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Mike Rawlings, previously reluctant to join the fight, banded with mayors from cities large and small in filing a pro-equality brief with the Supreme Court.

With Houston mayor Annise Parker, who is a lesbian, making headlines for her city's adoption of an LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance, we started thinking about other groundbreaking public officials. So this week's woman you should know is E. Denise Simmons, former mayor and current City Council member in Cambridge, Mass.

A very visible lesbian activist of the 1980s became the three-term mayor of America’s fourth largest city — and in Texas. With her sights set on statewide office, is Annise Parker proof Texas politics have grown up?

The country's largest city without an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance looks to change that with a new draft policy, proposed by the city's first LGBT mayor.

Out.com celebrates 50 of the most influential LGBT voices in America.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker might be every right-winger's worst nightmare.

Women still face many of the same barriers they did over 100 years ago, when the observance was established.

Annise Parker and her long-time partner said, "I do!"

In her third inaugural address, Parker called for LGBT protections to be added to Houston's nondiscrimination ordinance.

Girl Scouts: The Girl Scouts of the USA’s LGBT-inclusive policies have drawn the ire of right-wing groups. “Girl Scouts of the USA and its local councils and troops value diversity and inclusiveness and do not discriminate or recruit on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, national origin, or physical or developmental disability,” reads a statement on the organization’s blog.

This year’s Power List, a list by Out magazine of the most powerful gays in the US, has been announced. There are 71 total people on the list, filling 65 spots, and of those people 15 are women. As for how a person’s power is measured, here’s what Out says:

Houston mayor Annise D. Parker has won reelection despite a low approval rating and antigay rhetoric leveled against her by a challenger. Candidate Dave Wilson, who assailed Parker during the campaign for her sexual orientation, garnered just 12% of the vote.

The businessman challenging Houston mayor Annise Parker's reelection said the mayor was using her sexual orientation to promote "a homosexual agenda."

I'm From Driftwood collects true LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) stories from all over the world--from the smallest towns to the biggest cities--to help queer youth feel not so alone. Houston Mayor Annise Parker contributed her first love and coming out story to Nathan Manske's "I'm from Driftwood" project. Watch the Mayor's poignant story below.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker walked out of a press conference at city hall Tuesday after reporters repeatedly asked whether she and members of the city council were attempting to create a majority gay district. Before walking out, Parker, who is an out lesbian, said she had never expressed any preference for any district or community as mayor of Houston.

Tyjanae Moore was arrested last week for using the women’s restroom at the public library in downtown Houston because police said she was still officially a man. Moore, 26, pleaded guilty even though she was in compliance with an executive order by Mayor Annise Parker that extends the city’s non-discrimination ordinance to allow transgender people to use the city restroom of their choice.

A transgender woman has been arrested for using the women's restroom in a downtown Houston library. The legality of Majanae Chambers's arrest is in question, however. Earlier this year Houston mayor Annise Parker (pictured) expanded an anti-discrimination policy to allow city employees to use the facilities of their choice on the basis of their gender identity, not their sex.