News from within the borders of Florida and the fight for LGBT equality there. As of 2013, Florida legistlators have still not stuck down's the state's sodomy laws, though they remain unenforceable since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lawrence v. Texas. The state also voted to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions in 2008. Florida is infamous as the home of the Save the Children campaign helmed by Anita Bryant, which led to the prohibition of same-sex couples from adopting children in 1977.
“I hate you damned gays, I’m going to kill you all here,” Nelson Hernandez Mena is accused of saying before he allegedly killed Juan Cruz at a Florida restaurant this weekend.
A Florida politician attacked LGBT people for their “sin” and told black activists to “go back to Africa” during an official candidates; forum this week.
“We felt a momentum building and realized it was time for Naples to have its first Pride. It is long overdue,” said said Cori Craciun, Naples Pride president.
