Clik here to view.
Clinton leads in Texas 2016 poll
The third and final segment of that PPP poll involved the 2016 Presidential election. The numbers assumed Hillary Clinton would be the Democrats’ 2016 nominee, and she crushed the opposition–even in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Plurality of Texans support gay marriage, wait
Kuff has linked a poll from an organization called Equality Texas which has some surprising results. It claims that 52% of Texans support recognizing out-of-state gay marriages, and a plurality of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gay sorta-marriage in Houston!
Yesterday, St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on W. Alabama, the church affiliated with the school I went to for Junior High School, observed a milestone. The Chronicle reports that the church officiated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gene Green on gay rights
I have, in the past, vented about my disdain towards some of Congressman Gene Green’s more conservative views. I like to think that I offered Congressman Green an ultimatum: drag his social issues into...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Davis on gay marriage
The Dallas Voice has a big article about my State Representative, Sarah Davis. Evidently, this past weekend, as the huge Equality Forward summit was going on in Austin, the Log Cabin Republicans were...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Legislative update 4/29
TruancyThe Senate has approved 27-3 (Hancock, Nelson and Paxton against) a watered-down bill by John Whitmire to loosen the penalties for truancy. Originally, Whitmire wished for truancy to be struck...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“No Freedom ’til we’re Equal”
The New York Times reports that the United States Supreme Court, in a pair of 5-4 decisions, handed two victories on Constitutional principles to the gay and lesbian community. First, in the case of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Dick at the Parade (and a Hall)
This past Saturday night, I had the pleasure of attending the Houston Gay Pride Parade. The event has been an on-again, off-again tradition among members of my family since the very first parade, in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Senate & Presidential polls
Public Policy Polling, fresh off of crushing the hopes & dreams of Wendy fans a few days ago, has released a new poll aimed at the Senate & Presidential elections. Luckily, in this poll, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why I am a Democrat
My Grandfather was an ardent LBJ Democrat, and my father has made the full metamorphosis from Baby Boomer Rebel Rouser to Obama Democrat (which is every bit as hypocritical and intellectually anathema...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Elisa Chan, bigot
The San Antonio Express-News ran an exposé on a member of the City Council there, Elisa Chan, on awfully homophobic comments she made while under secret recording. The recording is from May and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gay Divorce
The Austin American-Statesman reports that the Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases pertaining to gay divorce. The astute will surely remember the infamous case out of Austin from 2011,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Federal Benefits for the Married
The Washington Post reports that the Internal Revenue Service has amended their policy on who is deemed “legally married.” Jack Lew, the United States Treasury Secretary, that the IRS would allow...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mayor’s race goes national
CNN has a video clip that discusses the Houston mayoral election. The report by John King begins by discussing how Democrats can win nationwide despite winning only a tiny fraction of counties, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Texas defies Federal Law
The San Antonio Express-News reports that the Texas national guard is refusing to give out federal benefits to legally married military spouses. As one may recall, the Pentagon recently announced they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Equality in Houston
The Houston Chronicle reports that Mayor Parker has doubled down on her calls to institute a comprehensive non-discrimination ordinance protecting LGBT people in Houston. When Mayor Lee Brown took...
View ArticleClik here to view.
No lawsuit over NDO4SA
The Texas Tribune reports that the Attorney General’s office now, upon further review, most likely will not file suit to block the recently-passed non discrimination ordinance in San Antonio. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guv update 10/7
Once again, most of the State press corps followed Wendy Davis today as she made all the news in the gubernatorial election. First, the Texas Tribune reports on Wendy Davis’ first web commercial, which...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guv update 10/8
Today saw two major stories about the Governor’s race, one looking at the typical dichotomy of the candidates, and another discussing a possible shake-up. First, Peggy Fikac at the Houston Chronicle...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Full spousal benefits
Today, Mayor Annise Parker announced a new policy aimed at extending equal rights and protections to LGBT Houstonians. While domestic partnerships (i.e., benefits given to unmarried same-sex partners...
View Article
