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From a full-out Bette Midler tribute to a real-life dance diva, from fine dining to all-night dancing, the Bayou City is going all out for a Texas-sized Pride June 16-23. Join the out-gay mayor & several thousand of her pals for a sizzling hot time.

Equality Forum on May 5 presented Houston Mayor Annise Parker with its International Role Model Award during its annual dinner in Philadelphia. She spoke with EDGE about her tenure, her marriage equality activism and her future plans.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker told LGBT bloggers and journalists gathered in the Bayou City on Friday that she would be "shocked" to see President Barack Obama endorse marriage equality before the general election.

Freedom to Marry on Friday formally launched a campaign that includes 80 mayors who have pledged to push for nuptials for same-sex couples. Several of these mayors spoke at a press conference at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Washington, D.C.

Governor Rick Perry and Houston Mayor Annise Parker garnered the national spotlight in 2011, but for entirely different reasons.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker hosted the annual International Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference last weekend that brought nearly 500 LGBT elected officials, candidates and former candidates to the Space City.

Belgium elected Elio di Rupo as its first openly gay prime minister. A number of other European countries have also elected openly gay politicians in the past decade.

Houston on Tuesday, Nov. 8, became the first major American city to re-elect an LGBT mayor. Mayor Annise Parker narrowly avoided a run-off with 51 percent of the vote.

Annise Parker, openly lesbian mayor of Houston, praised Shanghai for its LGBT inclusiveness and its entrepreneurial spirit during a trip to the World Expo in that city.

The president of the Human Rights Campaign singled out Nevada’s new domestic partnership law and Houston Mayor Annise Parker’s election as examples of LGBT-specific progress outside of traditionally blue states.