
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.
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