AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas House this legislative session would decriminalize homosexual conduct in Texas. House Bill 1738, filed by State Rep. Venton Jones (D-Dallas), would repeal a ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Texas law criminalizing “homosexual conduct” – on the books since 1973 – is closer to being repealed Monday. House Bill 1738, which would remove the measure from the state’s penal ...

In 1975, Texas Representative Craig Washington spearheaded the first-ever effort to repeal Texas Penal Code section 21.06, which made "homosexual conduct" a criminal offense. The bill failed in the ...

This is Texas, where sodomy is still in the penal code and its conservative leaders like it that way. Legislators criminalized such behavior back to the 1800s. When the Texas penal code needed ...

Legislators criminalized such behavior back to the 1800s. When the Texas penal code needed updating in the 1900s, lawmakers saw fit to keep their anti-sodomy law on the books, banning “deviate sexual ...