Texas Sex and Gender News Roundup

Flying the hateful skies.

Oh my word, it’s Friday. Tomorrow I’m going to drive to Kilgore, TX in an attempt to win $10,005 in a Dallas Mavericks giveaway. Wish me luck? What are you doing this weekend?

• A soccer coach from Garland, TX has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy.
• The Houston Press lists Texas’ greatest gay people.
• The Guardian UK thinks Rick Perry might be the 2012 GOP ticket’s saving grace.
• “Libertarian” Ron Paul’s going on an anti-choice campaign tour.
• An 18-year-old from Seguin, TX has been sentenced to 25 years for sexually assaulting a 61-year-old woman, who escaped from him by hitting him over the head with a ceramic bowl.
• A Baylor University academic says moms stay at work when they have flexibility to stay at work. Cats are furry and dogs bark, too.
• The name of that homophobic, misogynist, fat-hating Southwest pilot who aired his assbaggery all over the airline comm channel is: James Fritzen Taylor.
• The Dallas Voice covers LGBT relationship discrimination in America’s immigration policy.
• Because some Texans are also shallow materialists who like crappy food, they thrive in Manhattan.
• A Plano, TX teacher says he shouldn’t be de-certified because the student he had sex with wasn’t in his school district.
• One of the men on trial for raping Jamie Leigh Jones says he didn’t.
• Some progressive Baptist churches are allowing women to take the pulpit.
• Texas women will now, by law, get information about breast density after a mammogram.
• Eight children are motherless after an estranged husband murdered his wife and her friend in Fort Worth.
• Famous Texas anti-choice activist Abby Johnson has given me and feminist bloggers the world over the greatest gift ever: her own blog on LifeNews.
• Texas lawmakers in the House agree that “severe fetal abnormality” strictly means “incompatible with life outside the womb.”