We need YOU as a UTSA Campus Activist (Fall 2015 – Spring 2016)

Are you passionate about reproductive rights & LGBTQ equality? Do you want to lead a progressive movement on your campus? Are you looking to gain valuable advocacy experience with a leading progressive non-profit? If so, the Texas Freedom Network may have an opportunity for you. The TFN Student Organizing program is made up of campus […]

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Student Organizer internship – UT

Are you passionate about reproductive rights & LGBTQ equality? Do you want to become a leader on your campus? Are you looking to gain valuable advocacy experience with a leading progressive non-profit? If so, the Texas Freedom Network may have an opportunity for you. What is a TFN Student Organizer? Since 2006, TFN has been […]

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Spare Us the Sanctimonious Political Lecture, Rep. Zedler

The Left hates the Duggars because they have standards – even if they fall short – they have standards. The Left will not tolerate that So, as you can see in his Tweet from Wednesday evening, state Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington, thinks “the Left” is unfairly persecuting the Duggars — the religious right’s favorite family, with […]

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Thank You, Gov. Pence

Graphic by GLAAD Defeating nearly two dozen discriminatory anti-LGBT bills during the recently concluded session of the Texas Legislature took a lot of hard work from some great groups working outside the Capitol with activists and people like you who care about these things. And it was also the hard work of LGBT-supportive lawmakers working […]

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How Did the Tea Party/Religious Right Lose So Badly on LGBT Discrimination in the Texas Legislature?

One of the most remarkable outcomes of the 2015 session of the Texas Legislature is the complete failure of the broadest legislative assault on the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community anywhere in the country. It’s so remarkable in large part because Texas is deeply red state in which religious-right/tea party activists make up a powerful part of the […]

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