Annise Parker ma history Saturday as Hoton's first openly gay mayor.
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- HOTON'S OPENLY GAY MAYOR MARRI LONGTIME PARTNER CALIFORNIA
- HOTON ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
- HOTON MAYOR PARKER MARRI LONGTIME GAY PARTNER
- HOTON IS LARGT CY TO ELECT OPENLY GAY MAYOR
- HOTON’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR ON HOW THE CY BEME ONE OF AMERI’S MOST DIVERSE: SEASON 2, EPISO 1 OF 'LET’S GO TOGETHER'
- WHAT HOTON'S GAY MAYOR MEANS FOR TEXAS
HOTON'S OPENLY GAY MAYOR MARRI LONGTIME PARTNER CALIFORNIA
By Andrea Lorenz HOUSTON (Rters) - Hoton's openly gay mayor, Annise Parker, has wedd her longtime partner at a private home California, even as her home state of Texas bans such same-sex marriag. Parker and Kathy Hubbard were married on Thursday, the 23rd anniversary of their relatnship, acrdg to a statement om the mayor's office. But the polics the state's largt ci are far more progrsive, wh vibrant gay muni plac such as Hoton, Dallas and At. Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valz, currently servg her third term office, is openly gay, as are cy uncil members Dallas, Fort Worth, At and Hoton. * houston mayor homosexual *
By Andrea Lorenz HOUSTON (Rters) - Hoton's openly gay mayor, Annise Parker, has wedd her longtime partner at a private home California, even as her home state of Texas bans such same-sex marriag. But the polics the state's largt ci are far more progrsive, wh vibrant gay muni plac such as Hoton, Dallas and At.
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valz, currently servg her third term office, is openly gay, as are cy uncil members Dallas, Fort Worth, At and Hoton. Cy Parker, who served five years as cy ntroller, won wh nearly 54 percent of vote Conservativ, anti-gay activists had lnched tense mpaign agast Parker Hoton, Texas (CNN) -- Annise Parker ma history Saturday as Hoton's first openly gay mayor. Other ci such as Province, Rho Island, and Portland, Oregon, have picked openly gay mayors.
HOTON ELECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
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Also, the cy ss a state where gay marriage is agast the law. "I have always stood up for the fact that I am gay.
After the mayoral race entered a noff, nservativ and anti-gay activists mounted an tense mpaign agast Parker. Hoton rints received flyers the mail that highlighted Parker's support om gay groups and her relatnship wh her partner. Wife & Gay?
HOTON MAYOR PARKER MARRI LONGTIME GAY PARTNER
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Hoton Mayor Annise Parker, the first openly gay mayor of a major cy, married her longtime partner, Kathy Hubbard, on, who was recently sworn to a third term, and Hubbard have been together for 23 years. 12, 2009HOUSTON Hoton beme the largt cy the Uned Stat to elect an openly gay mayor on Saturday night, as voters gave a solid victory to the cy ntroller, Annise Parker. But she began her reer as an advote for gay rights the 1980s, and was lost on no one Hoton, a cy of 2.
2 ln people, that her electn marked a tone for gay men and lbians around the J. Phillip/Associated Prs Several smaller ci other regns have chosen openly gay mayors, among them Province, R. Parker’s succs me a nservative state where voters have outlawed gay marriage and a cy where a referendum on grantg benefs to same-sex partners of cy employe was soundly feated.
HOTON IS LARGT CY TO ELECT OPENLY GAY MAYOR
Hoton mayor-elect Annise Parker will be the first openly gay mayor of one of Ameri's largt ci. While that may be historic, don't change Texas all that much * houston mayor homosexual *
Parker for what they lled her gay agenda and two separate anti-gay advot who sent out fliers the mail llg attentn to her support om gay groups and to her relatnship wh her partner. Pool/Hoton Chronicle, via Associated PrsSome natnal gay-rights groups, meanwhile, me to the aid of Ms.
Parker’s speech clud dozens of young gay men and lbians who had volunteered on her mpaign. ”Robert Shipman, who is gay and worked long hours for Ms. Parker, said: “The diversy this room, ’s not jt gay people, ’s gay, straight, black, whe, Jew, Christian, Mlim, every kd of person.
“We have to all work together to brg our cy closer and closer together, ” he Parker appeared to have bbled together a wng aln of whe liberals and gay people, who were expected to turn out large Marc ntributed reportg om Hoton.
HOTON’S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR ON HOW THE CY BEME ONE OF AMERI’S MOST DIVERSE: SEASON 2, EPISO 1 OF 'LET’S GO TOGETHER'
Did the cy of Hoton, Texas, subpoena pastors' sermons as part of a crackdown on preachg agast homosexualy? Claim: The cy of Hoton, Texas, subpoenaed several pastors' sermons as part of a crackdown on preachg agast homosexualy. A Facebook iend recently shared a lk statg that the cy of Hoton is crackg down on anti-homosexual preachg and has asked all pastors to turn over their sermon ntents on Homosexualy, genr inty, and lbian mayor Annise Parker, and that all who do so may be held ntempt of urt.
Cy attorneys issued subpoenas durg the se's disvery phase, seekg, among other munitns, "all speech, prentatns, or sermons related to HERO, the Petn, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexualy, or genr inty prepared by, livered by, revised by, or approved by you or your posssn. Crics have ntend that the subpoenas are an gement on relig liberti, that they are tend to "punish and timidate those who dared to step-up and oppose the cy uncil, " and that the specific and seemgly unrelated nature of the subpoenaed material suggts the disvery vtigatn is really about a crackdown on polil or anti-homosexual preachg cy church. The subpoena asked the relig lears to turn over "all speech, prentatns, or sermons related to HERO, the Petn, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexualy, or genr inty prepared by, livered by, revised by, or approved by you or your posssn.
WHAT HOTON'S GAY MAYOR MEANS FOR TEXAS
That clud enuragg ngregatn members to sign petns and help gather signatur for equal rights ordance fo, who largely take issue wh the rights extend to gay and transgenr rints. I don't que see how "all speech, prentatns, or sermons related to HERO, the Petn, Mayor Annise Parker, homosexualy, or genr inty prepared by, livered by, revised by, or approved by you or your posssn" would be relevant to the ligatn about the validy of the referendum petns.