Gay rights

More than a dozen parents, teachers, and students along with Equality Florida have reached a settlement with the Florida Department of Education and school districts.The settlement will allow K-12 students to speak and write freely about sexual orientation and gender identity in class participation and schoolwork.It will also reinstate Gay-Straight Alliances throughout the state.

The city attorney in Jacksonville says an initiative intended to challenge a new gay rights law cannot be legally placed on the November ballot.

A Florida lawmaker is pushing legislation that would prohibit a controversial kind of therapy aimed at LGBT youths. The bill could stop the use of…

A federal appeals court has denied the state’s motion to keep Florida’s gay marriage ban in place. This means gay marriages might start taking place in…

A gay rights organization ranking shows Cape Coral has the least inclusive local policies in Florida for the LGBT community.The Human Rights Campaign…

Carol Goldwasser’s death certificate is now a historical document.That’s because it was recently updated to include the name of her spouse: Arlene…

This summer, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Broward and Palm Beach Counties declared Florida’s gay marriage ban unconstitutional. Those back-to-back court rulings…

A woman in Naples has started an advocacy group aimed at helping Southwest Florida’s vulnerable transgender community.For several months, Cori Craciun…

It only took a few hours for the state Attorney General’s office to appeal Thursday’s Monroe County ruling declaring Florida’s ban on same sex marriage...

Advocates have filed another lawsuit this week in the ongoing fight for gay marriage in Florida.The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida filed a…