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Open Letter from 100+ Orgs Defending LGBTQ+ Texans We all want to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of our races, backgrounds, and genders. But today, certain politicians are pushing laws that restrict our freedoms because of the color of our skin, what’s in our wallets, or because we

General Legislative Updates and Process Week of February 27th through March 3rd How Many Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Are There This Week? Now that it’s March, we’re approaching the cutoff for bill filing. Lawmakers have one more week—until March 10th—to file bills for this legislative session. There are currently 93 bad bills,

My beloved Texans, On Saturday evening, we hosted our Somewhere Over the Rainbow Gala. It was a joyous night celebrating the richness, talent, and history of our community. A few short hours later we woke up to the devastating news about the shootings in Colorado on Transgender Day of Remembrance.

A Look at the Election Results Over the last year LGBTQ+ Texans have been under constant attack by our state’s top political leaders. These politicians have cultivated a climate that has endangered lives, they’ve aligned themselves with vigilante hate groups, white nationalists, and they have targeted our safe spaces, our

Race for Texas Governor Last week, Beto O’Rourke and Greg Abbott went head to head in the only debate before voting starts in the Texas governor’s race. They talked about a lot of issues that impact people in Texas across the LGBTQ+ community and more. We believe an informed electorate

The anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has been loud lately. For the past few weeks some state leaders have taken every opportunity to paint the LGBTQ+ community as a threat, committing publicly to policies they will champion through the next legislative session. Contributing to the noise  This week alone the Lieutenant Governor, Dan