Same-Sex Marriage

Charlie Crist's Gay Marriage Reversal: Twitter Responds

Late Wednesday evening, Charlie Crist set off a small detonation in the political sphere by throwing his support behind gay marriage. Now, this wasn't exact a surprise. Since officially signing his Democrat papers six months ago, the former Florida governor has been slowly ditching his old Republica ... More >>

Charlie Crist Now Supports Gay Marriage

Well, that's a bit of a flip-flop. Charlie Crist, the former Republican-now-Democrat working overtime to make voters forget all about his past life, came out for marriage equality last night on his Facebook page. Right now it's political trendy for former gay marriage opponents ditch their old vie ... More >>

Catholic Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski Pens Letter on Gay Marriage, Wonders Why Marriage Should Be Limited to Two People

Archbishop Thomas Wenski grew up in Lake Worth and went on to become the head of the Catholic Church in South Florida; his archdiocese covers Broward, Monroe and Miami-Dade counties. As the battle heats up over gay marriage, Wenski has penned a letter outlining the modern Catholic stance on gays. He ... More >>

Political Trolling: Broward Top Democrat Reaches Out to Republican Counterpart on Gay Marriage, Gets Shot Down

This is a bit of a guess, but we think it's safe to say Broward Republican Chair Tom Truex didn't change his Facebook photo this week to one of those now-ubiquitous red equal signs. Truex -- a former Davie mayor who recently took the reins from Rick Petrocelli, private investigator -- received a le ... More >>

Majority of Floridians Support Gay Marriage, According to Latest Poll

Florida has come a long way in the past few years when it comes to gay marriage and marriage equality. According to the latest Public Policy Poll, a whopping 75 percent of Florida voters support gay marriage. This is a seismic shift from not long ago, when the majority of Floridians didn't want ga ... More >>

Palm Beach May Add Domestic Partnership Benefits

The City of Palm Beach has itself a new health insurance broker and a new consultant, which means the chance of having domestic partnership benefits added to its employee health plan is very close to happening. Town Manager Peter Elwell says that Willis of Florida Inc. will be taking a gander at he ... More >>

Rainbow House Now Painted; Westboro Baptist Church Responds

The timing couldn't have been better for the shenanigans local activist Aaron Jackson and his non-profit, Planting Peace, pulled off in Topeka, Kansas yesterday. If you managed to avoid social media or the internet in general over the last 24 hours, the Destin-based activist, along with friends and ... More >>

Florida Domestic Partnership Bill Scrapped

Ay yay yay, Florida. Why do you work so hard at being terrible? The domestic partnership bill that would have created a domestic partnership law, which would have given unmarried couples some of the same rights married couples have in Florida, has officially been scrapped. The Florida Senate commi ... More >>

Floridians Don't Want to Legalize Pot, Still Kind of Okay With Gay Marriage

As the rest of the nation is crawling out of the caves and embracing the legalizing of pot and same-sex marriage, Florida is still being all Florida about such things. According to a new poll conducted by Quinnipiac, residents of our fine state remain split down the middle on gay marriage, while a ... More >>

Marco Rubio Making Robocalls For Anti-Gay Group

Marco Rubio hates The Gays. He hates them so much, he voted against aLGBT-inclusive reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. He hates them so much, he doesn't even agree with Mittington Romney, who hates The Gays too, but at least supports a Federal Marriage Amendment (allegedly!) And ... More >>

Majority of Floridians Support Gay Marriage, According to New Poll

Oh, Florida. You were off to such a terrible start today (as is the case most days). With this, and then this. But now... you go and do something like this...and totally redeem yourself! No, really. According to a Washington Post poll conducted in September, 54 percent of Florida voters think ... More >>

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Poses for NOH8 Campaign on National Coming Out Day

Today is National Coming Out Day, and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is all about it. Wasserman Schultz, along with Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Boca), posed for NO8H in the group's campaign supporting equal rights for gays and lesbians. "On National Coming Out ... More >>

Proposition Gay Marriage

Republican Gay-Rights Group, GOProud, to Throw Party at RNC

The 2012 RNC is about to get faaaaabulous!The gay conservative group GOProud will hold its Homocon 2012 event following the Republican National Convention in Tampa."Homocon 2012 will be the must have ticket for the RNC," the executive director and cofounder of GOProud, Jimmy LaSalvia, says on t ... More >>

Local Woman to Chick-Fil-A: Apologize

Chick-fil-A, the company best known for fried chicken sandwiches, petitioning cows, and Christian values has been in the news lately. First, Dan Cathy, the son of S. Truett Cathy (who founded the company), was quoted as saying, "We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of ... More >>

GOP Congressional Candidate Seeks Endorsement From Gay Group, While Slamming Gay Community

Ozzie DeFarina, the GOP congressional candidate looking to challenge Democratic incumbent Debbie Wasserman Schultz in November, has been courting support from Log Cabin Republicans, a leading supporter for marriage equality.But then DeFarina did that thing that GOPers do and slammed his primary oppo ... More >>

Melissa Etheridge at Hard Rock Live on May 16

Obama Endorses Same-Sex Marriage; It Doesn't Mean Diddly for Florida Gays

If you've got a TV or an internet connection, you've probably already heard about President Barack Obama's statement to ABC News that "I think same sex-couples should be able to get married."If you frequent Think Progress, you've seen the gigantic "THANK YOU OBAMA! PRESIDENT OBAMA ENDORSES MARRIAGE ... More >>

