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Anti-LGBT bigot caught engaging in election fraud in Texas

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Engaging in fraud in order to overturn LGBT and especially trans equality in cities throughout the nation is nothing new for anti-equality bigots. In the past anti-equality efforts, election fraud was limited to purposefully deceiving voters about trans equality or intimidating voters. Recently, the TransAdvocate documented an anti-equality activist using county property to attempt to circumvent a Texas election law. The Houston Area Pastor’s Council (AKA, the Texas Pastor’s Council, AKA, the US Pastor’s Council) is the Texas-based anti-queer group that is heading up the effort to overturn a recent Houston equality ordinance which protects groups such as Jews, LGBT people, etc from discrimination. For this reason the Houston/Texas/US Pastor’s Council (HTUSPC) is attempting to have the ordinance repealed. While railing against the supposed immoral nature of LGBT people, the HTUSPC is currently mired in its own sex scandal. HTUSPC spokesman, Pastor Baker, was recently fired for harassing, assaulting and

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Community significance

“Anti-LGBT bigot caught engaging in election fraud in Texas” may matter to community readers because it preserves a first-person or testimonial account connected to law and civil rights, while also engaging transgender identity and history. Such accounts can document how an issue was understood and experienced from within the period or community being discussed.

Historical significance

The article may have historical value because it explicitly interprets or preserves material concerning law and civil rights. Published in 2014 by Transadvocate.com, it can be read both for the history it describes and as evidence of how transgender identity and history was framed at that moment.

Policy significance

The article’s strongest policy connection is elections and democratic governance and public accommodations and facilities. It links that institutional frame to law and civil rights and transgender identity and history, making it potentially useful for tracing how an argument moves from description or history into law, regulation, administration, or public practice.

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Themes

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    Law and civil rightsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    100%
  2. 2
    Transgender identity and historyTheme family: Identity, culture, and community
    58%
  3. 3
    History, archives, and memoryTheme family: Knowledge, history, and communication
    18%
  4. 4
    Religion and moralityTheme family: Power, ideology, and social conflict
    15%
  5. 5
    Healthcare and medicineTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    10%
  6. 6
    Labor, economics, and institutionsTheme family: Institutions, law, and public life
    8%
Relationship among the ranked article themes The central circle is the primary theme. Line styles are defined in the relationship key below the diagram. Law and civil rights to Transgender identity and history: Separate but related
Transgender identity and history
Law and civil rights to History, archives, and memory: Separate but related
History, archives, and memory
Law and civil rights to Religion and morality: Separate but related
Religion and morality
Law and civil rights to Healthcare and medicine: Related theme in the same family
Healthcare and medicine
Law and civil rights to Labor, economics, and institutions: Related theme in the same family
Labor, economics, and institutions
Law and civil rightsRank 1
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4 source-held references record early links or citations; the documented sources span 4 distinct domains. The dated evidence currently spans 2014–2015. These observations describe circulation and reuse; they do not assign cultural worth or evaluate the communities, arguments, or people discussed.

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0best available scholarly cited-by count
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Submission Guidelines

Cristan Williams · collective-demo.transhouston.com · August 20, 2015

Specifically, the TransAdvocate focuses on watchdogging anti-transgender media tropes and misinformation that gains social currency. We’re willing to do what it takes to expose hate — especially when hate is being peddled as reason, faith, or journalism. We here at the TrasnAdvocate generally won’t pull our punches and we are…

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Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives | The TransAdvocate

Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · August 5, 2014

The Harris County DA is currently investigating a HAPC representative for engaging in voter fraud while working to overturn the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (AKA, “HERO”). The investigation comes after the TransAdvocate caught the representative on tape attempting to violate Texas Election laws.

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Houston, know thy bigots | The TransAdvocate

Houston, know thy bigots | The TransAdvocate · transadvocate.com · July 30, 2014

The Houston Area Pastors Council (HPAC), an organization led by men who sexually harassed women (and who tried to misrepresent the sexual abuse to the public), has been working to overturn broad equality in Houston, Texas. The Harris County DA is investigating a HPAC representative…

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Sadly, No! » Piss-ing off the Haters

Sadly, No! » Piss-ing off the Haters · sadlyno.com · October 26, 2014

[…] Additionally, it was found out that the organization setting everything up was further breaking the law by petitioning for signatures on government property. […]

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US: Anti-trans Texans accused of electoral fraud in petition to overturn Equal Rights Ordinance · PinkNews.co.uk | JerBear's Queer World News, Views & More…

US: Anti-trans Texans accused of electoral fraud in petition to overturn Equal Rights Ordinance · PinkNews.co.uk | JerBear's Queer World News, Views & More From The City Different – Santa Fe, NM · jerbearinsantafe.wordpress.com · July 1, 2014

[…] week, a reporter from the TransAdvocate recorded a man seated in a council office admitting to seeking signatures on his petition from people who […]

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Article authors

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Cristan Williams

143 publications · 714 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 2 citation links between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Guest

57 publications · 87 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Rani Baker

5 publications · 6 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Kelley Winters

3 publications · 2 inbound sources/citations

Connected through 1 citation link between registered publications. Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Admin

98 publications · 0 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Marian

7 publications · 12 inbound sources/citations

Shares registered themes including Transgender identity and history, Community and organizing, Education and youth.

Related authors are calculated from co-authorship, shared themes and framings, and citation relationships in the registered corpus. This does not imply a personal or institutional association.

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Policy implications

Houston trans-inclusive equity ordinance survives

Examines legal, institutional, or policy consequences connected to the shared theme.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker and City Attorney David Feldman announced that the effort to overturn equality failed to collect enough valid petition signatures to put minority rights up…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0455-30F6
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GOPs and Gays and Good Ol’ Politics

Examines legal, institutional, or policy consequences connected to the shared theme.

“The gays and lesbians are after me! The gays and lesbians are after me!!!” — Texas State Rep. Robert Talton (R) while running down the halls of the…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-1199-01EB
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WATCH: School board bigot squirm

Provides a contextually related perspective from elsewhere in the Collective.

In what has to be one of the most facepalm-inducing interviews I’ve ever watched, Canadian school board trustee, Sam Sotiropoulos attempted to explain why he’s not a bigot…

Transadvocate.comCAN-0000-0429-DB44