by admin | Aug 21, 2017 | Featured, Transgender
“The bathroom bill in this session is dead and buried with dirt over its coffin.” That statement, made by Mark Jones (a Houston political science professor) is about as Texan as it gets. Jones was talking about about SB3/HB46. SB3 is the measure that would have...
by admin | May 23, 2017 | Featured, News
Yesterday, Texas’ Republican-controlled Senate passed a “religious refusal” bill that allows adoption agencies to turn away applicants who are single, LGBT, and/or non-Christian. It’s called the “Freedom to Serve Children Act,” but as National Field Director of...
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured
The official count of homeless people in Dallas, Texas as of March 2017 is over 3,500 people, with at least 1,000 of those unsheltered. But it’s difficult to get a good count; the homeless population is not a cooperative one to census. Which has been a problem...
by admin | Jul 29, 2016 | LGBTQIA+, News
When Shiloh Gun Range in north Houston, Texas first offered free handgun courses to LGBT people in the wake of the Orlando shooting, they expected maybe 40 or 50 people. That was the estimate of General Manager Jeff Sanford. Only a few weeks later, they have...
by admin | Jun 14, 2016 | Civil Rights, Education, News, Transgender
For decades, schools and states have tried to wiggle around the language of Title IX, the statute of the Education Amendments of 1972 that protects students and staff from discrimination based on sex in education at institutions that receive Federal funding. On...
