It’s been a long, back-and-forth battle for equality ANTHONY T. EATON | Contributing Writer8anthonyeaton@gmail.com There is no question that we have made significant advances in our fight for equality here in Texas.
However, to understand how far we still have to go in Texas, we need to understand our political history, which has been a myriad of gains and losses.
In Texas, the fight for our equality has been a continual effort against predominantly white, male, conservative Republican lawmakers.
So let’s start by looking at losses. For example, an initial 1986 court ruling striking down Texas’ sodomy law was ultimately overturned in the same year due to a Georgia federal case that criminalized sodomy as a non-private act when the U.S.