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Equality Texas
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Working to secure full equality for LGBTQIA+ Texans through political action, education, community organizing, and collaboration. 🤠🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈✨
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Are you starting to feel green with envy? Good, because the Gala is almost here -- and something Wicked this way comes! The 2025 Equality Texas Gala Silent Auction is officially live, and it’s time to let your bids defy gravity!

🌐 http://bit.ly/eqtx-auction
November 12, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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✨We've been working hard to make this a night to remember, and we're excited to announce that we'll be joined by fantastic entertainers as well as some special guests!

📌Get tickets: equalitytexas.org/gala

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #wicked #gala #eqtx
November 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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💗Pink goes good with green💚

🍾Join Equality Texas and Brad Stuver at the gala on November 15 for a wicked good time!

👀 We have a big announcement in store, so don’t miss out, get your tickets today!

📌bit.ly/eqtx-stu

#gala #eqtx #lgbtq #lgbtqia #wicked
November 5, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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✨We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 Profile in Courage honorees: @ventonjonestx and @nicolecollier95!

🎉Congratulotions! We can’t wait to celebrate with everyone!

📌Tickets: equalitytexas.org/gala

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #gala #wicked
November 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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🎉Our biggest event of the year is less than a month away and we’re OBSESSULATED!

✨Join us on November 15 for our 7th Annual Gala: Together We’re Unlimited!

📌 equalitytexas.org/gala

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #wicked #eqtxgala
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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🎉We are thrillified to announce our 2025 Glen Maxey Lifetime Achievement honorees Jason Hanna & Joe Riggs!

📌Tickets: equalitytexas.org/gala

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #gala #wicked
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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🌈We weren't joking when we said pride is all year long!

✨Volunteer with us for The Woodlands Pride Festival!

📌bit.ly/woodlands-eqtx

#volunteer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride2025
October 23, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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🌈Pride during Spooky Season? OoOoOOOooOooo!

✨Volunteer with us in Pflugerville this weekend at Pflugerville Pride!

📌bit.ly/PPride25

#volunteer #lgbtq #lgbtqia #pride2025
October 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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🍾We're thrillified to announce our 2025 Monica Roberts Trans Activist of the Year honoree Ash Hall!

🎉Congratulotions Ash! We can't wait to celebrate with everyone at our 7th Annual Gala: Together We're Unlimited!

📌Tickets: equalitytexas.org/gala

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #gala #wicked
October 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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🌈It's LGBTQIA+ history month, and we're sharing a snippet from a Pride event earlier this year of the vibrant and diverse LGBTQIA+ community in Texas with a mini history lesson!

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQHistoryMonth #Pride #Pride2025
October 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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🌈Rainbow crosswalks for all!

✨Head to the #linkinbio or bit.ly/eqtx-kit to get your own rainbow chalk kit and make your city a more welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ Texans!

#rainbow #rainbowcrosswalk #texas #lgbtq #lgbtqia
October 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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✨We’re thrilled to announce our 2025 Business Champion honoree: Parents of Trans Youth!

🎉Don’t forget to get your tickets now and join in on the fun!

📌Tickets: equalitytexas.org/gala

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #gala #wicked
October 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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✨Good news! Our 7th Annual Gala: Together We're Unlimited is almost upon us!

💚💗Dust off your ruby slippers and wands and join us as we celebrate the gravity-defying power of community.

📌Get your tickets: equalitytexas.org/gala

#EQTX #Gala #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TogetherWereUnlimited
October 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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✨Come to our 7th Annual Gala: Together We're Unlimited and celebrate the courage, intelligence, and heart of our community this year as we faced yet another record-breaking slew of anti-LGBTQIA+ bills.

📌Tickets: equalitytexas.org/gala

#EQTX #Gala #Fundraiser #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
September 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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This is a painful moment for our community. Despite the overwhelming majority of Texans raising their voices against this legislation during the regular and special sessions, today SB 8 was signed into law.

📌Learn more at equalitytexas.org/sb8

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TXLege #SB8
September 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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🎉We're 30% to our goal of $10,000, but we only have until midnight to participate in #NorthTexasGivingDay!

💗Help us reach our goal by donating now!

📌Give now: bit.ly/eqtxntgd

#lgbtq #lgbtqia
September 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The Texas House passed SB 8, the anti-trans bathroom bill. SB 8 is now on track to become law, after an 8-year fight.

#TXLege #SB8 #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
August 29, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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🚨ATTENTION ALL TRANS TEXANS AND ALLIES!

SB 8, the Bathroom Bill, is on the floor TOMORROW (Thursday, 8/28/25) at 9AM, and we're assembling a chorus of voices AGAINST this legislation.

📌Join us: bit.ly/eqtx-ryv

#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TXLege #SB8
August 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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✨Announcing Equality Texas' 7th Annual Gala: Together We're Unlimited!

🤝The theme is “Together We’re Unlimited” because 2026 will be about the gravity-defying power of community!

📌Get tickets or become a sponsor: equalitytexas.org/gala

#EQTXGala #Fundraiser #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Wicked
August 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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📢Today at the Texas Capitol, hundreds of Texans spoke up and lawmakers plugged their ears! No matter what happens, we won't stop fighting. Trans Texans have always been here and will always be here.

#TXLege #SB8 #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
August 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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We're hosting a rally in the outdoor rotunda this afternoon following adjournment.

Join us in-person us starting at 1:00PM to stand up for the dignity, safety and basic rights of all Texans!

#SB8 #TxLege
equalitytexas.bsky.social Equality Texas @equalitytexas.bsky.social · Aug 22
#SB8 testimony in the State Affairs committee just wrapped. The bill was left pending.

You can make online comments on the #SB8 bathroom bill until 5 p.m. Monday, Rep.King says.

Here's the link: comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c450
August 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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#SB8 testimony in the State Affairs committee just wrapped. The bill was left pending.

You can make online comments on the #SB8 bathroom bill until 5 p.m. Monday, Rep.King says.

Here's the link: comments.house.texas.gov/home?c=c450
August 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Here we are again. Texas lawmakers are debating another bill ( #SB8 ) that would dictate which bathrooms transgender people can use.

Meanwhile, urgent issues wait in the wings. We're at the Capitol and will be sharing updates from the hearing live on our socials. Follow along! #TxLege
August 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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🚨The trans bathroom ban (SB 8) is scheduled for a hearing in the House State Affairs committee TOMORROW, August 22 at 8am.

📢This is our LAST CHANCE for the community to fight this, and we need everyone to show up, drop a card, and testify!

📌bit.ly/eqtx822

#TXLege #SB8 #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
August 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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✨NEW MERCH!✨

🐍 Don't tread on trans Texans! 🐍

📌Buy now: equalitytexas.org/shop

#donttreadonme #lgbtq #lgbtqia #transrights
August 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM