The rabbi who defied Texas' same-sex marriage ban and wed a lesbian couple last week led the morning prayer in the Republican-dominated Texas House on Wednesday, catching supporters of the prohibition off-guard.

Debut author Tasha Suri, who has written the epic tale, "The Jasmine Throne," talks about her book that is filled with action, suspense and LGBT characters that you'll love.

HOUSTON — Various pastors along with several hundred people gathered outside Houston City Hall to protest a proposed ordinance that would expand anti-bias protections for gay and transgender residents.

Republicans in Texas are airing a transphobic ad in an attempt to hold on to a Congressional seat.

After spending several months fighting cancer, Rev. Patrick Rogers, the longtime pastor at United Church of Christ Fort Lauderdale (UCC), has passed away after a short but intense fight with cancer.

MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — April Miller and Karen Roberts hugged as the news flashed across their television screen, and their hug turned into a brief slow dance across the living room rug.

Despite Texas' statewide ban on gay marriage, county officials in Austin married a same-sex couple on Thursday under a one-time court order issued for medical reasons.

Employees of the San Antonio, Texas gay bar The Saint Showbar said they were brutally beaten outside their place of employment in the early morning hours of Wednesday, Dec. 17, and they believe it was because they are gay.

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - A second South Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for the March 2012 torture of a gay African-American man in Corpus Christi.

LGBT film fans will be treated to handsome daddies and fascinating documentaries in the second weekend of the MiFo LGBT Film Festival, Oct. 15 – 18. The festival will kick off on Oct. 9 (visit SFGN.com/MiFo2015 to see last week’s mini-reviews of selected films from the first weekend) at NSU Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and continues with screenings at Cinema Paradiso, 503 SE 6^th St., and The Classic Gateway Theatre, 1820 E. Sunrise Blvd.

He would approach his victims as they went about their daily routines on the streets of Los Angeles, usually in the late evening or early morning. First he would shoot, and then he would steal whatever he could grab before fleeing.

Houston - After a drawn-out showdown between Houston's popular lesbian mayor and a coalition of conservative pastors, voters in the nation's fourth-largest city will soon decide whether to establish nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people.

(WM) South Dakota Republican lawmakers pushed the state’s high school activities association Sept. 23 to reconsider its policy of allowing transgender students to compete as the gender with which they identify.

September Report from the South Florida AIDS Network (SFAN)

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - One of two South Texas men indicted on federal hate-crime charges for the March 2012 torture of a gay African-American man in Corpus Christi has pleaded guilty.

Couples with children may soon have an opportunity to pay no property taxes in Texas if a recently filed bill gets signed into law. 

(AP)  Though "bathroom bills'' targeting transgender people fizzled in deep-red states across the U.S., the issue is still white hot in Texas, where the Legislature is heading into special session prepared to revive it and conservative groups are vowing revenge on Republican lawmakers who don't approve it.

(AP) Parents seeking to adopt children in Texas could soon be rejected by public or private agencies with religious objections to them being Jewish, Muslim, gay, single, or interfaith couples, under a proposal advancing in the Republican-controlled Legislature.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton must explain why he should not be held in contempt for enforcing state laws that impede gay marriage rights after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision, a federal judge ordered Wednesday.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Attorney General Greg Abbott's office is arguing that the U.S. Constitution allows Texas to ban same-sex marriage to promote the birth of children in "stable, lasting relationships."

AUSTIN, Texas — The possibility of Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton being held in contempt of court for impeding gay rights diminished Monday after a lawyer said the state agreed to update vital records policies for same-sex couples.

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s office was working on an appeal Thursday of a federal judge’s decision to lift the state’s ban on gay marriage.

AUSTIN (AP) - The Texas attorney general is suing the federal labor department over a plan that would extend family and medical leave benefits to married same-sex couples.

According to the Texas attorney general, Pride Weeks break state laws now.

(WB) Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is facing mounting criticism for new regulations in his state allowing social workers to turn away patients because they’re LGBT or have a disability.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - As a newlywed lesbian couple in Texas celebrate defying a statewide ban on gay marriage, the state's Republican attorney general is preparing to tell a court Friday why it should rule their nuptials invalid.

A San Antonio judge has blocked the state’s effort to halt a divorce and child custody case involving a same-sex couple.

The Texas Democratic Party is putting gay rights front and center this November at the ballot box with a platform that calls for a ban on gay conversion therapy for minors, marriage equality, employment non-discrimination and condemns the state’s GOP out for allegedly encouraging violence against LGBT citizens.

GRANBURY, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for a gay couple who sued a Texas county clerk who denied them a marriage license on religious grounds have announced they've reached a settlement of the lawsuit.

A gay couple from Texas said they felt "embarrassed" after an employee at a public pool told them to stop kissing - even though other straight couples were apparently showing PDA, CBS Dallas-Fort Worth reports.