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Our Love Looks Like… …kindness and beauty and truth and unconditional acceptance of each other. …caring for each other so deeply that it constantly blows your mind that you could love someone so much. …never being able to have enough hours in the day to spend together or enough time

By José Andrés Araiza, Chairman, Equality Texas Foundation Board of Directors One year ago this week, history was made. On February 19, 2015, Sarah Goodfriend and Suzanne  Bryant became the first legally married same-sex couple in Texas history. I had the honor of witnessing their marriage in Austin. It still

By Lou Weaver, [email protected], @louweaver I am thrilled to announce my new position as the statewide Transgender Programs Coordinator for Equality Texas. There is a lot of work to be done here in the Lone Star state, and I am looking forward to opportunities working with the LGBTQ community. One

By Robert Salcido, Regional Field Coordinator, [email protected], @rob_salcido A report released in 2013 by the Williams Institute, a think tank at UCLA Law, found that an estimated 1.4 million – or 4.3 percent of Latino adults in the Unites States consider themselves to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender. As

2015 was an unpredictable year for LGBT Texans. From the highs of securing the freedom to marry, to the lows of HERO’s defeat in Houston, we’ve experienced every emotion this year. Before the fireworks usher in the New Year, the Equality Texas staff would like to share  a favorite story

In a big decision this week — the FDA lifts a lifetime ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men. However — some restrictions are still in place– as the FDA institutes a policy requiring a year of celibacy by men who have sex with men. Chuck Smith, the