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The Legislature banned puberty blockers and hormone therapy for trans kids, rtricted the llege sports teams trans athlet n jo and expand the fn of sexual nduct to clu some drag shows. But a “Don’t Say Gay” provisn for schools missed key adl. * gay rights in austin tx *
They were among several bills the Legislature nsired that would brg major chang to the liv of gay and transgenr Texans.
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.
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. One bill signalg a shift opn toward the LGBTQ muny was Hoe Bill 2055, which would have repealed the state law crimalizg gay sex.
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Venton Jon, a Dallas Democrat who is the first Black, gay and openly HIV-posive lawmaker to serve at the Capol.
When the cy of At required liabily surance to host a gay event a public park for 2, 000 people, the hefty price tag almost crippled Pri before began. Wh only $100 to s name, the newly formed At Lbian and Gay Pri Commissn had jt enough to open a bank acunt and had already spent $5 on prtg checks. Kip Dollar, one of the foundg members of the missn, relled how rare was for anizatns to e "gay and lbian" official nam at the time – as when he went to the At Police Department for a street closure perm.
He looked at my applitn and said, 'At Lbian and Gay Pri Commissn? But even before Stonewall, At, Texas, had a thrivg – albe unrground – gay and lbian scene. In 1990, Eric Jason Ganther pleted his UT-At master's this, "From Closet to Csa: The Stggle for Lbian-Gay Civil Rights At, Texas, 1970-1982" (which liv s entirety at the At History Center).
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Though Ganther's work foc on the years followg Stonewall, he not that prr to 1970, At's lbian and gay muny "was not polilly nsc of self, " but was active. The cy's first documented gay bar – the Manhattan Club, loted on Congrs between Nth and 10th streets – opened 1958. (At least one operatg gay bar has existed At ever sce.
At's LGBT scene has all. You don't have to look for rabow flags or lim yourself to one small part of At if you're terted experiencg everythg that the cy's large and diverse LGBT muny has to offer. Unlike many plac, which have only one or two areas known as 'gay districts,' At's LGBT rints are tly everywhere. And proud of ! * gay rights in austin tx *
) Ganther nclus that by the late Sixti, At had an "unrground work of socially active homosexuals" who met at bars and private hom. At’s Gay Liberatn Front hosted the First Annual Natnal Gay Conference 1971.
GLF -founr Dennis Paddie relled the ll to actn: “Come to At for a nventn, all you gay people. Acrdg to activist, poet, and playwright Dennis Paddie, At's gay rights movement blossomed out of s anti-war movement.