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3 08, 2025

LGBTQ Church in South Austin Defiant After Hate Crime Vandalism Sparks Outrage

By |2025-08-03T20:41:44-07:00August 3rd, 2025|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: , , , |

By: Paul Goldberg, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS LGBT Politics USA AUSTIN, TX — (August 3, 2025) — A beloved LGBTQ-affirming church in South Austin was vandalized with hate speech late Thursday night, sparking outrage and an outpouring of support from community members who rallied Saturday morning to repaint and restore the space. Related Coverage [...]

13 11, 2023

Pope Fires Loud Mouth anti-LGBTQ Bishop Joseph Strickland

By |2025-08-03T20:21:07-07:00November 13th, 2023|Categories: LGBT Politics, LGBT Politics USA|Tags: , , , , |

TYLER, TX — (11-13-23) — Loud mouth Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent anti-LGBTQ figure among traditionalist American Catholics and critic of Pope Francis, was fired by the pope. Strickland made it a habit of pointing out how the pope was going against church doctrine by making the church more welcoming to the LGBTQ community. [...]

10 11, 2022

Texas Triples Number of LGBT Black Americans to serve in Legislature

By |2025-08-03T20:20:17-07:00November 10th, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

AUSTIN, TX — (11-10-22) — Voters in Texas tripled the number of  openly LGBT Black Americans to serve in the state Legislature on Tuesday. Prior to May 2022, there weren't any openly gay Black members of the state Legislature. Rep. Jolanda Jones, D-Houston, became the first Lesbian Black  Woman to serve when she won a [...]

20 06, 2022

TX GOP Calls For Abolishing 1965 Voting Rights Act, Stripping LGBTQ of ‘Special Legal Entitlements’

By |2025-08-03T20:18:33-07:00June 20th, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , , , |

AUSTIN, TX — (06-20-22) — Texas Republicans biennial convention votes to abolish the 1965 Voting Rights Act and strip LGBTQ Americans of what they call 'Special Legal Entitlements'. Their party’s 40-page platform now includes resolutions declaring President Joe Biden was not legitimately elected, calling for the abolishing of abortion, the repeal of the 1965 Voting [...]

29 04, 2022

LGBT Bars Could Be Erased in Downtown Austin Development Proposal

By |2025-08-03T20:18:37-07:00April 29th, 2022|Categories: LGBT Politics|Tags: , , , , |

AUSTIN, TX — (04-29-22) — LGBT business owners and residents are concerned over a new residential development project proposal that would change one of Austin’s essential LGBTQ neighborhoods. The Downtown Development Proposal plan would build a mixed-use tower on 201 to 213 West Fourth Street, meaning the destruction of several important LGBT bars that have [...]

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