Earlier this week on Valentine’s Day while most of use were either out having a special dinner or enjoying the company of ourselves, Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir had her office “Occupied”. It wasn’t your traditional sit in. Members of GetEQUAL Texas were joined by members of Occupy Austin in requesting (and being denied) same sex marriage  Read More »

BE MY VALENTINE  | Paula Blackmon, right, chief of staff for Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, accepts a bag containing more than 400 Valentine’s Day cards addressed to Rawlings from Daniel Cates, left, North Texas regional coordinator for GetEQUAL. Cates delivered the cards written by community members to Rawlings, who has refused to sign a pledge in support  Read More »

FORT WORTH, Texas – Same-sex couples gathered in Fort Worth on Tuesday in a pro-gay marriage demonstration. The Valentine’s Day rally held by GetEQUAL TX included a walk through downtown to the Tarrant County courthouse. There, several gay couples applied for marriage licenses and were denied. “Definitely disappointed but we’ll keep trying, keep trying until we  Read More »

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – It’s Valentine’s Day a day for flowers, chocolates and fancy dinners. It’s also a popular day for couples to tie the knot unless they happen to be gay and in New Mexico. Late Tuesday morning several same sex couples in Albuquerque were trying to get marriage licenses. State law doesn’t recognize gay  Read More »

Photo by Anna Merlan Hendrix Scott, left, and Jennifer McCluskey celebrate Valentine’s Day by not being able to pick up a marriage license from Dallas County. ​The bride wore a strapless dress in shades of blue and white. The other bride wore a battered leather jacket, a shiny, pale pink tie and a snug gray  Read More »

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Taking their cues from the local “Occupy” movement, three LGBT activists in Austin allowed themselves to be arrested Tuesday morning during an annual marriage equality protest at the Travis County Clerk’s office. Instead of the usual parade of LGBT activists applying for marriage licenses on Valentine’s Day, about 40 people representing a  Read More »

GetEQUAL’s Daniel Cates, left, speaks to County Clerk John Warren, right, as lesbian couple Hendrix Scott and Jennifer McClusky look on. (David Taffet/Dallas Voice) Hendrix Scott and Jennifer McClusky applied for a marriage license at the Dallas County Clerk’s office today. More than a dozen people came to witness the couple applying for their license,  Read More »

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Tuesday morning dozens of same sex couples showed up at the Travis County Clerk’s office trying to get a marriage license. GetEQUAL TX organized the annual Valentine’s Day event to raise awareness about the desire by many to be legally married. Many of the couples walked into the Clerk’s office hand in  Read More »