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Houston Mayor Annise Parker filed the papers Thursday to put her name on the November ballot, a move that so far appears to be a formality on her path toward a second two-year term.
Annise Parker made worldwide headlines in 2009 when Houston voters elected her as the city’s first openly gay mayor. Houston became the largest city in America at the time to elect a gay ...
Nearly two decades later, a few weeks before Annise Parker takes the oath of office as Houston's first openly gay mayor, Ryan declares himself an enthusiastic supporter of that young woman he ...
When Annise Parker won her first Houston mayoral race back in 2009, the Houston Chronicle described her as “the first contender in a generation to defeat the hand-picked candidate of Houston’s ...
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund President and CEO Annise Parker. Photo illustration by Kyle Neal. Years before Annise Parker was elected Houston’s mayor in 2010, she encountered a 17-year-old unsheltered youth.
Annise Parker, pictured here in 2020, is leaving her job at the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund in December and has been discussing another run for office.
HOUSTON - Houston Mayor Annise Parker has rallied supporters of a defeated ordinance that would have established nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in the city, telling ...
Annise Parker, who is serving her final year as Houston's mayor, has left her mark on the nation’s fourth-largest city and become a national figure in LGBT politics. Doing both at the same time ...
Annise Parker came into office six years ago telling Houstonians she would force them to eat their vegetables. The new mayor was referring to the recession that had gnawed holes in the city budget ...
Ending months of increasingly frantic, nervous speculation by Prince William and (especially) Kate Middleton, Mayor Annise Parker has greatly eased their minds by officially writing ...
Mayor Annise Parker at a city council meeting on July 22, 2015. Annise Parker spent 18 years at City Hall: three terms as council member, three as city controller and finally three as mayor.