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The judge who struck down the state's marriage ban in February put his ruling on hold, but much has changed since then, say the plaintiffs and their attorney.

Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked to the state Supreme Court to invalidate the marriage of two women who obtained a judge's permission to wed Thursday in Austin.

A Texas state appeals court in Dallas rejected a decision by a lower court that a gay couple who legally married in Massachusetts could get divorced in Texas. State District Judge Tena Callahan ruled, in October of 2009, that the couple had the right to legally end the marriage and the state's same-sex marriage ban was a violation of the federal constitutional right to equal protection. The 5th District Court of Appeals in Dallas reversed the decision on Tuesday, and instructed Callahan dismiss the case.

A federal judge today rules Texas's marriage ban unconstitutional.

A federal judge ensures the Family and Medical Leave Act will not apply to legally-wed same-sex couples who lives in states without marriage equality.

Judge Orlando Garcia turned down the plaintiffs' request to lift the stay of his pro-equality decision and let the weddings begin.

This week's roundup proves, once again, that anti-LGBT bigotry knows no borders.

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.

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 San Antonio woman, married to her partner in Massachusetts in 2004, has been granted the state's first gay divorce. The state does not legally recognize marriage between same sex couples.  Attorney General Greg Abott argued that since the couple's marriage was not valid in Texas, neither should be their divorce.

Initial reports from today's hearing at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans suggest marriage equality supporters could be in for good news.

El Paso voters have elected Mary E. Gonzalez, an openly gay woman, to the Texas House of Representatives, Gay Politics reports.

Marriage equality litigation out of Mississippi will be heard by the same three-judge panel that will consider similar bans in Texas and Louisiana.

The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it will not defend section three of the 15-year-old Defense of Marriage Act in federal court after a directive from President Barack Obama. Two lawsuits, Pedersen v. OPM and Windsor v. United States, challenge section three of the law passed in 1996. U.S. attorney general Eric Holder said in a statement that the decision to stop defending DOMA in these and other cases hinged on Obama's recent decision that the law is unconstitutional.

Richard Blanco, the first openly gay and Latino man to deliver the inaugural poem, has a powerful new piece reflecting on the decade since marriage equality first came to the U.S.

Some county clerks are ready to stay open extra hours if a stay of a pro-equality ruling is lifted; others say they still won't license same-sex marriages.

BREAKING: The 2004 law barring same-sex couples in Michigan from marrying has been struck down by a federal judge.

Which states will be the next to institute marriage equality — and how will it happen?

Federal judge Timothy Black granted a stay on his ruling striking down Ohio's marriage recognition ban, but ordered the state to issue birth certificates listing both married same-sex parents to the four plaintiff couples.