat in 2018 in a bid that would make him the first openly gay state senator in Texas if elected. Mark Phariss, a lawyer from the Dallas suburb of Plano, said he is encouraged by recent high-profile Democratic upsets in Virginia and Alabama as he launches his first run for public office in Dallas’ conservative northern suburbs. Phariss and...

AUSTIN — The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a Texas Supreme Court ruling that prevented same-sex spouses from having the same workplace insurance benefits as heterosexual couples. In a unanimous ruling in June, the Texas court acknowledged that same-sex marriage was legalized in 2015 with Obergefell vs. Hodges, but the justices said the decision did not make clear the additional rights of gay couples, in this case those who work for the government. Houston pastor Jack Pidgeon and accountant...

Alfred MacDonald pointed out to a friend that in some Muslim countries he could be killed for being LGBTI Alfred MacDonald left University of Texas at San Antonio after feeling ‘difficult to stay motivated’. He had made the comments during an out-of-class conversation with another graduate student. They had been discussing the ‘religious leanings of philosophy professors.’ He pointed out that in some Muslim countries, he could be executed for being bisexual. A few days after the conversation, he was called in for...

A transgender woman’s selfie with the anti-trans Texas governor has gone viral for all the right reasons. Texas’s legislature reconvened yesterday in a second, emergency attempt to pass a law banning trans people from using their bathroom of choice. Governor Greg Abbott, who has spearheaded the charge towards more discrimination of LGBT people, was asked to pose with local architect Ashley Smith before the special session. Nothing unusual about that. Except, unbeknownst to the governor, Smith is a trans woman, and a keen...

Who do you bring to Pride? Do you share the day just with other LGBT friends? Have you brought a parent before? What about a co-worker? Usually I go with the fellow gays and call it a day. Sometimes I'll put the parade goers down for a nap and then pop out on Pride night with another gaggle of friends. I've never really gone out of my way to invite someone to Pride. I mean, it's a public thing. Anyone...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that it might not be necessary to provide married same-sex couples with the same benefits as their opposite-sex counterparts. In a unanimous decision, the court reversed a lower court’s ruling in favor of Houston’s decision to extend spousal benefits to the same-sex spouses of city employees, arguing that the “reach and ramifications” of the rights of gay couples have yet to be determined, The Dallas Morning News reports. The case has been sent back...

A bill has been preliminarily approved in Texas, which would allow judges and officials to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licences. The bill would defend any judge or official with a religious objection to same-sex marriage. The proposed by was put forward by Senator Brian Birdwell. It passed on Tuesday with 21-10. It has a clause which means judges can only refuse if another official steps in to issue the legal documents for marriage. But it does allow documents to be sent electronically...

"If they try to take it down again we'll put another one up." A Texas couple’s rainbow flag was ripped down and set on fire early Thursday morning. Markus Maguire and his husband, Wilson Nash, found the still smoldering flag stuffed in their mailbox with neighbor’s mail used as kindling. A neighbor’s security cameras captured video of a van pulling up to the house, someone pulling the flag down and the van leaving. The vehicle returned a few minutes later so...

https://twitter.com/AndrewKragie/status/796061163222138884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw A man with a “Faggots Vote Democrat” sign and a Glock handgun was detained by police outside a polling place in Spring, Texas — near Houston — on Tuesday. Guns are prohibited at polling places in Texas, but The Houston Chronicle‘s Andrew Kragie reported on Twitter that police didn’t initially intervene because the man was more than 100 feet away as required by law. However, police apparently handcuffed the man and confiscated his handgun after he moved closer to the polling location, according to...