Five Texas LGBT GetEQUAL Activists Arrested Protesting Senate Stranglehold on Job Protections Bill

Published on May 5, 2013

In the state of Texas it is legal and common practice to fire, refuse to hire, or otherwise discriminate against someone in the workplace solely based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

Texas Senate Bill 237 "The Fair Employment Act" Seeks to create a workplace safe from these types of discrimination.


After numerous phone calls, petitions, and emails SB 237 still sits in committee. Fearing that the committee would not budge
GetEQUAL TX Activists payed a visit to the 4 senators who are holding it up.

5 of those activists were arrested for daring to speak truth to power. Join the movement for full equality in all matters governed by civil law.

Man Arrested For The Murder of Ohio Transgender Woman Cemia Acoff

Andre L. Bridges, 36 was arrested Saturday at his home in Parma, Ohio by police and the FBI.

Cemia Acoff, a transgender woman was found tied to a concrete block, underwater in a pond, her body badly decomposed on April 17th.

*Trigger Warning. The source used for this post, News net5, misgenders Cemia repeatedly using her birth name and making no mention that she was a transgender person undoubtedly parroting the atrocious original article published by the Plain Dealer.

You can read the News Net5 article "Arrest made in case where dead body was found in pond, tied to concrete block/steel pipe" here.