Testing saves lives, and normalizing it reduces the stigma that acts as another obstacle to tackling the HIV epidemic,” Jones ...

Two Republican lawmakers including a self-identified Christian conservative are throwing their support behind an effort to ...

The criminal penalties have remained on the books, despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling more than twenty years ago that ...

Out Texas state Rep. Venton Jones (D) announced on Monday that the state’s House Committee of Public Health unanimously voted ...

Forty-five of those followed the 2003 ruling. Rep. Venton Jones, D-Dallas, was a House freshman and the first Black, openly ...

For decades, Texas law has continued to contain a provision outlawing “homosexual conduct,” despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2003 ruling in Lawrence v. Texas that the measure is unconstitutional.

AUSTIN, Texas — A bill filed in the Texas House this legislative session would decriminalize homosexual conduct in Texas.

Rep. Venton Jones, D-Dallas, was a House freshman and the first Black, openly gay lawmaker in Texas when he filed a similar proposal in 2023. It passed unanimously out of committee then ...

Texas that the measure is unconstitutional. State legislators have tried for years to get it removed from statute but have so far been unsuccessful. Rep. Venton Jones, D-Dallas, will lay out House ...

Out Texas state Rep. Venton Jones (D) announced on Monday that the state’s House Committee of Public Health unanimously voted to pass a bill the Democratic lawmaker authored to ensure HIV ...

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 ...