EL PASO — Gay and unmarried heterosexual partners of municipal employees will now be able to get city health benefits. After a brief debate about whether the timing was right, the City Council voted 6-1 Thursday to add domestic partner benefits to the city budget. About 45 of 6,100 city employees...

Chad Gibson, who was seriously injured when Fort Worth police and Texas beverage commission agents conducted a raid of the Rainbow Lounge last Sunday, wants the officers involved in the raid of the gay bar to be prosecuted, and also says that the response of the city to the incident is a cover-up. “You...

A 29-year-old Navy sailor was found dead at a Southern California military base Tuesday in a suspected homicide that activists say may have been related to his sexuality. An unnamed individual is being held as a “person of interest” in the case. Navy seaman August Provost of Houston, Texas, reportedly...

Seven customers were arrested for public intoxication at a Fort Worth, Texas, gay bar shortly after midnight Sunday. Angry gay activists said the incident mimicked the famous police raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village exactly 40 years earlier. Fort Worth police released...