Fiesta Youth’s biggest fundraiser of the year, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, will mark its fifth year on Saturday, April 20 at the Veranda in Castle Hills. This year’s party is the first to be held as an official event of Fiesta San Antonio. The masquerade-themed event will feature an open bar…
USAA and Rackspace Score 100 on HRC’s Corporate Equality Index
Updated: March 29, 2019, 2:20 p.m. For the second time in as many years, two San Antonio companies were among the 571 businesses across the country that scored 100 on the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index. The United Services Automobile Association (USAA), which provides financial products to military members and families, and Rackspace, a…
San Antonio Congressman Chip Roy Scolds City Council Over Chick-Fil-A Decision
Updated: March 28, 2019, 1:00 p.m. Republican Rep. Chip Roy, who represents Texas 21st Congressional District, which includes northeastern San Antonio, has sent a letter to the City Council asking for an explanation as to why it banned Chick-Fil-A from opening a restaurant at the airport. The City Council voted on March 21 against allowing…
Brockhouse Apologizes to Chick-Fil-A for City Council Vote to Ban It from Airport
District 6 City Councilman and mayoral candidate Greg Brockhouse has taken it upon himself to write a letter of apology to Chick-Fil-A for the City Council’s recent vote to ban the restaurant from the San Antonio Airport for its anti-LGBTQ beliefs. In his March 26 missive to the company, Brockhouse writes, “The recent actions of…
Fire Breaks Out at Club Essence
Sixteen San Antonio Fire Department units responded on Tuesday morning, March 26, to a fire at Club Essence, located at 800 Lexington Avenue. The blaze was reported around 8:30 a.m. According to media reports, two people were checked out by EMS for smoke inhalation. So far, no cause for the fire has been established and…
City Council Votes No to Chick-Fil-A Restaurant at San Antonio Airport
The San Antonio City Council voted on March 21 against allowing the opening of a Chick-Fil-A concession at the city’s airport in a vote of 6 to 4 with one abstention. The Chick-Fil-A restaurant was part of a group of ten “concepts” Paradies Lagardère, a company that operates stores in airports and hotels throughout the…
LGBTQ Advisory Committee Challenges City’s Neutrality on Senate Bill 15
The Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Committee is challenging the City of San Antonio’s “neutral” stance on Senate Bill 15, a measure currently under consideration in the Texas Senate which would prohibit the local regulation of private employers. On its face, SB 15 would prohibit cities from requiring that private companies offer paid sick leave and other…
Local Gender Affirmation Project Will Assist with Updating of ID’s
A partnership of three organizations will begin offering gender marker and name change clinics that will help gender nonconforming individuals update their government ID cards, driver’s licenses and other documents to align with how they identify. The program, dubbed the Gender Affirmation Project, is being organized by Pride Center San Antonio in conjunction with the…
Anti-LGBTQ Bills Flood State Legislature as Filing Deadline Arrives
Friday, March 15 was the deadline for filing bills for this session of the Texas Legislature and as expected, Republicans have unleashed a torrent of proposed legislation aimed a scaling back the rights of LGBTQ Texans. On March 18, Equality Texas released a list of “bad bills” and expressed particular concern for two bills: SB15…
Texas House LGBTQ Caucus Opposes Appointment of Sec. Heather Wilson as UT El Paso President
Members of the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus have joined other groups in opposing the appointment of Heather Wilson, the Secretary of the Air Force, as the finalist for president of the University of Texas at El Paso based on her anti-LGBTQ views. From 1998 to 2009, Wilson served as a congresswoman from New Mexico and…