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As I mentioned yesterday, openly gay Houston Mayor Annise Parker provided the welcoming speech for this weekend’s convention of LGBT journalists. Miami Herald reporter Steve Rothaus recorded the speech. His clip description: Houston Mayor Annise Parker speaks at the 2012 National LGBT Editor/Blogger Convening about being elected to a second term; her longtime life partner Kathy Hubbard and being co-chair …

Here’s a shot of this weekend’s 2012 Haas Convening, where LGBT journalists gathered in Houston for training and updates on the movement’s latest issues. Attending were such well-known bloggers as Jeremy Hooper (Good As You), Bil Browning (Bilerico Project), David Badash (New Civil Rights Movement), Rod McCollum (Rod 2.0), Zack Ford (Think Progress), Noah Michelson (HuffPo Gay Voices) and Scott …

We had a great turnout of handsome guys for the JMG meetup in Houston last night! Too many names to remember, save the very notable presence of openly gay Fort Worth Councilman Joel Burns, whose poignant anti-bullying video went globally viral in October 2010. Fantastic to meet him and all of the rest of you! Also: Ow, my head! Thanks …

This neat circular walkway thingy connects the two Chevron towers I posted this morning. It’s killing me that I’ve only gotten to see a couple of blocks of a deserted downtown Houston, but we’re here less than 48 hours. When you add up flight time, airport time, all day meetings, planned in-house meals…well, you hardly get a chance to stick …

I wasn’t really expecting cowboys and oil wells, but I didn’t think the view from my Houston hotel room would evoke the climactic rebellion scene from Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes. Amirite? #dorkattack

A reminder for this Saturday: After going back and forth with Twitter, Facebook, and meatspace pals, the consensus is that JR’s Houston will be the best spot for next Saturday’s meet-up. I’ll be in Texas for the Haas LGBT Journalists Convening, which this year is sponsored by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. Hosting the whole shebang is NLGJA …

The first JMG readers meet-up for 2012 will take place next Saturday, March 24th, in Houston. I’ll be there for the same LGBT journalists event that last brought me to San Francisco, where our meet-up sort of overcrowded the small Castro bar we’d chosen, causing me to spend much of the night on the sidewalk outside chatting with the likes …

Conservative Houston radio host Michael Berry has been identified on the security videos of a local drag bar shortly before he fled a hit-and-run incident in the club’s parking lot. As I reported yesterday, Berry is known for fiery condemnations of minorities, with “crackheads and welfare queens” his most commonly-used expression to describe Houston’s poor. Berry claims that his employers …

Conservative talk radio host Michael Berry has been accused of leaving the scene of a fender bender after departing a drag show he attended at a popular Houston gay bar. Berry is known for ranting against same-sex marriage and related LGBT issues. Local 2 Investigates e-mailed Berry for his response to the hit-and-run allegations and the videotape showing him inside …

Nigeria’s “witch hunter” and Holy Appointee of Jesus is coming to Houston for a “12 day marathon of deliverance” where she’ll cure you of mermaids, voodoo, spells, and ALL those chronic and incurable diseases. Praise! Glory! Donate!

Openly lesbian Houston Mayor Annise Parker has won re-election by a margin that narrowly avoids a runoff with the far distant second place finisher. While all precincts have not reported at this writing, the Houston Chronicle is calling her the winner with 50.8% of the vote. Her top three challengers all only garnered about 15% of the vote each.

And the Exorcist-y music makes her scarier!(Via – Towleroad)

If all the people in the world had to live in one city, here’s how big that city would be based on the population densities of six examples.

Already in use in some part in Europe (as seen above), Continental Airlines has begun testing self-boarding procedures in Houston. Boarding a plane without an agent to inspect or take your pass has arrived in the USA. Continental Airlines has confirmed it’s testing the procedure at a gate at its hub in Houston Intercontinental. It’s the first experiment at what’s …

The Houston Fire Department has determined that the fire that destroyed a small gay-friendly church on Friday was deliberately set. The intense blaze was spotted a little after 11 p.m. The church, a small wooden building near Beltway 8 and I-45 South, was immediately engulfed. The remnants have since been torn down. The church’s website says “We welcome people of …

Last month openly lesbian Houston Mayor Annise Parker issued a sweeping non-bias order granting employment protections to LGBT workers “at every level of municipal government.” Predictably, the city’s Christianists are screaming about men in dresses. “Forcing women in particular using city facilities to be subjected to cross-dressing men invading their privacy is beyond the pale and offensive to every standard …

Pastor David Grisham has launched a website calling for the boycott of Houston because of its openly lesbian Mayor Annise Parker. Via Houston Press: “The main reason for the boycott is simply because it’s about the only way that people in the rest of the state of Texas — outside of Houston — can actually take a stand for righteousness …