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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is supporting anti-gay Texas congressman Chet Edwards in the Democratic presidential veepstakes. Dallas activist Jesse Garcia has been selected as one of five national co-chairs for Obama Pride, the grassroots network charged with mobilizing GLBT voters. Southern Methodist University in Dallas landed we 14th on Princeton Review’s annual list of the nation’s 20 most homophobic schools.

Half of City Council plans to ride in Dallas Pride parade
Dallas Voice, August 29
Half of the Dallas City Council has signed on to ride in the 25th anniversary of the Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade on Sunday, Sept. 21. "It’s not as many as we’ve had in the past, but I’m very satisfied with the number we have planning to attend," Dallas Tavern Guild President Michael Doughman said.

Dallas gay couple claims restaurant ousted them
Pegasus News, August 29
Javier’s Gourmet Mexicano restaurant in Dallas is denying allegations that the manager asked a couple to leave because they are gay. But Jimmy Medina and his partner Mike Hazlewood say they were the targets of anti-gay discrimination on the part of the restaurant management.

Dallas makes a pitch for 2010 Gay World Series
Dallas Voice, August 22
Dallas’ gay softball league will be making a big pitch in Seattle on Saturday, Aug. 23. In advance of this year’s World Series next week, the Pegasus Slowpitch Softball Association is bidding to bring the event to Dallas in 2010. Chris Heinbaugh, Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert’s openly gay chief of staff, is scheduled to travel with the local contingent and make PSSA’s case to delegates from the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance.

Houston gay man’s killer gets life
Dallas Voice, August 17
Terry Mark Mangum was sentenced to life in prison on Aug. 13 for killing a Southwest Airlines flight attendant he met at a gay bar in the Montrose area of Houston in June 2007. Mangum, 27, of Cypress, was convicted of stabbing 46-year-old Kenneth Cummings in the head with a knife at Cummings’ Pearland home, then trying to clean up the blood before burying the body in a shallow grave on a ranch south of San Antonio.

Paul Scott elected to Equality Foundation board
Dallas Voice, August 15
Paul E. Scott, executive director of the statewide GLBT advocacy organization Equality Texas, has been elected as treasurer of the Equality Federation and the Equality Federation Institute.

Episcopal priests in Ft. Worth propose aligning with Catholic Church
Ft. Worth Star Telegram, August 13
Four priests in the Fort Worth Episcopal Diocese are asking the Fort Worth Catholic Diocese’s help in aligning with the Catholic church, which they say is compatible with their positions opposing same-sex unions and ordination of women and gay priests.

Austin police commander gets job back
Austin American Statesman, August 12
An Austin police commander who was fired earlier this year after failing to report discriminatory comments by a fellow commander was reinstated to the force Monday by an independent arbitrator. A 15-page ruling by Norman Bennett said that Police Chief Art Acevedo disciplined Cmdr. Larry Oliver more harshly than the commander who made comments involving the sexual orientation of several female officers.

Two GOP judges court Houston gay caucus in vain
Houston Chronicle, August 8
Two of the 26 Republican state district judges on the Nov. 4 ballot in Harris County sought the endorsement of Houston's gay political caucus — and failed to get it. The Houston GLBT Political Caucus' all-Democratic endorsements leaves political observers waiting to see whether the unsuccessful move by the two Republican jurists makes a difference in the vote results three months from now.

Dallas activist one of five national co-chairs for Obama Pride
Dallas Voice, August 8
Dallas activist Jesse Garcia has been selected as one of five national co-chairs for Obama Pride, the grassroots network charged with mobilizing GLBT voters in support of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. The five co-chairs were announced Wednesday, Aug. 6 by the Obama campaign in a press release.

Pelosi pushes anti-gay veep candidate from Texas
Dallas Voice, August 5
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arguably the GLBT community’s most powerful straight political ally, is supporting anti-gay Texas congressman Chet Edwards in the Democratic presidential veepstakes, the Associated Press reports.

Houston researchers may have found a way to destroy HIV
Fox11AZ.com, August 1
There is real hope that what’s happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV. "We have found an innovative way to kill the virus by finding this small region of HIV that is unchangeable," Dr. Sudhir Paul of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston said. Dr. Paul and Dr. Miguel Escobar aren’t talking about just suppressing HIV – they’re talking about destroying it permanently by arming the immune system with a new weapon lab tests have shown to be effective.

Dallas DA won't seek hate-crime charges in anti-gay beating
QuickDFW.com, August 1
Dallas County prosecutors will not pursue hate-crime charges against two robbery suspects arrested in a brutal anti-gay beating last month in Oak Lawn because the men already face the maximum penalty if convicted. Bobby Singleton, 29, and Jonathan Gunter, 31, both of Garland, each face a charge of aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon. The first-degree felony carries a punishment of five to 99 years in prison. The men, who have not yet been indicted, are being held in the July 17 beating and robbery of Jimmy Lee Dean, 42.

SMU makes list of top 20 most homophobic schools
Dallas Voice, August 1
Southern Methodist University in Dallas landed we 14th on Princeton Review’s annual list of the nation’s 20 most homophobic schools, called "Alternative Lifestyle Not an Alternative (low acceptance of gay community)." The list is compiled based on students’ responses to a survey distributed nationwide.