Texas Sex and Gender News Roundup

Cynthia Ann Parker was abducted in Texas at age nine.

Have you recovered from celebrating America’s birthday?

• NPR notices that abortion is a kind of this political battleground thing.
• Austin’s KXAN reports entire story about dudes caught having sex in a truck, prints one of their names in the sub-head. You know, just like they would do for straight people.
• This shit.
• Funding cuts shut down AIDS Resources of Rural Texas.
• New Texas law to protect pets of victims of domestic abuse.
• Abortion rights activist Betty Roberts born in Texas, lived in Oregon, fought the good fight.
• Capitalism works! Homophobic coffee shop owner in San Antonio sees an uptick in business after his hateful tweets.
• Conservatives like Rick Perry for being conservative. Next at 10: water is wet.
• The Daily Mail profiles Cynthia Ann Parker, who was abducted by Comanches at age 9 in Texas.
• A former UT-San Antonio professor is suing the school for firing him for looking at porn at work.
• Female Texas legislators are reviving the Women’s Caucus in response to the “time warp” 82nd session.
• You can get gay married in New York, but you can’t get gay divorced anywhere–especially not in Texas.
• A Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against the makers of what she says is a defective vaginal mesh.
• Arlington ISD hires its first-ever black female athletic director.
• UT-Dallas to study whether more women at the executive level helps women across all ranks of business.
• Fundraising efforts to pay the legal bills of the Silsbee, TX cheerleader who was raped are making the national news rounds.
• It’s true! The Dallas Morning News will publish gay wedding announcements alongside straight ones, at long last and with much teeth pulling.