A gay attorney who represented Pride San Antonio in a controversial lawsuit over San Antonio's rainbow crosswalks has been appointed to a leadership role in the Texas Republican Party, according to the SA Report.

Lawyer Justin Nichols will now represent San Antonio as a member of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee (SREC), a governing body that controls the state party.

Sign up As a newly elected representative on the 64-member SREC, Nichols is tasked with holding the party to its platform, which includes condemning homosexuality and opposing "all efforts to validate transgender identity and ideology." Nichols' role on the SREC has renewed outrage against him among some members of San Antonio's queer community, who have argued for months that Pride San Antonio misplaced its trust in him as a champion.