Here’s all the insanity from day two of the Republican National Convention
It will get even wilder as the final night on Thursday approaches.
July 17 2024 3:35 PM
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Judge says Florida can't enforce trans care restrictions while appealing his ruling
The state had asked Judge Robert Hinkle to put his June ruling against the restrictions on hold, but he said no.
July 12 2024 7:59 PM
Ron DeSantis vetoes millions in arts funding to shut down Florida's fringe festivals
The anti-LGBTQ+ governor blamed "sexual" fringe festivals across the state for making it impossible to allow any grants to reach organizations. Advocates have cried foul.
July 04 2024 7:36 AM
Judge rules police didn't need to seize Christian Ziegler's phone, so the media can't watch threesome videos
The one-time Republican power couple fell from grace after the Ziegler's were revealed to have had threesomes with women — something advocates have said is hypocritical given the couple's previous anti-LGBTQ+ stances.
July 03 2024 12:53 PM
Mom of Florida trans girl athlete speaks out against possible firing for the first time
Jessica Norton, the mother of a trans student who briefly played on the Monarch High School volleyball team, spoke during a public comment period at a Broward County School Board meeting on Tuesday.
June 18 2024 4:23 PM
Florida just got its first LGBTQ+ Latino state senator
“It’s also important to acknowledge and celebrate the significance of our election for Florida’s LGBTQ community, who have been relentlessly attacked and demonized by the majority party in this Legislature over the past few years,” Smith said on Friday.
June 14 2024 4:55 PM
Federal court permanently blocks Florida's law against trans health care
The state had banned the care for minors and restricted it for adults.
June 11 2024 1:27 PM
Ron DeSantis stopped Pride lighting of bridges, so a Jacksonville man did it himself. Here's how you can too
Matt McAllister spoke to The Advocate about how he rapidly organized 70 people to light up the Main Street Bridge over the St. Johns River as gay as possible for Pride Month.
June 07 2024 1:00 PM
Miss Bouvèé has something to say about Florida's drag bans
This drag performer reflects on the lasting impact the state's anti-drag bans have had a year after they were put into motion.
June 05 2024 4:08 PM
Details of Bridget Ziegler and her husband's sex life prompt calls of hypocrisy by Florida newspapers
Bridget Ziegler continues to go after LGBTQ+ people even after new details emerged of her and her husband having sexual encounters with other women. Florida newspapers are calling her out.
May 31 2024 4:24 PM
Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors for Pride Month this year
Florida Transportation Secretary James Perdue announced on social media that as part of the state’s “Freedom Summer,” all bridges will be lit in patriotic colors from May 27 to September 2, which means no rainbows for Pride.
May 21 2024 9:45 AM
Here's how Ron DeSantis is still tormenting LGBTQ+ kids after failed presidential campaign
DeSantis is still going after queer youth.
May 02 2024 2:54 PM
These 9 states have the chance to protect abortion this election — Here's what you can do
Constitutional amendments to protect abortion are on the ballot in 4 states, and 5 other states still need your signature.
April 07 2024 3:00 PM
Ron DeSantis and Disney reach settlement in suit over governing control
The Central Florida Tourism Oversight District approves a settlement over control of Walt Disney World’s governing district, signaling an end to the two-year-long clash between Ron DeSantis and Disney.
March 27 2024 6:10 PM
New York Times fails to include trans voices in coverage, say GLAAD, Media Matters
The paper didn't quote an out trans person in two-thirds of its stories about anti-trans legislation in the past year, says a new report from the watchdog groups, which comes a year after the Times received strong criticism for amplifying anti-trans viewpoints.
March 26 2024 6:31 PM
Florida students allowed to talk about sexual orientation, gender identity after 'don't say gay' settlement
A legal settlement established that certain discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity are absolutely permitted in Florida schools.
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March 11 2024 5:10 PM
On Moms for Liberty, '60 Minutes' and Scott Pelley focus on a threesome rather than the harm the group causes
Pelley neglected to mention that a racist compared Moms for Liberty favorably to Nazis and the Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the organization an anti-government extremist entity.
March 05 2024 5:53 PM
Trump judge tosses DeSantis's 'Stop Woke Law,' and calls it 'First Amendment sin'
Florida's war on progress was rejected by an unlikely figure.
March 05 2024 11:59 AM
Ron DeSantis cheers as University of Florida's anti-LGBTQ+ president fires all diversity staff
A memo to employees cited a new regulation for the Board of Governors, a DeSantis-controlled board setting policies for the State University System.
March 03 2024 12:50 PM
Trans activists march on Florida capital as erasure bill dies
At a rally on the steps outside the building on Wednesday, LGBTQ leaders and progressive lawmakers slammed legislation threatening to erase trans identities.
March 01 2024 5:24 PM