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Hoton’s gay and lbian muny has a long history of phg for progrs. See how far Hoton’s LGBTQ muny has e and the people we celebrate. * texas lgbt history *
Origally a social group gettg together to watch the first televised Amy Awards, The Diana Foundatn is the olst ntuoly nng gay anizatn the untry and has donated more than $1. Hoton’s gay and lbian muny rallied together to prott an appearance by former Miss Ameri and anti-gay Florida orange juice spokwoman Ana Bryant.
Publitns pertag to issu relevant to the LGBT muny. The llectn clus *The Dallas Voice*, a weekly newspaper for the gay muny North Texas... * texas lgbt history *
Town Meetg I rulted the creatn of: the Montrose Counselg Center, the Montrose Activy Center, the Gay and Lbian Swchboard, the Hispanic Cc, the Montrose Sports Associatn.
After the murr, the gay muny anized a “Take Back the Streets” rally Montrose to mand the persecutn of those rponsible for the murr and agast anti-gay hate crim general. As a rult, the Hoton Cy Council passed a rolutn llg for a gay-clive state-level hate crim bills and the Hoton Police Department add sexual orientatn to the list of bias motivatg a hate crime.
Johnson said the Texas fdgs uld be part bee, like California, there are several large ci across the has the largt lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr populatn—2. Seri 1: Papers: Lda Mchell Letter to the Dallas Morng News; Cy of Dallas Special Regnn to the Dallas Gay and Lbian Communy, December, 1987; June, 1988. But the lower chamber didn’t brg the amend legislatn up for nsiratn, killg the Senate’s third attempt at phg what crics dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” provisn.
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Crics say the provisns about LGBTQ lsons — patterned on ntroversial “Don’t Say Gay” law om Florida — nta vague language that uld stifle even rmal discsn about LGBTQ people, such as teachers discsg their same-sex spo. The Republin Party of Texas, which oppos any efforts to validate transgenr inti and claims that homosexualy is “an abnormal liftyle choice, ” also nsirs banng the “teachg, exposure, and/or discsn of sexual matters (mechanics, feelgs, orientatn, or ‘genr inty’ issu)” to be a legislative prry. They clu gay, lbian, bisexual, queer, trans and non-bary people, as well as artists and performers, grassroots activists, and small bs owners.