Like a Horse and Carriage

Gingrich, Santorum Build Florida Campaigns With Help From Antigay Crusaders

​The Republican presidential candidates can figure out a way to disagree on any topic -- we saw last night they could argue about everything from Terri Schiavo to beet sugar -- but there's one thing they all have in common: None of them has any plans to go anywhere near gay rights, and two -- Sant ... More >>

Politics, Pandering, and Punch Lines

Confession of a Former Homophobe, and What Mitt Romney Could Learn From My Bigotry

Segregationist also used to go public with this kind of hate.​The first gay person I ever knew had just served me pasta in his home. He hadn't bought a dining room table yet for his new apartment, so we were sitting on his living room floor with plates in our hands. He had made a simple sauce with ... More >>

Turns Out, Some Florida Lawmakers Aren't Homophobic Tools

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fibonacciblue/4838653911/​It's good to know that in Florida -- a state that willingly elected an antigay, antichoice tea partier as its chief executive -- there are still a few legislators out there who are fighting against neo-cons' open advocacy of social injustice. ... More >>

Allen West Compares Being Gay to Liking Chocolate Chip Ice Cream and Riding Scooters

If you like scooters, you may need to change your behavior.​Folks, we simply cannot make up the stuff that comes out of Rep. Allen West's mouth.In a meeting with the Sun-Sentinel's editorial board yesterday -- which was also recorded on video -- West talked about fixing the nation's debt problem, ... More >>

Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley Says He Has Prostate Cancer

gpoaccess.govMark Foley​Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley -- a Republican from West Palm Beach who represented Florida's 16th congressional district for more than a decade -- announced he has prostate cancer, according to Newsmax.Foley, 56, told the news outlet he's scheduled for surgery in an Orlando-a ... More >>

Gay Marriage: Ken Keechl Says He'll Tie the Knot in New York; Rick Scott -- Not So Much

ithacalibrary.com"That can't come here." -- Rick Scott​New York's passage of gay marriage equality Friday night has had quite different reactions nationwide -- including a couple down here in the Sunshine State.Former Broward Mayor Ken Keechl announced on Facebook that he's getting married to his ... More >>

Coral Ridge Ministries, Sodomy, and Death

​Imagine you are Jesus Christ and you're scuba diving. Somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, you come upon a submarine. With your famed omniscience, you divine its nature, its contents, and its capabilities. This is the USS Florida, an Ohio-class vessel, fresh from the Libyan coast. It's almost 600 feet ... More >>

Archbishop Wenski & The Pedophiles

On a high holy horse.​"In our nation's culture wars," wrote Thomas Wenski, the Archbishop of Miami, in an editorial in Saturday's Sun Sentinel:...the two sides are fighting about the understanding of man and his relationship with reality. One side -- and today, "gay marriage" is its poster child - ... More >>

Marco Rubio: Defender of Marriage

Marco Rubio: No homo.​Sen. Marco Rubio offered this statement early this week, re: the legislative branch's decision to challenge the Obama administration on its decision that DOMA isn't worth defending:I want to thank Speaker Boehner and the House Republican leadership for taking action to defend ... More >>

Facebook Adds 'Civil Union' to Status Choices -- Here Are 10 More Options For Consideration

via www.someecards.comClick to Enlarge​Facebook now includes "Civil Union" and "Domestic Partnership" among its relationship status options. Since the genesis of the online 'Relationship Status' in the early 2000s, the few and definite choices have fallen short of defining the ever-complex myriad ... More >>

While Some Couples Leave Florida for Surrogacy, It's a Choice Destination for Others

Michael McElroy for New TimesAndy and Todd Bludworth-McNeill, the subjects of this week's feature article.​This week's cover story features a South Florida same-sex couple who traveled to Panama to start a family through surrogacy. They chose Central America because Florida surrogacy laws require ... More >>

Barbara Bush Supports Gay Marriage; Isn't It Time Charlie Crist Does Too?

When Dubya's daughter feels confident enough to support gay marriage, you know the political tides must be shifting. Barbara Bush is making headlines today for appearing in a Human Rights Campaign video advocating the legalization of same-sex marriage in New York. She joins celebs such as Mayor Mi ... More >>

At Century Village in West Palm, Jeff Greene Ducks Gay Marriage Question

During a recent campaign stop, U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene told a member of South Florida's gay community "I haven't formed an opinion yet" on gay marriage. That seems doubtful. Rather, Greene's shrewd enough to give himself some wiggle room on that question if it makes it to the general elec ... More >>

Letters From the Issue of August 27, 2009

Wedding Crashers II: When Gays Attack

For all this talk of who's invited to Gov. Charlie Crist's wedding, has anyone remembered the fire hoses and German shepherds? They tend to occupy the front lines of Republican efforts to quash civil rights, and perhaps they'll make the guest list now that regional gays have announced they're cras ... More >>

Fear of the Queer: Blacks in Florida vote to oppress gays

The Wedding Boycott

Race Tightening?

For All You Political Junkies ...

Letters for October 26-November 1, 2006

Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay

And other things the Republican Party wants you to believe on Election Day.

Charlie Crist Is NOT Gay

And other things the Republican Party wants you to believe on Election Day.

Unleashing Florida Pulp Nonfiction

Mind Your Manors

Oakland Park gets a makeover thanks to its gay southern neighbor

Cho 'Nuff

Margaret Cho is as funny as she wants to be

Beatcomber

Flight Club

Genitorturers

Loribiquity

Swamp Gas Speaks

If I Were a Gay Man...

The Ministry of Half-Truth

Broward's Coral Ridge Ministries says it's merely running an educational outreach. So why is it using politics to campaign against gay rights?