A Virginia school board is defending its policy of blocking transgender students from using bathrooms aligned with their gender identity

“Out,” a short film that features Pixar’s first gay main character, was released Friday on Disney+, according to NBC News.com

Gay rights pioneer Phyllis Lyon, who with her longtime partner was among the first same-sex couples to marry in California when it became legal to do so in 2008, has died at her San Francisco home.

A Florida appellate court panel upheld a lower court’s ruling that a security firm employing the gunman from the Pulse nightclub shooting can’t be held liable for failing to investigate complaints against the shooter and giving him firearm training

A beloved member of the Gay Men’s Chorus of South Florida has died due to complications of the novel coronavirus, the executive director of the chorus announced Friday. “It is tough to know that Florida’s death toll from the Coronavirus has climbed to 23 and one of them is a dear man I knew and who was a member...

A lawsuit that pits religious freedom against gay rights — and has been percolating through the court system and national news for two years — is officially on the Supreme Court’s docket, NBC News reports.

The recent killing of a person believed to be a transgender woman that has shocked and angered many in Puerto Rico is likely a hate crime, Gov. Wanda Vázquez said Tuesday. While no one has been arrested, she said the investigation into the fatal shooting of a person identified as Neulisa Luciano Ruiz, also known as Alexa, is making...

A new ad campaign from the state of Colorado is asking residents from the LGBTQ community in Florida to do one thing – move. The ad, done on behalf of Good Business Colorado, promotes job protections in the state and the ability to “be ourselves” at work. “It was a very easy thing to look at Florida and the lack…

During a Tuesday appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” the retired NBA superstar opened up about his daughter Zaya’s decision to come out as transgender.

California’s governor announced Wednesday that he is posthumously pardoning a gay civil rights leader while creating a new pardon process for others convicted under outdated laws punishing homosexual activity.

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A spokesman for central Florida’s LGBTQ community after the massacre of 49 patrons at a gay nightclub in 2016 has died

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YouTube star Nikkie de Jager, who is best known online as NikkieTutorials, opened up about a personal topic on Monday.

Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon was tasked with paying tribute to Carol Burnett Award recipient Ellen DeGeneres at the 2020 Golden Globes, and McKinnon did that and then some.

A trans woman who spent her formative teen years in a Florida county is the face of a new campaign from a nationwide company honoring the LGBTQ community. Miliana S. is one of the featured artists in a new ad from Pantene as part of the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles promoting members of the LGBTQ community to be able…

The nonprofit raising money for a Pulse memorial and museum said it is using as a model those built to commemorate the Oklahoma City bombing and the Sept. 11 attacks.

Tiffany Fantasia had a special celebration last weekend at the Palace in South Beach.

Organizers say the design concepts are only a starting point for discussions on the Pulse memorial and museum and are open to revisions.

A federal judge struck down a 2017 ban imposed by the city of Tampa, ruling that the city has no authority to regulate health professionals and only the state government can do that.

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Gary Ray Bowles, 57, drew the death sentence for his conviction in the November 1994 murder of Walter Hinton in Jacksonville Beach — one of the six known killings in 1994 that terrorized the Interstate 95 corridor.

Sandalwood High School teacher Thomas Caggiano wrote in an email to the student “I will NOT refer to you with female pronouns … If this is not acceptable for you, change classes.”

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Officers say the 17-year-old was arrested on Monday for an unrelated case before admitting to fatally shooting 21-year-old Kiki Fantroy on the morning of July 31st near Southwest 222nd Street and 115th Court.

Valentina Sampaio has become the first openly transgender model hired by Victoria’s Secret, nearly a year after a top company official was pressured to apologize for implying trans women are off brand.

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A Miami-based LGBTQ organization has terminated its executive director after he welcomed four men charged with hate crimes in an anti-gay attack to an equality gala last month.

An LGBTQ organization in Florida is facing backlash for allowing and greeting at a gay pride gala four men charged with hate crimes in the beating of gay men in Miami Beach.

“Art After Stonewall” will make its way to the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University from September 14th until January 5th.

Lady Gaga paid a special visit to New York City’s Stonewall Inn, helping mark 50 years since the uprising that catalyzed the modern LGBTQ rights movement in a way that only the versatile and colorful global superstar can.

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It is an early June morning, waves of heat already rising off Orange Avenue, as a 40-ish Orlando woman winds her way around the interim memorial at the former Pulse nightclub, taking in the photos and mementos and reading the names of the dead.

Dwayne Wade said he publicly supports his 12-year-old son recently attending the Miami Beach Gay Pride parade because it’s his job as a father. Read More

A stretch of road on Florida’s Gulf Coast that was adopted by the Ku Klux Klan 25 years ago is now being sponsored by a gay rights group.

Three years after a gunman massacred 49 people and wounded many others at a gay nightclub in Florida, the anniversary was observed Wednesday with somber memorial gatherings and proclamations, including one that had to be issued twice.

Divers unfurled a rainbow flag underwater Friday on an artificial reef in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Nearly half a century after the Stonewall Riots took place in New York City, which subsequently sparked an uprising seen as a turning point for the modern gay rights movement, the NYPD apologized for the department’s actions during the events that took place in June 1969.

President Barack Obama created the first national monument to gay rights on Friday, designating the iconic Stonewall Inn in Manhattan where the modern gay rights movement took root nearly five decades ago.

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The organization started offering appointments at two locations in Miami on Monday and plans to provide services to 11 counties where they currently provide health care within the year from the Florida Keys up to Jacksonville.

Gay-rights activists organizing on social media held an unauthorized march Saturday down eight blocks of one of Havana’s main thoroughfares before they were stopped by police.

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At her watch party Castor mostly thanked supporters, including outgoing Mayor Bob Buckhorn and political consultant Ana Cruz, Castor’s partner, whom she dubbed “invincible.”