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Dallas Mayor Refuses to Sign Marriage Equality Pledge

Sunday, January 29th, 2012

Dallas Mayor Mike RawlingsDallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has been a proponent of marriage equality. He’s marched in Pride Parades. But as Andy noted yesterday, Mayor Rawlings for some reason refuses to endorse the pro-equality pledge already signed by 100 of the nation’s most important mayors. In fact, Mayor Rawlings is the only mayor of a city of Dallas’s size that has thus far refused to sign. And as a result of his refusal, LGBT activists last night picketed his office.

This afternoon, Mayor Rawlings met privately with approximately 25 representatives from Dallas’s LGBT community. From The Dallas Voice:

“To be a great city we have to have everybody feel a part of it,” Rawlings told a throng of news reporters as he left Resource Center Dallas, where the closed-door meeting took place. “Obviously, the LGBT community feels at times that they’re disenfranchised.”

Full Story from Towleroad.com

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TX: Marriage Equality March Held in Dallas

Sunday, October 16th, 2011

Texas Gay Marriage RalliesMore than 200 demonstrators gathered at Founders Plaza in downtown Dallas to demand equal marriage rights for same sex couples.

“I think it’s important for us to stand out here and show everybody why it’s important to be equal. We’re human just like everybody else”, said Hen Ramirez. Ramirez has been with his partner Tony Gibson for ten years today says they want the legal protections that come with marriage.

“You want to make sure that your partner is take care of if something happens you want to make sure you can leave something in your will”, said Tony Gibson.

Full Story from the33tv.com

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TX: Dallas Gay Couple Denied Wedding Announcement, Then Billed For It

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Texas Gay CoupleA gay couple whose wedding announcement was rejected by The Dallas Morning News has now been billed $1,034 for the ad that never ran.

In December, the News told Mark Reed-Walkup and Dante Walkup that their wedding announcement would not be included in the newspaper’s Weddings section since their wedding — conducted by an officiant in Washington, D.C., through Skype — was not legally recognized in Texas. Instead, the newspaper offered to put them in the Commitments section, which typically appears on the same page as Weddings.

According to Change.org, Reed-Walkup wrote an e-mail to the newspaper, wanting to know why they were recently issued a bill for the announcement that never ran.

Full Story from the Advocate

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TX: Gay Dallas Man Appeals Divorce Case to State Supreme Court

Wednesday, January 19th, 2011

A court’s decision last year to deny a divorce to a gay Dallas couple is being appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.

Attorney James “Jody” Scheske confirmed Wednesday that his client, J.B., plans to appeal the August decision by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that gay couples can’t divorce in Texas because the state doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage.

J.B. and his husband, H.B., were married in 2006 in Massachusetts before moving to Dallas. After they filed for a divorce in Dallas County, District Judge Tena Callahan ruled in October 2009 that she had jurisdiction to hear the case, calling Texas’ bans on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.

Full Story from the Dallas Voice

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TX: Wedding of Gay Couple Married on Skype Declared Invalid in DC

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Mark Reed-Walkup and Dante Walkup, of Texas, are the first same-sex couple in the U.S. to use Skype to become legally married. But now their marriage has been ruled unacceptable.
The men, who have been together for more than 10 years wanted to get married, but same-sex marriages are not performed or recognized in Texas.

They wanted their wedding to take place in their home town of Dallas, so they did some research and found that they could be married by an officiant in Washington, D.C., via Skype. “We travelled to the District of Columbia in May and went to the marriage bureau and got our licence,” said Reed-Walkup, 51.

Full Story from Lez Get Real

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PinkSixty News 11/26/10: Gay Wedding Announcement, HIV in the Philippines

Friday, November 26th, 2010

A gay couple are challenging the wedding announcement policy of The Dallas Morning News. Mark Read and Dante Walkup made news recently when an official in Washington DC – via digital application Skype – married them.

HIV infections are on the rise in the Philippines, bucking the worldwide trend reported by the UN that infection is declining. There have been 500 more infections there in this year than in 2009 already.

Full Story from Pink News

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Cyclist Rides from Minneapolis to Texas for Gay Rights

Monday, September 13th, 2010

Danielle Girdano is just coming into the home-stretch of the Spirit PrairieTrail on her bicycle trek to promote gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights. Her ride is called “Ride the Arc.”

“The name ‘Ride the Arc’ comes from a Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. quote,” she said. “At the end of the quote, he says, ‘’he arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.’”

Girdano said part of her goal in this project is to present a side of the gay community other than the sexually-charged events that get the most publicity.

Full Story from Ada Evening News

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Gay Marriage Events Today/Tomorrow

Friday, July 30th, 2010

(Full Events List & Details: http://www.purpleunions.com/mn/gay-marriage-events-list.html):

–USA, CA, Palm Springs: 07/31, Equality Happy Hour, Hamburger Mary’s, 4-7 PM.
–USA, CA, Santa Ana: 07/31, Speaker Training, EQCA Orange Co. Office, 11 AM-2 PM.
–USA, CA, Yountville: 07/31, Get Wet Wine Country: Instinct/EQCA, $30-40, The Bardessono, 5-9 AM.
–USA, MA, Boston: 07/31, Phonebanking for Equality in RI, 262 Washington St, 12-5 PM.
–USA, MA, Provincetown: 07/31, GLAD 2010 Summer Party – $70, Pilgrim Monument, 4-7 PM.
–USA, MN, Rochester: 07/30, NOM Anti Gay Marriage Tour, TBD, 12-1 PM.
–USA, MN, Rochester: 07/30, Counterprotest NOM Bus Tour w/OutFront, TBD, TBD.
–USA, TX, Dallas: 07/31, Ride the Arc Fundraiser, 4503 W. University, 8:30 AM.

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TX: University Refuses Family Gym Membership to Gay Couple

Saturday, May 8th, 2010

A fitness center owned by Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas won’t allow same-sex couples to sign up for family memberships, a possible violation of the city’s nondiscrimination ordinance that’s prompted calls for a boycott of the facility.

Steven Johnson said he’s been a member of the Baylor Tom Landry Fitness Center, at 411 N. Washington St. in downtown Dallas, for the last eight months. On Tuesday, May 4, Johnson tried to add his partner of 23 years, Roland Crago, to his membership, but the gym refused.

“I have had numerous health clubs,” Johnson said, “and all of them have accepted us as family members. So add Tom Landry Fitness Center to your list with Exxon and all the other companies we can not support with our dollars.”

Full Story from the Dallas Voice

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TX: Attorneys Argue Gay Divorce Case in Court

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

A man seeking to end his same-sex marriage in Dallas County is arguing an ironic point in a state that doesn’t recognize his nuptials: Grant the divorce and there will be one less gay marriage in Texas.

“My client is a married man and he needs a divorce,” said the man’s attorney, Jody Scheske, who argued that granting the divorce promotes the state’s policy against gay marriage. “But for the actions of the attorney general, there would already be one less same-sex marriage in Texas.”

That argument came Wednesday before a three-judge panel in the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas that is hearing arguments after Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appealed a state district judge’s ruling in October to grant the divorce. In her decision, Judge Tena Callahan also ruled that the state’s ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

Full Story from Dallas News

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