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, pictured here in 2020, is leaving her job at the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund in December and has been discussing another run for office.

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 ...

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.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker, left, and her wife and companion of more that 20 years, Kathy Hubbard, right, pick up Yardlong beans from their backyard before cooking dinner, Wednesday, June 24 ...

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 ...

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.

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 a ...

HOUSTON--Houston Mayor Annise Parker staged what may seem like a political coup Tuesday, winning a third term in a red state during a year in which female candidates lost mayoral bids in Los ...

On the one-year anniversary of her historic election victory, Houston Mayor Annise Parker scored another win on Tuesday night, as voters passed Proposition 1, an $8 billion, 20-year plan to ...