Robert Gates Would Have Supported Gay Scoutmasters if He’d Been Leading the Boy Scouts When the Organization Voted on the Issue
That's not the boldest stance anyone ever took on gay rights.
Dan Solomon writes about politics, music, food, sports, criminal justice, health care, film, and business. Dan started working with Texas Monthly as a freelancer in 2013 before becoming a staff writer, covering topics from the Baylor sexual assault scandal to the gentrification of Austin barbecue to the legacy of Texas outsider artist Daniel Johnston. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Fast Company, Billboard, and Deadspin.
That's not the boldest stance anyone ever took on gay rights.
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Yet another list that a Texas town tops!
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The problem with Barkley's statement wasn't that it ignored the young hotties, it's that he dismissed the city because there were women he wasn't attracted to there.
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Yep, pretty much every city in this state is awful for walkers.
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What's happening out in West Texas?
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After these three random dudes at the store had their impromptu jam session captured by a passerby, the Internet is waiting to see what'll come next.
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As the drugs used in lethal injections become more difficult to come by, one state lawmaker in Utah is proposing an old-school replacement: The firing squad. Should Texas consider a similar move?
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Fans of the Eighth Wonder of the World, rejoice—there's one less reason to destroy the beloved stadium.
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Dustin Vaughan from West Texas A&M impressed the hell out of everybody with the viral hit YouTube video that showed off his skills.
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Houston, Houston, Houston, Dallas, Dallas, Dallas, with a little bit of Austin, and San Antonio thrown in.
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Change.org doesn't seem to change much, but it reveals that thousands of people have a problem with Judge Jeanine Howard.
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Although representatives of San Antonio's taxi companies think that some of them are "barbaric."
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The story of Larry Eugene Jackson, Jr., the Austin man who was killed by police after being suspected of attempted fraud, is moving further along in the justice system.
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It took until the final minutes of the 2014 NFL Draft for Michael Sam—the Texas native who, as the first openly gay player to attempt to enter the NFL, made history this weekend—to hear his name called. The league, and a few prominent football players, have some growing up to
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The longtime Austinite has a new hometown and some trouble on his mind.
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How psyched are you right now, Texans fans?
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The Olympic gold medalist tells us about her sports-watching—and playing—habits in a new recurring feature.
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The most intriguing quarterback prospect to come out of Texas in years has a big day ahead of him, and his local team has the very first pick.
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A real estate blog has released a list with quantifiable data to prove what we already knew: People in Texas really love tacos.
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Not the best way to get yourself a side of fries with that.
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And by "big plans," they mean, "better rent a car, international visitors."
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If it's true, it's a horror story.
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What is it that we expect from our female pop stars?
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San Antonio and Denton are both burning up to host the hot sauce company's new factory, which may be forced to leave its present home in Irwindale, California for creating a public nuisance and causing some local residents to have inflamed asthma and burned eyes. Why are Texas cities eager
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The use of bait cars—or cars planted by police to lure potential car thieves—is a controversial practice. But Dallas Police intend to use them to get their arrest numbers up.
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A map that made its way onto Reddit yesterday explains in no uncertain terms that Houston is friggin' massive.
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Rhett Miller swears, gets high, and tells the truth about himself on the most personal Old 97's record to date.
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A once-great, now-disgraced cyclist whose name we're not going to type here because you might still be sick of seeing it is in a video intended to go viral poking fun at his image. Is this part of a path to redemption?
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All three Texas NBA teams had at least one game end with a massive three-point shot to steal the lead.
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The Austin-based filmmaker preps the release of his 17th and most ambitious movie with a pitch-perfect trailer.
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If you're living in San Antonio or El Paso, it's time to pick up stakes and move to, er, Conroe.
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No one knows what the donkey was doing at the mall, but it seemed to be having a good time.
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It's been a busy year for Robert Rodriguez, and it's not getting any slower with the upcoming release of the next film in the Sin City franchise.
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No system is perfect, but a number of the imperfections in Texas' system are showing all at once.
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Without the inefficiency of air travel and the impossibility of high-speed rail, business travelers might well be looking at a future of riding the bus between Austin, Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio.
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The legal status of "disruptive" transportation apps like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar is in question. But as federal judges weigh in on the rules that keep them from operating at full capacity in Texas, the bigger question is whether or not these services meet a legitimate need.
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Riding a bike in any Texas city is a dangerous proposition—and it's almost always because of human negligence.
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This isn't actually funny.
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The highly influential conservative non-profit expects us to drop to number fourteen in the rankings in the future.
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The 2013 Grammy nominee returns with a new song that laments the fact that artists have to be tortured all the time.
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Flight attendants go viral with comedy routines, official Twitter accounts go viral with porn, and emergency landings ahoy. What's going on in the skies?
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We take a bold "peeing on the Alamo is bad" stance over here, but given the way the State Jail felony system works, it's hard to argue that the punishment fits the crime.
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Welcome the Wolf Pack, the, uh, Texans, and the... Huskies? That can't be right—wait, no, it's the Huskies.
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The top law enforcement official in Hidalgo County pled guilty to money laundering charges—here's what that means for the Valley.
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Jeff Francoeur hit the first home run in El Paso Chihuahuas history earlier this month—but if it's up to his teammates, he'll go into the history books as "idiot."
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Can JFF save the Texans?
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The two-minute preview of the film depicts a heartbreaking homecoming.
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The Dhawan family's nightmare began with the death of their ten-year-old son, but it hasn't ended there.
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Nobody exercises more, eats healthier, or has better insurance coverage than folks in the Killeen area, but Austinites still report the highest levels of happiness.
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