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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.

Sen. Donna Campbell is trying to legalize discrimination against LGBT people for the second time.

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

The Kilgore school district admitted no wrongdoing but agreed to pay $77,500 to settle the suit by Skye Wyatt, who says softball coaches breached her privacy by telling her mother about her lesbian relationship.

A Texas judge has ruled that a same-sex couple has the same rights regarding divorce and custody as heterosexual couples.

Texas lawmakers intend to hammer out an authoritative definition of bullying early next year. At least seven bills relating to bullying in schools and online have already been filed for consideration in the legislature next session, which opens on January 11. Two of those bills would require schools to report annually on its incidents of bullying, making note of which were based on race, ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation.

Arcelia Hurtado, one of the nation’s leading civil rights attorneys, has joined the staff of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) as the new deputy director. Hurtado will oversee the organization’s day-to-day operations as well as help lead future planning, strategy and development initiatives.

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.

More than 30,000 people packed Houston’s Reliant Stadium to attend Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s mega prayerfest named "The Response," a clarion call to all Christian Americans for a national day of prayer for our troubled nation.

The Family Resource Council (FRC) has chosen hatred and criminalization of lesbians and gays as their primary family value. 

A state judge in Tennessee has just broken equality advocates' streak of favorable judicial rulings by declaring the state's ban on same-sex marriage does not violate the U.S. Constitution.

Here's hoping their words ring true come decision day.

In case you've been living under a rock, last week was kind of a big deal in terms of civil rights.