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The Texas Tribune spoke with LGBTQ voters, the parents of queer youth and advocates from across the state about what’s at stake for them this November.

As states propose and pass laws targeting transgender youths and their parents, desperate families have uprooted their lives to flee to safer places.

Accusations of “grooming” — or falsely equating LGBTQ+ people with sexual abusers — are cropping up in this election cycle and across the national political landscape.

"Maybe what folks are saying about losing LGBT rights and democracy, maybe its possible too," Ineke Mushovic of Wide Angle Research told Newsweek.

AUSTIN — The Texas Education Agency has received twelve times as many complaints regarding school curriculum and inappropriate books than it did the year prior, according to public information requests

In June, the Supreme Court overturned the historic Roe v Wade decision, ending nearly 50 years of legal abortion access in the United States. In immed

Democrats on the Texas State Board of Education were blocked from adding climate change and painting Texas Rangers ...

Removals spiked in Texas after state Rep. Matt Krause sent out a list of 850 books that pertained to LGBTQ topics and race, an analysis found.

The perception that Southern state monkeypox responses have lacked coordination raises questions about whether theyre doing enough.

Some LGBTQ+ advocates say they are having to take matters into their own hands in the absence of a coordinated response from state governments.