A declaration of Black queer love radiated from the Texas State Capitol in Austin last week as Democratic State Representative Venton Jones dropped to one knee to propose to his partner Gregory ...

House Bill 1738 would strike down a 1973 Texas law prohibiting “homosexual conduct.” That law has been unenforceable since the U.S. Supreme Court declared such laws unconstitutional in 2003.

Out Texas state Rep. Venton Jones (D) announced on Monday that the state’s House Committee of Public Health unanimously voted to pass a bill the Democratic lawmaker authored to ensure HIV ...

State Rep. Venton Jones has announced that on Monday, April 7, the House Committee on Public Health unanimously passed House Bill 50, the bill the Texas Democrat authored that would ensure HIV ...

A Dallas lawmaker got engaged to his partner in the Texas State Capitol in Austin on Tuesday. State Rep. Venton Jones, a Democrat who became one of the first out Black gay men ever elected to the ...

Venton Jones, a Dallas Democrat ... It’s still unclear whether the measure will go any further this session. Texas is one of just a handful of states that haven’t removed their bans.

State Rep. Venton Jones’ bill to offer HIV testing in Texas when someone is screened for other STDs passed its third reading in the Texas House of Representatives on Tuesday, April 29.