As Houston gets ready to celebrate Pride Weekend—with Beyoncé in town, Astros games on deck, and one of the city’s most vibrant neighborhoods in the spotlight—some in Montrose say what’s happening outside the celebrations is getting harder to ignore.

Show off your pride with the Houston Dash! Their third annual "Dash Bash Pride Kickoff" is June 13 at Pearl Bar, the only lesbian bar in the city. It's just one of several events the Dash is hosting this month. Chief Marketing Officer for the team SJ Luedtke and mascot Diesel stopped by all the details!

FLUX Houston, an affinity group with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, is hosting a FREE event, to bring awareness to Houston's transgender and non-binary community this Saturday, May 18!

National Coming Out Day is a day when both members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community are encouraged to share their truth or support anyone who has decided to make their lifestyle choice public.

The Respect for Marriage Act would ensure that same-sex marriages are recognized nationwide.

This is everything you need to know about the Houston Pride Festival to be held this weekend in downtown Houston.

Houston is celebrating Pride Month with these parties, fashion shows and family-friendly events

(CNN) The city of Somerville, Massachusetts, will now recognize polyamorous relationships after the city council voted in favor of a new domestic partnership ordinance in a meeting last Thursday. Councilor Lance Davis, who supported the ordinance, told CNN he believes this is the first ordinance of its kind in the country. The domestic partnership ordinance was brought to the city council recently as a means to help residents who are not married to visit their partners who are sick with coronavirus at the hospital, according to Davis. The domestic partnership ordinance was brought to the council by Davis to encompass this change in a virtual meeting Thursday evening. This is Somerville's first domestic partnership ordinance, according to Davis, meaning the city now joins nearby Boston and Cambridge, which also have such ordinances.

Nearly 50 years ago, the Stonewall Riots of 1969 in New York were considered the beginning of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. The historical riot was the spark that helped ignite Houston’s first gay and lesbian organization in the early 70s. However, the city didn’t celebrate its first parade celebration almost a decade later.

LGBTQ Texans marked a major victory Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal civil rights law prevents employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. But in Texas, which did not have such workplace safeguards, LGBTQ lawmakers and advocates say they are far from done fighting for other essential protections. Employment discrimination protections, they say, are necessary but not sufficient for advancing the equal treatment of LGBTQ Texans. The fight for LGBTQ rights has been a long and arduous one in Republican-dominated Texas. In pushing for comprehensive nondiscrimination protections, LGBTQ lawmakers and their allies are also making an economic case.